_The Hungarians in Paules._--Perhaps some of the ingenious contributors to "N. & Q." may be able to assist P. C. S. S. to explain the following passage in the dedication of a rare little book _Dekker's Dreame_ (Lond. 4to. 1620). It is inscribed:-- "To the truly accomplished gentleman, and worthy deserver of all men's loves, Master Endymion Porter. Sir, if you aske why, from the heapes of men, I picke you out only to be that _Murus ahaeneus_ which must defend me, lett me tell you (what you knowe allready) that bookes are like the Hungarians in Paules, who have a priviledge to holde out their Turkish history for anie one to reade. They beg nothing: the texted past-bord talkes all--and if nothing be given, nothing is spoken, but God knowes what they thinke!" An explanation of the above passage is very earnestly desired by P. C. S. S. _Ferns Wanted._--Specimens of the following rare ferns are much wanted to complete a collection:--_Woodsia ilvensis_, _Woodsia alpina_, _Cystopteris montana_, _Lastrea cristata_, _Lastrea recurva_, _Lastrea multiflora_, _Asplenium alterniflorum_, _Trichomanes speciosum_. The undersigned will feel very much obliged to any charitable person, residing near the _habitat_ of any of the above-mentioned ferns, who would take the trouble to forward to him, if not a root, at least a specimen for drying, he need scarcely say that any expenses will be most cheerfully defrayed. HENRY COOPER KEY. Stretton Rectory, near Hereford. _Craton the Philosopher._--Two of the figures on the brass font in the church of St. Bartholomew at Liege are superscribed Johannes Evangelista et Craton Philosophus.--Can any reader of "N. & Q." say if anything is known about the latter, who is represented as being baptized by the Evangelist? R. H. C. _The Solar Annual Eclipse in the Year 1263._--In the Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, A.D. 1263, published in the original Islandic from the Flateyan and Frisian MSS., with a literal English version by the Rev. James Johnstone, I read as follows: "While King Haco lay in Ronaldsvo, a great darkness drew over the sun; so that only a little ring was bright round the sun, and it continued so for some hours."--P. 45.