"The Beech Marten is the _Martes foina_ of modern zoologists, the _Martes Fagorum_ of Ray, the _Martes Saxorum_ of Klein, the _Mustela Martes_ of Linnæus, and the _Mustela foina_ of Gmelin. Its English synonymes are not less numerous; for, besides Beech Marten, it is called Stone Marten, Martern, Marteron, Martlett, and _Mousehunt_. The last name I insert on the authority of Henley, thee dramatic commentator, who says it is the animal to which 'charming Willie Shakspeare' thus alludes in _Romeo and Juliet_: '_Capulet._ I have watch'd ere now All night---- _Lady Capulet._ Ay, thou have been a _mouse-hunt_ in your time.'--Act IV. Sc. 4. "In Knight's _Pictorial Edition of Romeo and Juliet_ (1839), this and many other terms equally requiring explanation are left quite unelucidated; though one picture of this said _mouse-hunt_ would doubtless have been more assistant to the professed object of the work than the two unnecessary pictures it contains of certain winged monstrosities called Cupids."--P. 106. Mr. Fennell goes on to state, that the Beech Marten (_alias_ Mousehunt) inhabits the woods and forests of most parts of Europe, seldom quitting them except in its nocturnal excursions; and he adds that-- "The _Beech Marten_ does sometimes, in the Highlands of Scotland, where it is common, and called _Tuggin_, take to killing lambs, and makes sad havoc. Luckily, however, it is nearly exterminated in the south of that country. In Selkirkshire, it has been observed to descend to the shore at night time to feed upon mollusks, particularly upon the large Basket Mussel (_Mytilus modiolus_). But the ordinary prey of both this and the Pine Marten appears to the hares, rabbits, squirrels, moles, rats, _mice_; game birds; turkeys, pigeons, and other domestic poultry, and also the wild singing birds."--P. 109. In the above work Mr. Fennell has given many other interesting zoological elucidations of Shakspeare, and of various other ancient poets. G. TENNYSON. Rickmansworth. _St. Paul's School Library_ (Vol. viii., p. 641.).--A catalogue of the library was privately printed in 1836, 8vo. It is nominally under the care of the captain of the school, who, having his own duties to attend to, cannot be expected to pay much attention to it: this readily accounts for the disorder said to prevail. It is believed to contain the copy of _Vegetius de re militari_, the perusal of which by Marlborough, when a pupil at the school, imbued him with that love for military science he in after-life so successfully cultivated. It would be a good deed on the part of the wealthy company, the trustees of Colet's noble foundation, to enlarge the library and pay a salary to a librarian; it might thus become a useful appendage to the school, and under certain regulations be made accessible to the vicinity. W. A.