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Page 18
R.G.
"What are _depenings_?" (No. 18. p. 277.)
The nets used by the Yarmouth herring busses were made in breadths of
six feet. The necessary _depth_ was obtained by sewing together
successive breadths, and each breadth was therefore called a
_deepening_.[4]
ED.
[Footnote 4: From a pamphlet written about 1615, not now before us. ED.]
* * * * *
MISCELLANIES.
_Tale of a Tub._--It is generally supposed that the title of Swift's
_Tale of a Tub_ was a jest originally levelled at the Puritan pulpit. It
probably had served a more ancient purpose. In Bale's _Comedye
concerning Three Laws_, compiled in 1538, Infidelitas says:
"Ye say they follow your law,
And vary not a shaw,
Which is a tale of a tub."
J.O.W.H.
* * * * *
A GENIUS.
(_From the German of Claudius_.)
"Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day,
"What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?"
"No, I don't," said the Ass; "nor I don't care, not I."
"Why, they say you're a GENIUS," was Reynard's reply.
"My stars!" muttered Jack, quite appall'd by the word,
"What can I have done that's so very absurd?"
* * * * *
_Dedications_ (No. 17. p. 259.).--In Villaneuva's Dedication to the Duke
of Medinaceli of his _Origen Epocas y Progressos del Teatro Espa�ol_
(Madrid, 1802, sm. 4to.), the enumeration of the names, titles, and
offices of his patron occupies three entire pages, and five lines of a
fourth.
F.C.B.
* * * * *
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The Percy Society have just issued a reprint of a black letter tract,
entitled "A manifest Detection of the most Vyle and Detestable Use of
Dice Play," which exhibits a curious picture of the tricks in vogue
amongst the gamesters of the sixteenth century, and, as the Editor very
justly observes, "comprises fuller explanations of terms used by
Shakspeare and other old dramatists than are to be found in the notes of
the commentators. The mysteries of _gowrds_ and _fullams_, _high men_
and _low men_, stumbling-blocks to many intelligent readers of the works
of the Stratford Poet, are here satisfactorily revealed."
Whatever hope the projectors of the approaching _Exhibition of Works of
Ancient and Medi�val Art_ entertained of forming such a collection of
objects as might deserve the attention of the public generally, and
accomplish the great end in view, have been more than realised. Thanks
to the liberality with which the possessors of works of early art of
this description, from the most distinguished personages of the realm,
have placed their stores at the disposal of the committee, the very
novel exhibition which will open to the public on Thursday next, will be
as remarkable for its intrinsic beauty, as for its instructive and
suggestive character.
We need scarcely remind lovers of fine editions of first class books
that Messrs. Sotheby commence the sale of the first portion of the
extensive stock of Messrs. Payne and Foss, of Pall Mall, on Monday next.
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