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apparently childless. I t is now the Rev. ' History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam '
William who is left childless. Surely this is (1832), occurs the following passage on
« n error. . W. D. PINK. p. 334 :—
" The Church remained for one hundred and
Jukros: N E W EDITION.—Such a work twenty years as a double charge ; but in 1798,
•would be of great assistance to students when Mr. Greaves died, a handopening was refused,
•of the eighteenth century. I t should be on account of the then very unsettled state of
based upon the "Authors Edition," pub- public affairs ; and the ministerial duties, being
lished in 1772, and should include the private in part curtailed, devolved, with his own consent,
upon the surviving clergyman."
communications to Woodfall, the Wilkes
arid Home correspondence, and the " Veteran The word handopening, which perhaps
letters," but the rest of the epistles inter- is only to be found here, is simply the Dutch'
polated by Dr. Mason Good ought to be ex- word signifying " permission-, to nominate
cluded unless some evidence of their authen- a clergyman."
ticity can be adduced. By way of introduc- The Dutch word Hoogmogendheid is ren-
tion there might be an impartial summary dered " High Mightiness" in an address
of the arguments for and against the various presented to King George I. on his way,
claimants to the authorship of the letters. through Holland to England in 1714 (i&.,'
The book would afford a splendid oppor- p. 2 6 7 ) : -
tunity in elaborate documentation to a
scholarly editor. There is no satisfactory "That there, may be always a good under-;
modern edition of this great classic. standing and- hearty friendship between your
most Sacred Majesty, and their High Mightinesses
HOKACE B L E A C K L E Y . the States-General."
The s of the English word " hollands "
CHOTTA ROTJSTHWEL.— In a rare little {Hollandsche jenever) seems to be an attempt
French book issued in' 1833 or 1834, the at reproducing phonetically the Dutch
* Choixde Morceaux Fac- Simile ' of Eugene adjectival ending -scA(e), which is pro-
Cassin, there- is an account of a very curious nounced -e(e). H. G. WAKD.
work in the Georgian language. ' The Man Aachen.
in the Tiger Skin ' is a poem describing the
misfortunes of a prince who, exiled from
India, finds a refuge in the Arabian deserts. " CAPPING " AT SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.
He clothes himself in the skin of a tiger —The Globe of 4 April published the follow-
which he has slain. ing:—
The poem contains proverbs, moral reflec- ceives " When a student of a Scottish University re-
tions, apologues, &c. M. Brosset translates referred his degree the ceremony is always
to as ' capping.' The term is so familiar
some into French in the work above named. that no one thinks of inquiring into its origin.
Here are examples turned into English:— The venerable principal of St. Andrews, Sir
James Donaldson, who, although a layman,
" I t is a great pleasure to narrate past mis- holds
fortunes that have been endured." among other distinctions a doctor's degree
in divinity, explained the custom at the last
" The remembrance of past griefs is agreeable, graduation ceremony. Here are his words :
but that of pleasures now denied is a true sorrow. IPirst of all the imposition of a cap on your heads
" One said to the .Rose : ' I am astonished that is borrowed from the practice of the old Romans.
you, having received the gift of beauty, should Whenever they emancipated a slave they placed
arm yourself with thorns against those who a particular kind of cap on his head, and from
wish to gather you.' ' You take,' replied the that moment he became a free man. In our
Rose, ' the sweet for the bitter : that which costs ceremony it intimates that you have passed from
dear is always thought to be the best, and beauty the stage of being in a subordinate position and
at a low price would not be regarded as worth the under guidance to the condition of being your
trouble of the search.' If the Rose, a being not own masters. You are no longer to be directed
endowed with reason, could speak thus, it must in everything ; you are to choose your own mode
be true that we must sow in sorrow in order to of life. This ceremony has often awakened the
reap in joy." deepest feelings among the very greatest of those
There are many references to the author, who have just' received such a final recognition
as you have this day received from the universi-
Chotta Rousthwel, in the ' Bibliographic ties in which they studied. Luther regarded it
analytique des ouvrages de Marie-F61icit6 as the happiest moment of his life."
Brosset 1 (St. Petersbourg, 1887), but this
little lithograph in facsimile of the hand- A very different scholastic use of the word
writing of that great scholar is omitted. cap was furnished, under " ' Cap ' in the
WILLIAM E. A. Axox. Hunting-Field,'" at 9 S. xi. 297.
Manchester. A. F. R.