_York Buildings Company._--This company existed about the middle of the
last century. I shall be glad to be informed where the papers connected
with it are to be met with, and may be referred to.

WDN.


_Saying ascribed to Montaigne._--The saying, "I have here only made a
nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the
thread that ties them," is usually ascribed to Montaigne. In what part
of his works are these words to be found? I heard doubts expressed of
their genuineness some years ago by a reader of the _Essays_; and my own
search for them has also proved hitherto unsuccessful.

C. FORBES. {279}


"_Modum promissionis_."--Will any of your readers help to interpret the
following expression in a mediæval author:--

"(Ut vulgò loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit?"

I have reason to think that _modum promissionis_ means "a provisional
arrangement:" but by whom, and in what common parlance, was this
expression used?

C.W.B.