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Notices to Correspondents.
_We have been induced, by the number of articles we have in type writing
for insertion, to omit our usual_ NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.
AGMOND. Cecil _was written by Mrs. Gore_.
F. M. M. Balaam Box _has long been used in Blackwood as the name of the
depository of rejected articles. The allusion is obvious._
H. M. H. _will find all the information he can desire respecting_ The
Gentlemen at Arms, _in Pegge's_ Curialia; _Thiselton's Memoir of that
Corps, published in 1819; or, better still, Curling's_ Account of the
Ancient Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 8vo. 1850.
J. C. K. _The coin is a very common penny of Henry III., worth ninepence,
or a shilling at most._
BALLIOLENSIS. _Porson's jeu d'esprit is reprinted in the_ Facetiae
Cantabrigienses (1850). p. 16.
ENQUIRER. _A triolet is a stanza of eight lines, in which, after the third
the first line, and after the sixth the first two lines, are repeated, so
that the first line is heard three times: hence the name. It is suited for
playful and light subjects, and is cultivated by the French and Germans.
The volume of_ Patrick Carey's Trivial Poems and Triolets, _edited by Sir
Walter Scott, in 1820, from a MS. of 1651, is an early instance of the use
of the term_.
A. B. M. _The line referred to_--"Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious
war"--_is from_ Othello, _Act III. Sc. 3_.
JARLTZBERG. _Has not our Correspondent received a note we inclosed to him
respecting_ The Circle of the Seasons?
OLD MORTALITY'S _offer of a collection of Epitaphs is declined with thanks.
We have now waiting for insertion almost as many as would fill a cemetery._
ABHBA. _The proverb "Mad as a March hare" has appeared in our_ Fourth
Volume, p. 208.--_Also, in the same volume_, p. 309. _&c., will be found
several articles similar to the one forwarded on "Bee Superstitions."_
F. (Oxford.) _The extract forwarded from Southey's_ Common Place Book _is a
copy of the title-page of the anonymous work required_.
H. C. M. _The date of the earliest Coroner's Inquest
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