JAMES LOGAN

Tureen (No. 16. p. 246.; No. 19. p. 307.).—­I have seen old-fashioned silver tureens which turned on a pivot attached to the handles, and always concluded that it was to this form that Goldsmith alluded in the line quoted by “G.W.”

SELEUCUS.

Hudibrastic Couplet (No. 14. p. 211.).—­These lines do not occur in the reprint of the Musarum Deliciae (Lond. 1817, 8vo. 2 vols.).  Lowndes (Bibliogr.  Manual) states that they are to be found in the 2nd ed. of the work (London, 1656. 12mo.).

F.C.B.

Topography of Foreign Printing Presses (No. 18. p. 277.)—­About twelve years ago, Valpy published a vol. of Supplements to Lempriere’s Dictionary, by E.H.  Barker.  One of these contained a complete list of all the foreign towns in which books had been printed, with the Latin names given to them in alphabetical order.

W. and N.

Your correspondent “P.H.F.” will find in Cotton’s Typographical Gazetteer (8vo.  Clarendon Press, 1831), every information he will ordinarily require.

J.M.S.

Islington, March 7. 1850

Dr. Hugh Todd’s MSS. (No. 18. p. 282.).—­The only MS. in the library of University College, Oxford, is that mentioned by “F.M.”; and it is described in the Catalogue, compiled by the Rev. H.O.  Coxe, of the MSS. belonging to the College, p. 47.  No. clxx.  There is a note stating it was “ex dono Hugonis Todd, Socii, A.D. 1690.”

C.I.R.

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MISCELLANIES.

Burnet.—­In addition to the opinions expressed in favour of or opposed to Burnet’s “History,” (No. 3. p. 40., and No. 8. p. 120.), I may also refer to Dr. King’s Anecdotes; he says,

    “I knew Burnet; he was a furious party-man, and easily imposed
    on by any lying spirit of his own faction; but he was a better
    pastor than any man who is now seated on the Bishop’s bench.”

Dryden’s chastisement of Burnet—­“the noble Buzzard”—­in his Hind and Panther must be familiar to your readers.  It was given as “adequate retaliation” for the Bishop’s censure of the immorality of Dryden’s plays.  Applied to Burnet’s Sketches of Characters, Dryden says: 

  “His praise of foes is venomously nice,
  So touch’d, it turns a virtue to a vice.”

Scott’s note on this passage well merits perusal.

J.H.M.

Bath.

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PERVENIRI AD SUMMUM NISI EX PRINCIPIIS NON POTEST.

(FROM THE LATIN OF VINCENT BOURNE.)