C On this account, that I may be able to console you, or aid

(juvare) you with advice or money.

M. I will tell you all.

C. But meanwhile lay down your rake; stop working.

M. Certainly not; let me alone; I do not want rest.

C. I will not let you alone; now speak.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"W. H. P." should not be impatient. If he really wants to acquire the language, he must master the principles of pronunciation. The lessons in Grammar proper commence with the article in Number 11. Veneroni's and Zotti's are old grammars, which were much used in their day. They are deficient in practical utility, grammatical tuition in foreign languages having made great progress since they were written. The lessons in the "Popular

C. What then?

M. You shall know.

Page 202.-ENGLISH-LATIN.

Cicerone es? non vero, sed Lentulus; num Cicero es? minime; vix credam patrem jam nullum esse; nullus est; ubi est? nusquam non est; ita ubi? cum Deo; quis es? Johannes sum; nonne Jacobus? non vero, Jacobus abiit domum; utrum Jacobus aut Johannes sis meâ non refert; sane venit pater; ne pater veniat metuo; veniet necne? venturus necne sit soror ignoro; utrum gaudeam necne, nihil tua refert; domum abis, aut alio? unde aut alio ? unde venit avis? inde; quo volat avis? eo; ubi es (art)? hic; ubi est frater illic; ubi est rex ibi regina.

Page 216.-LATIN-ENGLISH,

Cato whom when an old man I knew; neither the spears nor the very long swords which they use with both hands, were of service to the Sarmatians; I take pleasure in moderate feasts with men of my own age, very few of whom however remain; Agamemnon, when he had to devote to Diana the most beautiful product of his kingdom, immolated Iphigenia; examples, and those not ancient ones, are sought after; the enemy were cut to pieces in one battle, and that an easy one; the Gauls despised the legion not having its complement of men, on account of the small number of its soldiers; I knew Crassus as being, and that from his boyhood, given to the best studies; I alone saw thy friend; I did not con verse with him; we are not born for ourselves only; Hannibal was the first to go into battle, and when the conflict came, he was the last to leave it; the wolf prowls by night about the flocks; I first read and then copied that oration; you see me to-day for the last time; Sylla was constantly present at the works, in the main body of the army, and with the sentries; in no way did Sextus lay down his arms (retire from the army.)

Page 216.-ENGLISH-LATIN.

Religione deleta, in tenebris est mundus; mortua uxor tua tibi attulit magnum moestum; ad legendum Ciceronem venerunt discipuli; hoc legendo libro doctus fio; bibliis sacris legendis sapientes fiunt homines; ad mihi domum aedificandam fratrem conduxi tuum (or domum aedificandam locavi fratri tuo); nihil sine deo oriri mihi est exploratum (or exploratum habeo); Romam visurus eo vestes aliquas misi; te ridentem viderunt; libros legentes discipuLos vidit paedagogus; puer urbem intravit, senex reliquit.

Page 235.-LATIN-ENGLISH.

Jugurtha will be obedient to your commands; envy arose from opulence; Numa Pompilius was appointed king; the Tyrians incired whether Alexander was greater than Neptune; we saw we saw them burning with both cupidity and fear; he gave the man money; he accused the citizen of treason; we judge bodily pain by the mind; we do not feel mental disease in the body; his life is full of plots; Flaccus coming from Asia entered Macedonia; it is certain that the man who breathes, is alive, and that he who lives, breathes; the poet errs when he ascribes a good speech to a bad man; Zeno is of opinion that the natural law is divine; the human figure excels the form of all living beings; abundance of matter begets abundance of words; the inventions of necessity are older than those of pleasure; I seek from philosophers a remedy for grief; by concord small things grow, by discord the greatest waste away; friendship makes prosperity more shining and adversity more light; cruelty is very adverse to human nature, which we ought to follow; I will teach thee the other appointments of life.

Page 235.-ENGLISH-LATIN.

thorough scientific knowledge. 2. For those who only desire to know enough to be able to read and speak readily. The practical exercises in the grammar proper will not fail fully to satisfy the second class of readers as well, and will speak for themselves.

A really good Italian dictionary is a desideratum in this country. Baretti's and Petrong's are the best, but expensive. Graglia's Pocket Dictionary may perhaps serve the purposes of "W. H. P."

credit.

ΖΕΝΟ: Στρατιωτης and επιμελεσθαι are the correct forms. The conjectures The numbers of English miles appended to the scale of the map of Greece are ten times too with regard to the geography of Greece are also correct. great, owing to a mistake of the engraver. Your writing does you great UN ELEVE (Birmingham): San should be sans. Dodécalogue means Twelve Laws or Rules, and in every two lines of the Dodecalogue de l'Amitié, p. 76, you will find a new rule, making twelve in all. Gazons fleuris means flowery parterrcs, or green plots covered with flowers.-W. G. B. (Lincoln): See the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Allan Cunningham, price 1s. 6d. -ETA DELTA (Liverpool): Do with solid food as Solomon advises every one to do with honey, see Proverbs xxv. 16.-ESPERANCE (Dublin): If you send any contribution as an author to a Magazine, the Editor will surely publish it, if it be found well written (composed), and worthy of the subject of which it professes to treat. Every gentlemanly Editor would, of course, send you private notice of his approbation or disapprobation of the article. We only hope you sent him, and not keep you in unnecessary suspense. consult some accomplished literary friend on this point before you subject that your laudable ambition to be an author is well founded. You should yourself to the pain of a disappointment.

