_Monumental Symbolism._--On a monument dated 1600, or thereabouts,
erected to a member of an ancient Roman Catholic family in
Leicestershire, there are effigies of his children sculptured. Two of
the sons are represented in a kneeling posture, with their hands clasped
and upraised; while all the others are standing, some cased in armour,
or otherwise. Can you, from knowledge of heraldry, or any other source,
decide confidently what is the reason of the difference of posture, or
rather what it is intended to denote?
Reader.
_Ptolemy's Presents to the Seventy-two._--Josephus (_Ant._ b. xii. ch.
ii. sect. 15.) mentions, as among the presents bestowed by Ptolemy on
the Seventy-two elders, "the furniture of the room in which they were
entertained." Was this a usual custom of antiquity?