"I was at _Mr. Isaac Wood's the painter_, who showed me the twelve sketches of _Hudibras_, which he designs for you. I think they are extremely well adapted to the book, and that the designer shows how much he was master of the subject." In the preface to this edition, Dr. Grey expresses his obligations "to the ingenious _Mr. Wood, painter, of Bloomsbury-square_." In the fourth volume of Nichols's _Illustrations of Literature_ are some interesting letters from Thos. Potter, Esq., to Dr. Grey, which throw much light on the subject of this edition of _Hudibras_. I cannot conclude these observations without expressing my dissent from the praise bestowed upon the engravings in this work. Mr. Lowndes says "_the cuts are beautifully engraved_." With the exception of the head of Butler by Vertue, the rest are very spiritless and indifferent productions. J. T. A. * * * * * FOLK LORE. _Overyssel Superstition._--Stolen bees will not thrive; they pine away and die. JANUS DOUSA. _Death-bed Superstitions._--When a child is dying, people, in some parts of Holland, are accustomed to shade it by the curtains from the parent's gaze; the soul being supposed to linger in the body as long as a compassionate eye is fixed upon it. Thus, in Germany, he who sheds tears when leaning over an expiring friend, or, bending over the patient's couch, does but wipe them off, enhances, they say, the difficulty of death's last struggle. I believe the same poetical superstition is recorded in _Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life_. JANUS DOUSA. _Popular Rhyme._--The following lines very forcibly express the condition of many a "country milkmaid," when influence or _other considerations_ render her incapable of giving a final decision upon the claims of two opposing suitors. They are well known in this district, and I have been induced to offer them for insertion, in the hope that if any of your correspondents are possessed of any variations or additional stanzas, they may be pleased to forward them to your interesting publication. "Heigh ho! my heart is low, My mind runs all on _one_; W for William true, But T for my love Tom." T. W. Burnley, Lancashire _Death-bed Mystery._--It may, perhaps, interest MR. SANSOM to be informed that the appearance described to him is mentioned as a known fact in one of the works of the celebrated mystic, Jacob Behmen, _The Three Principles_, chap. 19. "Of the going forth of the Soul." I extract from J. Sparrow's translations., London, 1648.