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Orders, accompanied by a remittance, should be sent to "NOTES AND QUERIES," 20, High Street, High Wycombe, The Index is also on sale at our London NOTES AND QUERIES is published every Wycombe, Friday, at 20, High Street, Bucks (Telephone: Wycombe 306). tions (£2 2s. a year, U.S.A. $10.23, including postage, two half-yearly indexes and two cloth binding cases, or £1 15s. 4d. a year, U.S.A. $8.61 without binding cases) should be sent to the Manager. The London Office is at 14, Burleigh Street, W.C.2 (Telephone: Temple Bar 7576), where the current issue is on sale. Orders for back numbers, indexes and bound volumes should be sent either to London or to Wycombe; letters for the Editor to the London Office. Memorabilia. a an found possible by means of ultra-violet rays, to photograph, and so decipher, the underlying writing of a palimpsest. Mr. Leonard V. Dodds supplies an account of this. When a palimpsest is illuminated by a beam of dyes still present in the parchment from the invisible ultra-violet rays only the tints and distinct both from the superimposed writing erased writings fluoresce, and are seen clearly and from the parchment itself. The visible writing appears as if in outline type-white letters with a narrow black edge while the original and erased text comes out in a dark grey lettering. An example of this photography the Codex Sangallensis, photographed first by is given, showing part of folio 193 of ordinary light and then under ultra-violet radiation, which brings to light an underlying but now plainly legible transverse script. It needs but little reflection or imagination to see how large a field is thus opened, and that by a method which both gives instantaneously no damage to existing writings. a permanent record, and causes IN the Spectator for June 29 Miss Joan Woollcombe concludes an article on Life in "Prison is not the worst punishment that a Woman's Prison with the words: civilization has invented; perhaps it is the most humane of our institutions." possibly be objected to the first clause that It may the invention of prison goes back to times and stages of barbarism; and the second clause may startle. Yet Holloway, as this writer describes it, is made to wear even something of austere charm. clanking of keys, and there is the prison True, there is the dress: but the cells are described as clean and workshops as airy and pleasant. More than not uncomfortable; the food as good; the all this we are told that "Quite unofficially Tartuffe,' and-but none the less effectively-it is held that apprehension, trial and sentencing have materially contributed towards the expiation "; and that the incredible tidiness and efficiency everywhere to be noted are enforced by THERE will be found in the Revue des Deux Mondes for June 15 an interesting note by M. M. Magendie, on a hitherto ignored source of Tartuffe.' Scarron's Hypocrites' has been recognised as the origin of one short episode of the play; but the story to which M. Magendie draws attention provided suggestion for something more important, for nothing less, in fact, than the famous scenes in which Tartuffe attempts to seduce Elmire, and Elmire draws him on to incriminate himself under the eyes of the concealed Orgon. It is contained in 'Les Amours d'Aristandre et de Cléonice,' intercalated tale, about how certain preacher, the "béat Hiparque," at Persepolis, was received into the friendship of a worthy couple, and presently began to pursue the wife with his addresses. The details of conversation and action show some curious resemblances with those in Eurigène resorts to the same sort of device as Elmire to prove to her husband what the admired preacher is capable of. As M. Magendie briefly shows, comparison brings out the genius of Molière, which, by depth of thought and wealth of sentiment, has transformed a mediocre conception into greatness. The author of the 'Amours d'Aristandre et de Cléonice' was le sieur Vital d'Audiguier : poet, prose-writer and soldier, well-known and liked in his day, who published it in 1624. THE June number of Antiquity would afford many notes for 'Memorabilia' restrict ourselves to one point. It has been we apparently, call wardresses." This is a long THE opening article of the July Connoisseur |