e, but no
one has been able to think of this "peculiar term."

R.

_The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works._--Ritson prepared an edition of this
nobleman's poetical works for the press. It contained nearly as much again
as the printed edition of 1732. What has become of the MS.?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Titus Oates._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to an _autograph_
of Titus Oates?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Erasmus' Colloquies--Apuleius' Golden Ass, Translations of._--Will any of
your readers be kind enough to enlighten a provincial ignoramus by
answering the following Queries:--

1. Which is the best and most complete English translation of Erasmus'
_Colloquies_?

2. Is there an English translation of Apuleius' _Golden Ass_?

3. Is the French translation of the latter work considered a good one?

G. P. I.

_The Molten Sea._--In 1835, Captain J. B. Jervis, of the Bombay Engineers,
published at Calcutta an essay, entitled _Records of Ancient Science_, in
which he endeavours to reconcile the discrepancy between the 1 Kings, vii.
23. 26. and the 2 Chron. iv. 2. 5. by proving that a vessel of oblate
spheroidal form--of 30 cubits in the periphery, and 10 cubits in the major
axis--would (according to the acknowledged relation of the bath to the
cubit) hold exactly 2,000 baths liquid measure, and 3,000 baths when filled
and heaped up conically with wheat (as specified in Ezekiel, xlv. 11.).

I do not possess any means of criticising this explanation of the
difficulty, and having searched in various modern commentaries for a notice
of it without success, I venture to submit it in your columns to the
attention of others.

TYRO-ETYMOLOGICUS.

_"Sedem Animae", &c._--Will any of your correspondents inform me where the
following quotation is taken from:--

"Sedem animae in extremis digitis habent."

It will be found in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_, folio edition (7th),
p. 55., and in the 8vo. edition of 1837, vol. iv. p. 80. Burton cites it as
from Sallust, but the verbal index of that author has been consulted in
vain for it.

W. S.

Richmond, Surrey.

_Old St. Pancras Church._--Old St. Pancras has always been a noted
burial-place for Roman Catholics that reside in or near London; and it has
been assigned as a reason for that being their mausoleum and cemetery, that
prayers and mass are said daily in a church dedicated to the same saint, in
the south of France, for the repose of the souls of the fai