MR. CUTHBERT BEDE gives, in his list of epithets of the nightingale, "solemn," as used by Milton, Otway, Graingle. How the last two employ the term I do not know, perhaps they {113} copied from Milton; but he uses it, not as an epithet exactly, but to express the frequency of the bird's appearance. "Night, her _solemn_ bird," means the _customary_ attendant of the night: _solemn_ being used in the classical sense, and derived front _soles_. So Virgil, "Solemnes tum forte dapes et tristia dona ante urbem in luco," &c. The word _solemn_ probably acquired its present signification from the staid manner in which Englishmen go through their customary ceremonies. "They took their pleasure _sadly_," as Froissart has it. SYDNEY GEDGE, B.A. _Mysterious Personage_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--There is no mystery about the legitimate claimant of the British throne. He is the Duke of Modena, lineally descended from Henrietta of England, youngest daughter of Charles I.: she married Philip Duke of Orleans, son of Louis XIII. and Anne of Austria, and had two daughters; Louisa married to Charles II. of Spain (she died without issue), and Anna Maria, married to Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia. Their son Charles Emanuel III. succeeded in 1730, and was succeeded by his son Victor Amadeus III. He was succeeded by his eldest son Charles Emanuel IV., who died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Victor Emanuel, who left twin daughters, the elder of whom, Mary Beatrice, married Francis Duke of Modena, while the crown of Sardinia passed to her father's heirs male. The Duchess Mary Beatrice of Modena has left two sons, the elder of whom (born June 14, 1819) is the direct, undoubted heir of the House of Stuart. L. M. M. R. _Ken: "The Crown of Glory"_ (Vol. vii., p. 597.).--This work was properly rejected by Mr. Round in his edition of Bishop Ken's _Works_; and in the preface he gives the reasons for so doing. The absence of certain forms of expression was the chief test relied on. The book is so excellent, and the prayers so warm and Ken-like, that its exclusion indicates much critical acumen on the part of Mr. Round. Subsequently to the publication of this collection, it was ascertained that the prayers and other parts of _The Crown of Glory_ were taken from a book of Dean Brough, of Gloucester, entitled _Sacred Principles_, which was published, I believe (I am writing at a distance from my books), in 1661. W. D----N.