Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851, page 19 by Various Authors
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cription of Cato's death in his mind, when he wrote the soliloquy.
J. H. L.
Bunting's Irish Melodies.--This admirable musical scholar many years since promised a new edition of the first two volumes of his Irish Airs. Is there any hope of this being soon accomplished?
GEORGE STEPHENS.
Stockholm.
Rudbeck, Campi Elysii.--A copy of this work is said to exist in Sherard's[6] Collection, in the Botanical Garden, Oxford. It must have been acquired before 1797. (See Bibliotheca Banksiana, iii. 67.)
Vol. I.--The title and some following leaves are written. Does any note exist as to who copied these leaves, or when, or where?
Is any name of any former owner written on the book-back, title, or elsewhere; or is it known when it was purchased, or at what price?
{168} Does any library-mark, auction-number, or other identifying signature occur?
Is it quite complete at the end, or is anything missing after page 224.?
Does the whole consist of figures, or have some leaves an introduction, text, or corrections, &c.?
Vol. II.--Does anything in this volume illustrate any of the above questions?
A SWEDISH BIBLIOGNOST.
Stockholm.
[Footnote 6: Sherard, 1738.]
Prince of Wales' Motto (Vol. iii., p. 106.).--The Query of EFFESSA is one of great interest to us "Taffies," but I wish to add the following to it. Is there any foundation for the idea, which we so strenuously maintain, that "Ich Dien" is a misspelled edition of "Eich Dyn," "Behold the man:" and that the motto was bestowed on Edward of Carnarvon in consequence of his royal father having learned these two Welsh words, and made use of them when he presented his infant to the assembled tribes as a prince who could "speak no word of English?"
SELEUCUS.
Borrow's Danish Ballads.--The singular author of Lavengro, Mr. Geo. Borrow, some years a