"Cain, in disgrace with heaven, retired to Nod, A place, undoubtedly, as far from God As Cain could wish; which makes some think he went As far as Scotland, ere he pitch'd his tent; And there a city built of ancient fame, Which he, from Eden, Edinburgh did name." _Reliquiæ Galeanæ_, 67* Charles Mathews, in a letter directed to his son at Mold N. W., dated 4th November [1825], says: "Lord Deerhurst, who franked this letter, laughed at the idea of your being condemned to be at Mold, and told me an impromptu of Sheridan's, upon being compelled to spend a day or two there: "'Were I to curse the man I hate From youth till I grow old, Oh might he be condemn'd by fate To waste his days in Mold!'" _Memoirs of Charles Mathews_, v. 504. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. _The Silent Woman_ (Vol. v., p. 468.).--A very similar sign to this is one called "The Honest Lawyer," who is represented in exactly the same position as "The Silent Woman." The interpretation seems tolerably obvious in both cases, such a state being one in which the lady could not be otherwise than silent, nor the gentleman than honest. S. L. P. Oxford and Cambridge Club. _Serpent with a human Head_ (Vol. iv., pp. 191. 331.).--Perhaps the most ancient representations of this figure are to be found in those papyri of the ancient Egyptians, called the Ritual, or prayers of the dead, in which are depicted the progress or peregrination of the soul through the regions of the nether world, or Hades, to a future state of existence. Fac-similes of the Ritual have been published in Rosellini's _Monumenti dell' Egitto_, Dr. Lepsius's _Todten-Buch_, the plates of Lord Belmore's _Collection of Hieroglyphic Monuments_, and in the great French work entitled _Description de l'Egypte_. A similar form occurs also in several of the woodcuts inserted in the _prose_ version, (printed at Paris by Antoine Verard in 1499) of Guillaume de Guileville's poem entitled _Le Pélerinaige de l'Ame_, a monastic legend of the fourteenth century, evidently founded on the old Egyptian belief. At the end of the pilgrimage represented in the Egyptian papyri, the soul is conducted by her guardian angel into the great Hall of Judgment, where the deeds done in the body are placed in the balance in the presence of Osiris, the judge of the assize, who passes sentence. A representation of the same scene became a favourite decoration in mediæval Christian churches, of which many vestiges have been discovered of late years in this country; with this difference, that in these fresco-paintings St. Michael was substituted, as judge of the tribunal, for Osiris. In the woodcuts above mentioned, published by Verard, _the woman-headed serpent_ pursues the soul, like an accusing spirit, into the Hall of Judgment, seats herself even in one of the scales of the balance to counterpoise the good