representing groups of kings and saints. These 'subtleties,' however, were not to be compared to those at the coronation banquet of Katherine of France, queen of Henry V. Her banquet also was of three courses, 'and ye shall understand that this feest was all of fysshe,' and a most astonishing variety of fish there was. Besides all the common fish--salmon, soles, turbot, etc.--there were lampreys, in comparison with which Henry III. once declared that all other fish were insipid, 'sturgeon with welkes,' a combination of the royal and the plebeian, fried 'menues,' or minnows, the mediæval whitebait, conger, now much neglected, and 'porpies rostyd,' besides a score of other kinds, including certain mysterious 'dedellys in burneux.' The sweets included 'Gely coloured with columbyne floures'; 'flampeyn--a kind of raised pie--flourished with a scochon royall, therein three crownes of golde plantyd with floure delyce and floures of camemyll wrought of confeccyons'; 'A whyte leche flourysshed with hawthorne levys and redde hawys;' and 'A march payne garnysshed with dyverse fygures of aungellys, amonge the whiche was set an ymage of Seynt Katheryne holdynge this rason, _Il est escrit, pur voir et dit, per mariage pur cest guerre ne dure_.' Of the 'sotylties' the first showed a pelican and its young, and an image of St. Katherine (of Alexandria) holding a book in one hand and an inscribed scroll in the other; the second showed a panther, the Queen's badge, and St. Katherine with her more usual emblem, the wheel. The third and most elaborate was 'a tigre lokyng in a mirrour and a man sittyng on horse backe, clene armyd, holdyng in his armys a tiger whelpe, with this reason (_i.e._ motto), _Par force sanz reson ie ay pryse ceste beste_, and with his one hande makynge a countenaunce of throwynge of mirrours at the great tigre, the whiche helde this reason, _Gile de mirrour ma fete distour_.' The legend of the Tiger and the Mirror has been very fully worked out in connection with the arms of the Kentish family of Sybill by Mr. G. C. Druce, a great authority on unnatural history, but he does not appear to have known this instance of its occurrence. An early bestiary informs us that 'there is a beast which is called Tiger; it is a kind of serpent' (this suggests the zoological classification of _Punch's_ railway porter--'Cats is dogs and rabbits is dogs, but a tortoise is a hinsect'). 'This beast is of a nature so courageous and fierce that no living man dares to approach it. When the beast has young the hunters ... watch until they see the tiger go off and leave its den and its young; they then seize the cubs and place mirrors in the path just where they leave. The character of the tiger is such that however angry it may be it is unable to look in the mirror without its gaze becoming fixed.' (Surely this is more suggestive of Eve than of the serpent?) 'It believes then that it is its cub that it sees in