s,
Perpetuo execrabilis,
Semper detestabilis,
Esto, maneto."

See Dibdin's bibliographical works.

J. S.

Norwich.

The two following are copied from the _originals_ written in the fly-leaf
of Brathwayte's _Panedone, or Health from Helicon_, pub. 1621, in my
possession:

1.
"Whose book I am if you would know,
In letters two I will you show:
The first is J, the most of might,
The next is M, in all men's sight;
Join these two letters discreetly,
And you will know my name thereby.
JAS. MORREY."

2.
"Philip Morrey is my name,
And with my pen I write the same;
Tho' had such pen been somewhat better,
I could have mended every letter."

CESTRIENSIS.

On the fly-leaf of _Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice_, a divine poem by
E. B., Esq., London, 1652, I find the following rare morsel:

"MR. JAMES TINKER,
Rector of St. Andrews, Droitwich.

"Father Tinker, when you are dead,
Great parts a long wir you are fled,
O that they wor conferred on mee,
Which would ad unto God's glory."

The subject of the above laudation flourished in the early part of the last
century.

In a Geneva Bible, date 1596:

"Thomas Haud: his booke:
God giue him grace theare on to looke:
And if my pen it had bin better,
I would haue mend it euery letter.
1693."

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

_German Book Inscription._--You have not yet, I think, had a German
book-inscription: allow me to send you the following out of an old _Faust_,
bought last year at Antwerp:

"Dieses Buch ist mir lieb,
Wer es stielt ist ein Dieb;
Mag er heissen Herr oder Knecht,
Haengen ist sein verdientes Recht."

Underneath is the usual picture of the gallows-tree and its fruit.

ISELDUNENSIS.

* * * * *

PRAYING TO THE WEST.

(Vol. viii., p. 343. &c.)

The setting sun and the darkness of evening has been immemorially connected
with death, just as the rising orb and the light of morning with life. In
Sophocles (_Oedipus Rex_, 179.), Pluto is called [Greek: hesperos theos];
and the "Oxford translation" has the following note on the line:

"In Lysia's Oration against Andocides is this passage: To expiate this
pollution (the mutilation of the {592} Hermae), the priestesses and
priests _turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal
gods_, dev