To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains unsupplied.
Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for repeating the
inquiry.

G.A.C.


Ancient motto.

Many years since I read that some pope or emperor caused the following,
or a motto very similar to it, to be engraven in the centre of his
table:--

"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam
accumbere indignus est."

It being a maxim which all should observe in the daily intercourse of
life, and in the propriety of which all must concur, I send this to
"NOTES AND QUERIES" (the long wished-for medium), in the hopes that some
kind "note-maker" can inform me from whence this motto is taken, and to
whom ascribed.

J.E.M.


Works of King Alfred.

Sir,--If any of your readers can inform me of MSS. of the Works of Kings
Alfred the Great, besides those which are found in the larger public
collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not only on the Alfred