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zarded such an assertion. It is true that a charge 

 containing the passage quoted by Mr. Haring- 

 TON was published in Coke's name ; but this pub- 

 lication was repudiated by Coke ns a forgery. 

 Consequently, any statement founded on that 

 charge is worthless ; thus my position, adopted on 

 Ware's authority, remains unshaken. The question 

 is of no importance, yet still it is desirable that 

 accuracy should be regarded in all statements. 



T. L. 



Ehrenberg and his MicTOSCope (Vol. xii., 

 p. 305.). — Being well acquainted with the great 

 work alluded to by E. C, and having some know- 

 ledge of the microscopes used by Dr. Ehrenberg, 

 the querist is assured the writer quoted is not 

 correct as to the price of the microscope. All the 

 instruments were achromatic, with horizontal 

 stages of foreign make ; and the price of each 

 about 201. Costly microscopes are undesirable 

 for general purposes ; but it is absurd to state a 

 good achromatic can be had for a few shillings. 

 In the Microscopic Cabinet, the author compares 

 a microscope to a horse, of which latter we know 

 there are great varieties — from the heavy dray- 

 horse to the swift racer. This simile has again 

 been adopted by the President, in his late address 

 to the members of the Microscopical Society. 

 Continuing it : it is much to be regretted, that 

 persons often purchase at great cost a race-horse, 

 which, if they attempted to mount, they assuredly 

 would be killed ; so microscopes, with deep 

 powers, extreme angles of aperture, and numerous 

 adjustments, to say nothing of complex illuminat- 

 ing apparatus, are perfectly useless for nine-tenths 

 of their purchasers, and quite unnecessary for 

 nine-tenths of the objects requiring microscopic 

 examination. 



A plain vertical microscope, such as that figured 

 at p. 243. of the Microscopic Cabinet, but rather 

 larger, with a six-inch body, and two sets of 

 achromatic object-glasses, may now be well made 

 for 61. or 8l. It would be quite manageable in 

 ordinary hands, and show all that a moderate 

 observer requires. Canonburt. 



P.S. I have just found a letter by Ehrenberg, 

 dated the "17 Mars, 1833," in which he mentions 

 several of the microscopes he has employed. He 

 states the price he paid for one of them to be 

 " 200 ecus." The opinion above may, therefore, 

 be considered correct. 



Hue's China (Vol. viii., p. 516.). — The question 

 respecting the authenticity of this work has been 

 set to rest, by a prize having been awarded to it 

 by the French Academy. J. M. 



Sinope (Vol. xii., pp. 302. 352.). — My acquaint- 

 ance with many of the classical passages in which 

 the word Sinope occurs, does not lessen my obli- 

 gation to Mr. Buckton for his references; but 



No. 319.] 



those with which he has favoured me, are exclu- 

 sively, I believe, to Greek authors (in such cases, 

 the presence of the "a;" at once establishes the 

 quantity of the penultima), and are not, there- 

 fore, required by one familiar with the origin and 

 etymology of the word in question. Will the same 

 pen kindly furnish me with any references to 

 "Latin or English" poets for its use? Of the 

 former, the only passages as yet known to me are 

 those I have already quoted. There may be many 

 others, with which I am not familiar. For Byro- 

 nian usage, I have at present no authority, yet I 

 think Byron uses it. Mr. Buckton's authorities 

 are amply given, and sufficiently satisfactory for 

 the most sceptical orthoepist. 1 hope (if a new 

 sexical coinage is admissible in " N. & Q.") he 

 will prove equally asinopous in his discovery of 

 new passages. F. Philt.ott. 



Albert Smith (Vol. xii., p. 384.). — The work 

 inquired for, written by Albert Smith, is a six- 

 penny book, entitled : 



" A Few Arguments against Phrenology, principally 

 with regard to the Question : Whether the Kxternal Form 

 of the Head corresponds to the Surface of the Brain ? By 

 A. R. Smith. Printed and published hv Robert Wetton, 

 Chertsey, 1837." 



At the conclusion, he says, " he cannot yet boast 

 of adding M.R.C.S. to his name." The second 

 initial he has dropped for some time past. 



L. BE W. 



"La Saxe Galante'' (Vol. xii., pp. 205. 372.). 

 — I have a copy of Das Galante Sachsen. Frank- 

 fur th- am- May ne, 1734, 12mo., pp. 284. La Saxe 

 Galante bears the same date ; but Grimm's calling 

 the latter " une traduction peu fidele," seems de- 

 cisive against its originality. A comparison of the 

 two books might confirm this opinion, as few 

 translators entirely escape from foreign idioms. 

 The presence of Gallicisms in German books of 

 that age is too common to prove anything, but it 

 the French contain Germanisms, we may conclude 

 that it is translated. The German of the passage 

 quoted by Mr. Bates is, — 



" Dieser letzt-erwehnte Prinz war galant, woLlgestatt, 

 und verliebt, und ob er wolil verschiedenes erlitten, so 

 liebte er doch mit einer so heftige Zartlichkeit, als wen 

 ihm das Vergniigen der Liebe allezeit wieder neu worden 

 ware." „ 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Equestrian Lord Mayors (Vol. xii., p. 363.). — 

 Mb. Cuthbert Bede does, involuntarily I am 

 sure, a great injustice to our Lord Mayors of 

 London, by terminating their horsemanship in the 

 reign of Queen Anne. Many of your readers 

 must have witnessed, even in this century, the 

 equestrian displays of these magistrates on nu- 

 merous state occasions, when they have met the 

 sovereign at Temple Bar, and proceeded thence 



