Rattling, and loud, and high, resembling a drum or a bugle--
Rub-a-dub-dub like the one, like t'other tantaratara?
(It into use was brought of late by thy Laureate Doctor--
But, in my humble opinion, I write it better than he does)
It was chosen by me as the longest measure I knew of,
And, in praising one's King, it is right full measure to give him."

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_King's Prerogative and Hunting Bishops_ (Vol. ix., p. 247.).--The passage
of Blackstone, referred to by the Edinburgh Reviewer, will be found in his
_Commentaries_, vol. ii, p. 413., where reference is made to 4 [Cokes']
_Inst._ 309. See also the same volume of Blackstone, p. 427. It is evident
that Bishop Jewel possessed his "muta canum." See a curious account of a
visit to him by Hermann Falkerzhuemer, in the _Zurich Letters_, second
series, pp. 84 &c.

H. GOUGH.

Lincoln's Inn.

_Green Eyes_ (Vol. viii., p. 407.; Vol. ix., p. 112.).--Antoine Heroet, an
early French poet, in the third book of his _Opuscules d'Amour_, has the
following lines:

"Amour n'est pas enchanteur si divers
Que les yeux noirs face devenir _verds_,
Qu'un brun obscur en blancheur clere tourne,
Ou qu'un traict gros du vissage destourne."

(Love is not so strange an enchanter that he can make black eyes become
green, that he can turn a dark brown into clear whiteness, or that he can
change a coarse feature of the face.)

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

_Brydone the Tourist_ (Vol. ix., pp. 138. 255. 305.).--

"On lui a reproche d'avoir sacrifie la verite au plaisir de raconter
des choses piquantes."

In a work (I think) entitled _A Tour in Sicily_, the production of Captain
Monson, uncle to the late Lord Monson, published about thirty years ago, I
remember to have read a denial and, as far as I can remember, a refutation
of a statement of Brydone, that he had seen a pyramid in the gardens or
grounds of some dignitary in Sicily, composed of--chamber-pots! I was, when
I read Mr. Monson's book (a work of some pretensions as it appeared to me),
a youngster newly returned from foreign travel, and in daily intercourse
with gentlemen of riper age than myself, and of attainments as travellers
and otherwise which I could not pretend to; many of them were Italians, and
I perfectly remember that by all, but especially by the latter, Brydone's
book was treated as a book of apocrypha.

TRAVELLER.

_Descendants of John of Gaunt, Noses of_ (Vol. vii., p.