gst the
peasantry, and any of your contributors would extremely oblige by informing
me of the name of the Irish leader.

GEORGE OF MUNSTER.

Queen's College, Cork.

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Minor Notes.

_Coincidences._--

"Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit."--Hor. _Sat._ 2.

"A hungry dog eats dirty pudding."

"Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt."--Hor. _Sat._ 1.

"He misses one post, and runs his head against t'other."

"[Greek: Chelidon ear ou poiei]."--Arist. _Eth._, i. 7.

"One swallow don't make a summer."

J. H. B.

_The English Liturgy._--

"It is deserving of notice, that although Dr. Beattie had been brought
up a member of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and regularly
attended her worship and ordinances when at Aberdeen, he yet gave the
most decided preference to the Church of England, generally attending
the service of that Church when anywhere from home, and constantly when
at Peterhead. He spoke with enthusiasm of the beauty, simplicity, and
energy of the English Liturgy, especially of the Litany, which he
declared to be the finest piece of uninspired composition in any
language." _Life of Dr. Beattie_, by Sir W. Forbes, Bart., vol. iii.
p. 168. note.

J. M.

Oxford.

"_To jump for joy._"--This expression, now most often used figuratively,
was probably in the olden time a plain and literal description of an actual
fact. The _Anglo-Norman Poem on the Conquest of Ireland by Henry II._,
descriptive of events which occurred at the close of the twelfth century,
informs us (at p. 53.) that one of the English knights, named Maurice de
Prendergast, being desirous of returning with his followers to Wales, was
impeded in his march by "les traitres de Weyseford;" and that this so much
provoked him, that he tendered his services to the King of Ossory, who--

"De la novele esteit heistez,
E de joie saili a pes."

This expression, "saili a pes," is translated in the Glossary "rose upon
feet;" but the more correct rendering of it appears to me to be that of
jumping or dancing for joy.

JAMES F. FERGUSON.

Dublin.

"_What is Truth?_"--Bacon begins his "Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625)
with these words:

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
Certainly, there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage
to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinki