he radiant looks of unbewailing flowers,
And leaves this peopled world a solitude
When it returns no more?"

Shelley's mysticism is very often such as to render him unintelligible to
ordinary readers, but it is combined here with a want of grammatical {352}
connexion that makes obscurity ten times more obscure. I have not the least
idea whether "fills" refers to "sense which," or to "voice;" but
whichsoever it may belong to, it is evident that the other nominative
singular, as also the plural "winds of spring," have no verbs, either
expressed or understood, to govern. A line or two may have dropped out; but
all editions as far as I am aware, give the passage as above. In Act I., at
p. 195. line 7 of the edition of 1853, occurs a curious error (I presume of
the press); Mercury, addressing the Furies, says:

"Back to your towers of iron,
And gnash beside the streams of fire, and wail
Your foodless teeth."

The having no food to put between one's teeth is no doubt a very sufficient
cause for wailing, but still I think the passage would run better if
"gnash" and "wail" exchanged places. How do other editions give it?

J. S. WARDEN.

_Turkish Language._--Are there any easy dialogues in the Turkish language,
but in the English type, to be obtained; and where? If there be not, I
think it would be desirable to publish some, with names of common objects,
&c.

HASSAN.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

[Illustration]

_Illustrated Bible of 1527._--Can you inform me whether there is any Bible
published in 1527 at Lyons, with Hans Holbein's cuts in it, and what
engraver used this monogram, as I have a Bible of that date, the plates of
which are almost fac-similes (some of them) of Holbein's cuts, which were
published by Pickering? The date of the Bible is 1527.

"Impressa autem Lugduni per Jacobum Mareschall feliciter explicat, anno
nostri Salutis 1527."

L. S. C.

[Several editions of the Bible were printed in the early part of the
sixteenth century at Lyons, some of them ornamented with cuts from
designs similar to those of Holbein. Two or three from the press of
Mareschall are in the British Museum. We believe there were no Bibles
printed at Lyons in which it was acknowledged that the cuts were
designed by Holbein. The following notice of the monogram occurs in
_Dictionnaire des Monogrammes_, par F. Bruilliot, part i. p. 4