_Shunamitis Poema._--Who was the author of a curious small 8vo. volume of
179 pages of Latin and English poems, commencing with "Shunamitis Poema
Stephani Duck Latine redditum?"

The last verse of some commendatory verses prefixed point out the author as
the son of some well-known character:

"And sure that is the most distinguish'd fame,
Which rises from your own, not father's name.
London, 21 April, 1738."

My copy has no title-page: a transcript of it would oblige.

E.D.

_Lachrymatories._--In many ancient places of sepulture we find long narrow
phials which are called lachrymatories, and are supposed to have been
receptacles for tears: can you inform me on what authority this supposition
rests?

J.H.C.

_Egg-cups used by the Romans._--That the Romans used egg-cups, and of a
shape very similar to our own, the ruins at Pompeii and other places afford
ocular demonstration. Can you tell me by what name they called them?

J.H.C.

_Sir Oliver Chamberlaine._--In Miss Lefanu's _Memoirs of Mrs. Frances