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No. 193.]
SATURDAY, JULY 9. 1853..
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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                              Page
  The Eye: its primary Idea                               25
  Gossiping History--De Quincey's Account of Hatfield     26
  Notes upon the Names of some of the Early Inhabitants
  of Hellas                                               27
  Shakspeare Readings, No. IX.                            28
  Goethe's Author-Remuneration                            29

  MINOR NOTES:--Parallel Passages--Unpublished Epitaphs--
  The Colour of Ink in Writings--Literary Parallels--
  Latin Verses prefixed to Parish Registers-- Napoleon's
  Bees                                                    30

  QUERIES:--
  Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's
  Letters? by Sir F. Madden                               31

  MINOR QUERIES:--Lord Chatham--Slow-worm Superstition--
  Tangiers--Snail Gardens--Naples and the Campagna
  Felice--"The Land of Green Ginger"--Mugger--
  Snail-eating--Mysterious Personage--George Wood of
  Chester--A Scale of Vowel Sounds--Seven Oaks and Nine
  Elms--Murder of Monaldeschi--Governor Dameram--Ancient
  Arms of the See of York--Hupfeld--Inscription on a
  Tomb in Finland--Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on
  Railway Travelling--Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby,
  Lincolnshire--Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume
  Shakspeare                                              33

  REPLIES:--
  Wild Plants and their Names                             35
  Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart                           37
  Heraldic Queries                                        37
  Door-head Inscriptions                                  38
  Consecrated Roses                                       38
  Notes on Serpents                                       39

  Photographic Correspondence:--Early Notice of the
  Camera Obscura--Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion
  Process--Baths for the Collodion Process                41

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Mitigation of Capital
  Punishment to a Forger--Chronograms and Anagrams--
  Abigail--Burial in unconsecrated Ground--"Cob" and
  "Conners"--Coleridge's Unpublished MSS.--Selling a
  Wife--Life--Passage of Thucydides on the Greek
  Factions--Archbishop King--Devonianisms--Perseverant,
  Perseverance--"The Good Old Cause"--Saying of Pascal--
  Paint taken off of old Oak--Passage in the "Tempest"    42

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Notes on Books, &c.                                     45
  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                            45
  Notices to Correspondents                               46
  Advertisements                                          46

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Notes.

THE EYE: ITS PRIMARY IDEA.

I do not remember to have remarked that any writer notices how uniformly,
in almost all languages, the same primary idea has been attached to the
eye. This universal consent is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the
connexion in question, though of course most appropriate and significant in
itself, hardly seems to indicate the most prominent characteristic, or what
we should deem to be _par excellence_ the obvious qualities of the eye; in
a word, we should scarcely expect a term derived from a physical attribute
or property.

The eye is suggestive of life, of divinity, of intellect, piercing
acuteness (_acies_); and again, of truth, of joy, of love: but these seem
to have been disregarded, as being mere indistinctive accidents, and the
primary idea which, by the common consent of almost all nations, has been
thought most properly to symbolise this organ