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ALSO SCIENCE-Tylor's Anthropology; Library Table; The Royal Ob FINE ARTS Murray's History of Greek Sculpture; Library Table; MUSIC-The Week. Gossip. DRAMA-The Week. Published by JOHN FRANCIS, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1881. CONTENTS. — N° 76. NOTES:-Eton College Library, 461-Lord Byron at Missolonghi, 461-Books on Special Subjects-London Publishers, 1623-1834, 464-Shakspeariana-Verses attributed to Pope, 465-The Dog Rose-To beat into the head," 466-Palm Sack-"A Dovercourt beetle"-Stubbs Family-" Basket" -Arms of Colonial and Missionary Sees-Chinese Libraries, 467. QUERIES:-Manzoni's "Promessi Sposi," 467-Rule of the Road-Indigenous Trees of Britain-F. Winks, R. A.-Latin Verse Doggerel-Dice, 468-"Drunk as Essex hogs' width," &c.-Authors Wanted, 470. Venice, 1495, and two Florentines, 1515, 1526. Of these the first is a very handsome Aldine folio, comprising, besides Gaza, the works of Apollonius and his son Herodian, whom Priscian considered the greatest of grammarians, and to whom he acknowledges his obligations. Moschopulus, De Exam. Orat., R. Stephen, 1545, a fine volume, may also be mentioned. The third Aldine edition of Constantini Lascaris Grammatica, Venice, 1512, is a very choice quarto with large margin. The date and place of its composition (Messena in Sicily, 1470) occurs in the work. Bound up in it, though not continuously, is the first edition of the IIívaέ of the Theban Cebes, a short work that was once extremely popular, and generally printed with the Enchiridion of Epictetus (there are three specimens, 16mo., in this library). This book illustrates the arrangement invented by Aldus, by which the same edition might be bound either with the Greek and Latin versions confronted together (as here is the case with both the grammar and the Cebetis Tabula) or severally in distinct volumes. A Greek grammar of note by Vergara, a Spaniard (Paris, 1557, W. Morel), is a scarce book. Coming to Latin grammarians, we select the following as the most noteworthy :-Priscian, Poynter's "German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting," &c.- Venice, Girard, 1476, the princeps, an extremely Notes. ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY. handsome large quarto with coloured initials and broad margin, the gift of Reynolds; also the Aldine, 1527; the valuable collection by Putschius, Grammatica Latina Auctores Antiqui, 1605, and another_collection, including Varro, by Gothofred, 1622; Terentianus Maurus, De Litteris Syllabis Pedibus et Metris (two copies); an impression by Simon de Colines, 1531, and another with Victorinus, 1584. This last volume came from the collection given by Bishop Huet to the Jesuits at Paris, as the book-plate with his coat of arms in the beginning shows. Of grammarians after the Renaissance we may mention, among foreigners, Laurentius Valla (more than one edition; with one is bound up the Lingua Latina Exercitatio of Ludovicus Vives), and the grammatical works of (Continued from p. 442.) We proceed to speak of the grammatical publications, of which there is an interesting collection. Some of the following are scarce books. Of Aphthonii IIpoyúμvaouara there are several editions, among them the princeps in the Rhetores Græci, Aldus, 1508. This book, which is a collection of elementary exercises, was the regular composition book for boys before they went to the schools of the rhetoricians, at the time of its pub-Ramus, Sylburgius, the Jesuit Sanctius, Clenardus, lication, circa 315 A.D., and again was the commonest text-book on the revival of letters. There is also an anonymous commentary on it, Aldus, 1509, folio. Phrynichus (an Arabian who settled in Bithynia), Epitome Dictionum Atticarum, 1601, is a handsome quarto that belonged to De Thou. Thomas Magister Sententiarum, Paris, 1532, has other grammarians bound with him in the same volume. Chrysoloræ Erotemata, Junta, 1540, was one of the first books of this class that circulated in Italy on the revival of letters. Of Theodorus Gaza, whose Greek grammar long enjoyed a high reputation, and the principal basis of the Eton Greek grammar, there are three editions, the princeps, was Scioppius, Gerard Vossius, and Viger. There is a grammar by Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus, edited by Ascensius, with an introductory note from him commending it to the schoolmaster at Arras, dated 1510. Its chief interest consists in its having been printed in very neat Gothic type by Wynkyn de Worde, having his common tripartite device at the beginning and end. Of our own contributors to this subject, we have Lily's De Octo Orationis Partium Constructione, 1540, Thomas Berthelet, a very rare small quarto. Cox's letter to Thomas Cromwell is in the beginning, and at the end are the letters of Colet to Lily, and of Erasmus, "candidis lectoribus." Linacre's De Emend. Struct. Lat. Serm. and the Rudimenta translated 462 NOTES AND QUERIES. into Latin by George Buchanan, R. Steph., 1550, The best Latinity of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and It may be said in general that the vast erudition of the latter half of the sixteenth century and of the early part of the seventeenth is copiously re * Trevelyan's Life, vol. ii. p. 385. To prove this at further length would FRANCIS ST. JOHN THACKERAY. LORD BYRON AT MISSOLONGHI. The following notes are taken from conversations held with Pietro Capsali (in whose house Byron I have ventured to append some lived and died) by my friend Mr. Colnaghi, erst Vice-Consul at Missolonghi, now H.B.M. Consul at Florence. explanatory and corrective notes of my own, for which I am prepared to accept the responsibility. Pietro Capsali-though not mentioned by previous chroniclers, so far as my memory serves me-was chief of the mines during both sieges of Missolonghi, and is, I believe, still living. "The Suliote soldiers in the town were always quarThis state of things-a veritable reign of relling with the townspeople. Murders were of frequent by the inhabitants to pay off and disband the Suliotes. occurrence. One evening,t For this purpose 3,000 dollars were required, and Byron terror-became unbearable, and Byron was petitioned at first declined to disburse that sum. while the poet was shooting, in