In selecting titles of books there is room for improvement. Thus, a _Quarterly Journal_ is not uncommon; the words strictly are suggestive of a _Quarterly Daily_ publication. I remember, some years since, observing a notice that a certain obscure society proposed to celebrate its _triennial anniversary_. In one of the theological newspapers a clergyman seeking a curacy states as an exposition of his theological position, “Views Prayer-book.” I should hope that this would not be a specimen of the ordinary literary style of the applicant. The advertisements in the same periodical exhibit occasionally a very unpleasant blending of religious and secular elements. Take two examples—“Needle-woman wanted. She must be a communicant, have a long character, and be a good dressmaker and milliner.” “Pretty furnished cottage to let, with good garden, etc. Rent moderate. Church work valued. Weekly celebrations. Near rail. Good fishing.” A few words may be given to same popular misquotations. “The last infirmity of noble minds” is perpetually occurring. Milton wrote _mind_ not _minds_. It may be said that he means _minds_; but the only evidence seems to be that it is difficult to affix any other sense to _mind_ than making it equivalent to _minds_: this scarcely convinces me, though I admit the difficulty. “He that runs may read” is often supposed to be a quotation from the Bible: the words really are “he may run that readeth,” and it is not certain that the sense conveyed by the popular misquotation is correct. A proverb which correctly runs thus: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” is often quoted in the far less expressive form, “Hell is paved with good intentions.” “Knowledge is power” is frequently attributed to Bacon, in spite of Lord Lytton’s challenge that the words cannot be found in Bacon’s writings. “The style is the man” is frequently attributed to Buffon, although it has been pointed out that Buffon said something very different; namely, that “the style is of the man,” that is, “the style proceeds from the man.” It is some satisfaction to find that Frenchmen themselves do not leave us the monopoly of this error; it will be found in Arago; see his _Works_, vol. iii. p. 560. A common proverb frequently quoted is, “The exception proves the rule;” and it seems universally assumed that _proves_ here means _establishes_ or _demonstrates_. It is perhaps more likely that _proves_ here means _tests_ or _tries_, as in the injunction, “Prove all things.” [The proverb in full runs: _Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis_.] The words _nihil tetigit quod non ornavit_ are perpetually offered as a supposed quotation from Dr. Johnson’s epitaph on Goldsmith. Johnson wrote— “Qui nullum fere scribendi genus Non tetigit, Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.” It has been said that there is a doubt as to the propriety of the word _tetigit_, and that _contigit_ would have been better.