St. Uncumber,
bycause they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not fayle
to uncumber theym of theyr housbondys_."--(Quoted in Southey's
_Colloquies_, vol. i. p. 414.)

_St. Wylgeforte_ is the female saint whom the Jesuit Sautel has
celebrated (in his _Annus Sacer Poeticus_) for her _beard_--a mark of
Divine favour bestowed upon her in answer to her prayers. She was a
beautiful girl, who wished to lead a single life, and that she might be
suffered to do so free from importunity, she prayed earnestly to be
rendered disagreeable to look upon, either by wrinkles, a hump on the
back, or in any other efficacious way. Accordingly the beard was given
her; and it is satisfactory to know that it had the desired {382} effect
to the fullest extent of her wishes. (Vid. Southey's _Omniana_, vol. ii.
p. 54., where Sautel's lines are quoted.)

J.M.B.

_West (James), President of Royal Society_ (Vol. ii., p. 289.).--T.S.D.
states there "has certainly never been a president or even a secretary
of the Royal Society, of the name of James West." Your readers will
remember that West is mentioned by Mr. Cunningham in his _London_, as
having filled the former distinguished office: his statement, which
T.S.D. thus contradicts, is perfectly correct.

Mr. West's election took place 30th of November, 1768, and he filled the
chair until his death in July, 1772.

J.H.M.

[Mr. Cooper, of Cambridge, J.G.N., and other correspondents, have called
our attention to this oversight.]

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES OF BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The idea of selecting from the _Spectator_ those papers in which the
refined taste of Addison, working on the more imaginative genius of
Steele, has embodied that masterpiece of quiet thorough English humour
which is exhibited in the portrait of Sir Roger de Coverley, is a most
happy one,--so excellent indeed, and when done, it is so obviously well
that it is done, that we can only wonder how it is, that, instead of
having now to thank Messrs. Longman for the quaintly and beautifully got
up volume entitled _Sir Roger de Coverley. By the Spectator. The Notes
and Illustrations by Mr. Henry Wills: the Engravings by Thompson, from
Designs by Fred. Tayler_,--as a literary novelty--such a selection has
not been a stock book for the last century. Excellent, however, as is
the idea of the present volume, it has been as judiciously carried out
as happily