_K. C. B.'s._--I observe that in the _London Gazette_ of January 2, 1815, which regulates the existing order of the Bath, it is commanded by the sovereign that "there shall be affixed in the church of St. Peter at Westminster escutcheons and banners of the arms of each K. C. B." Has this command been regularly fulfilled on the creation of each K. C. B.? I believe that on each creation fees are demanded by the Heralds' College, for the professed purpose of exemplifying the knight's arms, and affixing his escutcheon; but I never remember to have seen the escutcheons in Westminster Abbey. TEWARS. [The order _never_ was fulfilled. If the knights were entitled to armorial bearings, no fees whatever were demanded by or paid to the Heralds' College. The statutes of 1815 were, however, abrogated and annulled by the statutes of 1847, and the banners are not required to be suspended in the Abbey. The erection of the banners and plates, however, rested with the officers of the order, and the Heralds' College had nothing to do with the matter.] _Danish and Swedish Ballads._--What are the best and most recent collections of ancient Danish and Swedish ballad poetry? J. M. B. [We believe the best and most recent collection of Danish ballads is the edition of _Udvalgte Danske Viser fra Middelalderen_, by Abrahamson, Nyerup, Rabbek, &c., in five small 8vo. volumes, Copenhagen, 1812. The best Swedish collection was _Svenska Folk-Visor fran Forteden_, collected and edited by Geijer and Afzelius, and published at Stockholm, 1814; but the more recent collection published by Arwidson in 1834 is certainly superior. It is in three octavo volumes, and is entitled _Svenska Fornsaenger. En Samling of Kaemp-visor, Folk-visor, Lekar och Dansar, samt Barn- och Vall-Saenger_.] _Etymology of "Conger."_--What is the etymology of the word _Conger_, as applied to the larger kind of deep sea eels by our fishermen (who, be it remarked, never add eel. _Conger-eel_ is entirely used by shore-folk)? I imagine that it may be traced from the Danish _Kongr_, a king, or kings; for being the greatest of eels, the fishermen, whose nets he tore, and whose take he seriously reduced, might well call him in size, in strength, and voracity--_Kongr_, the king. C. D. LAMONT. Greenock. [Todd and Webster derive it from the Latin _conger_ or _congrus_; Gr. [Greek: gongros], formed of [Greek: grao], to eat, the fish being very voracious; It. _gongro_; Fr. _congre_.] _"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum tibi."_--This is, I think, the ordinary form of a saying cited somewhere by Goldsmith, who calls it "so trite a quotation that it almost demands an apology to repeat it." Whence comes it originally? I am unable to give the exact reference to the passage in Goldsmith, but in his _Citizen of the World_, letter 53rd, he has a cognate idea: