READER OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Passage of Cicero_ (Vol. viii., p. 640.).--Is the following what
SEMI-TONE wants?

"Mira est enim quaedam natura vocis; cujus quidem, _e tribus
omnino sonis_, inflexo, acuto, gravi, tanta sit, et tam suavis
varietas perfecta in cantibus."--_Orator_, cap. 17.

B. H. C.

_Major Andre_ (Vol. viii., pp. 174. 604.).--The late Mrs. Mills of
Norwich (_nee_ Andre) was not the sister of Major Andre; she was the
only daughter of Mr. John Andre of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the
Maine, in Germany; where he established more than eighty years ago a
prosperous concern as a printer of music, and was moreover an eminent
composer: this establishment is now in the hands of his grandson. Mr.
John Andre was not the brother of the Major, but a second or third
cousin. Mrs. Mills used to say, that she remembered seeing the Major at
her father's house as a visitor, when she was a very small child. He
began his career in London in the commercial line; and, after he entered
the army, was sent by the English ministry to Hesse-Cassel to conduct to
America a corps of Hessian hirelings to dragoon the revolted Americans
into obedience: it was on this occasion that he paid the above-mentioned
visit to Offenbach.

Having frequently read the portion of English history containing the
narrative of the transactions in which Major Andre was so actively
engaged, and for which he suffered, I have often asked myself whether he
was altogether blameless in that questionable affair.

TRIVET ALLCOCK.

Norwich.

P.S.--This account was furnished to me by Mr. E. Mills, husband of the
late Mrs. Mills.

_Catholic Bible Society_ (Vol. ix., p. 41.).--Besides the account of
this society in Bishop Milner's _Supplementary Memoirs of the English
Catholics_, many papers on the same will be found in the volumes of the
_Orthodox Journal_ from 1813, when the Society was formed, to 1819. In
this last volume, p. 9., Bishop Milner wrote a long letter, containing a
comparison of the brief notes in the stereotyped edition of the above
Society with the notes of Bishop Challoner, from whose hands he mentions
having received a copy of his latest edition of both Testaments in 1777.
It should be mentioned that most of the papers in the _Orthodox Journal_
alluded to were written by Bishop Milner under various signatures, which
the present writer, with al