Lord Cecil's "Memorials"_ (Vol. viii., p. 442.).--Cecil's "First Memorial"
is printed in Lord Somers's _Tracts_. It appears that Primate Ussher, and,
subsequently, Sir James Ware and his son Robert, had the benefit of
extracts from Lord Burleigh's papers. MR. BRUCE may find the "Examination"
of the celebrated Faithfull Comine, and "Lord Cecyl's Letters," together
with other interesting documents, entered among the Clarendon MSS. in _Pars
altera_ of the second volume of _Catal. Lib. Manuscr. Angl. et Hib._, Oxon.
1697.

R. G.

_Foreign Medical Education_ (Vol. viii., pp. 341. 398.).--In addition to
the previous communications on this subject, I beg to refer your
correspondent MEDICUS to Mr. Wilde's _Austria; its Literary, Scientific,
and Medical Institutions, with Notes on the State of Science, and a Guide
to the Hospitals and Sanitary Institutions of Vienna_, Dublin: Curry and
Co., 1842.

J. D. MCK.

_Encyclopaedias_ (Vol. viii., p. 385.).--Surely there must be many persons
who sympathise with ENCYCLOPAEDICUS in wishing to have a work _not_
encumbered and swollen by the heavy and bulky articles to which he refers:
perhaps there may be as many as would make it worth the while of some
publisher to furnish one. Of course copyright, and all sorts of rights,
must be respected but that being done, there would be little else to do
than to cut out and wheel away the heavy articles from a copy of any
encyclopaedia, and put the rest into the hands of a printer. The residuum
(which is what we want) would probably be to a considerable extent the
same. When necessary additions had been made, the work would still be of
moderate size and price.

N. B.

_Pepys's Grammar_ (Vol. viii., p. 466.).--I am unable to answer MR.
KEIGHTLEY'S Query, not having the slightest knowledge of short-hand; but I
always understood that the original spelling of every word in the _Diary_
was carefully preserved by the gentleman who decyphered it.

No estimate, however, of Pepys's powers of writing can be formed from the
hasty entries recorded in his short-hand journal, and, as I conceive, they
derive additional interest from the quaint terms in which they are
expressed.

BRAYBROOKE.

_"Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi"_ (Vols. ii. and iii. _passim_).--The
following instances of this thought occur in two writers of the seventeenth
century:

"Those times which we term vulgarly they Old World, were indeed the
youth or adolescence of it .