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Page 249. Literary friend Sir Henry Ellis.

W. P.

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

"... Palit, et vit en fr?missant Dans la poudre du greffe un po?te naissant."

"Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross."

HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.

I have now ascertained that the words

"Sylla's a mulberry sprinkled with meal"

ANTIQUITY OF THE POLKA: A NOTE FOR THE LADIES.

"Yet is there one, the most delightful kind, A lofty jumping, or a leaping round, Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined, And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound; And still their feet an anapaest do sound; An anapaest is all their music's song, Whose first two feet are short, and third is long."

"Wherein that dancer greatest praise has won, Which, with best order, can all orders shun; For everywhere he wantonly must range, And turn and wind with unexpected change."

Who can doubt after that? The polka was certainly danced before Queen Elizabeth!

SEVEN SCORE SUPERSTITIOUS SAYINGS.

My common-place books contain a goodly number of superstitious sayings, noted down as heard at different times and in various places, chiefly during the last ten or twelve years. I have made a selection from them, the greater portion of which will probably come under the printer's eye for the first time, should they be considered a fitting addition to the interesting records of Folk Lore in the pages of "N. & Q." I reserve my comment or attempted illustration for future opportunities.

'If I could hear as well as see, No man of life should master me!'"

J. WESTBY GIBSON.

Minor Notes.

This certainly displays the wisdom of the serpent, if not the meekness of wisdom. Pray preserve it in your cabinet of literary curiosities.

B. H. C.

Had our reviewer stepped in at Dunnett's toy-shop, instead of searching all his French dictionaries, he would have learned, I doubt not, that bandalore is still a living toy, just as it was when Moore was young.

At Tunbridge it is still made in their pretty ware; and sufficiently portable for any kind-hearted grandpapa to carry in his pocket.

J. J. R.

J. J. R.

J. M.

AN M. D.

KIRKWALLENSIS.

Queries.

QUERIES AS TO MR. COLLIER'S "NOTES AND EMENDATIONS."

SCOTUS.

Edinburgh.

HONE'S "HISTORY OF PARODY."

Thus, though advertised more than four years previously, this work had not yet come out, and indeed, if not mistaken, I think it never appeared at all. Will some of your bibliographical correspondents inform me if my surmise is correct? and if so, what has become of Hone's MSS., and the large collection he made on the subject of parody?

JAMES B. MURDOCH.

THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S LETTER TO SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.

"I have been bullied by an usurper: I have been neglected by a court: but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man sha'n't stand.

"ANNE DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY."

J. K.

Minor Queries.

Should a full answer to this Query take up too much of your valuable space, I should be satisfied with the titles of any works on the art of "illumination," in which special mention is made of the way of preparing parchment.

F. M.

"Mater ait natae, dic natae, fili?, natam Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam."

"The aged mother to her daughter spake, Daughter, said she, arise; Thy daughter to her daughter take, Whose daughter's daughter cries."

My object in asking the above question is for the purpose of discovering if such a relationship ever existed.

W. W.

Malta.

A FOX HUNTER.

I shall feel greatly obliged by the above information.

Glasgow.

ROSA.

ROSA.

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