to incur a reproduction of the process with the 'Poetical Works.' Now turn again to Moore's own account of the negotiations.
"The plan," he says ('Diary,' February 26, 1832), "I had always thought of was a sort of running commentary on Byron's works, which would leave me free to introduce anecdotes, quotations, and all such touch-and-go things as the formality of an essay would not admit of."
Exactly so: a reproduction of the process adopted in editing the 'Letters and Journals.' But this Mr. Murray does not appear to have desired at all. He proposed, however, that Moore should give him "an essay on Byron's poetical character" ('Diary,' February 24, 1832) for the new edition of the 'Works,' and this was declined by Moore only after the Messrs. Longman had reminded him of prior engagements. But any free hand in the editing it does not appear he was ever offered. Another consideration which would have made against such an offer on Mr. Murray's part the little scruple which Moore had shown about using very questionable matter—want of space will not let me do more than mention.
So far as I see, the notion that Moore had any claim to edit the 'Poetical Works' is what needs "a word or two of explanation," not the failure of his plans for thus "getting rid of the present balance against me in our accounts" ('Diary,' October 10 and 17, 1831). Moore himself, indeed, in a retrospective note (added February, 1840), says, "I look back on Murray's conduct towards me upon the whole as most liberal and creditable."Thomas J. Ewing.
- Leamington.
SMITH'S 'DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE':
SAMUEL IN THE TEMPLE.
If, as is thought by Mr. Lynn, a new edition of Smith 'Dictionary of the Bible' is in progress, it may be useful to direct attention to a passage in the late Dean Stanley's article on Samuel. Writing of the early years of Samuel, spent in ministering at the Temple, and describing his habits at that time, the dean says, "He [Samuel] seems to have slept within the Holiest Place." I once called the attention of the late Rev. H. B. W. Churton, of Icklesham, who was a competent Hebrew scholar, to this, as it appeared to me, highly gratuitous observation, and asked him whether, from his knowledge of the Hebrew text in 1 Samuel iii., he should consider that such an idea was proper to be entertained; whether, in fact, there was anything in the Hebrew text which rendered necessary such a supposition. In a letter which he was so kind as to send me in reply he expressed a clear opinion that Eli and Samuel were sleeping at the time the Voice was heard not in the Holiest Place, but most probably in the Court of the Levites; and he stated that the Jews take it so in the Rabbinical Synopsis of the Abendanah. He further observes in his letter on the subject, which now lies before me, that the traditional pointing of the Masorites in 1 Samuel iii. 3 carefully guards against any such idea as that of Samuel sleeping in the Most Holy Place. They take the clause "and Samuel was laid down to sleep" parenthetically, and mark it as such by a longer stop than ordinary, thus connecting the words "in the Temple of the Lord" not with Samuel's sleeping-place, but with the mention of the still-burning lamp. Dean Stanley, under 1 Samuel iii. 3, refers to the Septuagint; but the rendering in this version gives no countenance to the supposition we are considering. Dr. Gill's 'Commentary' may be usefully consulted. From him and his authorities Mr. Churton gathered that Eli and Samuel were undoubtedly sleeping not far from one another; that the candlestick of seven branches was not in the same place where the Ark of God was, but in a portion of the Tabernacle apart from and exterior to it; finally, he cited the well-known opinion that the Divine Voice sounded first from the mercy seat, secondly from some part of the Tabernacle exterior to the Most Holy Place, and thirdly from the Court of the Levites; I confess the expression in. verse 10, "as time after time" ("as at other times" in the English version), appears to fall in with this opinion. On the whole, I conclude Dean Stanley must have been misled by the use of the word ναὸς in 1 Samuel iii. 3 by the LXX., forgetting at the moment that this word is not to be limited as if it only signified shrine, inasmuch as it is continually used for temple in general.S. Arnott.
- The Vicarage, Gunnersbury, W.
CONTRIBUTION TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHESS PERIODICALS.
The following list is a complication from the British Museum Catalogue, A. v. d. Linde's "Das erste Jartausend der Schachlitteratur," the Catalogue of the Allen Chess Collection, and Heydebrand und der Lasa's catalogue of his library. I should be glad to receive full particulars of any periodicals not in the Museum for future publication.
- El Ajedrez Revista Mensual, Barcelona, 1862-4, 1867-8, 8vo. Linde.
- The American Chess Journal, Hannibal, 1876, 8vo. H.L.
- The Amateur Chess Magazine, Vols i., ii., and vol. iii. Nos. 13-15. London, 1872-4, 8vo. B.M.
- The American Chess Magazine. [Vol. i.] New York, 1847, 8vo. B.M.
- Brentano's Chess Monthly, Vol. i. and vol. ii. Nos. 1-4. New York, 1881-2. B.M.
- British Chess Magazine, London, 1881. &c. 8vo. B.M.
- The British Chess Review. London, 1853-4, 8vo. B.M.
- The Brooklyn Chess Chronicles. Brooklyn, 1882, &C., 8vo. H.L.
