[We have frequently had to complain of the loose manner in which
Queries are sometimes submitted to our readers for solution. Here is a
specimen. The communication above involves two other Queries, which
should have been settled before it had been forwarded to us, namely, 1.
In what volume of the _Athenaeum_ is the accusation against Paley made?
and, 2. What is the title of the Dutch work supposed to be pirated?
After pulling down six volumes of the _Athenaeum_, we discovered that
the charge against Paley appeared at p. 803. of the one for the year
1848, and that the work said to be pirated was written by Dr. Bernard
Nieuwentyt of Holland, and published at Amsterdam about the year 1700.
It was translated into English, under the title of _The Religious
Philosopher_, 3 vols. 8vo., 1718-19. The charge against Paley has been
ably and satisfactorily discussed in the same volume of the _Athenaeum_
(see pp. 907. 933.), and at the present time we have neither "ample
room nor verge enough" to re-open the discussion in our pages.]
_Weber's_ "_Cecilia._"--Can you inform me whether a work by Gottfried
Weber, entitled _Cecilia_, is to be had in English or in French? I find it
constantly referred to in the said Weber's work on the _Theory of Musical
Composition_, and in Mueller's _Physiology_.
For any information you can give me on the subject I shall feel much
indebted.