icarum causa, in
borealibus versaretur partibus, miraculum ibi stupendum sane patravit.
Conspexit enim taurum ingentem, vaccarum (sicut poeta quidam ex
ethnicis ait) 'magna comitante caterva,' in prato quodam graminoso
ferocientem, maceria tantum bassa inter se et belluam istam horrendam
interposita. Constitit Thomas, constitit et bos, horribiliter rugiens,
cauda erecta, cornibus immaniter saeviens, ore spumam, naribus vaporem,
oculis fulgur emittens, maceriam transsilire, in virum sanctum irruere,
corpusque ejus venerabile in aera jactitare, visibiliter nimis paratus.
{407} Thomas autem, eapta occasione, oculos in monstrum obfirmat,
signumque crucis magneticum in modum indesinenter ducere aggreditur, En
portentum inauditum! geminis belluae luminibus illico palpebrae
obducuntur, titubat taurus, cadit, ac, signo magnetico sopitus, primo
raucum stertens, mox infantiliter placidum trahens halitum, humi pronus
recumbit. Nec moratus donec hostis iste cornutus somnum excuteret, viv
sanctus ad hospitium se propinquum laetus inde incolumisque recepit."

RUSTICUS.

"_Her Brow was fair._"--Can any of your many readers inform me of the
author of the following lines, which I copy as I found them quoted in Dr.
Armstrong's _Lectures_:

"Her brow was fair, but very pale,
And looked like stainless marble; a touch methought would soil
Its whiteness. On her temple, one blue vein
Ran like a tendril; one through her shadowy hand
Branched like the fibre of a leaf away."

J.M.B.

_Hoods warn by Doctors of Divinity of Aberdeen._--Will you allow me to
inquire, through the pages of your publication, of what _colour_ and
_material_ the _exterior_ and _lining_ of hoods were composed which Doctors
in Divinity, who had graduated at Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrew's,
prior to the Reformation, were accustomed to wear? I imagine, the same as
those worn by Doctors who had graduated at Paris: but what hoods they wore
I know not. I trust that some of your correspondents will enlighten me upon
this subject.

LL.D.

_Irish Brigade._--Where can I find any account of the institution and
history of the Irish brigade, a part of the army of France under the
Bourbons?

J.D.

Bath.

_Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception._--In the charge delivered by the
Bishop of London to his clergy, on the 2nd instant, the following passage
occurs:

"It is not easy to say what the memb