is led by his studies to regard Christianity as a transformation from astronomical mythology. THE Corporation of Birmingham is doing good work in publishing a catalogue of the Reference Department of its Free Libraries. In the first part, which deals with the letter A, are about ten thousand volumes. Under the head America appear 1,570 volumes, and under Australia and Australasia 434 volumes. Arts and Artists claim among them no less than 2,187 volumes; Archæology, 291; Architecture, 593; Astronomy, 195. The completed catalogue will be a very useful work. The entire series of catalogues published in connexion with these libraries constitutes an important contribution to bibliography. THE Rev. Dr. Jessopp's "Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery," in the Nineteenth Century, is likely to interest our readers. The Contemporary has an essay by the Bishop of Ripon, entitled "Thoughts about Apparitions." "The Literature of Introspection" is the subject of an essay in Macmillan. Mr. Andrew Lang appears among this month's contributors to Merry England. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. ANTONY ("Serbonian Bog").-"Serbonis was a lake 200 furlongs in length and 1,000 in compass, between the ancient mountain Casius and Damiata, a city of Egypt, on one of the more eastern mouths of the Nile. It was surrounded on all sides by hills of loose sand. which, carried into the water by high winds, so thickened the lake, as not to be distinguish'd from part of the continent. where[by] whole armies have been swallowed. Read Herodotus, I. iii., and Luc., Phar., viii. 539, &c. 'Perfida qua tellus Casiis excurrit arenis Et vada testantur junctas Ægyptia syrtes.'" Hume, quoted in Newton's Milton, vol. i. pp. 135-6, ed. 1790. Information supplied in our columns is gratuitous. R. EDGECUMBE ("Toby Fillpot").-The question as to Toby Fillpot, or Phillpot, and his connexion with Derby and Mortlake pottery, was threshed out in "N. & Q.," 3rd S. xii. 523; 4th S. i, 160, 253, 425, 491, 615; ii. 23, 90. At the last reference but one an important answer is elicited from our valued contributor MR. CHAPPELL. The only allusion to Toby Fillpot as yet found is in the famous Toby-jug song, commencing,"Dear Tom, this brown jug, that now foams with mild ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the vale), Was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old soul, As e'er drank a bottle or fathom'd a bowl," &c. The last line is, "And with part of fat Toby he form'd this brown jug." J. NICHOLSON ("The_Original”).-A copy of the Original, of which Mr. Thoms speaks, lent by the kindness of Mr. A. W. Dubourg, whose uncle was associated with Mr. Thoms in the task of editing, is before us. It is a quarto publication, the full title of which is, "The Original a Weekly Miscellany | of | Humour, Literature, and the Fine Arts. Of many colored wood and shifting hues.'-Shelley. To cheer, to pierce, to please, or to appal.'-Byron. | London | Published for the Proprietors, by G. Cowie, 312, Strand; and sold by all Booksellers. | 1832." A comic picture appears on MRS. R. H. BATE ("Dalnacardoch ").-It is simply, as described in Macgregor's Pocket Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, 1860), "a well-known_stage inn in Perthshire, on the great Highland road to Inverness, 83 miles from Edinburgh, 70 from Inverness, and 11 from Blair-Athole." We cannot trace any place of the character attributed by you to the subject of your inquiry under the same name. There are, of course, seats in the neighbourhood, but not of that name. The village itself is not even mentioned in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. MRS. POLLARD.-Phelps's History of Somersetshire can be seen at almost any of the established libraries, such as the London Library, &c. The original scheme embraced four volumes, of which two only were published. R. R., Stoke ("Book-plate").-The use of a book-plate with crest and motto renders the employer liable to the charge for armorial bearings. G. ELLIS ("Green-Room Twelfth Cake").-What is known as the Baddeley Cake is still symbolically eaten in Drury Lane green-room on Twelfth Night. Under the present management a handsome supper to a large number of guests has sometimes been substituted for Baddeley's modest bequest. S. MORE RICHARDS ("Pouring oil on troubled waters").-See 6th S. iii. 69, 252, 298; iv. 174; vi. 97, 377. The second of these references gives the amplest information. As a question to which there is no decisive answer it is continually presenting itself. X. X. ("Cockshut ").-Correspondents seeking further information on this subject are referred to 2nd S. vi. 345, 400, 423, 512; vii. 347, 405, 463, 484; xi. 16. SCOTTISH ("Charles I. and Ghost of Strafford ").The authority for the legend is to be found in Coritani Lachrymantes, quoted in Rastall or Dickenson's History of Southwell. See 6th S. vi, 111. INQUIRER NO. 41 ("Eternal fitness of things').—All that is known concerning this is that it is employed by Square, the philosopher, in Fielding's Tom Jones. See 6th S. viii. 79. S. C.-A Mad World, My Masters, is the title of a comedy by Thomas] M[iddleton], acted by the children of Paul's, 4to. 1608, 1640. R. I. ("Curious Epitaph ").-This has appeared in our columns. See 6th S. viii. 454. E. R. VIVYAN ("Popular Superstitions"). - Will appear. ("Cinderella's Slipper ").—The subject has been fully discussed in "N. & Q." See 5th S. xi. 188, 485, &c. C. W. STRETTON.-The MS. on the Manx language shall appear next week. C. M. I. 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