[To answer our correspondent fully would fill an entire Number of
"N. & Q." We had thought of giving him a list of the best
collections of the proverbs of different nations, as Le Roux de
Lincy's _Livre des Proverbes Français_; Korte's _Die Sprichwörter
und Sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der Deutschen_; but we shall be
doing him better service by referring him to two books, in which
we think he will find all the information of which he is in
search; viz., 1. Nopitsch, _Literatur der Sprichwörter_; and 2.
Duplessis, _Bibliographie Parémiologique. Etudes Bibliographiques
et Litéraires sur les Ouvrages, Fragmens d'Ouvrages et Opuscules
spécialement consacrés aux Proverbes dans toutes les langues_.]
_Heraldic Query._--An armiger had two wives, and issue by both: by the
first, sons; by the second, who was an _heiress_, daughters only. Have
the descendants of the second marriage right to quarter the ancestor's
arms, male issue of the first marriage still surviving? It would seem
that they have, as otherwise the arms of the heiress' family cannot be
transmitted to her posterity, nor the heraldic representation carried
on.