AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. the Congress of Münster in 1648 (as King says), iii. 480).or in 1641 (as Büchmann says in his 20th edition). The Latin is found in various forms: " pru 1. Nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia regitur mundus ? 6 The account of this saying given in King's Classical and Foreign Quotations' can, it seems, no longer be accepted. Following an earlier edition of Büchmann's Geflügelte Worte,' King took the statement in Lundblad's Svensk Plutark' (1826) that the original was addressed by Oxenstierna to his son, when the latter hesitated to undertake a high diplomatic mission. But Büchmann's invaluable work has since passed through several more editions. The latest I have seen-that of 1912, the 25th-bears on its title-page the names of four successive editors who have supplemented Büchmann's researches. In this the attribution of the saying to Oxenstierna is decisively rejected. We are told that he was first credited with it in Johann Arkenholtz's "Historische Merkwürdigkeiten (Leipzig and Amsterdam, 1751-60), but that Arkenholtz acknowledged he had never seen the Chancellor's letter in which he was supposed to have given his son this piece of advice. We learn further that no such words can be discovered either in Gjörwell's edition of Oxenstierna's letters, 1810-19, or in the Swedish Academy's collection of his works and letters, begun in 1888. Finally, we are informed that Dr. Per Sondén, the Swedish historian and archivist, proved that Oxenstierna was not the author of the saying, and communicated his results by letter to Dr. Arnheim of Berlin, and that this was evidently the source of an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung for Oct. 26, 1910. According to that, in a memorial to Oxenstierna, dated from Frankfurt, August, 1633, Willem Usselinx quotes a remark that Viglius Zuichemus, President at Brussels, who died in 1577, is said to have made to a relative who, on the plea of insufficient ability, had declined a good post that he had offered him. Zuichemus told him that he ought to try what he could make of it, and the result would be much better than he thought. "For," said he, " you could not believe with how little wisdom the world is governed." As a possible original, Büchmann (and he is quoted to this effect by King) refers to a Portuguese collection of apophthegms, Collecçam politica de apophtegmas memoraveis,' by Pedro Jos. Suppico de Moraes (Lisbon, 1733), 2, 2, 44, in which there is a story that when a Portuguese monk commiserated Julius III. on having to bear the burden of the government of the world, the Pope replied: "You would be amazed if you knew at the cost of how little intelligence the world is governed." The article in the 25th edition of Geflügelte Worte concludes with the general statement that there are other persons too who have been named as originating the saying. At one time (e.g., in his 10th edition, 1877) Büchmann mentioned that in Zincgref's Apophthegmata,' vol. ii. p. 107 in the 1693 edition, the author is said to have been a certain nobleman called von Orselaer, tutor to the sons of a Markgraf of Baden. As J. W. Zincgref died in 1635, if the above attribution occurs in any edition of the Apophthegmata' for which he was responsible, this is another argument against Oxenstierna's claim to have originated it, either at the time of dentia or sapientia," orbis or mundus, regatur or the ungrammatical regitur." Fumagalli, in the 4th edition of Chi l'ha detto? has a variety: Videbis, fili mi, quam parva sapientia regitur mundus.' 66 Possibly fresh light may still be shed on this obscure problem. It will be recognized that the history of the saying is more complicated than might appear at first sight. It is a case of waiting. and seeing what further evidence may show. But the majority of the reading public, as far as it interests itself in these matters, dislikes suspended judgment, and prefers something quite definite. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. (12 S. iii. 510; iv. 32.) a In all His holy sovereign will Too wise to be mistaken still, Too good to be unkind, &c. Medley as a midshipman served under Admiral Boscawen. After his conversion through Whitefield about 1760, he became a Baptist minister at Watford, Herts. In 1772 he became pastor of Byrom Street Chapel, Liverpool, where he published his hymns, and remained until his death in 1799. Miller's Singers and Songs of the Church' gives a memoir of him, pp. 269-71; and a portrait accompanied his memoir published by his daughter, Sarah Medley, in 1800. R. H. Notes on Books. A Bookman's Budget. Composed and compiled by Austin Dobson. (Oxford University Press, 38. 6d. net.) MB. DOBSON has filled in a period when his ordinary activities were suspended with the making of this little book, which is one that particularly appeals to N. & Q.' In bygone days, when the love of books and literature claimed more time, perhaps, than it does now, Mr. Dobson used to write reviews in our own columns, and we notice among the charming little poems wherewith he varies his prose extracts A Rondeau (on "Notes and Queries ") In N. & Q.' we meet to weigh The Hannibals of yesterday; We trace, thro' all its moss o'ergrown, The script upon Time's oldest stone, Nor scorn his latest waif and stray. In such poems Mr. Dobson has long been a master, and here he has reminiscences of two other deft practitioners who have also given their peculiar grace to occasional verse Andrew Lang and Locker-Lampson. A ripe mind steeped in book-lore is, we think, at its happiest when it can reveal thus its sense of literature and life. The neatness of Horace with his wise, if easy criticism is one of Mr. Dobson's rare gifts. Not that we despise his prose, and that intellectual curiosity which leads to the collection of waifs and strays, epigrams, and those little hints of one man or another which show character. We have seen some sneers at such oddities, but there is more in them than the sour-complexioned or self-centred are ready to allow. I will bury myself in my books, and the Devil may pipe to his own, said the gloomy hero in the first edition of "Maud.' We need not go so far as that, but we are sure that literature is a true