Minor Notes.
Talented.
—Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of this word by his biographer in his Sartor Resartus, calling it a hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell.
J. O'G.
Anagram.
—Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on The French Benedictines, gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great bibliophagist Magliabechi:—Antonius Magliabechius—Is unus bibliotheca magna.
In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum inambulans, et viva quædam bibliotheca." Possibly this is the origin of our expression "a walking dictionary."
J. O'G.
Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations.
—I beg to inform your correspondent who suggested such a publication as a Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations, that I commenced such a work some time ago, and hope before long to have it ready for the press.
Every common quotation or familiar proverb from the poets will be ranged with the context under its respective author, while an alphabetical index will facilitate reference to any particular passage. I doubt not the readers of your valuable periodical will assist me whenever I am at fault as to the authorship of any line or "household word;" and I should feel at the present time much obliged if any one could tell me where
"Though lost to sight, to memory dear,"
may be found?
H. A. B.
Trinity College, Cambridge.