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NOTES AND QUERIES.
537
January, 1822. They are slightly different
from the Winterton version. Farewell vain world, I've known enough of thee, And now I 'm careless what thou sayst of me ; Thy smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My breath is gone, my head lies quiet here ; What faults you saw in me take care to shun ; Look well at home, enough there 's to be done.
W. D. SWEETING. 'Maxey, Market Deeping.
The epitaph "Farewell, vain world," &c., with a few words different, is on a gravestone in Wingham Churchyard to three brothers, the last of whom died in 1822 at the age of one hundred years. The same epitaph is also on a gravestone in the adjoining parish of Staple, under the year 1784. Copies of both, which differ in a few words from that at Winterton, I shall be pleased to send your correspondent J. T. F. if he would like lo have them. ARTHUR HUSSEY.
Wingham, near Dover.
BLACK BLOTTING PAPER (9 th S. ii. 506). Mr. Allen Upward's delightful 'Secrets' being all inventions, it is probable that black blotting paper is his own. Mr. Disraeli doubtless used the roller blotters which were introduced into the Government offices in -his time, and which answer the purpose of secrecy, it being almost impossible to read from them in a glass, even when the sheet is nearly clean. Foreign diplomatists, when they use the ordinary flat sheet, are in the habit of destroying it themselves. D.
MATERIALISM (9 th S. ii. 468). The ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' states that " the praise of originality cannot be denied to David Hartley." His work ' Observations on Man,' containing his theories on the physio- logical and psychological conditions of mankind, was published in 1749. Three years earlier Condillac had published his 'Traite sur FOrigine des Connoissances Humaines,' \vhich would have enabled Hartley to take advantage of the philoso- phical suggestions contained in the ' Traite.' That he did so is probable from the fact that, as George Lewes expresses it (' Hist, of Phil.,' vol. ii. p. 372, 1880), "he carried still further than Condillac the fertile suggestion that psychological processes were in truth physiological, and must be sought in the organic mechanism." It is again said (ibid., p. 371) that "Hartley's doctrine of vibrations is an hypothetical machinery substituted for that of Condillac." We may, therefore, justly suppose that Hartley was acquainted with the more important speculations of his contemporary Etienne de Condillac.
Charles Bonnet was also a contemporary
of Hartley and Condillac; but his chief
psychological works were both published
some time later than those of either of the
latter, viz., 'Essai de Psychologie' in 1754
and 'Traite Analytique de 1'Ame' in 1760.
Bonnet's theories are in some very important
instances almost identical with those of
Hartley ; and as all three philosophers were
interested in and writing on the same sub-
ject i.e., physiological psychology and at
very nearly the same time, one may safely
infer that they were thoroughly conversant
with each other's views. HAMILTON WILLIS.
Royal Societies Club.
' TE DEUM ' (METRICAL VERSION) (9 th S. ii. 388). Many years ago perhaps in 1856 the Rev. Coker Adams, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford, gave me a copy of 'Two Hymns dedicated to the Society, written by him, one of which is a metrical version or paraphrase of the'TeDeum.' The music is arranged from Beethoven. Of course there is no date upon the title-page, but it was published by Alfred J. Novello, 69, Dean Street, Soho, and 35, Poultry (probably about 1856), price 2s. Gd. It is arranged for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A stanza or two are subjoined :
We worship, we confess Thee, Lord, Eternal Father, King ador'd ; All things on earth, with one accord, Exalt Thy mighty name.
All Holy ! Holy ! Holv Thou ! Thy glory Earth and Heav'n avow ; Lord God of Hosts, to Thee we bow, Our Maker, Light, and Life !
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
Timperley in his 'Dictionary of Printers and Printing' states that the names of William Seres and Richard Hele do not occur together as printers of any work after 1 550. Very many articles on the ' Te Deum ' have appeared in ' N. & O.' (1 st , 2 nd , 4 th , 5 th , 7 th S.), but none refers to the metrical version named by your correspondent.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71 1 Brecknock Road.
BLACK IMAGES OF THE MADONNA (9 th S. ii. 367, 397, 449, 475). The following instances, if not already noted, may be useful for MR. CROOKE'S list : France Bourg (en Bresse) and Chatres. Switzerland Einselden.
Bourg, on the main line of rail between Paris and Modane, will be known to some
- rom Margaret of Austria's magnificent
ihurch of Brou. This is just outside the town, and is comparatively little used. The
