The acorns are dealt out to those who may wish them at a trifling sum, and the money devoted towards the building of a church in the neighbouring locality. It is to be hoped that no innovation or local improvement will ever necessitate its removal. H. M. BEALBY. North Brixton. "_God and the world_" (Vol. vii., p. 134.).--Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, was the author of the lines quoted by W. H., but he has not given them correctly. They may be found in the LXVI. {298} and LXVII. stanzas of his _Treatie of Warres_, and are as follows: LXVI. "God and the world they worship still together, Draw not their lawes to him, but his to theirs, Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither, Amid their own desires still raising fears: Unwise, as all distracted powers be, Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie. LXVII. "Too good for great things, and too great for good, Their princes serve their priest, yet that priest is Growne king, even by the arts of flesh and blood," &c. _Workes_, p. 82.: London, 1633, 8vo. As for the last line of the quotation: "While still 'I dare not' waits upon 'I would,'" it smacks very strongly of _Macbeth_ (Act I. Sc. 7.), and "the poor cat i'th adage:" "Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas." RT. Warmington. _Dreng_ (Vol. vii., p. 39.).--_Dreng_ is still the Danish term for a servant or a boy: their present station in society could perhaps be only found by a correspondence with Copenhagen; and would then possibly give as little elucidation of their former social position as an explanation of our modern villain would throw any light upon the villani of _Domesday Book_. WILLIAM BELL. 17. Gower Place. _Meals_ (Vol. vii., p. 208.).--In Celtic, the word _Meall_ means any rising ground of a round form, such as a low hillock; and the name of _Mealls_ may have been given to sand-banks from having a resemblance to small hills at low water. FRAS. CROSSLEY. Along the sea-margin of the tongue of land between the rivers Mersey and Dee, the sand has been thrown up in domes. Two little hamlets built among those sand-hills are called North and South Meols. J. M. N. Liverpool. _Richardson or Murphy_ (Vol. vii., p. 107.).--I possess a copy of _Literary Relics of the late Joseph Richardson, Esq., formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, &c._, 4to.: London, 1807. Prefixed, is a line engraving by W. J. Newton, from a painting by M. A. Shee, Esq., R.A. This is a subscriber's copy, and belonged as such to one of my nearest relatives. The inscription at the bottom of the plate is the same as that mentioned by your correspondent; and I cannot but think the portrait is really that of J. Richardson. The book was published by Ridgway, No. 170. Piccadilly. C. I. R. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. MEMOIRS OF THE ROSE, by MR. JOHN HOLLAND. 1 Vol. 12mo. London, 1824.