"When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin, and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to imitate the Chinese _sz-tuen_, have {18} approximated closely to it, and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c." I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote, have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown the above extract. W. T. M. Hong Kong. _"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).-- "BIERVE, _N. Marechal_, _Marquis de_, a Frenchman well known for his ready wit and great facetiousness. He wrote two plays of considerable merit, _Les Reputations_ and _Le Seducteur_. He died at Spa, 1789, aged 42. He is author of the distich on courtezans: 'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante? Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'" --Lempriere's _Universal Biography_, abridged from the larger work, London, 1808. C. FORBES. Temple. _Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's _Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86. 2.: "Nec retro lego Sotaden cinaedum." ZEUS. _The Third Part of "Christabel"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.).--Has the _Irish Quarterly Review_ any other reason for ascribing this poem to Maginn than the common belief which makes him the sole and original Morgan Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little value, as, exclusive of some pieces under that name which have been avowed by other writers, many of the Odoherty papers contain palpable internal evidence of having been written by a Scotchman, or at least one very familiar with Scotland, which at that time he was not; even the letter accompanying the third part of _Christabel_ is dated from Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove nothing, the circumstances above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence as to the time when Maginn's contributions to _Blackwood_ commenced, seems strongly presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most distinguished writers in _Blackwood_ are still alive, and could, no doubt, clear up this point at once, if so inclined. J. S. WARDEN.