_Jacob Bobart_ (Vol. viii., p. 37.).--I beg to supply the following additional particulars relating to the Bobart family. In the _Correspondence of Dr. Richardson_, edited by Mr. Dawson Turner, will be found a letter from Bobart junior to the Doctor, with a reference to two other letters. In pages 9, 10, and 11, a copious note respecting the Bobart family, by the editor, is given. A short notice of Bobart jun. also appears in the Memoirs of John Martyn, Professor of Botany at Cambridge. The following epitaph on Bobart jun. is in Amherst's _Terræ Filius_, 1726: "Here lies Jacob Bobart, Nail'd up in a cupboard." In the preface to Mr. Nichols' work on _Autographs_, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum, is that of David Krieg, with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses: "VIRTUS SUA GLORIA. Think that day lost whose descending sun, Views from thy hand no noble action done. Your success and happyness Is sincerely wished by JA. BOBART, Oxford." Mr. Richardson's engraved portrait of Bobart the Elder is only a copy of Burghers' engraving, so highly spoken of by Granger, and cannot, therefore, be nearly so valuable as the latter. GARLICHITHE. _"Putting your foot into it"_ (Vol. viii., p. 77.).--W. W. is certainly "Will o' the Wisp" himself. We must not allow him to lead us into Asia, hunting for the origin of a saying which is nothing more than a coarse allusion to an accident that happens day after day to every heedless or benighted pedestrian in England; but if a foreign origin _must_ be found for this saying, let us travel to Greece rather than to Hindostan, and we shall see in the writings of Æschylus: "Ἐλαφρὸν, ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδα Ἔχει, παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τὸν κακῶς Πράσσοντ'." κ.τ.λ.--_Prom. Vinc._ 271. C. FORBES. Temple. _Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle_ (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 207. 280. 368. 566.; Vol. vii., p. 508.).--We have all overlooked the following use of this simile in Thomas Hood's poem, addressed to Rae Wilson: "Spontaneously to God should tend the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the Pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?" C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _The Tragedy of Polidus_ (Vol. vii., p. 499.).--This tragedy, printed at London 1723, 12mo., has a farce appended to it called _All Bedevil'd, or the House in a Hurry_. Browne was patronised by Hervey, the author of the _Meditations_. The scene of the drama is in Cyprus. The lover of Polidus, "the banished general," and Rosetta, daughter to Orlont, chief favourite to the king, form the groundwork of the plot. My copy was formerly in the collection of plays which belonged to Stephen Jones, author of the _Biographia Dramatica_. J. MT.