deception she practised?

J. SANSOM.

_Statue of French King, Epigram on_.--Can any of your readers inform me
who was the author of the following epigram, written on the occasion of
an equestrian statue of a French king attended by the Virtues being
erected in Paris:--

"O la belle statue! O le beau Piedestal!
Les Vertus sont a pied, le Vice est a cheval!"

AUGUSTINE.

_Lux Fiat_.--Who was the first Christian or Jewish writer by whom _lux
fiat_ was referred to the creation of the _angels_?

J. SANSOM.

_Hiring of Servants_.--At Maureuil, in the environs of Abbeville, a
practice has long existed of hiring servants in the market-place on
festival days. I have observed the same custom in various parts of
England, and particularly in the midland counties. Can any of your
correspondents inform me of the origin of this?

W.J.

Havre.

_Book of Homilies_.--Burnet, in his _History of the Reformation in anno
1542_, says,--

"A Book of Homilies was printed, in which the Gospels and Epistles of
all the Sundays and Holidays of the year were set down with a _Homily to
every one of these_. To these were also added Sermons upon several
occasions, as for _Weddings_, _Christenings_, and _Funerals_."

Can any learned clerk inform me where a copy of such Homilies can be
seen?

B.

_Collar of SS_.--Where can we find _much_ about the SS. collar? Is there
any list extant of persons who were honoured with that badge?

B.

_Rainbow_.--By what heathen poet is the _rainbow_ spoken of as "risus
plorantis Olympi?"

J. SAMSON.

_Passage in Lucan_.--What parallel passages are there to that of
_Lucan_:--

"Communis mundo superest rogus, ossibus astra
Misturus?"

J. SAMSON.

_William of Wykeham_.--Is there any better Life of William of Wykeham
than the very insufficient one of Bishop Lowth?

What were the circumstances of the rise of William of Wykeham,
respecting which Lowth is so very scanty and unsatisfactory?

Where did William of Wykeham get the wealth with which he built and
endowed New College, Oxon, and St. Mary's, Winchester; and rebuilt
Winchester Cathedral?

What are the present incomes of New College, and St Mary's, Winchester?

Is there a copy of the Statutes of these colleges in the British Museum,
or in any other public library?

W.H.C.

April 22, 1850.

_Richard Baxter's Descendants_.--Can any of your correspondents inform
me of the whereabouts of the descendants of the celebrated Ric