9* s. vii. JAN. 5, i9oi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
sold his goods and spent the produce in dis-
tributing bread and wine to the poor. He
had been expelled from one of the cities for
being a Christian " (xxxi. and xxxii.). This
story dates, it is believed, from the third cen-
tury. Does the reply of Polyxena indicate
that Christians of those days were abstainers
from wine ? If so, what is to be said of the
distribution of bread and wine to the poor by
the disciple of Philip? Are we to regard
that act as well-meaning, but uninstructed?
Or was abstinence from wine the custom
only of women? Or is it merely to be
regarded as personal to Polyxena and her
companion ? The story is not without ascetic
exaggerations in its incidental references to
" the filth of marriage " (xxxi.).
WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Manchester.
" COLLATE." This verb, as a synonym of the somewhat rare collation, " to take a 'slight repast," appears at least once in literature :
"Before we enter this room, there is another, where any one who pleases may collate." Lady Pomfret (1741), 'Correspondence between the Countess of Hartford and the Countess of Pomfret' (1805), vol. li. p. 304.
Here we have a back-formation, as in burgle, edit, greed, jell, jeopard, Thomas Fuller's pillor, and the American nast. F. H.
Marlesford.
AN ADULTERATE QUOTATION. Coleridge, in Southey's l Omniana' (1812), vol. ii. p. 17,
has, "Low cunning, habitual cupidity
caledomanize the human face." Henry Nel- son Coleridge, editing his uncle's ' Literary Remains' (1836-39), substitutes coarsen for the word originally used and emphasized by italics; and the 'Oxford Dictionary,' under Coarsen,' is misled by his sophistication. Rather frequent are the proofs that he did not labour under hypertrophy of literary conscience. Caledonianize must wait till the ' Dictionary ' is followed by a supplement.
>r i F. H.
Marlesford.
"RusTiCNESS." It is, perhaps, not quite fair to an author to judge him by the report of his utterances passed through the medium of a shorthand note-taker. We regularly do it, of course, in reference to statesmen and others in public position whose opinions and actions are being constantly submitted through the press for consideration and discussion. Here, however, while the general tenor of a given deliverance or the bearing of a line of action may be regarded as definitely expressed and finally ascertained, the details are necessarily and quite properly, left in abeyance, We do
not hold a speaker to the minutiae of his
diction or the hypotheses underlying any
particular conclusion he has reached till he
has supervised the report of opinion or state-
ment and sanctioned its appearance. Carlyle
did not himself superintend the publication
of his lectures delivered in London about
1837 on the ' History of European Literature
and Culture,' and both he and his biographers
thought they had served their immediate
purpose and then been finally departed from.
But they were found, apparently well re-
ported, among the papers left at his death,
by one of Carlyle's auditors, and they were
published in 1892 by Messrs. Curwen, Kane &
Co., Bombay. Speaking of John Knox, one
of his favourite heroes, Carlyle is represented,
at p. 145 of this work, as mentioning the
"natural rusticness" of the Reformer, of
whom he says other inevitable and charac-
teristic things. "Rusticness," rather than
"rusticity," is probably what occurred to
the lecturer in the press of the moment,
speaking as he did from notes and not from
manuscript. THOMAS BAYNE.
Two OF A NAME IN ONE FAMILY. As there have been several instances of this in
- N. & Q.' of late from registers, &c., perhaps
the following contemporary instance, which has just met my eye, may be worth recording. In the Standard of 10 Sept., 1900, is a notice of an inquest at Tonbridge on a father and three daughters who were burnt to death in that town. The names of the two elder daughters were Hilda Jessie Tattam, aged sixteen, and Hilda Georgiana Tattam, aged twelve.
W. R. TATE.
Walpole Vicarage, Halesworth.
" A STILL SMALL VOICE," 1 KlNGS XIX. 12.
It does not say much for knowledge of the Bible in our days that a book is in its "twenty-ninth thousand in England and America," in which the erratum in the passage which follows remains uncorrected :
" When Moses was on the mountain it was after ', the various physical commotions and manifestations that he heard the ' still small voice,' the voice of his own soul through which the infinite God was speaking." 'In Tune with the Infinite,' p. 106, by Ralph Waldo Trine (London, George Bell & Sons, 1900).
R. M. SPENCE, D.D.
Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B.
SCOTTISH DANCE. (See 9 th S. vi. 404.) In all probability the dance mentioned by W. C. B. which he saw at Hull was the Highland dance called "Ghillie Callum," a favourite competitive dance at clan gatherings. It is one difficult of execution, as there are said to
