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Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 by Various
page 28 of 68 (41%)
"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu."

R.V.


_Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi._--If "S.W. SINGER" can give information
as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters _Ave Trici_ and
_Gheeze Ysenoudi_, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state themselves (or
are assumed) to have belonged, he will much oblige, by doing so,

H.L.B.


_A Latin Verse._--Everybody has seen the following quotation--

"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,"

and everybody thinks he knows from whence it is taken. Which of your
readers can verify it?

E.V.


_Table-Book._--Can any of your readers refer me to a museum containing a
specimen of an ancient _table-book_? Douce had one, which was in Mr.
Rodd's catalogue, but now sold; and Hone also possessed one. These two,
and another in the hands of a friend of mine, are the only specimens I
have heard of; but they are not quite as old or as genuine as one could
wish.

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