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"Towards Glasgow and Edinburgh the mountains are no longer called 'fell' and 'rigg.'"

BRUNO.

"To the Memory of WILLIAM BORROWS, Died 1703.

"'Tis true I led a single life, And Nare was married in my life, For of that Seck I nare had none: It is the Lord; his will be done."

CRANMORE.

A. B.

EIRIONNACH.

B. B.

C. H.

St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

Queries.

BOY BISHOP AT ETON.

Again, in the statutes as given by Mr. Heywood, p. 560., it is provided that on the Feast of St. Nicholas, but "nullatenus in festo Sanctorum Innocentium," the Episcopus puerorum Scholarium, who was to be elected from among the boys every year for the purpose, might celebrate all the divine offices except the "missae secreta."

Can you, or any of your correspondents, inform me--

L. C. B.

"? SPECULUM CHRISTIANORUM MULTA BONA CONTINENS."

I have a small black-letter tract which bears the above title: I am desirous of learning the author's name, and that of the printer, together with the date and place of its production. It extends from signature A 1 to G 8, and ends abruptly on the verso of G 8 without any colophon. On the verso of the title page is a small woodcut representing the Holy Dove hovering over the Virgin, who is surrounded by nine kneeling figures, all under a depressed arch, supported by two pillars whose shafts have a kind of chevron ornament worked on them, somewhat similar to the pillars of the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. Perhaps if I give the title-page of this curious little tract in extenso, it will be more easily identified:

"? Speculum Christianorum multa bona continens. Primo modo. ? De preceptis dei ? De septem vitiis captalibus ? De septem virtutibus his contrariis ? De octo tabulis: c quibusd oonib' deuotissimis ? De modo se prepardi ad sacramtum eucharistie ? De effectu sacramenti ? De antichristo ? Expositio oonis dice: cum quod bona notabili ? De Ramis. vii. vicior capitali: et eorum remediis ? De contentu mundi: cum aliis notabilibus."

It should be noted that this table of contents is by no means a fair representative of the subjects on which the pamphlet treats. On the verso of page E iii. is the following curious passage:--

"? Peccata britonum et causa depositionis eorum. Negligentia prelatorum | rapina potent | cupiditas indic | rabies periuriorum | inordinatus cultus vestimentorum: detestanda luxuria | omne pet publicum & notorium clamat vindict ad deum. Sed precipue quattuor: merces mercenarii, pct sodomiticum, homicidium, oppressio innocenti. Heu heu heu quot clamores vindicte sunt nunc ante deum."

This passage is introduced without any farther connexion with the subjects under discussion, than the mere heading of the section gives it. Permit me to trouble you with one more extract, before I leave my Query in the hands of your readers:

There is another consideration of great tenderness and force by which we have been influenced in making these sketches. Woman dwells, to speak so, in the shade of retirement; and not like man, in the blaze of public life. In the household she sits enthroned, the weaker vessel, but the stronger power. Yet the domestic circle, in a great degree, circumscribes her influence; shuts in her character. Her refinement--her patience--her humility--her cheerfulness in trial--her fortitude--her readiness to forgive--her faithful, constant love--her self-devotion to her children--her personal charms--her domestic virtues--her Christian graces--which make her

"The light and music of our happy homes,"

Without repeating what has been said in the first chapter, we proceed to fill up the narrative given therein, by additional notices, which some one ought to furnish, and which a parent could not.

The following passages are so graphic, that it would seem as if our day had set for the likeness, though they were written two thousand six hundred years ago:--"Moreover the Lord saith, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, wincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion: The Lord will take away in that day the bravery of their tinkling ornaments Footnote: about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the ear-rings, the rings, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the whimples, and the crisping pins, and the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils."--Isaiah iii. chap. Behold the contrast! 1 Peter iii. 1-6. 1 Timothy ii. chap. 9-10.

HER RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.

The work of the Spirit was early begun in her heart; but it was for some time resisted. Our acquaintance with her began just as she was closing her domestic education, and almost before she had looked this evil world in the face. In 1820 she became decidedly serious; and after several months of deep religious impression, expressed a trembling hope of an interest in the Divine Redeemer. At this time she was strongly disposed to make a public profession of religion; but the salutary caution of her parents induced her to postpone it to a future occasion. Subsequently to this, the extreme fear which she ever after cherished, of self-delusion in religious exercises; the high standard of Christian character which she had proposed to herself; and her strong conviction of the frequent and very hurtful inconsistencies of many professors of religion; influenced her, in the end to g curious inscription I some years ago made a note of by copying it, but neglected to mark whence I obtained it. My extract stands thus--

It is said this was found by Captain Barth, engraven on marble, among the ruins of Persepolis, and by him translated from the Arabic into Latin and English.

Query, What does it all mean?

THOMAS LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

"I do not know how the truth may be; I tell the tale as told to me"?

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

A. C.

A. C.

SHIRLEY HIBBERD.

W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.

Replies.

ST. PATRICK.

Who the Aikin may be, or what the work of his which E. M. R. has brought forwards, I do not know; Ledwich's book now lies before me, and a more prejudiced writer I have never met with. I think, however, that from the above authorities it is clearly shown that, together with all the most learned of early and modern times, we are still warranted in treating St. Patrick "as a real actor in Irish ecclesiastical affairs."

D. ROCK.

Buckland.

Ledwich was entirely unacquainted with the sources of Irish history, and is no authority.

Trin. Coll. Dublin.

NASHE'S "TERRORS OF THE NIGHT."

"In Bishop Paul's days came Bishop John from Greenland to Iceland, and remained during the winter in the eastern fiords; but afterwards he journeyed late in Lent to Skalholt to meet Bishop Paul, and he came there on Maunday Thursday , and these two bishops consecrated a large store of Chrism, and had besides many confidential and learned conversations. Bishop John taught the people to prepare wine from the crowberry , as he himself had been instructed by King Sverrer. But it so happened that the next summer few berries grew in Iceland; but a man called Erick, who lived on a farm called Snorrastade, near Skalholt, prepared a small quantity of the wine from these berries, which succeeded well that summer."--Pp. 186, 187.

EDWARD CHARLTON.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The following quotation bears upon your correspondent J. EASTWOOD's Query:--

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