"Pensive and thoughtful shall the wanderers greet Each splendid square, and still untrodden street; Or of some crumbling turret, mined by time, The broken stairs with perilous step shall climb, Thence stretch their view the wide horizon round, By scatter'd hamlets trace its ancient bound, And choked no more with fleets, fair Thames survey, Through reeds and sedge pursue his idle way. . . . . . . Oft shall the strangers turn their eager feet, The rich remains of ancient art to greet, The pictured walls with critic eye explore, And Reynolds be what Raphael was before, On spoils from every clime their eyes shall gaze, Egyptian granites and the Etruscan vase; And when, 'midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just, By Time's slow finger written in the dust." J. M. Cranwells, near Bath. The beautiful conception of the New Zealander at some future period visiting England, and giving a sketch of the ruins of London, noticed in "N. & Q." as having been suggested to Macaulay by a passage in one of Walpole's letters to Sir H. Mann, will be found more broadly expressed in Kirke White's Poem on Time. Talking of the triumphs of Oblivion, he says: "Meanwhile the Arts, in second infancy, Rise in some distant clime; and then, perchance, Some bold adventurer, fill'd with golden dreams, Steering his bark through trackless solitudes, Where, to his wandering thoughts, no daring prow Had ever plough'd before,--espies the cliffs Of fallen Albion. To the land unknown He journeys joyful; and perhaps descries Some vestige of her ancient stateliness: Then he with vain conjecture fills his mind Of the unheard-of race, which had arrived At science in that solitary nook, Far from the civil world; and sagely sighs, And moralises on the state of man." This hardly reads like a borrowed idea; and I should lean to a belief that it was not. Kirke White's _Poems and Letters_ are but too little read. J. S. Dalston. _Cui Bono_ (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--Reference to a dictionary would have settled this. According to Freund, "Cui bono fuit=Zu welchem Zwecke, or Wozu war es gut?" That is, To what purpose? or, For _whose_ good? CARNATIC. The syntax of this common phrase, with the ellipses supplied, is, "Cui homini fuerit bono negotio?" To what person will it be an advantage? Literally, or more freely rendered, Who will be the gainer by it? It was (see _Ascon. in Cicer. pro Milone_, c. xii.) the usual query of Lucius Cassius, the Roman judge, implying that the person benefiting by any crime was implicated therein. (Consult Facciolati's _Dict. in voce_ BONUM.) HK.