company with Capsali, some of his guard to quell the disturbance. Turning to at a bottle poised on a reed in the water, his favourite pastime, a street row was reported. Byron ordered out Capsali, he said, ""Questi maledetti Sulioti " are the cause of great trouble.' Capsali replied, If your excellency would lend us the money to pay them, we would give a conversation Byron agreed to lend the money; and next bond to repay it. We are most anxious to get rid of them, but, alas! we have no money.' After some further morning the amount of their arrears of pay was ready, poet, with his usual caution about money, previous to duly bound up in a couple of strong canvas bags. But the handing the specie over, asked, Who ought to pay this, the town or the Government?' Mavrocordato, being * Dr. Millingen, in his Memoirs on Greece, fixes t 1824. amount at 2,000 dollars. About the middle of January, * present, replied, The Government.' Then,' said Byron, Just at the last his physicians proposed to try some why make the town give a receipt? Make out a bond as other remedies, but Byron only remarked: 'It is of no from the Government, and make it payable, in case of my use. I am going on a better road.' Capsali was in the death, to my servant Luca Calandrizano.'* Why so?' in-room adjoining that in which the poet died. All the quired Mavrocordato. Your excellency is not ill.' Byron inhabitants of Missolonghi were deeply affected at only answered sadly, 'This is a triste day for me; it is Byron's death. The town petitioned for his lungs and my birthday. To-day I enter on my thirty-seventh year, larynx, which were duly deposited in an urn expressly and it has been prophesied that I shall die at that age.' prepared by the poet for that purpose.' The urn was 'Surely,' replied Mavrocordato, 'your excellency does borne in the funeral procession by Capsali himself, and not believe in such superstition?' 'What is that to was interred within the holy precincts of St. Spiridion, t you?' retorted Byron, sharply. Make out the bond as according to the rites of the Greek Church. In the I wish.' The order was of course obeyed.t words of Capsali, 'We wished to have his lungs and "Byron's perseverance was, even in trifles, remark- larynx because he had used his breath and voice for able. At Capsali's house there was a yard, in which Greece.' After Lord Byron's death. his effects were stood posts at several feet apart. One day the poet placed sealed up, and a committee was appointed to collect and an egg on one post and a bottle on another beyond it. preserve his papers. This was done at the suggestion He vowed to break both egg and bottle at one shot. of Tita, his Venetian gondolier and most faithful attenHaving placed himself at a distance of ten paces from dant. The committee comprised S. Tricoupi, § Prince the egg, he practised for two days without success. On Mavrocordato, and an elder brother of Capsali. Byron's the third day his object was achieved, and the poet was journal was found, containing the prophetic conviction in high spirits at his triumph. Capsali was accustomed that he would die in his thirty-seventh year, the said to address Byron in Italian, to which the latter always entry having been made on the poet's last birthday."|| replied in Greek, of which language he knew but little. By this means they corrected each other, for Capsali's Italian was excessively weak, while Byron was a perfect master of that language. "The cause of Byron's death was fever caught by getting wet while out riding. Easter in 1824 fell early, and the weather was wretched, cold, and raw. One day about Easter Byron sent his horses on, outside the town gates, and went on to the lagoon in a monoxylon with Mavrocordato.§ They were caught in a squall and got wet while in the boat. In vain Mavrocordato begged Byron to return and change his clothes; the poet persisted in taking his ride. On his return he complained of cold, and laid himself on a couch wrapped in blankets. His doctor bled him a little, and wished to repeat the operation, but Byron refused it. The doctors—there were three or four**-then said that there was no hope. In consultation they declared that Lord Byron ought to have been bled,++ but as he refused the doctors said that now all the blood had gone to his head, and that recovery was impossible. They administered tonics, which were of no use. He was ill seven or eight days. Almost his last words were, 'Oh, Greece! Oh, my daughter!' So much for Capsali's narrative, which runs fairly on all fours" with those of Gamba, Millingen, Parry, and Moore. I notice a discrepancy as to the names of the physicians, which are variously spelt in various narratives. For example, Gamba calls them Luca Vaya and Dr. Treiber; Capsali, Millingen, and others call them Vaga and Freiber; but this may be only a typographical phenomenon, far more harmless than usual. In any case they were a muddling set, however named, and I always feel with Parry that they were only fit "to stand at the corners of alleys to distribute Dr. Eady's handbills." Millingen died in Turkey about three years ago, after distinguishing himself during the early part of the Russo-Turkish war by assisting the party deputed by Lady Layard to alleviate "the terrible sufferings of Turkish refugees." In my next paper I propose to furnish an account of the manner in which Palm Sunday is observed at Missolonghi. RICHARD EDGCUMBE. 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea. * Cum grano salis. On the capitulation of Missolonghi in 1826 this church was burnt down by the Turks. Giovanni Battista Falcieri died in England January, 1875. I do not wish to take from Tita the merit of this suggestion, but am compelled to give due credit to that grand old man Edward Trelawny, who was most prompt and energetic on that occasion. § Afterwards Greek Minister at the Court of St. James's. I can answer for no such entry. Capsali probably refers to those touching verses, composed on his thirtyseventh birthday, which he handed to Col. Leicester Stanhope with so much natural pride: "This is my birthday, and I have just finished something which, I think, is better than what I usually write." If his journal contained anything more definite on the subjects of prophecy, his biographers have omitted to mention it |