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bation, engaged the Rev. Mr. Singer to edit the works. 

 It was from this edition I printed my books," [«. e. the 

 edition of 1845]. 



To show the energy of the publisher, and in 

 justice to all the parties concerned, I may add, 

 that four days later he wrote me word, that he 

 " had begun to make inquiry and collate the va- 

 rious editions of Quarles" with his own; and adds, 

 " I have the great satisfaction of saying that my 

 editor has not omitted any article, however trivial, 

 that was inserted in the original editions." He 

 afterwards says that he has " seen seventeen " 

 editions ; and concludes by remarking, " that I 

 consider no time or money lost when in pursuit of 

 truth." 



Will you allow me to suggest that few of your 

 readers would regret to see some of your pages 

 occupied with a correct bibliographical account 

 of the various productions of both Quarles and 

 Withers. Materbe. 



Greek Names of Fishes (Vol. iv., p. 501.). — 

 The op<phs may perhaps be recognised by the 

 zoologist from the following characteristics given 

 by Aristotle in his history of animals : 



"1. It is of speedy growth (b. v. c. 9.). 2. Keeps 

 close in shore (b. viii. c. 13.). 3. Burrows in holes, 

 as the lamprey and conger (b. viii. c. 15.). 4. Lives 

 only on animal food like other cartilaginous fishes 

 (b. viii. c. 2.)." 



It is therefore of Cuvier's series, ehondropterigii, 

 of which the sturgeon is facile princeps. 



The neij.€pas is classed by Aristotle (b. vi. c. 15.) 

 under the general term a<pvr], which appears to 

 correspond well with Cuvier's genius clupea (in- 

 cluding the herring, pilchard, sprat, white-bait, 

 &c.), and was taken, Aristotle says, all the year, 

 except from autumn to spring, which corresponds 

 with the migrations of this genus ; the shad coming 

 in May and departing in July, the anchovy ap- 

 pearing from May to July, the pilchard in July, 

 the herring in October and beginning of No- 

 vember, and the sprat in November. The a.(pvr], 

 he also says, were salted for keeping. The yue^- 

 €pas was obtained in the Phaleric harbour (b. vi. 

 c. 15.), close to the marsh and street of the same 

 name at Athens.* Aristotle also represents the 

 Tplxtai as coming from the rplxi^es, and the latter 

 from the n€fjL§pdS€s ; hence it is to be inferred that 

 the fishermen called this fish at different stages of 

 its growth by different names, in mistake. The 

 Tpt'x'Ses appear also to have been as abundant at 

 Athens as sprats are with us, the latter selling 

 sometimes at sixpence the bushel, and being used 

 for manure, whilst Aristophanes mentions the price 

 of five farthings (one obolus) the hundred of 

 Tpfx«5« (Knights, 662.). The d^inj was obtained 

 from the Attic shores of Salamine and Marathon 



* Not from a fish called Pkakrica, as stated in 

 Scapula's lexicon. 



(Aristot. H. A. b. vi. c. 15.), and the supply was 

 stopped or much diminished by war (Knights, 

 644.). The 6p(phs was a more valuable fish than 

 the fj.4fx.§pas, as the refusing the latter and buying 

 the former furnished the next stallman with the 

 opportunity of insinuating that the purchaser was 

 forgetful of liberty, equality, &c. (Wasps, 494. ; 

 Knights, 851.). Theodore Gaza, the Latin trans- 

 lator of Aristotle's History of Animals, renders 

 6p<l)hs by cernua. Amongst his various banquets, 

 Homer never mentions fsh, afterwards admitted 

 as a delicacy of the costliest kind at Grecian and 

 Roman feasts. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Dutch Commentary on Pope (Vol. v., p. 27.). — 

 The passage in Pope has nothing to do with ducks 

 and drakes. 



" Verbum quo utitur Popius, monstrat, cogitasse 

 eum de quodam quod cadit, non quod jacitur. Sed 

 neque est lapis. Cur de Hollandico loquitur? quia 

 ut puto, latrinas in HoUandia pedita? sunt aliquando 

 super aquam, ibi abuiidantem, circuli sunt ii, quos 

 omne quod cadit in aquam, natura facit." 



There is the same idea, as Warburton observes, 

 in the Essay on Man, ep. iv. 364. C. B. 



Sir William Hankford (Vol. v., p. 43.). — I see 

 that Mr. Foss (Judges of England, vol. iv. p. 325.) 

 disbelieves the story of the suicide of Sir William 

 Hankford, as told by Prince in his Woi-thies of 

 Devon, because there was then nothing in the po- 

 litical horizon to justify the " direful apprehension 

 of dangerous approaching evils," assigned by Prince 

 as tlie judge's inducement for wishing to die. 

 His death, however it occurred, happened in 1422. 



Mr. Foss's doubts seem in some measure to be 

 warranted by the fact that Holinshed places the 

 incident about half a century later, in 1470 or 

 1471 ; and he thinks it more probable (Ibid. 

 p. 427.) that the suicidal story may apply to Sir 

 Robert Danby, Chief Justice of the Common 

 Pleas, because that judge disappeared in the 

 latter year ; and the circumstances of the time 

 were really such as were likely to excite the fears 

 described as the cause of the catastrophe. Sir 

 Robert Danby, who had been a judge of the 

 Common Pleas under Henry VI., was made chief 

 justice of that court by Edward IV. in 1461, the 

 first year of that king's reign. On the restoration 

 of Henry VI. in 1470, he was continued in his 

 office, and the sudden return of Edward IV. in the 

 following year might occasion an apprehension in 

 a weak mind sufficiently strong to lead to the 

 tragical result. Certain it is that a new chief 

 justice, Sir Thomas Brian, was then appointed, 

 and nothing more is told of Sir Robert Danby. 



The Hankford's Oak at Annery, the remains of 

 which were seen by Prince, was as likely to have 

 received its name from its having been planted by 

 Hankford, as from its being the spot where he died. 



