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NOTES:-Rabelais and Shakspeare, 201-Gilpin's Second Holiday, 202-English Play Title List, 203-"Thesaurus Epistolicus Calvinianus "-Thomas Broke-"The one" and "the other," 205-Jerdan's Recollections of Turnerelli-The Royal Signature-Lord Bacon: Thomas Seckford-Dramatic Curiosity-A Beetle's Tomb-"Grimly"-Weather Telegrams-The "Mistletoe Bongh," 206. whole progeny of Adam would perish without it. Therefore perhaps I do not think amiss when I repute it to be the great soul of the universe, which, according to the opinion of the Academics, vivifieth all manner of things," &c. Panurge says: "Suppose a world without debtors and creditors, that is to say, a world without debts." He goes on enumerating what would happen amongst the gods and constellations, who are maintained, he says, by lending to and borrowing from each other, and then, dropping the representation by divinities, says: QUERIES:-Sir Peter Daniel-The Essenes-Name of Artist, Poems by Thomas Warton-Juan de Valdes, 208-LusenT. C's Labyrinthus "-Authors of Books and Quotations Wanted, 209. REPLIES:-Beilby Porteus, 209-Early Book AuctionsShowers of Sulphur, 211-Grobianus-President Henry Lawrence-Drift, 212-Privileged Flour Mills-Definition of Metaphysics-Genius-Works on Entomology-Basawa, 213 -Braid-Emperor Maximilian-Castle of Maidens Edinburgh-References in "Christian Year"-Last Lord Archer-Duguid - Addition to Surnames, 214-Count Street, Nottingham-Prayer towards East-Rev. Lewis Hughes Heraldic-"A man is a fool," &c.-" Calvarium"- Burial at Night-Precious Stones-Curious Baptismal Entry"Tale of a Tub," 215-"Joined the majority "-" The Protestant Fiail," 216-Tradesmen's Tokens-"Lothe The Miracle at Cana-Playing the bear," 217-Job xxx 18 -A Deed of Denization-Modus vivendi "-Throwing the Old Shoe-John Sansbury-Abraham Ortellius-Fowls"Upon the square"-" Wicket" and "Cricket," 218. "The moon will remain bloody and obscure: for to what end should the sun impart unto her any of his light? He owed her nothing. Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented. "There would likewise be in such a world no manner of symbolization, alternation, or transmutation amongst the elements; for the one will not esteem itself obliged to the other, as having borrowed nothing at all from it. Earth then will not become water; water will not be changed into air; of air will be made no fire, and fire will afford no heat unto the earth," &c. And what is a curious coincidence between Rabelais and Shakspeare, and would suggest at NOTES ON BOOKS:-Marshall's "Genealogist's Guide to least that they might have had some common Pedigrees"- Lear's "Selections from Pascal "Caxton's Reynard the Foxe." Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. RABELAIS AND SHAKSPEARE. - Arber's I think I saw it lately questioned in "N. & Q." whether the influence of Rabelais was to be traced in Shakspeare, and that it was answered in the negative. I have been reading Sentences et Proverbes du Talmud et du Midrasch, par Moïse Schuhl, Rabbin, Officier d'Académie, 1878. The purport of this work is to give passages out of the Talmud and correspondences ancient and modern. On coming to a proverb on the intercommunion of all things, that all the members of the body were necessary to each other, reference is made to Rabelais, liv. iii. ch. iii. On turning to it the remembrance of Shakspeare in Timon of Athens came to mind. Rabelais makes Panurge praise the debtors and borrowers, or rather might be said borrowers and lenders. Changed into thieves and thieved, have we not the same things said by the Timon of Shakspeare? Chap. iii. is long, and the same subject, in the same manner and to the same extent, is carried on in chap. iv. In chap. iii. Panurge says: "Well, to go yet further on, and possibly worse in your conceit, may St. Babolin, the good saint, snatch me if I have not all my lifetime held debt to be as a union or conjunction of the heavens with the earth, and the whole cement whereby the race of mankind is kept together; yea, of such virtue and efficacy that I say the source, if Shakspeare did not take from Rabelais, is that a little further on Rabelais mentions "Timon the Athenian, the hater of mankind." Act iv. sc. 3, Timon says to Alcibiades :"I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.... Alcib. How came the noble Timon to this change? Tim. As the moon does, by wanting light to give : But then renew I could not, like the moon; There were no suns to borrow of." The speech of Timon to the banditti is most to the purpose, where he gives gold to thieves and tells them to practise robbery as all professions do and nature shows : "I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement. Each thing's a thief." The whole of the two chapters should be read to see the likenesses between the authors. In Rabelais there is constant allusion to the man the microcosm, which is in Shakspeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 1, "The map of my microcosm." The introduction of Collier to Timon mentions many sources from whence Shakspeare may have drawn his play, Plutarch, Lucian, &c. Collier says that the story of Timon greatly attracted the attention of the sixteenth century, and there was a play of Timon before that of Shakspeare. The Pall Mall Gazette of Sept. 2, 1879, says, "Rabelais was introduced to the English public at |