music. The last lesson on the common "notation" gives a fuller account MUSIC.-There remain only two articles to complete the course on vocal of that subject than is usual in elementary works, and supplies answers to most of our correspondents, whose queries arose from difficulties in connection with notation. Had space permitted, we should have been glad to deal fully with the many interesting letters we have received, chiefly from working men, on the subject of the Monochord and the structure of the seale, indicating a love for mechanical contrivances in connection with scientific study, greater than even we had anticipated. Some, however, have made the strange mistake of measuring their monochord by the "scale of fittythree degrees. The proportionate lengths of string had been given distinctly (see the lesson) in our previous column. It had also been stated that the number of vibrations to each note was in inverse proportion to the length of the strings. In other words, the higher the note the shorter the string, and the more numerous the vibrations by which it is produced. But it is plain that, while this length of string and number of vibrations can be actually measured or counted, the difference of pitch between one sound and another is not a thing that we can really measure or count. The scale of fifty-three degrees, or more correctly (see the article) of 474 differences, is an arithmetical abstraction, arising out of the proportionate lengths of string on the one hand, and the proportionate vibrations on the other, an abstraction very useful in giving a clear and true idea of what cannot be measured comparative shades of colour cannot be literally measured or numbered, in reality (the degrees of pitch), but still an abstraction. In the same way, but it might be very useful to represent these differences of shade by a scale of numbers, the truth of that scale being founded on the relative quantities of the pigments compounded, while in physical reality it has no existence, and is only a useful abstraction. The letter of Upifex (who says, he set to study our lessons "in earnest, obedient as a slave, and docile as a exactly with his own preconceived and superficial notions of music), we did little child," and immediately gets angry with us for not "squaring not notice at the time, thinking it insincere. It may have sprung, however, from a more innocent weakness. A Lover of Music can obtain all Mr. Curwen's works at Messrs. Ward and Co.'s, Paternoster Row, and from Mr. Robert Griffiths, Plaistow, Essex, he can obtain a list of all the teachers and numerous, and increasing in number. Crito should study the chapter on classes in the metropolis connected with our "method." These are very "Melody" in the Grammar of Vocal Music (2s. 6d. Ward and Co.), or "Hamilton's Catechism of Counterpoint Melody and Composition " (2s. Cocks and Co.) He should learn to adapt the accent of his music to that of his poetry. We have been greatly interested in the case of a lady, now sixty years of age, once not undistinguished on the stage, who has for many years maintained herself by street singing, and whose chief pleasure even now is the study of languages and science. She pursues these studies while singing mechanically before the mansions of the nobility. She was some numbers behind in her Popular Educator." We know this to be a true case. Will any one help her? To a number of correspondents we have sent private replies, in order to save space and repetition here. Not a few ask us questions which they should rather put to some musical instrument maker or music seller, whose business and pleasure it would be to reply. Mr. Curwen will welcome correspondence from the students of his lessons in the P. E. addressed to him at Plaistow, Essex, He will reply to them as fully as time and oppor tunity may permit.

ERRATA.

and that the distance of such points is as nothing, when compared with.

p. 47, col. 1, line 11, after cannot insert but.

p. 81, col. 2, line 25, for slower read faster.

p. 81, col. 2, line 8 from bottom, for 2g read g.

p. 82, col. 2, art 4, also for 2g read g.

Freestone of Merstham.

Marly stone, with layers of chert.

Dark-blue clay, or marl, with small concretions of stone, and many fossils.

Sands with green particles, and sandstones with beds of

chert.

Sands white, yellowish, and ferruginous or irony, with concretions of limestone.

A limestone, called the Kentish rag.

§ II. THE WEALDEN.

Clays, with occasional bands of limestone.

Sands, with calciferous or limy grits and clays.

Limestones, and limy flags or slates, and beds of marl.

§ III. THE OOLITE.

bury.

Merstham, in Surrey; Kent.
South of the Isle of Wight.

Folkstone; Maidstone; Isle of Wight;
Devizes.

Black Down, Devon, &c.

Atherfield, Isle of Wight.
Maidstone, in Kent.

Wealds of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.
Hastings, in Sussex, and Cuckfield, in
Kent; Tilgate Forest.
Isle of Purbeck,

of chert.

Portland sands,

Kimmeridge clay, a blue shaly clay, with nodules of septaria or cement stone.

Coral rag, imperfect limestone, or a limy freestone, abounding with shells and' fossil corals. Calcareous grit, a silicious and shelly sandstone. Oxford clay, a blue and yellow clay, with Melbury marble, turtle stone, or septaria.

Kelloway rock, a coarse and sandy limestone, with many fossils.

Cornbrash, an imperfect limestone, sometimes blue and sandy.

Forest marble, a coarse, slaty limestone, full of shells. Bradford clay, a tenacious, brown clay, sometimes shaly, full of shells and corals.

Great oolite, a yellow freestone, with fragments of shells. The Bath stone.

Stonesfield slate, a kind of slate partly limy, partly flinty, passing sometimes into sand with shale. Fuller's earth, a brown clay.

Inferior oolite, a coarse, limy freestone, and yellow sands and marl.

Kimmeridge, in Wiltshire; Shotover-hill,
near Oxford; Isle of Purbeck,
Colne, in Wiltshire; Kirbey Moor, in
Yorkshire.

Abingdon; Weymouth.
Oxford; Bedford; Vale of Blackmoor, in
Dorsetshire.

Kelloway near Chippenham, Wiltshire,
and Scarborough.
Malmsbury; Trowbridge.

Hinton, near Bath; Frome.
Bradford, Wilts,; Cirencester.

Bath; Farley Downs; Combe Downs;
and Bathford hill.
Stonesfield, near Woodstock; Stamford;
Stevenhampton; Cleaveland Hills.
Sides of the hills round Bath.
Bath; Mendip Hills; Dundry Down;
Cotswold Hills; Yeovil.

Lyme Regis; Whitby; Vale of Bath.

Axmouth, Dorset.

N.B.-Not the Primitive Rocks.

§ 1. THE PERMIAN.