"Macrobius de nummo _ratito_ loquens, qui erat aereus: _ita fuisse signatum hodieque intelligitur in aleae lusu, quum pueri denarios in sublime jactantes, Capita aut Navia, lusu teste vetustatis exclamant_."--P. 58. And in Scaligerana (prima): "Nummus ratitus--ce qu'aujourd'hui nous appellons jouer a croix ou a pile, car _pile_ est un vieil mot francais qui signifiait un Navire, _unde_ Pilote. Ratitus nummus erat ex aere, sic dictus ab effigie ratus."--Tom. ii., Amsterdam, 1740, p. 130. See also, _Auctores Latinae Linguae_, by Gothofred, 1585, p. 169. l. 53. Also, _Dictionnaire National_ of M. Bescherelle, tome ii. p 885., Paris, 1846, art. PILE (_subst. fem._) _En passant_, allow me to point out a very curious and interesting account of this game, being the pastime of Edward II., in the _Antiquarian Repertory_, by Grose and Astle: Lond. 1808, 4to., vol. ii. pp 406-8. [Phi]. Richmond, Surrey. _Ellis Walker_ (Vol. vii., p. 382.).-- "Ellis Walker, D.D.," according to Ware, "was born in the city of York; but came young into Ireland, and was educated in the college of Dublin, where he passed through all his degrees. He fled from thence in the troublesome reign of King James II., and lived with an uncle at York, where he translated _Epictetus_ into verse. After the settlement of Ireland he returned, and for seven years employed himself with great reputation in teaching a public school at Drogheda, where he died on the 17th April, 1701, in the fortieth year of his age; and was buried there in St. Peter's Church, and twenty years after had a monument erected to his memory by one of his scholars." TYRO. Dublin. _Blackguard_ (Vol. vii., pp. 77. 273.).--I am not aware that the following extract from Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ has ever yet been quoted under this heading. Would it not be worth the while to add it to the extract from Hobbes's _Microcosmos_, quoted by JARLTZBERG, Vol. ii., p. 134. and again, by SIR J. EMERSON TENNENT at Vol. vii., p. 78.: "The same author, Cardan, in his _Hyperchen_, out of the doctrine of the Stoicks, will have some of these genii (for so he calls them) to be desirous of men's company, very affable and familiar with them, as dogs are; others again, to abhor as serpents, and care not for them. The same, belike, Trithemius calls _igneos et sublunares, qui numquam demergunt ad inferiora, aut vix ullum habent in terris commercium: generally they far excel men in worth, as a man the meanest worm_; though some there are _inferiour to those of their own rank in worth, as the black guard in a princes court, and to men again, as some degenerate, base, rational creatures are excelled of brute beasts_."--_Anat. of Mel._, Part I. sec. 2. Mem. 1. subs. 2. [Blake, 1836, p. 118.] C. FORBES. Temple.