Christi olim Alumni
Ordarum Libri Duo," Londoni, 1753. They are extremely elegant, and
deserving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. I have also
another volume, "Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity
College, Oxford," Quarto London, 1738. In this latter volume, with but
two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find one or
two of Alsop's odes in it. Could any of your readers tell me if both
volumes are by the same author? Was Alsop at Trinity College and
subsequently a student of Christ Church?

R.H.

_Derivations of "Calamity," and "Zero;" and meaning of
"Prutenicae"._--Will some of your correspondents give the derivations of
Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenicae, used by
Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical work on the _Motions of the
Heavenly Bodies_?

F.S. MARTIN.

_Jew's-Harp._--What is the origin of the term Jew's-Harp, applied to a
well-known musical toy?

MELANION.

_Sir G. Wyattville._--J.P. would be glad to be informed in what year Sir
G. Wyattville was knighted?

_Sparse._--As I am "less an antique Roman than a Dane," I wish to know
what authority there is for the use of this word, which is to be found
in a leading article of _The Times_, January 8th, 1850?--"A _sparse_ and
hardy race of horsemen." I should like to see this among the Queries,
but I send it as a protest.

"Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem."

C. FORBES.

_The word "Peruse."_--I find the word _Peruse_ employed as a
substantive, and apparently as equivalent to _Examination_, in the
following part of a sentence in the martyr Fryth's works, Russell's ed.,
p. 407.:--"He would have been full sore ashamed so to have overseen
himself at Oxford, at a peruse."

Can any of your correspondents cite a corresponding instance of its use,
or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any
academic exercise?

H.W.

_French Maxim._--Who is the author of the following French saying?--

"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu."

R.V.

_Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi._--If "S.W. SINGER" can give information
as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters _Ave Trici_ and
_Gheeze Ysenoudi_, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state themselves (or
are assumed) to have belonged, he will much oblige, by doing so,

H.L.B.

_A Latin Verse._--Everybody has seen the following quotation--

"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis