J.R. Fox.


_St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh._--In Doctor Oliver's _History of
the Jesuits_, it is stated that William St. Leger, an Irish member of
that Society, wrote the _Life of Thomas Walsh, Archbishop of Cashel_, in
Ireland, published in 4to. at Antwerp in 1655. Can any of your numerous
readers inform me if a copy of this work is to be found in the British
Museum, or any other public library, and something of its contents?

J.W.H. {104}


_Query put to a Pope._--

"Sancte Pater! scire vellem
Si Papatus mutat pellem?"

I have been told that these lines were addressed to one of the popes,
whose life, before his elevation to the see of St. Peter, had been
passed in excesses but little suited to the clerical profession.

They were addressed to him _orally_, by one of his former associates,
who met and stopped him while on his way to or from some high festival
of the Church, and who plucked aside, as he spoke, the gorgeous robes in
which his quondam fellow-reveller was dressed.

The reply of the pope was prompt, and, like the question, in a rhyming
Latin couplet. I wish, if possible, to discover, the name of the
pope;--the terms of his reply;--the name of the bold man who "_put him