and delightful means of recreation, and all readers of Mr. Budget' will be sent happily on many quests in books they have read, and books that they always meant to read, only requiring some such genial impulse as we find in many of his pages. Dobson's The illustrations, which are quaint and choice, remind us that this is one of Mr. Dobson's special provinces. He gives us some neat appreciations of artists like Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, to say nothing of earlier masters. Always he is "Greenaway-land kindly, though critical. praises as is meet, but neither he nor Ruskin, if we remember right, thinks of the retarding length of the children's frocks. Surely they should go short-skirted at that age. " he On poetic diction and style there are many wise words collected here. The favourite books of some eminent men are recorded for our admiration and sometimes our surprise; the joys and occasional shocks of the book-hunter are revealed to us, and the "Rondeaus of the War" remind us that the scholar-poet is not lost in his books. He finds the French saying which inspired Mr. Winston Churchill's "Pessimism in the civilian is the counterpart of cowardice in the soldier." On many a page, indeed, he presents us with the neat wisdom of our Allies. We wish that Mr. Dobson's friend and ours, the late Col. Prideaux, was still with us to comment on this and that, raise new points, and quote new parallels. We will only add one ourselves. Mr. Dobson quotes Montaigne's answer to the man who says, "I have done nothing to-day.' Quoi ! avez-vous pas vécu? c'est non seulement la fondamentale, mais la plus illustre de vos occupations." He adds a parallel from Horace, and we add this from Morley's Gladstone': "To me, says Crassus in Cicero, the man hardly seems to be free who does not sometimes do nothing." This is no plea for idleness, but one for a cessation which improves the quality of work. The reckless, unceasing hurry of to-day spoils good art and good work. We should be glad to see more examples of leisure so well occupied as in collecting this Bookman's Budget.' BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. as MR. 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SOUTHEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO "THE CRITICAL REVIEW.' THE (See ante, p. 35,) review of the Lyrical Ballads,' which appeared in October, 1798, is Southey's. Wordsworth refers to the authorship in a letter to Joseph Cottle complaining of its unfriendly tone ("Letters of the Wordsworth Family,' i. 122). Lamb addresses Southey on Nov. 8, 1798, as follows: "If you wrote that review in The Critical Review I am sorry you are so sparing of praise to The Ancient Mariner' ; yet Mr. E. V. Lucas in his note on this passage hesitates over the attribution. Any lingering doubt that may exist on this point is, however, dispelled by a letter to William Taylor, antedating the review, in which Southey applies to The Ancient Mariner the phrase that gave particular offence: · "Have you seen the volume of Lyrical Ballads? They are by Coleridge and Wordsworth, but their names are not affixed. Coleridge's ballad of the Ancient Mariner is, I think, the clumsiest attempt at German sublimity I ever saw. Many of the others are very fine." Robberds, Memoir of William Taylor,' i. 223. genius is employed in producing a poem of little merit. Lamb's reproof must have humbled Southey in his best feelings, inasmuch as the grievance of the former against Coleridge was no slighter than his own: "You have selected a passage," wrote Lamb, "fertile in unmeaning miracles, but have passed by fifty passages as miraculous as the miracles they celebrate. I never so deeply felt the pathetic as in that part, A spring of love gush'd from my heart, It stung me into high pleasure through sufferings. So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemèd there to be!...., &c. &c. But you allow some elaborate beauties....you should have extracted 'em. 'The Ancient Mariner' plays more tricks with the mind than that last poem [ Tintern Abbey '], which is yet one of the finest written." This was a lesson in generosity. When, not long after, a complete reconciliation was brought about between Coleridge and Southey, the latter no doubt preferred that a veil of oblivion should rest over his comments on The Ancient Mariner.' The rest of the review does not sin conspicuously against justice. We can understand why it should have failed to The article was written during the period satisfy Wordsworth, for it falls far short of of Southey's alienation from Coleridge, and the exalted tribute which even Southey toward Coleridge's poem it was particularly later learned to pay him. But it is unfair severe. The quarrel over Pantisocracy still to accuse Southey, as Prof. Harper does, rankled at the heart of the two poets, and of carefully planning an attack and hastenother substances had been added to the ing its publication unduly with the design flame. Southey had been touched in his of injuring the sale of the volume ('Life of poetic vanity by some sonnet-parodies of Wordsworth,' i. 381). It involves the Nehemiah Higginbottom in which he gratuitous assumption that Southey supsuspected Coleridge of an attempt to posed all the poems to be written by ridicule his style. And the unstable Charles Coleridge, an assumption which we know Lloyd, who had recently broken with to be contrary to truth. Of a grudge Coleridge and succeeded in embroiling him against Wordsworth there could have been with Lamb, seems to have been busy also no question, for the personal intimacy in reporting Coleridge's uncomplimentary between them had not yet begun. And if opinions of Southey. Lamb's letters at we look at this part of the review disthis time are filled with personal irritation toward Coleridge (it is the year of the "Theses quædam theologica "), and it is not surprising that Southey's mood should have been unsympathetic. While he recognized that many of the stanzas in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' were laboriously beautiful," he thought that in connexion they were absurd and unintelligible. He characterized the whole as "a Dutch attempt at German sublimity" in which 66 passionately, it does not appear nearly so |