_Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies_ (Vol. i., p. 470.).--In reply to J.M.B., I beg
to state that the "_Magazine Miscellanies_" of Dr. Maginn were published in
numbers, at 3_d_. each, by Dodsley and Co., Crane Court, Fleet St. I have
nine numbers of it, all that were published, I believe, containing several
tales, serious and humorous Poems, Irish Melodies, Maxims of Mr. O'Doherty,
Miscellaneous Papers, The Tobias Correspondence, a translation of Lucian's
Timon, Shakspere Papers on Sir John Falstaff Jaques, Romeo, Bottom the
Weaver, Lady Macbeth, and Timon; a Translation of the Batrachomyomachia,
and three or four of the Homeric Ballads.
WILLIAM CARPENTER.
Adelphi.
As your correspondent J.M.B. appears to be inquiring into the earliest
contributions of Dr. Maginn to the periodical press in England, you may
inform him that he communicated a great number of papers, &c., to the
_Literary Gazette_ before he left Cork, and wrote articles in _Blackwood's
Magazine_. The former were his first appearances in print in England,
though the Cork journals published many of his productions whilst yet a
mere boy.
TEUTHA.
_Trianon_ (Vol. i., p. 439.).--The meaning of this word is "a pavilion,"
and was applied, doubtless, to the elegant structures to which your
correspondent refers, on account of the light and graceful style of their
architecture. J.K.R.W.
_Lee Trianons_.--I have always understood that these gardens, &c., took
their name from the village of Trianon, the site of which they occupy, and
which village Louis XIV. purchased from the monks of St. Geneviève.
AREDJID KOOEZ.
_Pimlico_ (Vol. i. p. 383. and 474.).--Would it not be worth the while of
some of your ingenious correspondents to inquire whether the following
extract may not give a clue to the origin of this word?
In an enumeration of "strange birds" to be found in Barbadoes, there is
mention of "the Egge Bird, the Cahow, the Tropick Bird, _the Pemlico which
presageth storms_." America painted to the life. (_The True History of the
Spaniards' Proceedings in America_, by Ferdinando Gorges, Esq., Lond. 4to.
1659.)
BR.
_The Arms of Godin_.--My attention has been drawn to a Query from Mr.
KERSLEY, in page 439. of Vol. i., relative to the arms of Godin. I have
seen these arms blazoned variously. Mr. Godin Shiffner bears them quarterly
with his own coat of Shiffner, and blazons them thus:--_Party per fess,
azure and gules, a barr or; in chief, a dexter and sinister hand grasping a
cup, all proper_.
I am inclined to think this is an innovation upon the original arms, as I
have them painted on an old piece of china _azure, a cup or_. They are here
impaled with the arms of Du Fon, an ancient French family that intermarried
with the Godins.
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