Theological and Literary Intelligence [pp. 762-768]

766 THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [Oct.
brought back by Mr. Stanley, with other papers transmitted to the Foreign Office,
are to be published by Mr. Murray.
We learn from the A4henaeum that: "At the meeting of the Institut Egyptien,
at Alexandria, on June I4th, Mariette-Bey gave some account of the recent and
important discovery made by him at Thebes. In carrying out some surveying
operations for the Khedive, a pylon was dug out from a mass of ancient ruins, on
which was found engraved an Egyptian list of 628 names of localities, arranged
under South and North. Of these the South has four divisions: I. Kousch, or
Ethiopia; 2. Pount, or the tract of land hitherto believed to be the modern Yemen,
but now identified by M. Mariette-Bey with the region lying between Bab-el-Man deb and Cape Guardafui, the'Promontorium Aromatum' of the ancients; 3. Ly bia; 4. Unknown places, perhaps situate on the upper Nile or in Central Africa.
The Northern list, which, by reason of the antiquity of the evidence and the inter esting nature of the places it touches, is considered of more importance than the
Southern, has two divisions: I. Canaan; 2. Mesopotamia and parts of India.
The learned discoverer demonstrated that the inscription is contemporary with the
reign of Thothmes 1II., 260 years before Moses."
A correspondent of,Votes anid Queries (London), writing from Glasgow, supplies
the following concerning Bunyan's occupation while in Bedford Jail:
"There appears to exist a popular misconception of the nature of Bunyan's
occupation during his long incarceration in Bedford Jail'for conscience's sake.'
In all biographies of the Immortal Dreamer it is stated that he supported hinmself
while in prison by' tagging' laces; and it is a common notion that this had some thing to do with the laces with which ladies adorn articles of their apparel, or some
kind of fringes; in short, anything but the right thing. Now, a little reflection
would have shown the writer the absurdity of supposing a tinker capable of weaving
'laces,' or anything else; he would have seen that the art of manufacturing textile
fabrics and that of mending holes in old kettles and other kitchen utensils are, in
their nature,' wide as the poles asunder.' Bunyan simply plied his own occupation
in prison in'tagging' laces; that is, attaching little tips of tin or twisted wire to
the end of shoe-laces, and other kinds of laces then in use in fastening the dress.
in some biography of the gifted thiner, I have,,I think, seen'tagging laces' thus
explained, probably in the admirable' Life of Bunyan' prefixed to Cassell's mag nificent edition of Thze Holy War, fiom the pen, if I mistake not, of the Rev. Dr.
Brock, who, by the way, was one of the speakers at the recent Bunyan celebration
at Bedford."
Count DMirzy TOLSTOY, Minister of Public Instruction in Russia, has prepared
a full and authentic account of Romnanism in Russia from the tenth century. His
work, translated by Mrs. McKIBBIN, is commended in a Preface by Dr. Eden,
Bishop of Moray, and published in two volumes. The author emphasizes the fact
that in Russsia there are none of the violent conflicts between Church and State
which have prevailed in Western Europe. But is not this in part owing to the fact
that the Greek Church has been so stagnant and submissive? Caesarism has had
full sway.
A copy of SHELLEY'S almost unknown "Refuttatioz of Deism: a Dialogue. London: Printed by Schultze & Dean, I814," now belonging to Prof. Dowden of Trinity College, Dublin, is in the hands of the British Museum printed book-buyers, to
see whether they will secure it for the nation. Of this little treatise, Mr. W. M.
Rosetti wrote in his Memoir to the Poetical Works of She/lley (Maxon, I870): "Early
in I814 Shelley published A lRefuttationz of Deism, a Dialogue between Eusebes and
Theosophus, in IOI pages. Hogg gives a short quotation from it... he is the
only author who mentions the pamphlet, and probably almost the only human
being who ever owned or inspected a copy of it." The present copy once belonged
to the Hookham family, to a member of which, Mr. Thomas Hookham, several of
Shelley's early letters are addressed. See Lady Shelley's ilemoir, p. 38. Sir Percy
Shelley has another copy of the bo ok.- The Academy.
Among the Syriac MISS. in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, one of the most
venerable is a copy of the Peshito version of the Old Testament, which may be
assigned to a period as remote as the sixth century. This Syriac version is, next
to the Greek, the oldest and mosk important. The publication of so ancient a MS.,
therefore, cannot fail to be of interest to Biblical and other scholars; and it is proposed to reproduce it in fac-simile by means of photolithography, under the direc