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WIL- LUNGERS, otherwise the Book of Kriem- hild: a Translation of the Nibelungen Not, or Nibelungenlied. By W. NANSON LETT- THE ISLANDS OF THE SPATCHES, during the CONGRESS OF VIENNA, BATTLE OF WATERLOO, &c. Edited by the MARQUIS OF LONDON- NINEVEH AND BABYLON: Continued from the Accession to the Death of XII. MEN intending to publish, Address to BETA, care of MR. HARRILD, SCOPES, with the New Vetzlar Eye-pieces, as exhibited at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The Lenses of these Eye-pieces are so con- structed that the rays of light fall nearly per- pendicular to the surface of the various lenses, by which the aberration is completely removed; and a telescope so fitted gives one-third more magnifying power and light than could be ob- tained by the old Eye-pieces. Prices of the various sizes on application to MINOR QUERIES:-Lord Chatham-Slow-worm Super- deschi Governor Dameram- Ancient Arms of the See of York-Hupfeld Inscription on a Tomb in Finland Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby, Lin- - I do not remember to have remarked that any writer notices how uniformly, in almost all lan- guages, the same primary idea has been attached to the eye. This universal consent is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the connexion in ques- tion, though of course most appropriate and sig- nificant in itself, hardly seems to indicate the most prominent characteristic, or what we should deem to be par excellence the obvious qualities of the eye; in a word, we should scarcely expect a term derived from a physical attribute or property. The eye is suggestive of life, of divinity, of in- tellect, piercing acuteness (acies); and again, of truth, of joy, of love: but these seem to have been disregarded, as being mere indistinctive accidents, and the primary idea which, by the common con- sent of almost all nations, has been thought most 38 38 Precisely the same connexion of ideas is to be found in the Syriac, the Ethiopic, and the Arabic. Again, in the Greek we find the rarely-used In the Welsh, likewise, a parallel case occurs: nem. (Vid. Schilteri, Thes., vol. iii. ad voc.) And here we cannot help noticing the similarity between these words and the Hebrew, which (as well as the Coptic iars) means primarily a river or stream from a spring; but, according to Professor Lee, is allied to N, light, the enlightenment of the mind, the opening of the eyes; and he adds, "the application of the term to water, as running, translucid, &c., is easy." Here, then, is a similar connexion of ideas with a change in the metaphor. In the dialects which descended from the Teutonic in the Saxon branch, the connexion between these two distinct objects is also singularly preserved. It is to be found in the Low German, the Friesic, and the Anglo-Saxon. In the latter we have eá, eah, eagor, a welling, flowing stream; and eah, agh, eage, an eye, which might be abundantly illustrated. We could hardly fail to find in Shakspeare some allusion to these connected images in the old tongue; no speck of beauty could exist and escape his ken. Thus : "In that respect, too, like a loving child, Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring, Rom, and Jul., Act III. Sc. 2. Many of the phrases of the ancient tongues, in which the eye bears a part, have been handed down to us, and are still preserved in our own. My space, however, forbids me to do more than allude to them; but there is one very forcible expression in the Hebrew yy, literally, eye in eye, which we render much less forcibly-face to face. The Welsh have preserved it exactly in their llygad yn llygud. Indeed, this is not the only instance in which they are proud of having handed down the Hebrew idiom in all its purity. Shakspeare twice uses the old phrase: "Since then my office hath so far prevailed, That face to face, and royal eye to eye, You have congreeted.” — Hen. V., Act V. Sc. 2. And in Tro. and Cres., Act III. Sc. 3; but it appears now to be obsolete. Before concluding, I cannot help noticing, in connexion with this subject, the Old English term "the apple of the eye." I am unable to trace it beyond the Anglo-Saxon. The Teutonic sehandes ougen, pupilla oculi, is totally distinct; seha being merely medius punctus oculi, whence sehan, videre. In the Semitic languages, as well as in the Greek and Latin, the origin of the term is the same, and gives no clue to the meaning of the Saxon term. Thus, in the Hebrew i, dim. of N, homunculus, the small image of a person seen in the eye. The story has some romance in it, and excited great interest fifty years ago. Hatfield had lived by swindling; and, though he underwent an imprisonment for debt, had, upon the whole, a long career of success. The last scene of his depredations was the Lakes, where he married a barmaid, who was called "The Beauty of Buttermere." Shortly after the marriage he was arrested, tried, and executed. Mr. De Quincey afterwards lived in the neighbourhood, dined at the public-house kept by Mary's father, and was waited upon by her. He had the fullest opportunities of getting correct information: and his version of the story is so truthlike, that I should have accepted it without hesitation but for the hanging for forging a frank. As that offence never was capital, and was made a felony punishable with transportation for seven years by 42 Geo. III. c. 63., I was impelled to compare the statement founded on gossip with more formal accounts; and I send the result in illustration of the small reliance which is to be placed on tradition in such matters. The arrival of Hatfield in a carriage is graphically described. He called himself the Hon. Augustus Hope, brother of the Earl of Hopetoun. Some doubts were felt at first, but "To remove suspicion, he not only received letters addressed to him under this assumed name, but he continually franked letters by that name. Now, that being a capital offence, being not only a forgery, but (as a forgery on the Post-office) sure to be prosecuted, nobody presumed to question his pretensions any longer; and henceforward he went to all places with the consideration due to an earl's brother."— P. 196. The marriage with Mary Robinson, and the way in which they passed the honeymoon, are described: "They continued to move backwards and forwards, until at length, with the startling of a thunderclap to the |