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Nugget (Vol. vi., p. 171.; Vol. vij., pp. 143. 272.). Nugget may be derived from the Persian, but it is also used in Scotland, and means a lump, a nugget of sugar, for instance. And as Scotchmen are to be found everywhere, its importation into Australia and California is easily accounted for. R. S. N. Epigrams (Vol. vii., p. 180.).—I beg to confirm the statement of SCRAPIANA as to the reading John instead of Thomas in the line

"Twixt Footman John and Dr. Toe."

It may not be generally known that this epigram came from the pen of Reginald Heber, late Bishop of Calcutta, who was then a commoner of Brazenoze College, and who wrote that extremely clever satire called The Whippiad, of which the same Dr. Toe (the Rev. Henry Halliwell, Dean and Tutor) was the hero. The Whippiad was printed for the first time a few years ago, in Blackwood's Magazine.

I fancy the other facetious epigram given by SCRAPIANA has no connexion with this, but was merely inserted on the same page as being "similis materiæ." B. N. C.

Editions of the Prayer-Book (Vol. vii., p. 91.).— The following small addition is offered to MR. SPARROW SIMPSON'S list:

1592. fol. Deputies of Chr. Barker. Trinity College, Dublin.

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Passage in Coleridge (Vol. vii., p. 330.). - The paper referred to by Coleridge will be found in the Transactions of the Manchester Literary and It is the Philosophical Society, vol. iii. p. 463. "Description of a Glory," witnessed by Dr. Haygarth on Feb. 13th, 1780, when "returning to Chester, and ascending the mountain which forms the eastern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd." As your correspondent asks for a copy of the description, the volume being scarce, I will give the following extract:

"I was struck with the peculiar appearance of a very white shining cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The sun was nearly setting, but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my and beautiful scene was presented to my view. shadow was projected into it; when a very unexpected head of my shadow was surrounded, at some distance, by a circle of various colours; whose centre appeared to be near the situation of the eye, and whose circum

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ference extended to the shoulders. The circle was complete, except what the shadow of my body intercepted. It resembled, very exactly, what in pictures is termed a glory, around the head of our Saviour and of saints: not, indeed, that luminous radiance which is painted close to the head, but an arch of concentric colours. As I walked forward, this glory approached or retired, just as the inequality of the ground shortened or lengthened my shadow."

A plate "by the writer's friend, Mr. Falconer," accompanies the paper.

In my copy of the Transactions, the following MS. note is attached to this paper:

"See Juan's and De Ulloa's Voyage to South America, book vi. ch. ix., where phænomena, nearly similar, are described."

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Burn at Croydon (Vol. vii., p. 238.).—This seems to be of the same nature as the "nailburns" mentioned by Halliwell (Arch. Dict.). In Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent, p. 221., 2nd edit., mention is made of a stream running under ground. But it seems very difficult to account for these phenomena, and any geologist who would give a satisfactory explanation of these burns, nailburns, subterraneous streams, and those which in Lincolnshire are termed "blow wells," would confer a favour on several of your readers. E. G. R.

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Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

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POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE.

Having lately been making some research among our British poets, as to the character of the nightingale's song, I was much struck with the great quantity and diversity of epithets that I found applied to the bird. The difference of opinion that has existed with regard to the quality of its song, has of course led the poetical adherents of either side to couple the nightingale's name with that very great variety of adjectives which I shall presently set down in a tabular form, with the names of the poetical sponsors attached thereto. And, in making this the subject of a Note, I am only opening up an old Query; for the character of the nightingale's song has often been a matter for discussion, not only for poets and scribblers, but even for great statesmen like Fox, who, amid all the anxieties of a political life, could yet find time to defend the nightingale from being a "most musical, most melancholy" bird.

Coleridge's onslaught upon this line, in his poem of "The Nightingale," must be well known to all lovers of poetry; and his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it:

"Tis the merry nightingale,
That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,
With fast thick warble, his delicious notes,
As he were fearful that an April night
Would be too short for him to utter forth
His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul
Of all its music!"

The fable of the nightingale's origin would, of course, in classical times, give the character of melancholy to its song; and it is rather remarkable that Eschylus makes Cassandra speak of the happy chirp of the nightingale, and the Chorus to remark upon this as a further proof of her insanity. (Shakspeare makes Edgar say, "The foul fiend haunted poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale."- King Lear, Act III. Sc. 6.)

Tennyson seems to be almost the only poet who has thoroughly recognised the great variety of epithets that may be applied to the nightingale's song, through the very opposite feelings which it

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