I found these lines written on the back of an odd volume of Atterbury's _Sermons_. Most likely they have already appeared in print. E. H. A. * * * * * Minor Notes. "_Milton Blind._"--A little poem bearing this title, and commencing,-- "Though I am old and blind," is said to have been included in an edition of the poet's works recently published at Oxford. It was written by Miss Lloyd, a lady of this city, a short time ago. UNEDA. Philadelphia. _Hydropathy._--For a long time, I believe in common with many others, I have imagined that the water cure is of late origin, and that we are indebted for it to Germany, to which we look for all novel quackeries (good and bad) in medicine and theology. This belief was put to flight a short time ago by a pamphlet which I discovered among others rare and curious. It is entitled _Curiosities of Common Water, or the Advantages thereof in preventing and curing many Distempers_. The price of the pamphlet was one shilling, and the author rejoices in the name of John Smith. After his name follows a motto, the doctrine of which it {396} is the duty of all licensed to kill according to law strenuously to protest against both by argument and practice: "That's the best physick which doth cure our ills Without the charge of pothecaries pills." E. W. J. Crawley. _Cassie._--MR. M. A. LOWER (a correspondent of "N. & Q."), in his _Essays on English Surnames_ (see vol. ii. p. 63.), quotes from a brochure on Scottish family names. He seems, from a footnote, to be in difficulty about the word _cassie._ May I suggest to him that it is a corruption of "causeway?" The "causeway" is, in Scotch towns, an usual name for a particular street; and of a man's surname, his place of residence is a most common source of derivation. W. T. M. _The Duke of Wellington._--Lord de Grey, in his _Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington_, pp. 171, 172., gives the following extract from the despatches published by Colonel Gurwood, and refers to vol. viii. p. 292. "It would undoubtedly be better if _language_ of this description were never used, and if officers placed as you were could correct errors and neglect in _language, which should not hurt the feelings_ of the person addressed, and without vehemence." Compare this passage with the following advice which Don Quixote gives to Sancho Panza before he sets off to take possession of his government: "Al che has de castigar con obras, no trates mal con palabras, pues le basta al desdichado la pena del suplicio sin la anadidura de las malas rezones."--Part II. ch. xlii. See translation of _Don Quixote_ by Jarvis, vol. iv. b. III. ch. x. p. 76.[1]