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MINOR QUERIES.

_Cupid Crying._--I shall be obliged if you, or any of your
correspondents, can tell me who was the author of the epigram, or
inscription, of which I subjoin the English translation. I am sure I
have seen the Latin, but I do not know whose it was or where to find it;
I think it belongs to one of the Italian writers of the fifteenth or
sixteenth century:--

"CUPID CRYING.

"Why is Cupid crying so?--
Because his jealous mother beat him.--
What for?--For giving up his bow
To Coelia, who contrived to cheat him.

"The child! I could not have believed
He'd give his weapons to another.--
He would not; but he was deceived:
She smiled; he thought it was his mother."

RUFUS.

_Was not Sir George Jackson "Junius?"_--Among the names which have been
put forward as claimants to be "Junius," I beg to propose the name of
SIR GEORGE JACKSON, who was, I believe, about that time Secretary to the
Admiralty. I shall be glad to know what obstacles are opposed to this
theory, as I think I have some presumptive evidence (I do not call it