nslations have appeared of the famous
_Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum_?

Has _La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri_ (by Joseph Francis Borri,
the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same
Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbe de Rillan founded on
Borri's work?

JARLTZBERG.

_Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents
tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it refer to the fair
and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the remarkable John
Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after the
landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and whose person is admitted
to have been eminently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as to his
character and conduct?

2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words,
to his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July,
1689. All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point.

W.L.M.

_Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply
of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read:

"I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at
length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum
Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c.

I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an
obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the
knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the
Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von
Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? The print is said to bear the date 1513.
I have it, but have failed to discover any date at all.

H.J.H.

Sheffield.

_Blackguard._--When did this word Come into use, and from what?

Beaumont and Fletcher, in the _Elder Brother_, use it thus:--

"It is a Faith
That we will die in, since from the _blackguard_
To the grim sir in office, there are few
Hold other tenets."

Thomas Hobbes, in his _Microcosmus_, says,--

"Since my lady's decay I am degraded from a cook and I fear the
devil himself will entertain me but for one of his _blackguard_,
and he shall be sure to have his roast burnt."

JARLTZBERG.

_Meaning of "Pension."_--The following announcement appeared lately in
the London newspapers:--

"GRAY'S INN.--At a _Pension_ of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn,
holden this day, Henry Wm. Vincent, Es