Tom also bestows his name on divers other things, animate and inanimate. Among fishes there are _Tommy_-Loach, _Tommy_-Bar, and _Tom_-Toddy (the Cornish name of the tod-pole). The Long-_Tom_ and the _Tom_-tit are both ornithological Toms. Tom Tailor is a child's name for the Harry-long-legs--another singular instance, by the way, of Christian names applied to animals. _Tom_-trot reminds one of pre-pantaloon orgies, and is (I think) something in the brandy-ball line. Finally, we may remark, that a large proportion of her Majesty's subjects are in the habit of conferring the endearing name upon the staff of life itself. "Navvies," agricultural labourers, and such like gentry, are accustomed to divide all human food into two classes, which they euphonically denominate respectively _Todge_ and _Tommy_; the former comprising spoon-meat, and the latter all hard food which requires mastication. But this, we think, is not a case of Tom _per se_, but rather referable to the Camb.-Brit. _tama_, which has exactly the same acceptation. V. T. STERNBERG. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _Shakspearian Parallels._--Searching for Shakspearian parallels, I find the following, which may leave suggested to our bard his _Seven Ages_. The first is by Solon, extracted from Clemens Alexandrinus (_Stromat._ vi. p. 685., Paris, 1629), which differs from Philo Judæus (i. p. 25.), the only two authorities to whom we owe the preservation of this ode, as also from the text of the critic Brunck and the grammarian Dalzell. An imitation of the Greek metres is attempted in the paraphrased translation attached. The second is a sonnet from Tusser, who extends the period of life beyond seventy, the age of Solon and David in hotter climes, to eighty-four for hyperboreans, but assigns, with David, the imbecility belonging to such advanced years. 7. Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ἐὼν ἔτι νήπιος ἕρκος ὀδόντων Φύσας, ἐκβάλλει πρῶτον ἐν ἕπτ' ἔτεσιν. 14. Τοὺς δ' ἑτέρους ὅτε δὴ τελέσει Θεὸς ἕπτ' ἐνιαυτοὺς, Ἥβης ἐκφαίνει σπέρματα γεινομένης. 21. Τῇ τριτατῃ δὲ γένειον ἀεξομένων ἐπὶ γυίων Λαχνοῦται, χροιῆς ἄνθος ἀμειβομένης. 28. Τῇ δὲ τετάρτῃ πᾶς τις ἐν ἑβδομάδι μέγ' ἄριστος Ἰσχὺν, ἥντ' ἄνδρες σήματ' ἔχουσ' ἀρετῆς. 35. Πέμπτῃ δ' ὥριον ἄνδρα γάμου μεμνημένον εἶναι. Καὶ παίδων ζητεῖν εἰς ὀπίσω γενεήν. 42. Τῇ δ' ἕκτῃ περιπάντα καταρτύεται γόος ἀνδρὸς, Οὐδ' ἐσιδεῖν ἔθ' ὁμῶς ἔργα μάταια θέλει. 49. Ἑπτὰ δὲ νοῦν καὶ[1] γλώσσαν ἐν ἑβδομάσι μέγ' ἄριστος· 56. Οκτὼ δ' ἀμφοτέρων τέσσαρα καὶ δέκ' ἔτη, 63. Τῇ δ' ἐνάτῃ ἔτι μὲν δύναται, μετριώτερα δ' αὐτοῦ, Πρὸς μεγάλην ἀρετὴν σῶμά τε καὶ δύναμις. 70. Τῇ δεκάτῃ δ' ὅτε δὴ τελέσῃ Θεὸς ἕπτ' ἐνιαυτοὺς, Οὐκ ἂν ἄωρος ἐὼν μοῖραν ἔχοι θανάτου. 7. Youth immature, not a tooth in his jaws, while an infant he slumbers Growing, shows teeth i' th' first seven years of his life.