"Cleopatra dissolving the Pearl" is a portrait of Kitty, and he probably introduced them both into some of his fancy pictures. As I happen to possess a good portrait of one of them, I should like to know something of their history. CANTAB. University Club. _"Homo unius libri."_--To whom does this saying ing originally belong? The _British Critic_ gives it to St. Thomas Aquinas: "When asked on one occasion who is in the way to become learned, he answered, 'Whoever will content himself with the reading of a single book."--_The British Critic_, No. LIX. p. 202. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _"Now the fierce bear," &c._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the following lines? "Now the fierce bear and leopard keen, All perished as they ne'er had been; Oblivion's their best home. . . . . There is an oath on high, That ne'er on brow of mortal birth, Shall blend again the crowns of earth." [theta]. _Prejudice against Holy Confirmation._--I have found among my rural parishioners an idea very prevalent, that it is wrong, or at least highly improper, for a married woman to become a candidate for, or to receive holy confirmation; and this quite apart from any sectarian views on the matter. I should like to know if any of my {441} clerical brethren have noticed the same superstition as I must call it. Labourers' wives in some cases have at once stated their being married as a valid objection; and in others their husbands, although Churchmen, have at once entered their _veto_ on their being confirmed. Can it arise from any vague reminiscence of the practical rule of the Church of England on the subject, which has been so long ignored? W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Epigram on MacAdam._--Who was the author of the following epigram? "My Essay on Roads, quoth MacAdam, lies there, The result of a life's lucubration; But does not the title page look rather bare? I long for a Latin quotation. "A Delphin edition of Virgil stood nigh, To second his classic desire; When the road-maker hit on the shepherd's reply, '_Miror Magis_,' I rather _add_-mire." [Old English W. N.] _Jane Scrimshaw._--Can any of your numerous correspondents inform me if there is any other biographical notice of Jane Scrimshaw, who attained the advanced age of 127, and resided for upwards of eighty years in the Merchant Taylors' Almshouse, near Little Tower Hill, than that recorded in Caulfield's _Memoirs of Remarkable Characters_? J. T. M. _The Word "Quadrille."_--May I trouble some kind reader to give me the origin, derivation, full and literal meaning, and the several senses, in their regular succession, of the above word _Quadrille_? There seems to be much uncertainty attached to the word. VERITATIS AMICUS. Oxon.