evails as to the exact import of this term.
The great musical critic Mattheson, in a work written on the word,
having rejected eleven meanings, decides in favour of the twelfth,
which makes the word equivalent to the modern Italian _da capo_. In
this view, the word _selah_ directs a repetition of the air or song
from the commencement, to the parts where it is placed. Herder held
that _selah_ denoted a swell, or a change in the rapidity of the
movement, or in the key. The Easterns, he says, are fond of a very
uniform, and, as it appears to Europeans, mournful music; but at
certain points, they of a sudden change the key, and pass into a
different melody. These points, he thinks, were among the Hebrews
indicated by the word _selah_. The balance of authority, however, is in
favour of the former view.--_The People's Dict. of the Bible._ Consult
also, Julius Bate's _Critica Hebraea_, and Gesenius' _Hebrew and
English Lexicon_.]

_The Long Parliament._--Where is a list of it, including its various
changes, to be seen?

Y. S. M.

[Among the _King's Pamphlets_ in the British Museum (Press-mark, E.
1836.) is the following "A List of the Names of the Long Parliament,
anno 1640; likewise of the Parliament holden at Oxford; as also of the
three ensuing Parliaments holden at Westminster in the years 1653,
1654, 1656, and of the late Parliament, dissolved April 22, 1659, with
a Catalogue of the Lords of the other House. London: Printed in the
year 1659." There is also another pamphlet entitled "The Names of the
Members of Parliament which began on the 4th June, 1653. 4to. London,
1654."]

"_The Three Pigeons._"--Was it the house at Brentford, mentioned by DR.
RIMBAULT (Vol. ix., p. 331.), that suggested Tony Lumpkin's convivial
ballad in praise of "The Three Jolly Pigeons?"

G. TAYLOR.

Reading.

[It is highly probable that the scene "An Ale-house Room" in
Goldsmith's comedy _She Stoops to Conquer_ is the "Three Pigeons" at
Brentford, as this remarkable hostel dates its origin from the days of
Shakspeare and Ben Jonson. It is frequently mentioned by the early
dramatists, and appears at one time to have been in some repute, having
had for its landlord the celebrated tragedian, John Lowin, cotemporary
of Shakspeare, and one of the original actors in his plays, who died in
this house at a very advanced age