our early correspondent P.T.W.

[1] Copied by permission of the proprietors and publishers, Messrs.
Moon, Boys, and Graves.

[2] The name of Antwerp, says an ingenious correspondent, at p. 287,
vol. xiv. of _The Mirror_, is derived from _Hand-werpen_, or
_Hand-thrown_: so called from a legend, which informs us that on
the site of the present city once stood the castle of a giant,
who was accustomed to amuse himself by cutting off and casting
into the river the right hands of the unfortunate wights that
fell into his power; but that being at last conquered himself,
his own immense hand was disposed off, with poetical justice, in
the same way. We quote this passage in a note, as it is only
worthy of place _beneath_ facts of sober history.

[3] See Antwerp described from a _Tour in South Holland_ in the
_Family Library_, at p. 109. vol. xviii of _The Mirror_.

[4] See Antwerp Cathedral, _Mirror_, vol. xiv, p. 286.


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A MALTESE LEGEND.


Hark, in the bower of yonder tower,
What maiden so sweetly sings,