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Blitildis, sister of Dagobert, who married Ansbertus, a Koman senator of the royal family of Home, and their son was Arnoldus.

St. Arnulphus.

Ansgisus. St. Pippinus.

Carolus Martellus.

I should be pleased to show the book to ASTARTE at any time. F. S. V.-W.

If ASTARTE will consult Anderson's 'Royal Genealogies,' 1732, p. 615, she will find that Charlemagne was descended from Sigimerus (son of Pharamond, King of the Franks, circa 425) and a daughter of Ferrolus Tonantius, a Roman senator, and son-in-law of the Emperor Avitus, the nephew of the Consul Synagrius, and cousin of ^Egidius, or Giles, who was made King of France in opposition to Childeric in 462. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

" POETA NASCITUR NON FIT" (10 th S. ii. 388).

Bohn's(or Riley's) ' Dictionary of Latin and Greek^ Quotations' gives Cicero as the author of " Nascimur poetie, fimus oratores "; but a correspondent stated at 7 th S. vii. 74 that the saying is not to be found in Cicero. Cicero has the following :

"Atqui sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia, et doctrina, et prajceptis, et arte constare ; poebam natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari, et quasi divino quodain spiritu inflari. Quare suo jure noster ille Lnnius sanctos appellat poetas, quod quasi Deorum ahquo dono atque munere commendati nobis esse videantur." 'Pro Archia Poeta,' cap. 8, sec. 18.

A foot-note in the Delphin edition (Valpy's) says :

" Affert Cicero quod vulgo celebratur de poetis, 'poetani nasci, oratorem fieri.' "

The reference to Ennius is ' Annal.,'xviii. 20. In another place Cicero says : "Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu

divino unquam fuit." 'De Nat. Deor.,' ii. 66,

eec. 167.

In another :

"Ssepe enim audivi, poetam bonum neminem (id quo a Democrito et Platone in scriptisrelictum esse dicunt)sine inflammationeanimorum existere posse, et sine quodam afflatu quasi furoris." ' De Orat. ' ii. 46, sec. 194.

See Plato, 'Ion,' 5, and ' Phsedrus,' 49.

EGBERT PIERPOINT.

EPIGRAM ox A ROSE (10 th S. iii. 309, 354, 370). Some forty years ago I did just what your correspondent SURGEON-GENERAL MUIR did, and I agree withfchis reply, but at the

same time I added a Latin rendering (per- haps some of your correspondents can supply the author's name). I give it for the interest/- of any who care to note it :

Candida si niveo Rosa displicet ilia colore

In nuda nudam tu modo pone sinu. Illic, se discens niveam minus esse rubescet

Dum Lancastrensi tincta colore micet. Si tamen ilia rubens tua labra rubentia casuv

Cerneret, ut forsan basia ferre velis, Pallida turn roseos perdet livore colores

Eboraci et facie, Candida rursus erit.

Hie ET UBIQUE.

GREAT QUEEN STREET, Nos. 74, 75 (10 th S. iii. 366). No. 6 of ' Pen-and-ink Sketches of London,' by J. B., appearing in The Lady 1 ^ Newspaper, 22 March, 1851, provides an inter- esting sketch of these premises in illustration, of a description of Great Queen Street :

"The house selected for engraving is, however,, that to which the most lasting importance will b& attached, from its having been the place of humble' labour of the afterwards great statesman and philosopher, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin having, wrought a twelvemonth at Mr. Palmer's (in Bar- tholomew-close), he removed to the house now in the occupation of Messrs. Cox, the printers ; it was at that time the residence of Mr. Watts."

Referring to the press at which Franklinr worked, the writer continues :

" The sum of money received for this relic is now appropriated to the relief of one unfortunate, called the 'Franklin Pensioner,' to which a dis- abled person of any country is eligible if there is a vacancy," &c.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

INSCRIPTIONS AT SAN SEBASTIAN (10 th S. iif. 361). The following inscription on a mural' monument in the south aisle of the church of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, may interest MR. DODGSON :

"William Arthur Hodges, Esq., Captain in the- 47th Regiment, having been twice wounded at the battle of Vittoria, fell at the storming of S. Sebastian, in Spain, on the 31st August, 1813, aged 26."

No doubt he was buried where he fell, and I remember his brother telling me that he had led two forlorn hopes in the Peninsular War.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

PILLION : FLAILS (10 th S. iii. 267, 338, 375), Upon the bleak island of Ushant (lie 1'Ouessant), off Finisterre, exist a resident population of over 2,000 souls, of whom the women number something like ten to one. These latter are strong as lions, and prac- tically all dress alike. In August tbe- island rings from end to end, from early day- light to nightfall, with the sound of the flail. Nearly all the thrashing is done by the-