"Although, no doubt, her first of love affairs Is that to which her heart is wholly granted; Yet there are some, they say, who have had _none_, But those who have ne'er end with only _one_, we have the following editorial comment:--"These two lines are a versification of a saying of Montaigne." (!!!) The saying is _not_ by Montaigne, but by La Rochefoucauld:-- "On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie; mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu qu'une."--_Max._ 73. Byron borrows the same idea again:-- "Writing grows a habit, like a woman's gallantry. There are women who have had no intrigue, but few who have had but one only; so there are millions of men who have never written a book, but few who have written only one."--_Observations upon an Article in Blackwood's Magazine_; _Byron's Works_, vol. xv. p. 87, Moore's Edition, 17 vols duod. London, 1833. Both the silence of the author, and the blunder of his editor, seem to me to prove that _Les Maximes_ are not as _generally_ known and studied as they deserve to be. MELANION. * * * * * ST. ANTHOLIN'S. Your correspondent MR. RIMBAULT (No. 12.) has made rather a grave charge against my predecessors in office as churchwardens and overseers of this parish; and although, I regret to say, such accusations of unjust stewardship and dereliction of duty are frequently and with justice imputed to some parish officers, yet I am happy to be able, in this instance, to remove the stigma which would otherwise attach to those of St. Antholin. The churchwardens' accounts are in good preservation, and present (in an unbroken series) the parish expenditure for nearly three centuries. Mr. Rimbault has doubtless been misled by some error in the description of the MSS. in Mr. Thorpe's catalogue (as advertised by him for sale), which were probably merely extracts from the original records. The first volume commences with the year 1574, and finishes in 1708; the accounts are all written at the time of their respective dates, and regularly signed by the auditors then and there present as correct. I have made numerous extracts from these interesting documents, and _notes_ thereon, which I shall at some future time be happy to lay before your readers, if you should consider them of sufficient importance. As a voucher for what I have stated with regard to their existence, and to give some idea of their general character, I have selected (at random) a few items from the year 1580-1:-- "The Accompte of Henrie Jaye, Churchwarden of the Parishe of St. Antholyne, from the feaste of the Anunciacon of our Ladye in Anno 1580 unto the same feaste followinge in Anno 1581." Among the "receaittes" we have-- "R'd of Mr. Thorowgoode for an olde font stone, by the consente of a vestrie v's iiij'd