"_January._ Prima dies mensis, et septima truncat ut ensis. _February._ Quarta subit mortem, prosternit tertia fortem. _March._ Primus mandantem, dirumpit quarta bibentem. _April._ Denus et undenus, est mortis vulnere plenus. _May._ Tertius occidit, et septimus hora relidit. _June._ Denus pallescit, quindenus federa nescit. _July._ Terdecimus mactat, Julii denus labefactat. _August._ Prima necat fortem, perditque secunda choortem. _September._ Tertia Septembris, et denus fert mala membris. _October._ Tertia cum dena, clamat sit integra vena. _November._ Scorpius est quintus, et tertius est nece cinctus. _December._ Septimus exanguis, virosus denus ut anguis."
_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. vii. _passim_.).--Midlothian:
"Musselboro' was a boro', Whan Edinboro' was nane; An Musselboro' 'll be a boro', Whan Edinboro's gane."
"Hungry Hardwick, Greedy Toft, Hang-up Kingston, Caldecott[6] naught."
_Quotation Wanted_ (Vol. vi., p. 421.).--See Byron's _Dream_, stanza ii. v. 30.:
"She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts."
_Lamech_ (Vol. vii., p. 432.).--For "Lamech," see Mr. Browne's excellent _Ordo Sæclorum_, ch. vii. § 302., 1844--a book deserving to be much more widely known.
_Muggers_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--The names _muggers_ and _potters_, betokening dealers in mugs and pots, are, in the north of England, applied indiscriminately to hawkers of earthenware, whether of gipsy blood or not. Indeed, the majority are evidently not gipsies.
We have received from Messrs. Williams and Norgate copies of the first number of two new German periodicals, with which, when they know their nature, some of our readers may desire better acquaintance. Our antiquarian friends, for instance, may be glad to know, that the opening number of one of these, the _Anzeige für Kunde des Deutschen Vorzeit, Organ des Germanischen Museums_ (which is to appear monthly), contains, among other articles of antiquarian interest, notes on the earliest known MS. of the Nuremburg Chronicle, and on an early MS. of the Nibelungen; notice of an original Letter of Pirkheimer, relative to the wars of Maximilian against the Swiss; and also of a remarkable, and hitherto unknown, old copper-plate engraving on six sheets by an unknown artist, apparently of the school of Martin Schon, illustrative of that campaign; and an account of an early miscellaneous MS., in which is a List of Masons' Marks. The second is one which will interest all lovers of folk lore. It is edited by J. W. Wolf, and entitled _Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde_, and numbers among its contributors, W. Grimm, Nordnagel, Kuhn, and many other good men and true, who have devoted their talents to the study of popular antiquities. We hope shortly to find room for a specimen or two of the "Old World" stories and customs which they have here recorded.