Another instance is recorded of a Macneil of Borra having for several years enjoyed the society of a lady of the name of Maclean on the same principle; but his offspring by her were deprived {152} of their inheritance by the issue of his subsequent marriage with a lady of the Clanrannald family. These decisions no doubt tended to the abolition of a custom or principle so subversive of marriage and of the legitimacy of offspring. J.M.G. Worcester, July 19. _Russian Language_.--A friend of mine, about to go to Russia, wrote to me some time since, to ask if he could get a _Russian grammar in English, or any English books bearing on the language_. I told him I did not think there were any; but would make inquiry. Dr. Bowring, in his _Russian Anthology_, states as a remarkable fact, that the first Russian grammar ever published was published in England. It was entitled _H.W. Ludolfi Grammatica Russica quæ continet et Manuductionem quandum ad Grammaticam Slavonicam_. Oxon. 1696. The Russian grammar next to this, but published in its own language, was written by the great Lomonosov, the father of Russian poetry, and the renovator of his mother tongue: I know not the year, but it was about the middle of the last century. I have a German translation of this grammar "Von Johann Lorenz Stuvenhagen: St. Petersburgh, 1764." Grotsch, Jappe, Adelung, &c., have written on the Russian language. Jappe's grammar, Dr. Bowring says, is the best he ever met with. I must make a query here with regard to Dr. Bowring's delightful and highly interesting _Anthologies_. I have his Russian, Dutch, and Spanish _Anthologies_: _Did he ever publish any others_? I have not met with them. I know he contemplated writing translations from Polish, Servian, Hungarian, Finnish, Lithonian, and other poets. Jarltzberg. _Pistol and Bardolph_.--I am glad to be able to transfer to your pages a Shakspearian note, which I met with in a periodical now defunct. It appears from an old MS. in the British Museum, that amongst canoniers serving in Normandy in 1436, were "Wm. Pistail--R. Bardolf." Query, Were these common English names, or did these identical canoniers transmit a traditional fame, good or bad, to the time of Shakspeare, in song or story? If this is a well-known Query, I should be glad to be referred to a solution of it, if not, I leave it for inquiry. G.H.B. EPIGRAM FROM BUCHANAN. Doletus writes verses and wonders--ahem--When there's nothing in _him_, that there's nothing in _them_. J.O.W.H. * * * * * QUERIES. CALVIN AND SERVETUS.