s who figure so often in our comic
literature as Messrs. Huggins and Muggins. _Huggins_, like _Hugh_,
appears to have the same root as _Hugin_, viz. _hugr_, mind, spirit;
and as Mr. Muggins is as invariably associated with Mr. Huggins, as one
of Odin's ravens was with the other (as mind is with memory), the name
may originally have been written _Munnins_, and _nn_ changed into _gg_
for the sake of euphony. Should this _conjecture_, for it is nothing
else, be well founded, one of the most poetical ideas in the whole
range of mythology would, in this plodding, practical, spilling-jenny
age of ours, have thus undergone a most singular metamorphosis."

JNO. N. RADCLIFFE.

Dewsbury.

_Camera Lucida_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--With my camera lucida I received a
printed sheet of instructions, from which the following extract is made, in
answer to CARET:

"Those who cannot sketch comfortably, without perfect distinctness of
both the pencil and object, must observe, that the _stem_ should be
drawn out to the mark D, for all distant objects, and to the numbers 2,
3, 4, 5, &c. for objects that are at the distances of only 2, 3, 4, or
5 feet respectively, the stem being duly inclined according to a mark
placed at the bottom; but, after a little practice, such exactness is
wholly unnecessary. The farther the prism is removed from the paper,
that is, the longer the stem is drawn out, the larger the objects will
be represented in the drawing, and accordingly the less extensive the
view.

"The nearer the prism is to the paper, the smaller will be the objects,
and the more extensive the view comprised on the same piece of paper.

"If the drawing be two feet from the prism, and the paper only one
foot, the copy will be half the size of the original. If the drawing be
at one foot, and the paper three feet distant, the copy will be three
times as large as the original: and so for all other distances."

T. B. JOHNSTON.

Edinburgh.

_"When Orpheus went down"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 196. 281.).--This seems to be
rightly attributed to Dr. Lisle. See Dodsley's _Collection of Poems_, vol.
vi. p. 166. (1758), where it is stated to have been imitated from the
Spanish, and set to music by Dr. Hayes. It is not quite correctly given in
"N. & Q."

J. KELWAY.

_The Arms of De Sissone_ (Vol. viii., p. 243.).--I beg to refer J. L. S. to
_Histoire Gene