REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Donnybrook Fair--Abigail-- Honorary Degrees--Red Hair--Historical Engraving-- Proverbs quoted by Suetonius--"Sat cito, si sat bene"-- Council of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Anna Lightfoot--Jack and Gill--Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle-- Gibbon's Library--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca-- "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!"--Emblemata--Campvere, Privileges of-- Slang Expressions: "Just the cheese"--The Honorable Miss E. St. Leger--Queries from the Navorscher--"Pity is akin to Love" 86 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 89 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 90 Notices to Correspondents 90 Advertisements 90 * * * * * Notes. WILLIAM BLAKE. My antiquarian tendencies bring me acquainted with many neglected and obscure individuals connected with our earlier English literature, who, after "fretting their hour" upon life's stage, have passed away; leaving their names entombed upon the title-page of some unappreciated or crotchetty book, only to be found upon the shelves of the curious. To look for these in Kippis, Chalmers, Gorton, or Rose would be a waste of time; and although agreeing to some extent with the _Utilitarians_, that we have all that was worth preserving of the _Antediluvians_, there is, I think, here and there a name worth resuscitating, possessing claims to a _niche_ in our "Antiquary's Newspaper;" and for that distinction, I would now put in a plea on behalf of my present subject, William Blake. Although our author belongs to the _eccentric category_, he is a character not only deserving of notice, but a model for imitation: the "_bee_ in his bonnet" having set his sympathies in the healthy direction of a large _philanthropy_ for the spiritual and temporal interests of his fellow men.