ng
himself in some degree upon the plan of _Sir C. Wren_, proposed

"To carry a street from Piccadilly through Coventry Street,
Sydney's Alley, Leicester Fields, Cranbourn Alley, and so to
Long Acre, Queen Street, and Lincolns Inn Fields, and thus
afford an easy access to Holborn; he also recommends _the
widening the Strand_ in its narrow parts," &c.

I need hardly notice that by the removal of Exeter Change, the
alterations near Charing Cross, and the more recent openings from
Coventry Street, along the line suggested by Mr. Gwynn, his designs have
been so far carried out.

The second paper in the _Literary Gazette_ was rather a long one, No.
532., March 31. 1827. In it Mr. Gwynn's publication is analysed, and all
the leading particulars bearing on the "_old novelties_ of our modern
improvements" are brought to light.

The whole is worth your reprinting, and at your service, if you will
send a copyist to the _Literary Gazette_ office to inspect the volume
for 1827.

W.J., ED.

"_Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis_" (Vol. ii., p. 267.).--This
hexameter verse, which occurs in collections of Latin apophthegms, is
not to be found in this form, in any classical author. It has been
converted into a single proverbial verse, from the following passage of
Claudian:

"Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum: nec sic inflictere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis."
_De IV. Consul. Honor_., 299.

L.

_St. Uncumber_ (Vol. ii., pp. 286. 342.).--Sir Thomas More details in
his _Dialoge_, with his usual quaintness, the attributes and merits of
many saints, male and female, highly esteemed in his day, and, amongst
others, makes special mention of _St. Uncumber_, whose proper name, it
appears, was _Wylgeforte_. Of these saints he says--

"Some serve for the eye onely, and some for a sore breast. _St.
Germayne_ onely for children, and yet will he not ones loke at
them, but if the mother bring with them a white lofe and a pot
of good ale: and yet is he wiser than _St. Wylgeforte_, for she,
good soule, is, as they say, served and contented with otys.
Whereof I cannot perceive the reason, but if it be bycause she
sholde provyde an horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the
Devyll upon; for that is the thing that she is so sought for, as
they say. In so much that women hath therefore chaunged her
name, and in stede of _St. Wylgeforte call her