oquentiae exterioris ad orationem M. T.
Ciceronis pro A. Licin. Archia accommodatum. Amstelaedami, apud Henr.
Wetstenium M DC XCVII.],"

occurs the following brief MS. note, after the text of the speech for
Archias:

"Orationem hanc pro Archia sub Dno Petro Francio memoriter recitavi
Wilhelmus de Wilde in Athenaei auditorio Majore, a.d. xviii kal.
Januarias, a^{ni} 1699."

The volume is 12mo., containing about 200 pp.; the text of the speech
occupying nearly 42 pp.

Who was Peter Francius? Did De Wilde ever distinguish himself?"

D.

[Peter Francius, a celebrated Greek and Latin poet, was born in 1645 at
Amsterdam, afterwards studied at Leyden, and obtained the degree of
Doctor of Laws at Augers. In 1674, the magistrates of Amsterdam
appointed him Professor of History and Rhetoric, which office he held
till his death in 1704. See _Biographie Universelle_.]

_Work by Bishop Ken._--

"A Crown of Glory the Reward of the Righteous; being Meditations on the
Vicissitude and Uncertainty of all Sublunary Enjoyments. To which is
added, a Manual of Devotions for Times of Trouble and Affliction: also
Meditations and Prayers before, at, and after receiving the Holy
Communion; with some General Rules for our Daily Practice. Composed for
the use of a Noble Family, by the Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Kenn, late
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. Price 2s. 6d."

I find the above in a list of "books printed for Arthur, Betterworth, &c.,"
at the end of the 7th edition of Horneck's _Crucified Jesus_: London, 1727.
I do not remember to have seen any notice of this work in the recent
biographies of the saintly prelate to whom it is here attributed.

E. H. A.

[This work originally appeared under the following title: _The Royal
Sufferer; a Manual of Meditations and Devotions, written for the use of
a Royal though afflicted Family_, by T. K., D. D., 1669, and was
afterwards published with the above title. It has been rejected as
spurious by the Rev. J. T. Round, the editor of _The Prose Works of
Bishop Ken_, l838.]

_Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon._--This talented criminal is said to
have left behind him collections for a dictionary of the Celtic, Hebrew,
Greek, Latin, and English languages, comprising a list of about 3000 words,
which he considered them to possess in common. Was this ever published? and
where are any notices of his works to