aspirate is _sounded_ or is _quiescent_, and has no reference to the
spelling of the word.

PRISCIAN.


_The Lucky have whole Days._--I, like your correspondent "P.S." (No.
15., p. 231.), am anxious to ascertain the authorship of the lines to
which he refers.

They stand in my Common-place Book as follows, which I consider to be
a more correct version than that given by "P.S.":--

"Fate's dark recesses we can never find,
But Fortune, at some hours, to all is kind:
The lucky have whole days, which still they choose;
The unlucky have but hours, and those they lose."

H.H.


_Line quoted by De Quincey._--"S.P.S." inquires who is the author of
the following line, quoted by De Quincey in the _Confessions of an
English Opium Eater_:--

"Battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars."


_Bishop Jewel's Papers._--It is generally understood that the papers
left by Bishop Jewel were bequeathed to his friend Dr. Garbrand, who