OXFORD JEU D'ESPRIT. _We hope next week to lay before our Oxford friends a
reprint of a clever_ jeu d'esprit, _which amused the University some
five-and-thirty years since._
B. H. C. _Will this Correspondent, who states_ (p. 135.) _that he has found
the termination_ -by _in Sussex, be good enough to state the place to which
he refers?_
C. C. _The ballad of "Fair Rosamond" is printed in Percy's Reliques, in
the_ Pictorial Book of British Ballads, _and many other places; but the
lines quoted by our Correspondent--_
"With that she dash'd her on the mouth,
And dyed a double wound"--
_do not occur in it._
T. [Phi]. _Biographical notices of the author of_ Drunken Barnaby _will be
found in Chalmers' and Rose's Dictionaries. The best account of Richard
Brathwait is that by Joseph Haslewood, prefixed to his edition of_ Barnabæ
Itinerarium.--_Gurnall has been noticed in our_ Sixth Volume, pp. 414. 544.
W. FRASER. _Bishop Atterbury's portrait, drawn by Kneller, and engraved by
Vertue, is prefixed to vol. i. of the Bishop's_ Sermons and Discourses,
_edit. 1735. The portrait is an oval medallion; face round, nose prominent,
with large eye-brows, double chin, and a high expansive forehead, features
regular and pleasant, and indicative of intellect. He is drawn in his
episcopal habit, with a full-dress curled wig; beneath are his arms,
surmounted by the mitre._
I. R. R. _The song "O the golden days of good Queen Bess!" will be found
in_ The British Orpheus, a Selection of Songs and Airs, _p. 274., with the
music._
TRENCH ON PROVERBS. _We cannot possibly find space for any further
discussion of the translation of_ Ps. cxxvii. 2.
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Norfolk, stating the fact, with their names and addresses, by letter, post
paid._
PROFESSOR HUNT'S _Letter shall appear next week. We can well understand how
a gentleman, who labours so assiduously in his scientific investigations,
can have little time and feel little anxiety to produce merely pretty
pictures. We are glad that the question was asked (we are sure only in a
friendly spirit); and our photographic readers will be as glad to hear that
an enlarged edition of Professor Hunt's_ Researches on Light _may soon be
expected._
C. E. F., FOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC READERS, _and other Correspondents, shall
receive due attention next week._
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