_Door-head Inscriptions_ (Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 588.; Vol. viii., p. 38.).--Over the door of the house at Salvington, Sussex, in which Selden was born, is this inscription: "Gratvs, honeste, mihi; non clavdar, inito sedeq' Fvr, abeas; non sv' facta solvta tibi." It has been thus paraphrased: 1. By the late William Hamper, Esq., _Gent. Mag._, 1824, vol. ii. p. 601.: "Thou'rt welcome, honest friend; walk in, make free: Thief, get thee gone; my doors are clos'd to thee." 2. By Dr. Evans: "An honest man is always welcome here; To rogues I grant no hospitable cheer." 3. In Evans's _Picture of Worthing_, p. 129.: "Dear to my heart, the honest here shall find The gate wide open, and the welcome kind; Hence, _thieves_, away! on you my door shall close, Within these walls the wicked ne'er repose." 4. In Shearsmith's _Worthing_, p. 71.: "The honest man shall find a welcome here, My gate wide open, and my heart sincere; Within these walls, for him I spend my store. But _thieves_, away! on you I close my door." ANON. _Honorary Degrees_ (Vol. viii., pp. 8. 86.).--The short note of C. does not elucidate--if, indeed, it touches upon--the matter propounded. It was stated, whether correctly I know not, that honorary doctors created by _diploma_ (reference being made to the Duke of Cambridge, and one or two other royal personages) would have the _distinctive_ privilege of voting in Convocation. It then occurred to me that Johnson--whose Oxford dignity was conferred in 1776, by special requisition of the Chancellor, Lord North (his M.A. degree had been, I judge, likewise by _diploma_)--is not mentioned by Boswell or Croker, as having on any occasion exercised the right referred to. Did he possess that right? and, if so, was it ever exercised? The frequency of his visits to Oxford, and the alleged rigid adherence to academical costume, make the question one of some interest: besides, in regard to a person so entirely _sui generis_, and upon whose character and career so much minuteness of biographical detail has been bestowed, it is not a little remarkable how many points are almost barren of illustration. M. A. _"Never ending, still beginning"_ (Vol. viii., p. 103.).--See Dryden's _Alexander's Feast_, l. 101. F. B--W. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. SCOTT'S NOVELS, without the Notes. Constable's Miniature Edition. The Volumes containing Anne of Geierstein, Betrothed, Castle Dangerous, Count Robert of Paris, Fair Maid of Perth, Highland Widow, &c., Red Gauntlet, St. Ronan's Well, Woodstock, Surgeon's Daughter, Talisman. WEDDELL'S VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH POLE. SCHLOSSER'S HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY, translated by Davison. Parts XIII. and following. SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY, with or without Supplementary Volumes. DUGDALE'S ENGLAND AND WALES, Vol. VIII. London, L. Tallis.