I may add, in reply to MR. KING, that "the light thrown on the subject, through M. de Bréquigny's labours," has been noticed in the _Biographie Universelle_, sub voce _Saint-Pierre (Eustache de)_; and it was the remarks in that work that first drew my attention to it. The circumstances disclosed by Bréquigny are also commented upon by Lévesque in his _La France sous les Valois_. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. * * * * * PASSAGE IN COLERIDGE. De Quincy, in his "Suspiria de Profundis," Blackwood's _Magazine_, June, 1845, p. 748., speaking of the spectre of the Brocken, and of the conditions under which that striking phenomenon is manifested, observes that "Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799 with a party of English students from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom; afterwards in England (and under the same three conditions) he saw a much rarer phenomenon, which he described in the following eight lines. I give them from a corrected copy. The apostrophe in the beginning must be understood as addressed to an ideal conception: "'And art thou nothing? Such thou art as when The woodman winding westward up the glen At wintry dawn, when o'er the sheep-track's maze The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze, Sees full before him, gliding without tread, An image with a glory round its head: This shade he worships for its golden hues, And makes (not knowing) that which he pursues.'" These lines are from "Constancy to an ideal Object;" but in the usual editions of Coleridge's _Poems_, the last two lines are printed thus: "The enamour'd rustic worships its fair hues, Nor knows he makes the shadow he pursues." Coleridge's _Poetical Works_, vol. ii. p. 91., 1840. Query: Which reading is the correct one? Coleridge refers to the _Manchester Philosophical Transactions_ for a description of this phenomenon; but, as the earlier volumes of these are scarce, perhaps some of your correspondents would copy the description from the volume which contains it, or furnish one from some authentic source. J. M. B. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES.