[Hebrew: YTNHW HQB-H LYDYDW 'SHR HW' CHPTS BW B`WDNW YSHN WBLY MRCHH:] "The holy and blessed One will give it to his beloved, in whom He delights, whilst he is yet asleep and without fatigue." I need not adduce passages in the Hebrew Psalter, where such ellipsises do occur. E. M. B. evidently knows his Hebrew Bible well, and a legion of examples will immediately occur to him. MOSES MARGOLIOUTH. Wybunbury, Nantwich. If E. M. B. will refer to Hengstenberg's _Commentary on the Psalms_, he will find that Mr. Trench is not without authority for his translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2. I quote the passage from Thompson and Fairbairn's translation, in Clark's _Theological Library_, vol. iii. p. 449.: "[Hebrew: SHN'] for [Hebrew: SHNH] is not the accusative, but the preposition is omitted, as is frequently the case with words that are in constant use. For example, [Hebrew: BQR, `RB], to which [Hebrew: SHNH] here is poetically made like. The exposition _He gives sleep_, instead of _in sleep_, gives an unsuitable meaning. For the subject is not about the sleep, but the gain." C. I. E. Winkfield. Has the translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., which Mr. Trench has adopted, the sanction of any version but that of Luther? N. B. * * * * * ON PALINDROMES. (Vol vii., p. 178. &c.) Several of your correspondents have offered Notes upon these singular compositions, and AGRICOLA DE MONTE adduces "[Greek: NIPSON ANOMEMATA, ME MONAN OPSIN]" as an example. As neither he nor MR. ELLACOMBE give it as found _out_ of this country, allow me to say that it was to be seen on a benitier in the church of Notre Dame at Paris. If it were not for the substitution of the adjective [Greek: MONAN] for the adverb [Greek: MONON], the line would be one of the best specimens of the recurrent order. I notice that a correspondent (Vol. vii., p. 336.) describes the Palindrome as being universally _sotadic_. Now, this term was only intended to apply to the early samples of this fanciful species of verse in Latin, the production Sotades, a Roman poet, 250 B.C. The lines given by BOEOTICUS (Vol. vi., p. 209.), "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor?" owe their authorship to his degraded Muse, and many others which would but pollute your pages. The hexameter "Sacrum pingue," &c. given by [Omega]. [Phi]. (Vol. vi., p. 36.), is to be found in Misson's _Voyage to Italy_, copied from an old cloister wall of Santa Maria Novella at Florence. These ingenious verses are Leoline[2], and it is noted that "the sacrifice of Cain was not a living victim." I have seen it stated that the English language affords but _one_ specimen of the palindrome, while the Latin and Greek have many. The late Dr. Winter Hamilton, the author of _Nugae Literariae_, gives this solitary line, which at the best is awkwardly fashioned: "Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel." Is any other known?