2n<i S. N" 64., Mak, 21. '57.] 



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to know that I have in my possession a very 

 curious unfinished sketch (engraved) of this cele- 

 brated man, representing the head only, and which 

 is reraarkaiile for the character and expression 

 conveyed. No name is attached, either of artist, 

 engraver, or publisher, and as I should be glad to 

 learn something of the antecedents of this print, 

 it is open to the inspection of N. J. H. at any 

 time he pleases. As he seems interested in the 

 life of Henderson he can at the same time peruse 

 a letter of his (partially destroyed, unfortunately) 

 which I have in my collection, having reference 

 to his disputes with John Palmer. 



Edwaed Y. Lownb. 

 13. New Broad Street. 



I have a large oval print of him published by 

 Hogg, 1792, from a picture at Hanham painted by 

 W. Palmer, 1787. Mr. Strong, late Brooks, Bristol, 

 had the copper-plate of it. 



In the Gent.^s obituary, vol. Iviii. p. 1031., is a 

 long account of him, and reference is made to 

 other notices in vol. Iv., and also in the Index ; 

 but the references are wrong, and I have not been 

 able to correct them. 



John Henderson lived at Hanham, in my former 

 parish of Bitton, and I used to hear many anec- 

 dotes of him from the old people. 



H. T. Ellacombk. 



Fashions (2°^ S. iii. 33. 197.) — Of all the ex- 

 traordinary and absurd fashions that ever pre- 

 vailed, the most remarkable was that of the " pad," 

 adopted by ladies about sixty years ago, and on 

 which the newspapers of the day contain many 

 comments. Ladies of Tdge nubile up to about 

 thirty-five years appeared with what might be 

 termed an anterior bustle, or " pad," so that each 

 appeared une femme grosse ; such grossesse seem- 

 ing to have arrived at four months, as nearly as 

 might be guessed. Tliis was the vogue at the 

 same time when gentlemen discarded the shoe 

 buckle from constant weai", and adopted black 

 riband to tie their shoes in common. I recollect 

 to have seen a song in a Birmingham newspaper 

 which ran something after this manner : 



I'll say it again and again, 

 That Pads female beauty disgrace, 



And shoe-strings look childish in men." 



The abolition of the shoe buckle was one of 

 those variations of fashion which operate so ruin- 

 ously to certain classes of artificers. Theta. 



Thanks after the Gospel (2°'' S. iii. 155.) —In 

 the Mass of the Blessed Trinity, after the Gospel 

 from St. John, chap, xv., " Laus tibi Christe" is 

 the " Response of the Clerks." B. W. 



Solomons Judgment (2^^ S. i. 270) — A corre- 

 spondent, Jean Hulotte, inquires, whether Solo- 

 mon had any imitators in his judgment, and who 



'they were ? In the sacred books of the Buddhists 

 of Ceylon, there are numerous passages which 

 exhibit a striking resemblance to incidents in the 

 Old Testament. In the Pali commentary on the 

 discourses of Buddha, entitled the Pansiya-panas- 

 jataka, or " Book of the Five hundred and fifty 

 Births," the following story occurs : it has been 

 translated by the Rev. R. Spence Hardy, and will 

 be found quoted at p. 191. of Roberts's Oriental 

 Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures : — 



" A woman who was going to bathe left her child to 

 play on the banks of a tank, when a female who was 

 passing that, way carried it off. They both appeared 

 before Buddha, and each declared the child was her own. 

 The command was therefore given that each claimant 

 was to seize the infant by a leg and an arm, and pull with 

 all her might in opposite directions. No sooner had they 

 commenced, than the child began to scream ; when the 

 real mother, from pity, left off pulling, and resigned her 

 claim to the other. The judge therefore decided that, 

 as she only had shown true affection, the child must be 

 hers." 



J. Emerson Tennent. 



St. Augustin's Sermons (2°* S. iii. 185.) — The 

 correspondent who cites a passage from the Ser- 

 mones ad Fratres in Eremo, appears not to be 

 aware that these Sermons are not of the slightest 

 authority, as they are well known not to have 

 been the composition of St. Augustin. In the 

 old editions of the works of that holy Father and 

 illustrious Doctor of the Church, these Sermones 

 are prefaced by a notice that they have been 

 patched up in some places with fragments from 

 the Rule. of St. Augustin, but that the rest was 

 never written by the saint. The editor prefixes a 

 Q to all those chapters which are spurious ; and I 

 need not add, that the chapter xxxvii. quoted has 

 the fatal mark prefixed. Indeed, the passage 

 quoted is too palpably absurd to have been penned 

 by a man wise and intelligent, like the glorious 

 St. Augustin. F. C. H. 



" Lama Sabachthani" (2"'^ S. iii. 111.) — I have 

 two editions of the book by me ; the first dated , 

 London, 1707, dedicated to Queen Anne, with a 

 Poetical Prologue, quite perfect ; the other im- 

 perfect, wanting title, preface, and last leaf, but a- 

 much larger work, though by the same author. It 

 has the addition of several hymns, which the first 

 or earlier editions lack. I do not know the author. 



DaNIEI. SEDGWICK^r 



81. Sun Street, Bishopsgate. 



Showing the White Feather (2°* S. iii. 198.) — 

 I thought that the appearance of a white feather 

 in the fine plumage of a gamecock was considered 

 as evidence against the purity of his breeding. 

 Hence the stigma. But I am no ornithologist. 



Alfsed Gattt. 



J. George Holman (2°'» S. iii. 172. 200.) — Mon- 

 day, Feb. 12, 1798, was married Joseph George • 



