I know some other such charmers in Cheshire, but none so young. One, an old man, stops bleedings of all kinds by a similar charm, viz. a verse from the Bible. But he does not require to be at the patient's side, his power being equally efficacious at the distance of one hundred miles, as close by.
E. W. L.
Congleton.
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."