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The "Agnus Dei" is seven or eight inches in diameter; the lamb, &c., in the
centre, and the words "Ecce Agnus Dei" in a circular border round it.
This is all the information I can now give.
M.C.R.
_Bab in the Bowster_ (Vol. ii., p. 518.).--In your valuable periodical your
correspondent "MAC." makes an observation regarding "Bab in the Bowster,"
which is not correct so far as regards this part of the country at least.
He says "it is now danced with a handkerchief instead of a cushion,"
whereas the fact is I have never seen it danced but with a pillow, as its
name "Bab in the Bowster (Anglice bolster)" would seem to denote. The
manner of dancing it is, the company having formed itself into a circle,
one, either male or female, goes into the centre, carrying a pillow, and
dances round the circle with a sort of shuffling quick step, while the
others sing,--
"Wha learn'd you to dance, you to dance, you to dance,
Wha learn'd you to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly?"
To which the dancer replies:
"Mother learn'd me to dance, me to dance, me to dance,
Mother learn'd me to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly."
He or she then lays down the pillow before one of the opposite sex, when
they both kneel on it and kiss; the person to whom the pillow has been
presented going over the above again, &c, till the company tires.
I may add that the above is a favourite dance here, particularly among
young people, and at children's parties in particular it is never omitted.
If your correspondent wishes the air to which it is danced, I shall be glad
to send it to him.
GLENIFFER.
Paisley.
_Sir Cloudesley Shovel_ (Vol. iii., p. 23.).--"H.J." will find a "Note" in
Cunningham's _Lives of Eminent Englishmen_ (vol. iv. p. 47.), of the
circumstances attendant upon Sir Cloudesley's death, as preserved in the
family of the Earl of Romney, detailing the fact of his murder, and the
mode of {46} its discovery. I shall be happy to supply your correspondent
with an extract, if he has not the above work at hand.
J.B. COLMAR.
_Noli me tangere_ (Vol. ii., p. 153.).--In addition to the painters already
enumerated as having treated this subject, the artist Le Sueur, commonly
called the Raphael of France, may be mentioned. In his picture, the figures
are somewhat above half nature.
W.J. MERCER.
_Cad_ (Vol. i., p.250.).--Jamieson derives this word, or rather its Scotch
diminutive, "cadie," from the French, _cadet_. I have heard it fancifully
traced to the Latin "cauda."
W.J. MERCER.
* * * * *
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Mr. Disraeli's work, entitled _Commentaries on the Life and Reign of
Charles the First_, has been pronounced by one of the great critical
authorities of our own days, "the most important work" on the subject that
modern times have produced. Those who differ from Mr. Disraeli's view of
the character of the king and the part he played in the great drama of his
age may, in some degree, dissent from this eulogy. None will, however, deny
that the work, looking to its anecdotical character, and the great use made
in it of sources of information hitherto unemployed, is one of the most
amusing as well as interesting histories of that eventful period. While
those who share with the editor, Mr. B. Disraeli, and many reflecting men,
the opinion that in the great questions which are now agitating the public
mind, history is only repeating itself; and that the "chapters _on the
Genius of the Papacy; on the Critical Position of our earlier Protestant
Sovereigns with regard to their Roman Catholic Subjects_, from the
consequences of the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; _on the Study of
Polemical Divinity prevalent at the commencement of the Seventeenth
Century_, and kindred themes, are, in fact, the history of the events, the
thoughts, the passions, and the perplexities of the present agitated
epoch," will agree that the republication of the work at this moment is at
once opportune and acceptable.
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