[Our correspondent is probably not aware that Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_, vol. i. pp. 457-461. (Bohn's edit.), has devoted a chapter to this term. Among other conjectural etymologies he adds the following: "We read in the _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_, that it is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go about from door to door on New Year's Eve, crying _Hagmena_, a corrupted word from the Greek [Greek: agia mênê] _i. e._ holy month. John Dixon, holding forth against this custom once, in a sermon at Kelso, says: 'Sirs, do you know what hagmane signifies? It is, _the devil be in the house!_ that's the meaning of its _Hebrew_ original,' p. 102. Bourne agrees in the derivation of Hagmena given in the _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_. 'Angli,' says Hospinian, '_Haleg-monath_, quasi sacrum mensem vocant.' _De Origine Ethn._, p. 81." See also an ingenious essay on Hagmena in the _Caledonian Mercury_ for Jan. 2, 1792, from which the most important parts have been extracted by Dr. Jamieson in his art. "Hogmanay."] _Longfellow's "Hyperion."_--Can any of your readers tell me why that magnificent work of Longfellow's, which though in prose contains more real poetry than nine-tenths of the volumes of verse now published, is called _Hyperion_? MORDAN GILLOTT. [Hyperion is an epithet applied to Apollo, and is used by Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.: "Hyperion to a satyr." Warburton says, "This similitude at first sight seems to be a little far-fetched, but it has an exquisite beauty. By the satyr is meant Pan, as by Hyperion _Apollo_. Pan and Apollo were brothers, and the allusion is to the contention between those gods for the preference in music." Steevens, on the other hand, believes that Shakspeare "has no allusion in the present instance, except to the beauty of Apollo, and its immediate opposite, the deformity of a satyr." Hyperion or Apollo is represented in all the ancient statues as exquisitely beautiful, the satyrs hideously ugly.] _Sir Hugh Myddelton._--Where was Sir Hugh Myddleton buried? and has a monument been erected to his memory? I have searched several encyclopædias and other works, but they make no mention of his place of sepulture. Hughson, I think, states it to be St. Matthew's, Friday Street; but I believe this is not correct. J. O. W. [There is a statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton, by Carew, in the New Royal Exchange. See Cunningham's _Handbook of London_, from which work we learn (p. 327.) that "the register of St. Matthew's, Friday Street, abounds in entries relating to the family of Sir Hugh Myddleton." Cunningham does not mention his burial-place; but in the pedigree of the family given in Lewis's _History of Islington_, it is stated that he was buried in the churchyard of St. Matthew, London.]