ii s. ix. FEB. 7, i9i4.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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yet another bust of Galileo. It is a modern
work of plaster of Paris by Fantacchiotti,
and accompanied a collection of old scientific
instruments M 7 hich was sent to the Special
Loan Collection of 1876 by the Istituto di
Studi Superiori, Florence, and afterwards
presented to the old South Kensington
Museum in 1877. It represents Galileo in
old age, and shows (too exaggeratedly, I
think) the wart on the left cheek, which is
a characteristic of all genuine portraits of
the great philosopher. Three sides of the
pedestal are fittingly adorned with greatly
enlarged photographic views from the
Tribuna di Galileo, Florence. That in front
shows the inner semicircular recess with
Galileo's statue in the centre ; that on the
left shows one side of the central hall and
(in lunette) a fresco, Galileo conducting
public experiments on the inclined plane at
Pisa ; and that on the right, the opposite
side of the hall and corresponding fresco,
in which Viviani, Redi, and other disciples
of Galileo are seen performing the experi-
ment of " the reflection of cold," as was
then thought to be a fact.
Medals. In the British Museum (Depart- ment of Coins and Medals) there are five examples out of eleven which are known to Prof. Favaro. Several of these were struck in the lifetime of Galileo, and others on various occasions after his death in 1642. One is in silver, but all those in the British Museum are in copper or bronze.
Gems. Mr. Oatway of Old Burlington Street, W., has a fine specimen of the work of James Tassie, known as " Tassie gems," or simply " Tassies." It bears a fairly good portrait of Galileo, and inscription " Galileus." It would be interesting to know from what original Tassie worked.
J. J. FAHIE.
Chesham Bois Common, Bucks.
DRYDEN'S 'CHARACTER
POLYBIUS.'
OF
A RECENT reading of Dryden's essay on
Polybius in the original edition it was
prefixed to Sir H[emy] S[heere's] trans-
lation of Polybius in two volumes, London,
1693, with imprimatur dated 25 Nov., 1692
has furnished new proofs of the textual
inaccuracy of the Scott-Saintsbury edition of
Dryden's works. The spelling is, of course,
modernized : 'tis becomes it is, and there is
perhaps no reason to complain that throughly
becomes thoroughly (S.-S., xviii. p. 37, 1. 7
from foot). The punctuation is altogether-
altered, generally, it must be confessed,,
for the better. Even the division into
paragraphs is not Dryden's, but identical
with that of Malone's edition of ' Dryden's
Prose Works' (1800). The modern editor
is, of course, entitled, if not bound, to correct
obvious misprints in the original, and this
has been done silently in four cases (Achians
altered to Achaians, ib. p. 28 ; the to brink
altered to to the brink, p. 33 ; statutes cor-
rected to statues, p. 35 ; a fam'd Writers to
a famed writer, p. 38). But the following
list of errata will show that the current text
of Dryden's minor prose writings is as greatly
in need of revision as was that of his poetry
before the labours of Christie, Noyes, and
Sargeaunt. I give first in italics the readings
of the Scott-Saintsbury edition (vol. xviii.
pp. 23-53, London, 1893), and then in
ordinary type the readings of the editio
princeps. (M.) is added when Malone's
text agrees with Dryden's, except perhaps in
spelling ; in other cases it must be under-
stood that Malone's text agrees with that
of Scott-Saintsbury :
31, 1. 13, beholden beholding (M.).
33, 1. 2, but Tacitus, ivho is equal with him but only Tacitus,* who is equal to him.
34, 1. 5 from foot, misfortunes misfortune.
35, 1. 4 from foot, the interest only the only/ interest (M.).
38, 1. 15, has told me has told us. 38, 1. 18, to hand it us to hand it to us. 40, 1. 4, praise I praise (M.). 4U, 1. 9, was the chief was chief.
40, 1. 11, and ZZ and in all.
41, 1.3, exquisite exquisitely.
42, 11. 4, 27, Ptolomij Ptolemy.
42, 1. 16, afterwards returns^, and gives account afterward returns, and gives an account.
43, 1. 13, this veracity his veracity.
44, 1. 15, draining the watei draining the Waters.
45, 1. 11, solemn judgment, solid Judgment (M.).
45, 1. 3 from foot, he yet yet he.
46, 1. 14 from foot, at Cannce, wherein at Cannae,* where.
46, 1. 11 from foot, the strength of the foreign horse the strength of foreign Horse.
47, 1.2, indeed, are his words. It is a are his words. Indeed 'Tis a.
47, 1. 19, a bare assertion, without proof a, bare as- sertion neither without proof (M., with note and parallel passage).
48, 1. 17, review read. 50, 1. 6, might must.
50, 1. 13, are collected were collected.
51, 1.18, Monta[i]gne Montaign* (M. has "Mon- tagne").
52, 1. 7, would destroy shou'd destroy (M.).
Two misprints on pp. 33 and 41 are not noted above because they are corrected on p. 322 of the same volume.
Italics in original.
