Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853

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and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20364]
Language: English
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 189.] Saturday, June 11, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Tom Moore's First! 565 Notes on several Misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 566 Verney Papers: the Capuchin Friars, &c., by Thompson Cooper 568 Early Satirical Poem 568 The Letters of Atticus, by William Cramp 569
MINOR NOTES:--Irish Bishops as English Suffragans-- Pope and Buchanan--Scarce MSS. in the British Museum--The Royal Garden at Holyrood Palace-- The Old Ship "Royal Escape" 569
QUERIES:-- "The Light of Brittaine" 570
MINOR QUERIES:--Thirteen an unlucky Number-- Quotations--"Other-some" and "Unneath"-- Newx, &c.--"A Joabi Alloquio"--Illuminations-- Heraldic Queries--John's Spoils from Peterborough and Crowland--"Elementa sex." &c.--Jack and Gill: Sir Hubbard de Hoy--Humphrey Hawarden--"Populus vult decipi"--Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire--Harris 571
REPLIES:-- Bishop Butler, by J. H. Markland, &c. 572 Mitigation of Capital Punishment to Forgers 573 Mythe versus Myth, by Charles Thiriold 575 "Inquiry into the State of the Union, by the Wednesday Club in Friday Street," by James Crossley 576 Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott, by William Williams, &c. 576 Church Catechism 577 Jacob Bobart, &c., by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 578 "Its," by W. B. Rye 578 Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by Henry T. Riley 579 Books of Emblems, by J. B. Yates, &c. 579
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Pollock's Directions for obtaining Positive Photographs upon albumenised Paper--Test for Lenses--Washing Collodion Pictures 581
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Cremonas--James Chaloner --Irish Convocation--St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca --Captain Ayloff--Plan of London--Syriac Scriptures --Meaning of "Worth"--Khond Fable--Collar of S3. --Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian--Pic Nic--Canker or Brier Rose--Door-head Inscriptions--"Time and I"--Lowbell--Overseers of Wills--Detached Belfry Towers--Vincent Family, &c. 582
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 586 Notices to Correspondents 586 Advertisements 587
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Notes.
TOM MOORE'S FIRST!
It is now generally understood that the first poetic effusion of Thomas Moore was entrusted to a publication entitled Anthologia Hibernica, which held its monthly existence from Jan. 1793 to December 1794, and is now a repertorium of the spirited efforts made in Ireland in that day to establish periodical literature. The set is complete in four volumes: and being anxious to see if I could trace the "fine Roman" hand of him whom his noble poetic satirist, and after fast friend, Byron, styled the "young Catullus of his day," I went to the volumes, and give you the result.
No trace of Moore appears in the volume containing the first six months of the publication; but in the "List of Subscribers" in the second, we see "Master Thomas Moore;" and as we find this designation changed in the fourth volume to "Mr. Thomas Moore, Trinity College, Dublin!" (a boy with a black ribband in his collar, being as a collegian an "ex officio man!"), we may take it for ascertained that we have arrived at the well-spring of those effusions which have since flowed in such sparkling volumes among the poetry of the day.
Moore's first contribution is easily identified; for it is prefaced by a note, dated "Aungier Street, Sept. 11, 1793," which contains the usual request of insertion for "the attempts of a youthful muse," &c., and is signed in the semi-incognito style, "Th-m-s M--re;" the writer fearing, doubtless, lest his fond mamma should fail to recognise in his own copy of the periodical the performance of her little precocious Apollo.
This contribution consists of two pieces, of which we have room but for the first: which is a striking exemplification (in subject at least) of Wordsworth's aphorism, that "the child is father to the man." It is a sonnet addressed to "Zelia," "On her charging the author with writing too much on Love!" Who Zelia was--whether a lineal ancestress of Dickens's "Mrs. Harris," or some actual grown up young lady, who was teased by, and tried to check the chirpings of the little {566} precocious