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Haer. i. Praef. 2. Matthew apologists exhibit their usual arbitrary haste, &c. S.R. ii. p. 224. For what follows, see especially p. 261 sqq. Sac. i. pp. 394-396; Westcott, On the Canon, p. 487 sqq.; Hilgenfeld, Der Kanon und die Kritik des N.T. ad p. 40, n.; Credner, Geschichte des Noutestamentlichen Kanon, ed. Volkmar, p. 153 sqq., &c. Lightfoot in Cont. Rev., Oct. 1875, p. 837.
Often they went by the name of the Judas Light or the Judas Candle; and sometimes small waxen figures of Judas were hung on them. See H.J. Feasey, op. cit. pp. 193, 213 sqq. As to the ritual of the new fire at St. G. Finamore, op. cit. pp. 123 sq. M. Lexer, "Volksüberlieferungen aus dem Lesachthal in Karnten," Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, iii. p. 31.
Arnold to W. Smith, Life, i. 356-358; ii. 32. Life, i. 225 sqq. St. Bartholomew's Day "The mere barren orthodoxy which, from all that I can hear, is characteristic of Oxford." Abbey and Overton, English Church in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 180, 204. V. Maurice, Life, i. 108-111; Trench's Letters; Carlyle's Sterling.
The rule of celibacy imposed on the Vestals, whose duty it was to relight the sacred fire as well as to preserve it when it was once made, is perhaps explained by a superstition current among French peasants that if a girl can blow up a smouldering candle into a flame she is a virgin, but that if she fails to do so, she is not. Compare The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings> ii. 234 sqq.
From Bruscambille he seems to have taken little or nothing but the not very valuable idea of the tedious buffoonery of vol. iii. c. 30, et sqq.; and to Scarron he, perhaps, owed the incident of the dwarf at the theatre in the Sentimental Journey, an incident which, it must be owned, he vastly improved in the taking.
Compare M. Kowalewsky, in Folk-lore, i. p. 467. W.R.S. Ralston, op. cit. p. 240. W.R.S. Ralston, l.c. F.S. Krauss, "Altslavische Feuergewinnung," Globus, lix. p. 318. Ligho was an old heathen deity, whose joyous festival used to fall in spring. Ovid, Fasti, vi. 775 sqq. J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,* i. 519.
Still, as there is only one reference out of nine that really supports the proposition in immediate connection with which the references are made, the reader would be very apt to carry away a mistaken impression. The same must be said of the set of references defended on p. xl. sqq. of the new preface. The expressions used do not accurately represent the state of the facts.
Nelson's tactics at Trafalgar are explained in a series of remarkable articles in The Times of September 16, 19, 22, 26, 28, 30, and October 19, 1905. For incidents of the battle see Mahan, Life of Nelson, ii., 363 sqq. Rose, Life of Napoleon I., ii., 53-57, 63-65. The immediate effect of Pitt's death was the dissolution of his government.
Sir John Rhys, Oxford Proceedings, p. 201, sqq. The history of Europe begins in Greece. It is there that the Aryans in Europe first feel the touch of the arts and civilisation of the East, and are stirred up to new activities; and the life thus quickened in Greece transmitted its spark to Italy, and so to the whole of Europe. People and Land.
J. Roscoe, The Baganda, p. 80. Rev. R. Sutherland Rattray, op. cit. pp. 191 sq. Rev. See Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 224 sqq. This statement applies especially to the Ama-Xosa. G. McCall Theal, Kaffir Folk-lore, p. 218. Rev. Compare above, p. 28. The other consequences supposed to flow from the omission of the rites are mentioned by Father Campana. From Mr. The Rev. G. Brown, quoted by the Rev.
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