"May he no pleasure or profit see, Till he comes back again to me." B. J. S. _Charm for the Ague.--_ "Cut a few hairs from the cross marked on a donkey's shoulders. Enclose these hairs in a small bag, and wear it on your breast, next to the skin. If you keep your purpose secret, a speedy cure will be the result." The foregoing charm was told to me a short time since by the agent of a large landed proprietor in a fen county. My informant gravely added, that he had known numerous instances of this charm being practised, and that in every case a cure had been effected. From my own knowledge, I can speak of another charm for the ague, in which the fen people put great faith, viz. a spider, covered with dough, and taken as a pill. CUTHERT BEDE, B.A. * * * * * PSALMS FOR THE CHIEF MUSICIAN--HEBREW MUSIC. The words [Hebrew: LMNTSCH BNGYNWT], at the head of Psalms iv., liv., lv., lxvii., and lxxvi., are rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate [Greek: eis to telos], _in finem_, as if they had read [Hebrew: LANETSACH], omitting the [Hebrew: M] formative. The Syriac and Arabic versions omit this superscription altogether, from ignorance of the {243} musical sense of the words. The Chaldee reads [Chaldee: LSHBCH' `L CHNGYT'], "to be sung on the pipe." The word [Hebrew: LMNTSCH] is (from [Hebrew: NTSCH], to overcome, excel, or accomplish) a performance, and Aquila translates the entire title, [Greek: tôi nikopoiôi en psalmois melôdêma tôi Dauid]; and Jerome, _Victori in Canticis, Psalmus David_. But Symmachus, [Greek: epinikios dia psaltêriôn ôidê]; and Theodotius, [Greek: eis to nikos humnois], who must have read [Hebrew: LNTSCH]. The best reading is that of the present text, [Hebrew: LMNTSCH], which Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi render chief singer, or leader of the band (=_moderatorem chori musici_), as appropriate for a psalm to sung and played in divine service. Therefore the proper translation is, "For the leading performer upon the neginoth." The neginoth appear from the Greek translations, [Greek: dia psaltêriôn] and [Greek: en psalmois] ([Greek: psallein] = playing on strings). and from its root, [Hebrew: NGN], _to strike_, to be stringed instruments, struck by the fingers or hand.