his nightingale--that it is '_vox et præterea nihil_.'"

The origin of the proverb is still a desideratum.

Nathan.


_Vox et præterea nihil_ (No. 16. p 247.).--In a work entitled
_Proverbiorum et Sententiarum Persicarum Centuria_, a Levino Warnero,
published at Amsterdam, 1644, the XCVII. proverb, which is given in
the Persian character, is thus rendered in Latin,--

"Tympanum magnum edit clangorem, sed intus vacuum est."

And the note upon it is as follows:--

"Dicitur de iis, qui pleno ore vanas suas laudes ebuccinant.
Eleganter Lacon quidam de luscinia dixit,--

[Greek: Ph_ona tu tis essi kai ouden allo,]
Vox tu quidem es et aliud nihil."

This must be the phrase quoted by Burton.

HERMES.


_Supposed Etymology of Havior_ (No. 15. p. 230., and No. 17. p.
269.).--The following etymology of "heaviers" will probably be
considered as not satisfactory, but this extract will show that