_Antony Alsop._--Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me who
Antony Alsop was? A thin Quarto volume of Latin Odes was published in
1753, with the following title: "Antonii Alsopi Ædis Christi olim Alumni
Ordarum Libri Duo," Londoni, 1753. They are extremely elegant, and
deserving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. I have also
another volume, "Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity
College, Oxford," Quarto London, 1738. In this latter volume, with but
two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find one or
two of Alsop's odes in it. Could any of your readers tell me if both
volumes are by the same author? Was Alsop at Trinity College and
subsequently a student of Christ Church?

R.H.


_Derivations of "Calamity," and "Zero;" and meaning of
"Prutenicæ"._--Will some of your correspondents give the derivations of
Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenicæ, used by
Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical work on the _Motions of the
Heavenly Bodies_?

F.S. MARTIN.


_Jew's-Harp._--What is the origin of the term Jew's-Harp, applied to a
well-known musical toy?

MELANION.