er so
hostile to the court as to sanction so heavy an infliction upon the
royal family, as they would have met with from the quit-rent ode, the
peppercorn of praise paid by Elkanah Settle, Cibber, or H.J. Pye.

The Abbe, however, is not so amusing in his mistake (if mistaken)
relative to this point, as I find another foreign author has been
upon two Poet Laureates, Dryden and Settle. Vincenzo Lancetti, in his
_Pseudonimia Milano_, 1836, tells us:--

"Anche la durezza di alcuni cognomi ha piu volte consigliato
un raddolcimento, che li rendesse piu facili a pronunziarsi.
Percio Macloughlin divenne Macklin; Machloch, Mallet; ed
Elkana Settle fu poi ---- John Dryden!"

--a metamorphose greater, I suspect, than any to be found in Ovid, and
a transmigration of soul far beyond those imagined by the philosophers
of the East.

S.H.

Athenaeum.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Wood Paper_.--The reprint of the _Works of Bishop Wilkins_, London,
1802, 2 vols. 8vo., is said to be on paper made from wood pulp.
It has all the appearance of it in roughness, thickness, and very
unequal opacity. Any sheet looked at with a candle behind it is like
a firmament scattered with luminous nebulae. I can find mention of
straw paper, as patented about the time; but I should think it almost
impossible (knowing how light the Indian rice paper is) that the heavy
fabric above mentioned should be of straw. Is it from wood? If so,
what is the history of the invention, and what other works were
printed in it?

M.

_Latin Line_.--I should be very much obliged to anybody who can tell
where this line comes from:--

"Exiguum hoc magni pignus amoris habe,"

which was engraved on a present from a distinguished person to a
relation of mine, who tried in several quarters to learn where it came
from.

C.B.

_Milton, New Edition of_.--I observe in Mr. Mayor's communication
(Vol. i. p. 427.), that some one is engaged in editing Milton. May
I ask who, and whether the contemplated edition includes prose and
poetry?

CH.

_Barum and Sarum_.--By what theory, rule, or analogy, if any, can the
contractions be accounted for of two names so dissimilar, into
words terminating so much alike, as those of Salisbury into
Sarum--Barnstaple into Barum?

S.S.S.

_Roman Roads_.--Can you inform me in whose possession is the MS. essay
on "Roman Roads," written by the late Dr. Charles Mason, to