pp. 133, 219; and Dr. Drake's Hasted's 'Hist. of For some account of this house, see Thorne's or ought not to repeat the dose, and finding that the augury was bad, he refused for a while the medicine, much to the discomfiture of the patient. So much for the logic of these benighted people. J. J. FAHIE. Tehran, Persia. WAR MEDALS (7th S. iv. 449, 471).-If the regiment (the number of which will be found on the edge of each medal) was present at the engagement named on the bar (see Army List'), the genuineness of such bar need not, I should be doubted. HAROLD MALET, Colonel. say, AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. iv. I know not the way, &c. Sixteen lines of this hymn (though without author's There is a parallel to these pretty lines told of Matthew Henry's father, who married a Miss Matthews. Mise Matthews's father said to her, "I would advise you not to choose this man for your husband, because you know nothing about him, not even where he comes from." To he comes from, but I know well where he is going to." which his daughter replied, "True, I do not know where E. COBHAM BREWER. USE OF ROSARY (7th S. iv. 288, 392).-Hughes states the rosary was borrowed by the Crusaders from the Mohammedans, who probably borrowed it from the Buddhists (Dictionary of Islam,' verbo "Rosary"); but from the following story it would appear to be an independent invention of the Muslims. The Prophet, being greatly perplexed by the number of suitors for the hand of his | 450).— daughter Fatima, declared that on a certain night Zohreh (Venus) would descend to the house of him whom God wished to be the happy man, and to him accordingly Fatima would be united. At the appointed time all the interested parties were on the qui vive. The star was seen to leave the heavens, and Fatima (who, with her father, secretly favoured the suit of her cousin Ali) began to pray that it should fall on Ali's house. By the time she had repeated "Allab-ho-Akbar" ("God is great ") thirty-four times, the star had alighted at Ali's door. Then, in a transport of joy, she broke out with "Alhamdo-lillah" ("Praise be to God"), and by the time she had repeated this ejaculation thirty-three times, the star began to ascend. Then the girl ejaculated "Subhan-Allah" ("O holy God" thirty-three times, that is, until the star was lost to view. Fatima was now wedded to Ali, while the rejected suitors bowed submissively to the will of God. At the same time the Prophet, believing, or seeming to believe, the inspiration of his daughter's ejaculations, constituted them prayer which he said would always be acceptable to God. A string of a hundred beads was then introduced, and received the name Tasbih in Persian and Subhāh in Arabic. The first beads were made from the clay covering the martyred body of Hamzeh, the Prophet's uncle. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. Le Miroir du Monde: Notes et Sensations de la Vie PittoTo his list of books dealing with social manners, which, resque. Par Octave Uzanne. (Paris, Maison Quantin.) owing to the vivacity of his own style and the superb coloured illustrations by M. Paul Avril, have come to be the most coveted of bibliographical treasures, M. Octave Uzanne has added one further work, more ambitious in aL'Eventail,' L'Ombrelle,' and other similar disqui scheme and in title than its predecessors. In place of sitions upon the feminine armoury, and in place of La Femme,' a work the title of which cannot be charged with want of comprehensiveness, he now gives us Le Miroir du Monde.' In some introductory passages, written he warns off the antiquarian reader across whose mind in the spirit and even in the style of Alcofribas Nasier, flit visions of 'Le Speculum Humanæ Vita' of Rodericus Zamorensis, the "très illustre" Myrrour of the World' of William Caxton, and other works of equal erudition. The world to which M. Uzanne holds up the previously dealt-the world of those who eat and drink looking-glass is practically the same with which he has and love, who surround themselves with artistic delights and literary pleasures, and amuse themselves the best they may in their journey from the unknown to the unknown. "Vanitas vanitatum," says Wisdom; but to how much of human effort may not the same be applied? Of house decorations, of study, of sport, of a score different things, M. Uzanne gossips with a delightful combination of erudition and charm of style, now discoursing on the majesty of the night, the mystery of the fields, and suggesting the The Tasbih is as often used in divination as in prayer. Thus, should a Mohammedan wish to do anything out of the common he will, as likely as not, take his Tasbih, insert the first finger and thumb of the left hand anywhere between the beads, and then, after reciting an appropriate prayer, pass the beads in twos from the end between the first finger and thumb of the right hand, saying while he does so words equivalent to our good, indifferent, bad. If the augury be indifferent, he tries again, or allows himself to be influenced in some other way; if bad, he waits another day. A medical friend of mine here once caught a patient "making a tasbih" as to whether he ought or ought not to swallow the physic he had just received. On the next visit the doctor gravely "made a tasbih" as to whether he ought Airy tongues that syllable men's names and now railing, à propos to music, at his countrymen who, while they have applauded with frenzy the " turlutu du petit père Auber, dieu de l'opéra-comique et Scribe On sands and shores and desert wildernesses, de la cavatine," have allowed Bizet to die "incompris comme un poète " almost as sadly as Gilbert or Malfilâtre. To M. Uzanne's thoughts and descriptions, satires and allegories, meanwhile, M. Avril has supplied coloured illustrations that place the book outside competition. Altogether poor and unworthy beside these lovely illustrations seem our English efforts in colour. Only one objection can we see to this work as an ideal Christmas gift. So keen a demand is there for it that the largepaper copies never come into the market, and that a promptitude and decision not always characteristic of the book-buyer are necessary to obtain possession of any copy at all. More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. (Nimmo.) FROM the same rich sources that have supplied him with the previous volume of 'Lyrics' Mr. Bullen has dug out yet further treasures. His earlier volume is already prized by the bibliophile and by the lover of poetry. The second forms a worthy companion. All but inexhaustible seems