Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851, page 28 by Various Authors
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icity of his language.
X. Z.
Tennyson's In Memoriam.--The word star applies in poetry to all the heavenly bodies; and therefore, to the crescent moon, which is often near enough to the sun to be within or to be encircled by, the crimson colour of the sky about sunset; and the sun may, figuratively, be called father of the moon, because he dispenses to her all the light with which she shines; and, moreover, because new, or waxing moons, must set nearly in the same point of the horizon as the sun; and because that point of the horizon in which a heavenly body sets, may, figuratively, be called its grave; therefore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of the poem numbered lxxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's In Memoriam, quoted by W. B. H., to mean simply--
We returned home between the hour of sunset and the setting of the moon, then not so much as a week old.
ROBERT SNOW.
Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c. (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The Rev. CHARLES NEVINSON may be informed that there are two copies of the edition of the above work for which he inquires, in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
TYRO.
Dublin.
Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland (Vol. iii., p. 118.).--In reply to the inquiry of EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, that gentleman may learn the extent to which the Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas Machell, who was chaplain to King Charles II., have been examined, and published, by referring, to Burn and Nicholson's History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an account of the antiquary's own family, the "Mali Catuli," or Machell's Lords of Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of Carlisle contain only copies and references to the original papers, which are carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There are