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they attempt to elucidate. Nicole _translated_ into Latin the _Provincial Letters_; and the masterly disquisitions which he added to the volume were, in their turn, "made French" by Mademoiselle de Joncoux, and annexed to the editions of 1700, 1712, 1735. As for Rachelius, if Mr. Stamp had taken the trouble to refer to Placcius' _Theatr. Anonym. et Pseud._, he night have seen (Art. 2,883.) that this worthy was merely a German _editor_, not a translator of Pascal cum Wendrock. The second blunder I have to notice has been perpetrated by the writer of an otherwise excellent article on Pascal in the last number of the _British Quarterly Review_ (No. 20. August). He mentions Bossuet's edition of the _Pensees_, speaks of "_the prelate_," and evidently ascribes to the famous Bishop of Meaux, _who died in_ 1704, the edition of Pascal's _Thoughts, published in_ 1779 _by Bossuet_. (See pp. 140. 142.) GUSTAVE MASSON. _Porson's Epigram._--I made the following Note many years ago:-- "The late Professor Porson's own account of his academic visits to the Continent:-- "'I went to Frankfort, and got drunk With that most learn'd professor--Brunck: I went to Worts, and got more drunken, With that more learn'd professor Ruhncken.'" But I do not remember where or from whom I got it. Is anything known about it, or its authenticity? P.H.F. * * * * * QUERIES. "ORKNEYINGA SAGA." In the introduction to Lord Ellesmere's _Guide to Northern Archaeology_, p. xi., is mentioned the intended publication by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, of a volume of historical antiquities to be called _Antiquitates Britannicae et Hibernicae_. In the contents of this volume is noticed the _Orkneyinga Saga_, a history of the Orkney and Zetland Isles from A.D. 865 to 1234, of which there is only the edition Copenhagen, 1780, "chiefly printed," it is said, "from a modern paper manuscript, and by no means from the celebrated Codex Flateyensis written on parchment in the fourteenth century." This would show that the Codex Flateyensis was the most valuable manuscript of the work published under the name of the _Orkneyinga Saga_, of which its editor, Jonas Jonaeus, in his introductory address to the reader, says its author and age are equally unknown: "auctor incertus incerto aeque tempore scripsit." The _Orkneyinga Saga_ concludes with the burning of Adam Bishop, of
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