PERIOD, term, end. PERICECI (" to be but their periceci "), only placed at a distance in the same line (J.). PERISCIAN, with shadows all round us. The Periscii, living within the Polar circle, see the sun move round them, and consequently project their shadows in all directions (J.). PERISH upon, to die for the sake of. PERSPECTIVE, telescope. PHILOPOMEN, chief of the Achæan League in Rome's second Macedonian War." PHILOSOPHER. "Alluding either to PHYTOLOGY, Science of plants, PINAX, tablet, register; hence list or scheme inscribed on a tablet (Webster). rather to make a reservation which saves. To Salve Priscian's pate means to avoid breaking Priscian's head. In Sir T. B. the word has the general sense of solve, explain. SALVIFICALLY, so as to procure sal vation" (J.). SANCTUARY ("St. Paul's "). Several passages in St. Paul's writings have been quoted by various editors to explain this passage, but Greenhill points out that the Dutch translator was probably right in quoting Rom. xi. 33: "O the depth of the riches," etc., as the passage referred to, especially as Sir T. B. himself alluded to it, and that the sanctuary is "the incomprehensibility of God. SATION, SOwing. SATURN (revolution of). "The planet Saturn maketh his revolution once in thirty years." [Note in one of the MSS.] SCALES, ladders. SCHOOLS, the medieval schools of disputation and theology. SEASES, a word not to be found in any dictionary (Greenhill). SECONDINE, after-birth. SENSIBLE, perceptible by the senses. SIMPLE, vb., to botanize. SOCRATES AND CARDAX, Socrates and Cardax talked of an attendant spirit that hinted from time to time how they should act (J.). STATION, fixity. STATISTS, politicians. ST. INNOCENT'S CHURCHYArd, Paris where bodies decay quickly. STINT, limit. STRABO'S CLOAK. Strabo compared the then known world to a cloak. SUPEREROGATE, to do more than is absolutely necessary. SUPINITY, sloth. SUPPOSED, undeniable. SUPPUTATION, reckoning. SURCLE, small shoot, sucker. SURD, deaf. TABLES (a game at), backgammon. TARGUM, a paraphrase or amplification (J.). TARTARETUS, a real person, a doctor of the Sorbonne and a writer of some celebrity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Greenhill). TEGUMENT, COvering. TELARELY, in a weblike manner. TESTACEOUS, made of earthenware. THIRTY YEARS (nor hath my pulse beat). As Browne was born in October, 1605, the "Religio Medici would thus seem to have been written about 1635. THWART, THWARTING, transverse. TINCTURE, touch, colour. TORTILE, twisted. TRADUCTION, propagation. TRAJECTION, emission. TRANSPECIATE, to transform into another species. TRANSVERTIBLE, invertible. TREDDLES, albuminous cords in an egg. TRIGUETROUS, trigonal; having three salient angles or edges. TROPIC, the tropic is the point where the sun turns back (J.). TROPICAL, figurative. TYCHо, he that makes, or he that possesses; as Adam might be said to contain within him the race of mankind (J.). U FINITAS, rules without exceptions. UNITERABLE, incapable of repetition. UNIVOCACY, regularity, certain order (Greenhill). UNRECLAIMED, untamed, a term in falconry. URGING, burning fiercely. URN OF THE PRÆTOR, into which the ticket of condemnation or acquittal was cast (J.). VAGRANT, wandering. VAINGLORIES, vain-glorious men. VAIR, skin of squirrel ("vaired coats"). VENICE (the State of). In 1606 there was a quarrel between the State of Venice and Pope Paul V., which was settled in the following year by the intervention of France. VENNY (venew), the lunge in fencing. VENTILATION, fanning, influence. VESPILLOES, Corpse-bearers. VITRIFICATION, reduction of a body into glass. VOLÉE (à la), at random. WAX ("the wise man's wax "), alluding to the story of Ulysses, who stopped his companions' ears with wax as they passed by the Sirens (J.). YVROGNE, drunken. The characteristic German. ZEALS, zealous men. ZENO'S KING, "the King of the Stoics," whose founder was Zeno, and who held that the wise man alone had power and royalty (J.). ZOILISM, criticism in the style of Zoilus. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY V By ERNEST RHYS ICTOR HUGO said a Library was "an act of faith," and some unknown essayist spoke of one so beautiful, so perfect, so harmonious in all its parts, that he who made it was smitten with a passion. In that faith the promoters of Everyman's Library planned it out originally on a large scale; and their idea in so doing was to make it conform as far as possible to a perfect scheme. However, perfection is a thing to be aimed at and not to be achieved in this difficult world; and since the first volumes appeared some fifteen years ago, there have been many interruptions. A great war has come and gone; and even the City of Books has felt something like a world commotion. Only in recent years is the series getting back into its old stride and looking forward to complete its original scheme of a Thousand Volumes. One of the practical expedients in that original plan was to divide the volumes into sections, as Biography, Fiction, History, Belles Lettres, Poetry, Romance and so forth; with a compartment for young people, and last, and not least, one of Reference Books. Beside the dictionaries and encyclopædias to be expected in that section, there was a special set of literary and historical atlases. One of these atlases dealing with Europe, we may recall, was directly affected by the disturbance of frontiers during the war; and the maps have been completely revised in consequence, so as to chart I |