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If faithful hound an agile doe espies 



Or Marsyan boar the entangling net defies. 



But me, green ivy wreaths, the fit rewards 



For learned brows, exalt with proudest gods. 



Cool groves where dance the nymphs and satyrs gay 



While soft Euterpe's flates unhindered play, 



And, unrestrained, Polhymnia's Lesbian lyre ; 



These raise me 'bove the common mass still higher ; 



But if you class me with the lyric bards 



My lofty crown shall touch the heavenly stars. 



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In the Review for August, i88r, the following query was propounded: "I 

 have a copper-gilt medal, two inches in diameter, dated 1712 with a lion and 

 bear rampant over two shields, sword in hand, blazing sun above them and the 

 inscription ' Hoc duce pugnamus,' all on the obverse side. On the reverse is 

 the date as above, a quantity of flags, arms, drums, etc., with the inscription, 

 ' Un — crescunt splendore leones et ursi.' Can any one explain it and inform 

 me what occasion it was intended to commemorate? " C. 



This medal was shown to many persons, here and elsewhere, and was finally 

 left with a young lady on Long Island for investigation, with the following result : 



Philadelphia, February 21, 1882. 



* * * "The medal is supposed to be one struck in com- 



memoration of the union of the Catholic and Protestant Cantons of Switzerland 

 in the year 17 12, The lion is the Lion of Lucerne, the leading Catholic Canton. 

 The bear is the Bear of Berne, which took the lead of the Protestant Cantons. 

 The seven flags on one side of the medal are the banners of the seven Catholic 

 Cantons which were victorious. The inscription on one side is as we had it, 

 Hoc duce pugnatnus — ' Under this leader we fight.' I wish I could find the name 

 of the leader under whom this union was effected. If his arms or symbol should 

 prove to be a sun, I think it would add greatly to the credibility of my theory. 



" Now for the other side of the medal. The word that is partly effaced we 

 suppose to be uniti, so that the inscription reads Uniii crescunt splendore Leones et 

 Ursi, ' United the Lions and Bears increase in splendor.' " * * 



Marie Jefferys. 



If any of our readers can improve upon this explanation we shall be glad to 

 hear from them. — Ed. Review. 



