The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864

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The Life of Philidor, Musician and Chess-Player. By George Allen, Greek Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. With a Supplementary Essay on Philidor as Chess-Author and Chess-Player, by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Prussia at the Court of Saxe-Weimar. Philadelphia. E. H. Butler & Co. 12mo. pp. xii., 156. $1.50.

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Sermons preached before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, during his Tour in the East, in the Spring of 1862, with Notices of some of the Localities visited. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D. D., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, etc., etc. New York. C. Scribner. 12mo. pp. 272. $1.50.

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notes

1

When Columbus sailed on his fourth voyage, in which he hoped to pass through what we now know as the Isthmus of Panama, and sail northwestward, he wrote to his king and queen that thus he should come as near as men could come to "the Terrestrial Paradise."

2

Norandel was the half-brother of Amadis, both of them being sons of Lisuarte, King of England.

3

Maneli was son of Cildadan, King of Ireland.

4

Quadragante was a distinguished giant, who had been conquered by Amadis, and was now his sure friend.

5

The "Spectators" 414 and 477, which urge particularly a better taste in gardening, are dated 1712; and the first volume of the "Ichnographia" (under a different name, indeed) appeared in 1715.

6

This is averred of the translation of the "Œconomics" of Xenophon, before cited in these papers, and published under Professor Bradley's name.

7

Joseph Andrews, Bk. III. Ch. 4, where Fielding, thief that he was, appropriates the story that Xenophon tells of Cyrus.

8

Works of Earl of Orford, Vol. III. p. 490.

9

Chap. IX. p. 136, Cobbett's edition.

10

It is to be remarked, however, that the Rev. Mr. Smith, (farmer of Lois-Weedon,) by the distribution of his crop, avails himself virtually of a clean fallow, every alternate year.

11

Transactions, Vol. XXX p. 140.

12

Detached Thoughts on Men and Manners: Wm. Shenstone.

13

Completing the two volumes of collected poems.

14

A taste for this had been early indicated, especially in the essays on Bunyan and Robert Dinsmore, in "Old Portraits and Modern Sketches," and in passages of "Literary Recreations." Whittier's prose, by the way, is all worth reading.

15

Montgéron, Tom. II. Idée de l'État des Convulsionnaires, p. 104.

16

Montgéron, Tom. II. Idée de l'État, etc., p. 104.

17

Vains Efforts des Discernans, p. 36.

18

Montgéron, Tom. II. Idée de l'État, etc., p. 66.

19

Montgéron, Tom. II. Idée de l'État, etc., p. 67. The latter part of the quotation alludes to crucifixion and other symbolical representations, to which the convulsionists were much given.

This state of ecstasy is one which has existed, probably, in occasional instances, through all past time, especially among religious enthusiasts. The writings of the ancient fathers contain constant allusions to it. St. Augustine, for example, speaks of it as a phenomenon which he has personally witnessed. Referring to persons thus impressed, he says,—"I have seen some who addressed their discourse sometimes to the persons around them, sometimes to other beings, as if they were actually present; and when they came to themselves, some could report what they had seen, others preserved no recollection of it whatever."—De Gen. ad Litter. Lib. XII. c. 13.

20

Montgéron, Tom. II. Idée de l'État, etc., p. 77.

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