to those of Ulysses, as he seems to have done in the following verses,
which accompany the portrait first above mentioned:

"Desine fortunam miseris inimicaque fata
Objicere, et casus velle putare deos.
Jactatur pius Æneas, jactatur Ulysses,
Per mare, per terras, hic bonus, ille pius.
Crede mihi non sunt meritis sua præmia, casu
Volvimur, haud malus est, cui mala proveniunt.
Sis miser, et nulli miserabilis, omnia quisquis
A diis pro merito cuique venire putas."

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I should like to see the German verses your correspondent mentions, if
he will be good enough to favour me, through your intervention, with
an inspection of the volume containing them.

S.W.S.

March 12. 1850.

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CHANGE OF NAME.

"B." inquires (No. 16. p. 246.) what is the use of the royal license
for the change of a surname? He is referred to Mr. Markland's
paper "On the Antiquity and Introduction of Surnames into England"
(_Archæologia_, xviii. p. 111.). Mr. Markland says,--