_St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca_ (Vol. vii., pp. 500. 583.).--The affirmation so frequently made and alluded to by J. M. S. of Hull, that Seneca became, in the last year of his life, a convert to Christianity, is an old tradition, which has just been revived by a French author, M. Amedee Fleury, and is discussed and attempted to be established by him at great length in two octavo volumes. I have not read the book, but a learned reviewer of it, M. S. De Sacy, shows, with the greatest appearance of reason and authority, that the tradition, instead of being strengthened, is weakened by all that M. Fleury has said about it. M. De Sacy's review is contained in the _Journal des Debats_ of June 30, in which excellent paper he is a frequent and delightful writer on literary subjects. In the hope that it may interest and gratify J. M. S. to be informed of M. Fleury's new work, I send this scrap of information to the "N. & Q." JOHN MACRAY. Oxford. _"Hip, Hip, Hurrah!"_ (Vol. vii., pp. 595. 633).--The reply suggested by your correspondent R. S. F., that the above exclamation originated in the Crusades, and is a corruption of the initial letters of "Hierosolyma est perdita," never appeared to me to be very apposite. In _A Collection of National English Ballads_, edited and published by W. Chapple, 1838, in a description of the song "Old Simon, the King," the favourite of Squire Western in _Tom Jones_, the following lines are quoted: "'Hang up all the poor hep drinkers,' Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers."[4] A note to the above states, in reference to the word "hep," that it was a term of derision, applied to those who drank a weak infusion of the "hep" (hip) berry, or sloe. "Hence," says the writer, "the exclamation of 'Hip, hip, hurrah,' corrupted from 'Hip, hip, away.'" The couplet quoted above was written up in the Apollo Room at the Devil Tavern, Temple Bar, where Ben Jonson's club, the "Apollo Club," used to meet. Many a drinker of modern Port has equally good reason to exclaim with his brethren of old, "Hip, hip, away!" J. BRENT. [Footnote 4: A _skinker_ is one who serves drink.] _Emblemata_ (Vol. vii., p. 614.).--I have a small edition of the _Emblemata Horatiana_, with the following title-page: "Othonis VaenI Emblemata Horatiana Imaginibus in _aes_ incisis atque Latino, Germanico, Gallico et Belgico carmine Illustrata: Amstelaedami, apud Henricum Wetstenium, M. DC. LXXXIV." The engravings, of which there are 103, measure about four inches by three; the book contains 207 pages, exclusive of the index. "Amicitiae Trutina," mentioned by MR. WELD TAYLOR, is the sixty-sixth plate on page 133. There is another volume of Emblems by Otho Venius, of which I have a copy: "Amorum Emblemata Figuris Aeneis Incisa, studio Othonis VaenI: Batavo Lugdunensis Antverpiaee Venalia apud Auctorem prostant apud Hieronymum Verdussen, MDCIIX."