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crest, " a swan naiant." Motto, " No sine peri- culo." M. F. FABER.

Early Printing at Norwich (2 nd S. i. 233.) For the most full and detailed account of the pro- ductions of Antony Solempne's press, in Norwich, consult Archdeacon Cotton's Typographical Ga- zetteer. Oxford, 1831, p. 1958. Z.

Boyle Lectures (1 st S. vii. 456.; x. 445. 531.; 2 nd S. i. 291.) If your correspondent, A CON- STANT READER, will consult the pages referred to above in " N. & Q.," he will find replies to some of the points on which he desires information. As the writer of the communication to your work in l rt S. x. 445., I may be permitted to express my satisfaction at seeing that the subject has not lost its interest, although it might have been thought that A CONSTANT READER would naturally have turned to the contents of your past volumes, so amply anatomised by means of your excellent Indices, before addressing himself to you. Several of his Queries, however, require a Reply, which I trust some of your numerous readers may be able to communicate. Y. Z.

P.S. For the information of your correspondent I have copied the note below, which is prefixed to Bishop Van Mildert's Boyle Lectures (London, 1806). The work may be found in almost every good theological library :

" The following list of those who have preached the Boyle's Lecture since its first institution, may be accept- able to the theological student. It is not quite compleat (sic) ; but the author has been enabled to make it nearly so, by the obliging assistance of the Rev. Mr. Watts, librarian of Sion College."

" William and Margaret" (l rt S. xi. 87.) I know of three different tunes to this ballad. The first is in Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, 1725 ; the second in the Village Opera, 1729; and a third, the composition of Mr. Stephen Clarke, of Edinburgh, in Johnson's Scottish Musical Museum. The first is the old Scottish melody of Chevy Chace ; the second (which I apprehend is the one alluded to by your correspondent) is of unknown origin. Both tunes are printed in my Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. 4to. 1850.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Niebuhr Anticipated (1" S. xii. 471.) Philip Chiver, a native of Danzic, in his Italia Antiqua, published in 1G24, rejected the account of the Trojan settlement in Latium, and of the founda- tion of Rome, and expressed an opinion that the history of the period before the capture of the city by the Gauls, was uncertain. M. de Pouilly, in his Dissertation sur V Incertitude de VHistoire des quatre premiers Siecles de Rome, read before the French Academy in December, 1722, undertook to demonstrate the uncertainty of Roman history

until the war with Pyrrhus. Other writers might be mentioned as predecessors of Niebuhr, as Bo- chart, Perizonius, and M. Levesque ; but X. O. B. may be referred for further information to An In- quiry into the Credibility of Early Roman History, by Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the present En- glish Chancellor of the Exchequer.

THOMAS HODGINS. Toronto, Canada.

Porson (2 nd S. i. 300.) The " Imitations from Horace," and the " Hymn to the Creator," are printed in the Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, pp. 140. 248. The internal evidence is suf- ficient to prove that they proceed from Person's pen. Would MR. HOJLT WHITE favour your readers by stating the subjects of the other two squibs by Porson which he mentions, namely, " The Death of Agricola," and " Boxing Intelli- gence ? " L.

Breeches, to wear (2 nd S. i. 283.) A. F. B. asks if this phrase of " wearing the breeches " is to be found except in English and French. I can add the Dutch, " De vrouw draagd'er de broek ; " and the Germans, who say of a woman who rules, " Sie hat die Hosen," " She has the breeches." The Germans have also other " breeches " pro- verbs, as e.g. "Das Hertz ist ihm in die Hosen gef alien." B. H. C.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The History of Richard Cromwell and the Restoration of Charles II., by M. Guizot, translated by Andrew R. Scoble (2 vols. 8vo., Bentley,) is a book which every- body should read. In the long drama of our national history scarcely any incident is more remarkable than the Restoration of Charles II. Wearied and exhausted by an anarchy of almost eighteen years, the nation sud- denly threw itself at the feet of the representative of its ancient kings. The people welcomed him to the throne of his ancestors in a rapture of generous enthusiasm, and without a word of scruple or stipulation. M. Guizot's object is to show how this event was brought about; how the sceptre slipped out of the hands of the weak incom- petent Richard Cromwell ; and how, under the crafty pilotage of Monk, the vessel of the state drifted almost imperceptibly in the very way which was most agreeable to the Royalists. In telling the interesting tale, M. Guizot has taken advantage of the correspondence between the French ambassador in London, M. de Bordeaux, and Cardinal Mazarin. Many of their letters which passed in 1658 and the two subsequent years are here printed, and much use of them has been made in the narrative. They are new materials for the history of the period, and are unquestionably valuable. M. Guizot draws special attention to eight letters from Mazarin to Bordeaux, printed apart at the end of the second volume, in which the Cardinal's policy on this occasion is clearlj' developed. This correspondence stands M. Guizot in the place of illustration derivable from domestic sources, which would have been at the command of a competent writer, if the