_Construe and translate_.--In my school-days, verbal rendering from
Latin or Greek into English was _construing_; the same on paper was
_translating_. Whence this difference of phrase?

M.


_Men but Children of a larger growth_.--Can you give one the author of
the following line?

"Men are but children of a larger growth."

R.G.


_Clerical Costume_.--In the Diary of the Rev. Giles Moore, rector of
Hosted Keynes, in Sussex, published in the first volume of the Sussex
Archæological Collections, there is the following account of his
dress:--

"I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black cloth at
16s. the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet serge for a
waistcoat, 11s. 1d., and 1/4 of an ounce of scarlet silke,
1s."

and this appears to have been his regular dress. Will any of your
correspondents inform me whether this scarlet serge waistcoat was
commonly worn by the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671?