ind it at all in Halliwell, the only authority
I have at hand to refer to.

K. I. P. B. T.

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_Religious Teaching in the German Universities._--Will any of your numerous
readers direct me to any book or books containing information on the
_present state_ of religion and religious teaching in the German
Universities?

ROVERT.

_Epigram by Dunbar--Endymion Porter._--Can any of your correspondents
supply the deficient verses in the following epigram, addressed by Thomas
Dunbar, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1815 to 1822, to Miss Charlotte
Ness, who required him to explain what was meant by the terms _abstract_
and _concrete?_

"Say what is _abstract_, what _concrete_,
Their difference define?
They both in one fair person meet,
And that fair form is thine.
* * * *
* * * *
For when I lovely Charlotte view,
I then view loveli_ness_."

Can any one substantiate the local tradition the Endymion Porter was born
at the manor-house of Aston Subedge, in Gloucestershire; or furnish any
particulars of his life before he became gentleman of the bedchamber to
Prince Charles?

BALLIOLENSIS.

_Sathaniel._--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what book, play,
poem, or novel, a character named Sathaniel appears? There is a rather
common picture bearing that title; it represents a dark young lady, in
Eastern dishabille, with a turban on her head, reclining on a
many-cushioned divan, and holding up a jewel in one hand. I have seen the
picture so often, that my curiosity as to the origin of the subject has
been completely aroused; and I have never yet found any one able to satisfy
it.

F. T. C.

_The Scoute Generall._--I have in my possession a small 4to. MS. of 32
pages, entitled _The Scoute Generall_, "communicating (impartially) the
martiall affaires and great occurrences of the grand councell (assembled in
the lowest House of Parliament) unto all kingdomes, by rebellion united in
a covenant," &c., which is throughout written in verse, and particularly
satirical against the Roundheads of the period (1646), and remarkable for
the following prognostication of the death of the unfortunate monarch
Charles I.:

"Roundheads bragge not, since 'tis an old decree,
In time to come from chaines wee should be free:
Traytors shall rule, Injustice then shall sway,
Subjects and nephewes shall their king betray;
And he himselfe, O most unhappy fate!
For kin