[The history of Prester John, or of the individuals bearing that appellation, appears involved in considerable confusion and obscurity. Most of our Encyclopaedias contain notices of this mysterious personage, especially Rees's, and Collier's _Great Historical Dictionary_. "The fame of _Prester_ or _Presbyter_ John," says Gibbon, "a khan, whose power was vainly magnified by the Nestorian missionaries, and who is said to have received at their hands the rite of baptism, and even of ordination, has long amused the credulity of Europe. In its long progress to Mosul, Jerusalem, Rome, &c., the story of Prester John evaporated into a monstrous fable, of which some features have been borrowed from the Lama of Thibet (_Hist. Geneaologique des Tartares_, part ii. p. 42.; _Hist. de Gengiscan_, p. 31. &c.), and were ignorantly transferred by the Portuguese to the emperor of Abyssinia (Ludolph. _Hist. AEthop. Comment._ l. ii. c. 1.). Yet is is probable that, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Nestorian Christianity was professed in the horde of the Keraites."] _Homer's Iliad in a Nut._--On the tomb of those celebrated gardeners, Tradescant father and son, these lines occur in the course of the inscription: "Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut), A World of Wonders in one closet shut." Will you explain the comparison implied in the words "as Homer's Iliad in a nut?" DAVID. [It refers to the account given by Pliny, vii. 21., that the _Iliad_ was copied in so small a hand, that the whole work could lie in a walnut-shell: "In nuce inclusam Iliada Homeri carmen, in membrana scriptum tradidit Cicero." Pliny's authority is Cicero _apvd Gellium_, ix. 421. See M. Huet's account of a similar experiment in _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. xxxix. p. 347.] _Monogram of Parker Society._--What is the meaning of the monogram adopted by the Parker Society on all their publications? TYRO. [The monogram is "MATTHEW PARKER," Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.] _The Five Alls._--Can any of your readers give me an interpretation of a sign on an inn in Oxford, which bears this inscription? "THE FIVE ALLS." I can make nothing of it. CURIOSUS. Oxford. [Captain Grose shall interpret this Query. He says, "The Five Alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto. The first is a king in his regalia, 'I govern all.' The second, a {503} bishop in pontificals, 'I pray for all.' Third, a lawyer in his gown, 'I plead for all.' Fourth, a soldier in his regimentals, 'I fight for all.' Fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake, 'I _pay_ for all!'"]