This explanation seems so satisfactory that we might be well contented to rest here. But some MSS. have the reading _coricillum_ instead of _corcillum_. If that be received as the genuine one, and some editors prefer it, the interpretation above given will only be slightly modified, but not destroyed, by the introduction of another image, the essential point remaining the same. The insertion of a vowel, _i_, precludes all connection with _cor_ and its diminutives, but suggests a derivation from [Greek: korukos], dim. [Greek: korukion], a leathern sack or bag, which, when well stuffed, the Greeks used to suspend in the gymnasium, like the pendulum of a clock (as may be seem on a fictile vase), to buffet to and fro with blows of the fist. The stuffed bag will represent the human head on the end of its trunk; and the word may have been a slang one of the day, or coined by the Asiatic Trimalchio, whose general language is filled with provincial patois. The translation would then be, in the familiar style of the original,--"The _noddle_ makes the man," &c. Anthony Rich, Jun. * * * * * QUERIES. WHEN WERE UMBRELLAS INTRODUCED INTO ENGLAND? Thomas Coryat, in his _Crudities_, vol. i. p. 134., gives us a curious notice of the early use of the umbrella in Italy. Speaking of fans, he says: "These fans are of a mean price, for a man may buy one of the fairest of them for so much money as countervaileth one English groat. Also many of them (the Italians) do carry other fine things of a far greater price, that will cost at the least a ducat, which they commonly call in the Italian tongue _umbrellaes_, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching heat of the sun. These are made of leather, something answerable to the form of a little canopy, and hooped in the inside with diverse little wooden hoops that extend the _umbrella_ in a pretty large compass. They are used especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs: and they impart so long a shadow unto them, that it keepeth the heat of the sun from the upper parts of their bodies." Lt.-Col. (afterwards Gen.) Wolfe, writing from Paris, in the year 1752, says: "The people here use umbrellas in hot weather to defend them from the sun, and something of the same kind to secure them from snow and rain. I wonder a practice so useful is not introduced in England, (where there are such frequent showers,) and especially in the country, where they can be expanded without any inconveniency." {415} Query, what is the date of the first introduction of the _umbrella_ into England? Edward F. Rimbault * * * * * MINOR QUERIES.