the supply of poetry of the Elizabethan era. Poem after poem that we come upon in these second gleanings is good enough in a later age to have won the writer a place among poets. Men such as Carew, for instance, have obtained a name as poets without writing anything equal to the best of Thomas Campion, whom Mr. Bullen has permanently rescued from practical oblivion. For this worthy Mr. Bullen claims that "he holds among Elizabethan song-writers the place that is held by Meleager in the Greek anthology; for tenderness and for depth of feeling, for happiness of phrase, and for chaste artistic perfection he is supreme. Dowland is another songster from whom Mr. Bullen makes frequent extracts. To the general reader or student who seeks to diversify his knowledge of general literature by a certain amount of familiarity with the different poetical developments of his country it is a godsend to have a scholar such as Mr. Bullen, whose tastes and instincts are perfect, selecting for him what is best and most representative. To the close student of poetry the volumes are indispensable, since the vast majority of the poems given are practically inaccessible elsewhere. The writings of subsequent poets, from Wither to Mr. Swinburne, seem anticipated in some of the delightful lyrics now given. Only at Christmas time dare we, in our limited space, quote a passage. A single stanza, however, in honour of the season, shall be given. It is a delightful expression of love's unrest, and has that mixture of conceit and beauty which, until it was carried to excess, was a chief grace of our early songsters. It is from Campion's Fourth Book of Airs' (circa 1617) :— I must complain, yet do enjoy my love; She is too fair, too rich in lovely parts: Thence is my grief, for Nature, while she strove With all her graces and divinest art To form her too too beautiful of hue, She had no leisure left to make her true. At p. 42 is a fairy poem from Campion and Rosseter's Book of Airs, 1601, good enough for Drayton, or Mennis, or Herrick. Not in any sense a book of the season is this. A daintier gift-book than it forms, in its handsome dress, is not to be desired. It is a book the mere sight of which in drawing-room or "bower" would convey an idea of refinement and cultivation. Merchant and Craft Guilds. A History of the Aberdeen Incorporated Trades. By Ebenezer Bain. (Aberdeen, Edmond & Spark.) THIS prettily illustrated book is of more than mere local interest. It is a contribution to a very wide subject; one which must interest every person who desires to know what were the origins of many of the phases of our present social state. Whatever politicians may now think of protection, our forefathers had no doubt about its usefulness. To them it would have seemed monstrous that anybody, the ignorant as well as the technically instructed, should be permitted to set up in business anywhere he liked, and compete on equal terms with the "old standards," who may have spent half a life in learning their trade. In the Middle Ages trade guilds existed all over Europe, if we except Russia and the lands under the rule of Islam. Though the London corporations still flourish, and in a few provincial towns there are associations of the same character, though they are without power or influence, the English guilds may be said to have perished during the storm of the Reformation. Their property was confiscated, on the plea that it was devoted to superstitious uses. Every one knows that this was a mere excuse for "land grabbing." That the guilds were most of them, in some form or other, connected with the Church is true; but their main objects were business ones-trade and charity. In Scotland the guilds were not universally pillaged as they were here, and thus at Aberdeen and elsewhere they have continued to exist and prosper to the present time Their connexion with the Church was severed, and they became as soundly Protestant as John Knox himself could have wished. An oath which was taken at the beginning of the last century furnishes a curious example of this. The deponent swears that he will "maintain the true reformed Protestant religion," and that if he should ever in time to come profess" Popery or Quakerism," that he will renounce all his privileges. Mr. Bain has given selections from the guild records. From the samples he supplies they seem to deserve to be printed in full. In 1508 there was at Aberdeen a procession, and perhaps a play, called "Robyne Huyd and Litill Johnne." It is curious to find the merry Sherwood outlaw commemorated so far north of the places where he is said to have been known in the flesh. As, however, we find, at about the same time, "Robin Hood and his men "at Stratton, in Cornwall, we may conclude that he was known all over the island where the English language was spoken. The Count of the Saxon Shore. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A., with the collaboration of Ruth Putnam. (Seeley & Co.) WITH their coloured illustrations of scenes of Roman occupation of England and their able letterpress, works of this class will instil into the youthful mind sound views as to the early history of our country. A Concordance to the Poetical Works of William Cowper. By John Neve. (Sampson Low & Co.) No books are more welcome than concordances, and none are more difficult to praise. How much zeal, industry, and devotion are involved in a task such as Mr. Neve has accomplished in furnishing a 'Concordance to Cowper' is at once obvious. When, however, the completion of his task and the appearance of his volume are chronicled all is said. His work is based upon the Aldine edition of Cowper's poems, and occupies five hundred pages printed in double columns. The translation of Homer and some other translations are naturally not included, since these would have swollen it to double the bulk. Only by long service can the execution be fully tested. To us the book is doubly welcome. If every querist after stray passages caught up in his memory or met with in his reading will turn to the 'Concordance' before writing to N. & Q.,' a portion of our space will be available for other purposes. We congratulate Mr. Neve on the accomplishment of an arduous and a meritorious task, By In_Convent Walls: the Story of the Despensers. Legends for Lionel in Pen and Pencil. By Walter THESE Whimsical illustrations of Mr. Crane are likely to its author's best. Animal Magnetism. By Alfred Binet and Charles Féré. (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." M. J. 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