"It is a fact, that when _editorial_ articles are sent to the printer, written directions are generally sent with them denoting what type is to be used: thus, _brevier leads_, or _bourgeois leads_, signifying that the articles are to be set in brevier or bourgeois type with _lead_ strips between the lines, to keep them further asunder. It is also a fact, that such articles are denominated in the printing-office 'leaded articles'--hence, leaders." I submit if this does not justify my Note. I grant, however, many of those articles are entitled also to be called _leaden_, as C. will have it. I do not think, however, that in tracing recent words, we should not give possible as well as certain origins. Many words, if not a double, have at least several putative origins. Let me subscribe myself--_seu male seu bene_-- NOTA. P. S.--I would like to suggest that this origin of the term "leading article" is the most favourable to the modesty of any single writer for the Press, who should hardly pretend to _lead_ public opinion. * * * * * LINES ON TIPPERARY. (Vol. vi., p. 578.) These lines were said to have been addressed to a Dr. Fitzgerald, on reading the following couplet in his apostrophe to his native village:-- "And thou! dear Village, loveliest of the clime, Fain would I name thee, but I scant in rhyme." I subjoin a tolerably complete copy of this "rime doggrele:" "A Bard there was in sad quandary, To find a rhyme for Tipperary. Long labour'd he through January, Yet found no rhyme for Tipperary; Toil'd every day in February, But toil'd in vain for Tipperary; Search'd Hebrew text and commentary, But search'd in vain for Tipperary; Bored all his friends at Inverary, To find a rhyme for Tipperary; Implored the aid of 'Paddy Cary,' Yet still no rhyme for Tipperary; He next besought his mother Mary, To tell him rhyme for Tipperary; But she, good woman, was no fairy, Nor witch--though born in Tipperary;-- Knew everything about her dairy, But not the rhyme for Tipperary; {44} The stubborn muse he could not vary, For still the lines would run contrary, Whene'er he thought on Tipperary; And though of time he was not chary, 'Twas thrown away on Tipperary; Till of his wild-goose chase most weary, He vow'd to leave out Tipperary. . . . . . .