'Twenty-nine births Callicrate I told, And of both sexes saw none sent to grave, I was an hundred and five winters old, Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave.' Thus, in all ages, God bestoweth personal felicities on some far above the proportion of others. The Lady Temple died A.D. 1656."] [Footnote 1: In Comment upon 8th chapter of lib. xv. de Civitate Dei.] [Footnote 2: Ausonius, Epitaph. Heröum, num. 34.] _Samuel White._--In Bishop Horsley's _Biblical Criticism_, he refers several times to a Samuel White, whom he speaks of in terms of contempt, and calls him, in one place, "that contemptible ape of Grotius;" and in another, "so dull a man." Query, who was this Mr. White, and what work did he publish? I. R. R. [Samuel White, M.A., was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Earl of Portland. His work, so severely criticised by Bishop Horsley, is entitled _A Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah, wherein the literal Sense of his Prophecies is briefly explained_: London, 4to., 1709. In his Dedication he says: "I have endeavoured to set in a true light one of the most difficult parts of Holy Scripture, following the footsteps of the learned Grotius as far as I find him in the right; but taking the liberty to leave him where I think him wide of the prophet's meaning."] _Heralds' College._--Are the books in the Heralds' College open to the public on payment of reasonable fees? Y. S. M. [The fee for a search is 5s.; that for copying of pedigrees is 6s. 8d. for the first, and 5s. for every other generation. A general search is 2l. 2s. The hours of attendance are from ten till four.] _Pope._--Where, in Pope's Works, does the passage occur which is referred to as follows by Richter in his _Grönlandische Prozesse_, vol. i.? "Pope vom Menschen (eigentlich vom Manne) sagt, 'Er tritt auf, um sich einmal umzusehen, und zu sterben.'" A. E. Aberdeen. ["Awake my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply _Than just to look about us, and to die_) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man."--_Essay on Man_, Epist. i. l. 1-5.] * * * * * Replies. BLANCO WHITE'S SONNET. (Vol. vii., pp. 404. 486.) This sonnet first appeared in _The Bijou_, an annual published by Pickering in 1828. It is entitled: "NIGHT AND DEATH. _A Sonnet: dedicated to S. T. Coleridge, Esq._ _by his sincere friend Joseph Blanco White._