—Some drawings and descriptions of the modes of blessing by the hand are to be found, in the "Dictionary of Terms of Art," published in one of the early numbers of the Art Journal for this year.
ESTE.
Verses in Latin Prose (Vol. iv., p. 382.).
—A. A. D. will surely thank me, if his Note on the subject do not contain it, for the rationale, which Sir Thomas Brown gives, Religio Medici, Part ii. p. 9., of the occurrence of verses in Latin prose:
"I will not say with Plato, the soul is an harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music: thus some, whose temper of body agrees, and humours the constitution of their souls, are born poets, though indeed all are naturally inclined unto rhythm. This made Tacitus, in the very first lines of his story, fall upon a verse (Urbem Romam in principio regis habuere); and Cicero, the worst of poets, but declaiming for a poet, falls, in the very first sentence, upon a perfect hexameter: In quā me non inficior mediocriter esse."
C. W. B.
Blakloanæ Hæresis (Vol. iv., pp. 193. 239. 240.).
—As I was the querist concerning this work and its author, and wanted the information, I was very thankful for the satisfactory answers given. The books referred to by R. G. are not inaccessible: whether then it be needful to occupy your columns with the "particulars" required by E. A. M. (Vol. iv., p. 458.) may be a query too. The first word of the title is as above (not Blackloanæ, as your correspondents have it). E. A. M. will find that Blacklow, or Blakloe, is a soubriquet, as well as Lominus.
P. S.—On examining the book, however, I am not convinced that Peter Talbot was its "real author," though extensive use is made of what he had written; or that "Lominus" is an "imaginary divine," even if the name be a feigned one. On what ground do these assertions rest?
S. W. RIX.