"Men are but children of a larger growth"
_in Dryden's_ All for Love, _Act IV. Sc. 1_.
[Delta]. _Has our Correspondent consulted the Rev. J. Blunt's_ Vestiges of
Ancient Customs and Manners in Modern Italy and Sicily, 8vo. 1823?
H. EDWARDS. _The epithet referred to is an obvious corruption of an
extremely coarse one, formerly applied to all who refused to wear the
oak-apple on the 29th of May._
TOM KING. Monsieur Tonson _was written by the late John Taylor, the
well-known editor of_ The Sun, _and will be found in the collection of his
poems_.
LOCCAN. Bâtman, _from Fr._ bât, _hence corrupted into_ bawman, _an
officer's servant_.
I. R. R. _Valentine Schindler, a learned German, was born at Oedern, in
Misnia, and became professor of the Oriental languages at Wittemberg, and
at Helmstadt, where he died in 1611.--Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo, Lat._
Rodericus Sanctius, _a learned Spanish prelate, was born in 1404. He was
successively promoted to the bishoprics of Zamora, Calahorra, and Palencia.
He died in 1470._
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excursions, and are required to furnish the notes, historical and literary,
of the spots visited._
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receive them. If all who, like you, have benefited by the photographic
articles which have appeared in our columns, would send us, in
acknowledgment, some of their productions, our portfolio would be better
filled than it is._
ERRATUM. Vol. ix., p. 474., col. 2, line 25, _for_ "_German_ sherry wines,"
_read_ "_Genuine_ sherry wines."
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