CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Bacon's Essays, by Markby | [165] |
| Bishop Burnet, H. Wharton, and Smith | [167] |
| Early Philadelphia Directories | [168] |
| Shakspeare Correspondence | [168] |
| Mottos of the Emperors of Germany, by Joshua G. Fitch | [170] |
| Poems by Miss Delaval | [171] |
| Minor Notes:—The Rights of Women—Green Pots used for drinking from by Members of the Temple—Quarles and Pascal—Offer to intending Editors—Head-dress | [171] |
| Queries:— | |
| Minor Queries:—Fox-hunting—Broderie Anglaise—"The Convent," an Elegy—Memorial of Newton—Mammon—Derivation of Wellesley—The Battle of Cruden: a Query for Copenhagen Correspondents—Ampers and—The Myrtle Bee—Henry Earl of Wotton—Connexion between the Celtic and Latin Languages—Queen Anne's Motto—Anonymous Books | [172] |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Major André—"The Fatal Mistake"—Anonymous Plays—High Commission Court | [174] |
| Replies:— | |
| Rosicrucians | [175] |
| Searson's Poems | [176] |
| "From the Sublime to the Ridiculous," &c., by Henry H. Breen | [177] |
| Passage in the Burial Service, by Geo. A. Trevor and John Booker | [177] |
| Patrick's Purgatory, by William Blood | [178] |
| Lord William Russell | [179] |
| Oaken Tombs, &c. | [179] |
| "Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. | [180] |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Washing or not washing Collodion Pictures after developing, previous to fixing—Stereoscopic Angles—Sisson's Developing Solution | [181] |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert Drury—Real Signatures versus Pseudo-Names—Lines on the Institution of the Garter—"Short red, God red," &c.—Martha Blount—Longevity—Its—Oldham, Bishop of Exeter—Boom—Lord North—Dutch Pottery—Cranmer's Correspondences—Portable Altars—Poem attributed to Shelley—Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March)—"Up, guards, and at them!"—Pennycomequick—Captain Booth of Stockport—"Hurrah," &c.—Detached Belfry Towers—Blotting-paper—Riddles for the Post-Office—Mulciber | [181] |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | [185] |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | [186] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [186] |
| Advertisements | [186] |
Notes.
BACON'S ESSAYS, BY MARKBY.
(Continued from Vol. viii., p. 144.)
Essay XXIX. Of the true Greatness of Kingdoms.—
"The speech of Themistocles.">[ See Plut. Them. 2., Cimon, 9.
"Negotiis pares.">[ An expression of Tacitus. In Ann. vi. 39., he says of Poppæus Sabinus: "Maximis provinciis per quatuor et viginti annos impositus; nullam ob eximiam artem, sed quod par negotiis neque supra erat." Again, in Ann. xvi. 18. of C. Petronius: "Proconsul Bithyniæ, et mox consul, vigentem se ac parem negotiis ostendit."
"As Virgil saith, 'It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.'">[ Lord Bacon, as Mr. Markby observes, evidently alludes to the following verses of Eclogue vii.: