The worshipful Company of Ironmongers have _relegated their_ statue from
their hall to a lower position: but it still disgraces the Guildhall,
and will continue to do so, as long as any factious demagogue is
permitted to have a place among its members.

L.S.


_The Frozen Horn._--Perhaps it is not generally known that the writer of
_Munchausen's Travels_ borrowed this amusing incident from Heylin's
{263} _Mikrokosmos_. In the section treating of Muscovy, he says:--

"This excesse of cold in the ayre, gave occasion to _Castilian_,
in his _Aulicus_, wittily and not incongruously to faine that if
two men being smewhat distant, talke together in the winter,
their words will be so frozen that they cannot be heard: but if
the parties in the spring returne to the same place, their words
will melt in the same order that they were frozen and _spoken_,
and be plainly understood."

J.S.

Salisbury.


_Inscription from Roma Subterranea._--If you deem the translation of
this inscription, quoted in Lord Lindsay's fanciful but admirable
_Sketches of the History of Christian Art_, worth a place among your
Notes, it is very heartily at your service.