Considering what was meant by Lady in the names of plants, we should refrain from supposing that Neottia spiralis was called the Lady-traces 66 sensu obsc.," even if those who are more skilled in such matters than I am can detect such a sense. 66 I cannot learn what a lady's traces are; but I suspect plaitings of her hair to be meant. "Upon the spiral sort," says Gerard," are placed certaine small white flowers, trace fashion," while other sorts grow, he says, "spike fashion," or not trace fashion." Whence I infer, that in his day trace conveyed the idea of spiral. A. N. Specimens of Foreign English (Vol. iii. passim.). I have copied the following from the label on a bottle of liqueur, manufactured at Marseilles by "L. Noilly fils et Cie." The English will be best understood by being placed in juxtaposition with the original French: Mysterious Night! when our first parents knew," &c. was written by Blanco White. See his Life (3 vols., Chapman, 1845), vol. iii. p. 48. J. K. R. W. Pistols (Vol. viii., p. 7.).- In Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, Works, Oxon. 1821, mention is made of a statute or proclamation by the Queen in the year 1575, which refers to that of 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6., alluded to by your correspondent J. F. M., and in which the words pistol and pistolet are introduced: "The Queen calling to mind how unseemly a thing it was, in so quiet and peaceable a realm, to have men so armed; . . . did charge and command all her subjects, of what estate or degree soever they were, that in no wise, in their journeying, going, or riding, they carried about them privily or openly any dag, or pistol, Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions (Vol. viii., p. 44.). If L., or any of your readers, will take the trouble to compare the passage quoted, and the one referred to by him, in the following translation of Smith, with Sir A. Alison's supposititious quotation* (Vol. vii., p. 594.), they will find that my inquiry is still unanswered. The passage quoted by L. in Greek is, according to Smith: "Prudent consideration, to be specious cowardice; modesty, the disguise of effeminacy; and being wise in everything, to be good for nothing." The passage not quoted, but referred to by L., is: "He who succeeded in a roguish scheme was wise; and he who suspected such practices in others was still a more able genius."— Vol. i. book iii. p. 281. 4to. London, 1753. In this "counterfeit presentment of two brothers, L. may discern a family likeness; but my inquiry was for the identical passage, "sword and poniard" included. If L. desires to find Greek authority for the general sentiment only, I would refer him to passages, equally to Sir A. Alison's purpose, in Thucydides, iii. 83., viii. 89.; Herodotus, iii. 81.; Plato's Republic, viii. 11.; and Aristotle's Politics, v. 6. 9. I beg to thank L. for his attempt, although T. J. BUCKTON. unsuccessful. Creole (Vol. vii., p 381.). It is curious to observe how differently this word is applied by different nations. The English apply it to white children born in the West Indies; the French, I believe, exclusively to the mixed races; and the Spanish and Portuguese to the blacks born in their colonies, never to whites. The latter, I think, is the true and original meaning, as its primary signification is a home-bred slave (from criar," to bring up, to nurse), as distinguished from an imported or purchased one. J. S. WARDEN. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. We have before us a little volume by Mr. Willich, the able Actuary of the University Life Assurance Society, entitled Popular Tables arranged in a new Form, giving Information at Sight for ascertaining, according to the Carlisle Table of Mortality, the Value of Lifehold, Leasehold, and Church Property, Renewal Fines, &c., the Public Funds, Annual Average Price and Interest on Consols from 1731 to 1851; also various interesting and useful Tables, equally adapted to the Office and the Library Table. Ample as is this title-page, it really gives but an imperfect notion of the varied contents of this useful library and writing-desk companion. For instance, Table VIII. of the Miscellaneous Tables gives the average price of Consols, with the average rate of interest, from 1731 to 1851; but this not only shows when Consols were highest and when lowest, but also what Administration was then in power, and the chief events of each year. 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