ligible to an English reader.

In conclusion I may say, in reply to the Query of HENRY H. BREEN, that the
Popes alluded to in the epigram cited by him as above referred to (Vol.
vi., p. 603.), seem evidently to have been Julius II. (Rovere), Leo X.
(Medici), Clement VII. (Medici), and Paul III. (Farnese). And the epigram
in question says no more than the truth, in asserting that they all four
occasioned infinite mischief to France.

T. A. T.

Florence.

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Minor Notes.

_Perspective._--There is a very common error in drawing walls, the plane of
which is parallel to the plane of the picture. An instance of it occurs in
the facade of Sennacherib's Palace, Layard's 2nd book on Nineveh,
frontispiece. All the horizontal lines in the plane of the picture are
drawn parallel. The fact is, that every line above or below the line of the
horizon, though _really_ parallel to it, _apparently_ approaches it, as it
is produced to the right or left. The reason is obvious. One point in the
wall, viz. that on which you let fall a perpendicular from your eye, is
nearest to your eye. The perpendicular height of the wall, as drawn through
this point, must therefore appear greater than as drawn through any other
point more to the right or left. The lines which are really parallel do
therefore apparently converge on some point more or less distant, according
to the distance of the wall from your eye. Every drawing in which this
principle is not considered must, I think, appear out of perspective.

G. T. HOARE.

Tandridge.

"_That._"--I lately met with the following grammatical puzzle among some
old papers. I forget from what book I copied it many years ago. Perhaps it
may be new to some of your readers.

"I'll prove the word that I have made my theme,
Is that that may be _doubled_ without blame,
And that that that thus _trebled_ I may use,
And that that that that critics may abuse,
May be correct.--Farther, the Dons to bother,
_Five_ thats may closely follow one another--
For, be it known that we may safely write
Or say that that that that that man writ was right;
Nay, e'en that that that that that that has followed
Through _six_ repeats, the grammar's rule has hallowed,
And that that that (that _that_ that that began),
Repeated _seven_ times is right! Deny't who can."

McC.

_Corporation Enactments._--In the town books of the Corporation of Youghal,
co. Cork,