i., p. 281.).--In the year
1592 the Duke of Nevers was despatched by Henry IV. with all speed to a
place called Bully, in order to cut off the retreat of the Duke of Guise,
lately defeated near Bures. Sully speaks of him thus:

"The Duke of Nevers, the slowest of men, began by sending to make
choice of the most favourable roads, and marched with a slow pace
towards Bully, with his hands and his nose in his muff, and his whole
person well packed up in his coach."--_Memoirs of Sully_, vol. i. p.
235., English edit., Edinburgh, 1773.

FRANCIS JOHN SCOTT.

Tewkesbury.

"_Earth says to Earth_" (Vol. vii., pp. 498. 576.).--A fac-simile of these
lines, discovered in the chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross at
Stratford-on-Avon (with many other curious plates), may be seen in Fisher's
_Illustrations of the Paintings_, &c., edited by J. G. Nichols, Esq., and
published in 1802, and afterwards continued.

ERICA speaks of "Weaver's" Account. Unless this is a misprint for
"Wheler's" (_Account of Stratford-on-Avon_), perhaps he will oblige me with
the full title of Weaver's work.

ESTE.

_Poetical Tavern Signs_ (Vol. viii., p. 242.).--I would add the following
sign-inscription to those noted by R. C. WARDE. It was on the walls of a
tavern half-way up Richmond Hill, three miles south of Douglas, Isle of
Man, kept by a man of the name of Abraham Lowe:

"I'm Abraham Lowe, and half-way up the hill,
If I were higher up, what's funnier still,
I should be belowe. Come in and take your fill
Of porter, ale, wine, spirits, what you will.
Step in, my friend, I pray no farther go;
My prices, like myself, are always low."

J. G. C.

_Unkid_ (Vol. viii., p. 221.).--Is not the word _hunks_, so common in
people's mouths,--_An old hunks_, an old miser or miserable wretch, to be
referred to the same derivation as _unkid_, _hunkid_?

F. B--w.

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_Camera Lucida_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--CARET will find Dr. Wollaston's
description of his invention, the "Camera Lucida," in the 17th volume of
_Nicholson's Journal_.

M. C. M.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Messrs. MacMillan of Cambridge have commenced the publication of a series
of theological manuals by _A History of the Christian Church_ (_Middle
Age_), by Charles Hardwick, M.A.; which, although written for this series,
claims to be regarded as an integral and independent treatise on the
Med