_Genoveva._--Can any of your readers inform me what history or legend is illustrated by a fine engraving in line, by Felsing after Steinbrück (size 13 × 11 inches), which has no other clue to its subject than the word _Genoveva_, in the lower border. It represents a beautiful maiden, with a sleeping child in her lap, at the foot of a beech-tree in {134} a forest, and a hind or fawn in the background approaching from a cavern. It was published some years ago at Darmstadt, and is not common: but beyond a guess that it is meant for St. Genevieve, the printsellers can tell me nothing about it; and I do not find in _her_ history, as given by Alban Butler, any such incident. SILURIAN. _Quotation._--In the Miscellaneous Writings of the celebrated Franklin (Chambers's People's Edition) I find the following anecdote, in an article on "The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams." Franklin says: "It is recorded of Methusalem, who, being the longest liver, may be supposed to have best preserved his health, that he slept always in the open air; for when he had lived five hundred years, an angel said to him, 'Arise, Methusalem, and build thee an house; for thou shalt live yet five hundred years longer.' But Methusalem answered and said, 'If I am to live but five hundred years longer, it is not worth while to build me an house: I will sleep in the open air as I have been used to do.'" From what source did Franklin derive this information? CHRISTOPHOROS. "_God and the World._"--I shall be obliged by being informed from what poet are the following lines: "God and the world we worship both together, Draw not our laws to Him, but His to ours; Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither, Th' imperfect will brings forth but barren flowers; Unwise as all distracted interests be, Strangers to God, fools in humanity; Too good for great things, and too great for good, While still 'I dare not' waits upon 'I would.'" W. H. "_Solid Men of Boston._"--Where are the verses to be found of which the following were part? I have an indistinct recollection that they were quoted in parliament during the American revolution: "Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no strong potations; Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown, Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London. Bow, wow, wow. "Sit down neighbours all, and I'll tell you a merry story, About a disappointed Whig that wish'd to be a Tory, I had it piping hot from Ebenezer Barber, Who sail'd from Old England, and lies in Boston harbour. Bow, wow, wow." UNEDA.