W. N.

_"Corruptio Optimi," &c._--To what source is the well-known saying,

"Corruptio optimi fit pessima," to be traced?

Hs.

_Miss Fanshawe's Enigma._--The enigma of Miss Catherine Fanshawe on the

letter "H" is so good, as to make me wish much to see the other by the

same lady, to which E. H. Y. refers in your Number of Vol. v., p. 258.

If E. H. Y. could procure a copy, and send it to you for publication, he

would probably oblige many besides

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