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the Grand Khaibar ' (9 pp. folio), throwing ridicule on the Freemasons and their lodges. The last verse runs thus :

The Craftsmen's Honours Treasures are

Of Fairies, lost as soon as shown.

Let the Grand Khaibar, happier far,

Improve and shine by being known.

You who in Friendship dear delight,

Tuneful in Chorus all unite

T'immortalize the Khaibarite.

A. M. BROADLEY. The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport.

BARBARA VILLIERS, DUCHESS OF CLEVE- LAND. In the Women's Section of the Franco-British Exhibition, Enclosure II., and No. 55 in the Catalogue, is a portrait described as " Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, 1641-1709, daughter of 2nd Viscount Grandison. After Sir Peter Lely." This portrait is so unlike any other of this celebrated character that it may well be asked if the sweet, chaste-looking lady de- picted in this picture can really be the notorious Lady Castlemaine. As this pic- ture is stated to be a copy, where is now the original by Sir Peter Lely ? I pause for a reply. CROSS-CROSSLET.

HULBERT'S PROVIDENCE PRESS, SHREWS- BURY. Can any correspondent inform me which numbers of The Salopian Magazine included prints from the worn plates (with altered titles) of Rye House and Pans- hanger which appeared the former in January, 1805 ; the latter in December, 1809 in The European Magazine ?

B. H. GOSSELIN-LEFEBVRE.

Bengeo Lodge, Hertford.

ST. MARTHA. The usual attributes of this saint are a holy-water vessel and an asperge ; but Mrs. Jameson points out that in the character of patroness of female discretion and good housekeeping, " she is often represented with a skimmer or ladle in her hand, or a large bunch of keys is attached to her girdle. For example, in a beautiful old German altarpiece attributed to Albert Diirer,* she is stand- ing in a magnificent dress, a jewelled turban, and holding a well-known implement of cookery in her hand. In a missal of Henry VIII. f she is repre- sented with the same utensil, and her name is inscribed beneath." 'Sacred and Legendary Art,' vol. i. pp. 382, 383.

This account leaves something to be desired. What is the implement or utensil ? Is it a saucepan, a frying-pan, colander, rolling-pin, grater, or what ? I have had my eye on St. Martha for some time, but have not noted her with any such accessory.

ST. SWITHIN.

Queen's Gal." f " Bodleian MSS. Oxford.'

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I knew the references for the following some twenty-five years ago, but have quite for- gotten them now :

1. " Attend when thou canst the funerals of thy neighbours."

2. "Away with the fonts in our churches."

I fancy some bishop (Bull ?) was credited with the latter, in sarcastic allusion to the private baptism of infants.

If readers can help me to trace these, I shall be very grateful.

G. H. R. FLETCHER. LL.D., Vicar.

Brenzett, New Romney, Kent.

Who was the author of " Sufficit huic tumulus cui non suffecerat orbis," and to whom does it relate ? K. P. D. E.

Ampliat eetatis spatium sibi vir bonus : hoc est

Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui. Aristotle has a similar sentiment in ' Ethics,* ix. 4. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

[Martial, x. 23, 5. See King's 'Classical arid Foreign Quotations,' 1904, No. 1814.]

The following lines

Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong, are quoted from an English poet by Goethe in his ' Autobiography ' and by Schopen- hauer. Who was the author ?

J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

['Cassell's Book of Quotations' states that they occur in the Earl of Rochester's ' Satire against Mankind.']

TARENTINE, A HERB. What vegetable is referred to in the following from a writer on India at the end of the seventeenth century ?

" Herbs for SaladingarePurslain, Sorrel, Lettice, Parsley, Tarentine."

" BOCCA MORTIS." In the same writer I find :

" Wherefore to ogle a Lady in a Balcony (if a Person of Quality) it is revenged with a Bocca Mortis." What is a " Bocca Mortis " ?

" HASTLE." Here is a third difficulty : " The Palaces of the Potentates are built mostly after this manner : Towards the street appears little or no Frontispiece, more than the Porch, which makes a square stately Building, arched at top, under which is a stately Balcony, open on every side, over the Hastle, which compasses neat Apart- ments." I cannot find " hastle " in the ' N.E.D.'

EMERITUS.