columns:--

Whitaker having observed--

"One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures
are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the
testimony of the church."--(Parker Soc. transl., p. 276.)

Professor Fitzgerald appends the following "note:"--

"Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully,
attributed this to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in
Primate Marsh's library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, he corrects
himself thus: 'Non est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus
in Præfat. Controvers. I. Quæst. S. p. 314.' If a new edition of
those Exercitations be ever printed, let not these MSS. of that
great man, which, with many other valuable records, we owe to
the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence of Marsh, be
forgotten."

T.
Bath

* * * * *

ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED "LONG."

Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum,
Dic mihi, te quæso, num _Breve_ quicquid habes?