I beg to refer Y. S. M. to the following passage Madame d'Arblay's _Diary_, vol. v. p. 246.: "There was at Collumpton only a poor wretched ragged woman, a female clerk, to show us this church: she pays a man for doing the duty, while she receives the salary in right of her deceased husband!" M. L. G. At Misterton, near Crewkerne, in Somersetshire, Mary Mounford was clerk for more than thirty years. She gave up the office about the year 1832, and is now in Beaminster Union, just eighty-nine years old. HERBERT L. ALLEN. * * * * * POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE. (Vol. vii., p. 397.; Vol. viii., p. 112.) To the one hundred and ten epithets poetically applied to the nightingale and its song, collected by MR. BEDE, permit me to add sixty-five more. _Azure-crested._ Cowper. _Bewailing._ Drummond. _Chaunting._ Skelton. _Chaste poet._ Grainger. _Dappled._ Anon.[2] _Darling._ Carey. _Daulian minstrel._ Herrick. _Delightful._ Shelley. _Dusky-brown._ Trench. _Early._ C. Smith. _Elegiac._ Dibdin. _Enamoured._ Shelley. _Fabled._ Byron. _Fair._ Smart. _Greeful._[3] Lodge. _Gurgling._ Lloyd. _Hallow'd._ Moore. _Hundred-throated._ Tennyson. _Invisible._ Hurdis. _Lesbian._ Bromley. _Love-learned._ Thomson. _Love-sick._ Warton. _Loud-complaining._ Gibbons. _Lulling._ Anon.[4] _Lute-tongued._ Anon.[5] _Mellow._ Strangford. _Midnight minstrel._ Logan. _Moody._ Hurdis. _Nightly._ Bidlake. _Pandionian._ Drummond. _Panged._ Hood. _Pitiful._ Herrick. _Plaintful._ Drummond. _Quavering._ Poole. _Querulous._ Kennedy. _Rapturous._ Southey. _Rural._ Dryden. _Sable._[6] Drummond. _Sadly-pleasing._[7] Anon. _Secret._ Shelley. _Sely._ Chaucer. _Sequestered._ J. Montgomery. _Shy._ Dallas. _Silver-tuned._ Carey. _Simple._ Derrick. _Sobbing._ Planche. _Soft-tuned._ Whaley. _Solitary._ Bowring. _Sorrow-soothing._ Shaw. _Sprightly._ Elton. _Sweet-breasted._ Beaumont and Fletcher. _Sweet-tongued._ Anon.[8] _Sylvan syren._ Pattison. _Tearful._ Potter. _Tenderest._ Wiffen. _Thracian._ Lewis. _Transporting._ Hurdis. _Unadorned._ Hurdis. _Unhappy._ Croxall. _Watchful._ Philips. _Witching._ Proctor. _Woodland._ Smith. _Wretched._ Shirley. _Wronged._ P. Fletcher. _Yearly._ Drayton. _Young._ Lewis. The character of the mere song alone has been described in the following terms: _Melodious lay._ Potter. _Lofty song._ Yalden. _A storm of sound._ Shelley. _Impressive lay._ Merry. _Swelling slow._ Kirk White. _Tremulously slow._ C. Smith. _Wild melody._ Shelley. _Thick melodious note._ Lloyd. _Hymn of lore._ Logan. _Melting lay._ Henley. _Harmonious woe._ Pomfret. _Well-tuned warble._ Shakspeare. {476} _Luscious lays._ Warton. _Sadly sweet._ Potter. _Varied strains._ Pope. _Thick-warbled notes._ Milton. W. PINKERTON. Ham. [Footnote 2: Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1838.]