"A romance," he says, "of which a journey to an Utopia, in the centre of Africa, forms the chief part, called _The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca_, has been commonly ascribed to him; probably on no other ground than its union of pleasing invention with benevolence and elegance."--_Works_, vol. i. p. 132. ed. 1846. Sir J. Mackintosh, like most other modern writers who mention the book, seems not to have been aware of the decisive denial of this report, by Bishop Berkeley's son, inserted in the third volume of Kippis's _Biographia Britannica_. L. _George Wither, the Poet, a Printer_ (Vol. ii., p. 390.).--In addition to DR. RIMBAULT'S extract from Wither's _Britain's Remembrancer_, showing that he printed (or rather composed) every sheet thereof with his own hand, I find, in a note to Mr. R.A. Willmott's volume of the _Lives of the English Sacred Poets_, in that interesting one of George Wither, the following corroboration of this singular labour of his: the poem, independent of the address to the King and the praemonition, consisting of between nine and ten thousand lines, many of which, I doubt not, were the production of his brain while he stood at the printing-case. A MS. note of Mr. Park's, in one of the many volumes of Wither which I possess, confirms me in this opinion. "Ben Jonson, in _Time Vindicated_, has satirized the custom, then very prevalent among the pamphleteers of the day, of providing themselves with a portable press, which they moved from one hiding-place to another with great facility. He insinuates that Chronomastix, under whom he intended to represent Wither, employed one of these presses. Thus, upon the entrance of the Mutes,-- "_Fame._ What are this pair? _Eyes._ The ragged rascals? _Fame._ Yes. _Eyes._ These rogues; you'd think them rogues, But they are friends; One is his printer in disguise, and keeps His press in a hollow tree." From this extract it should seem that Wither not only composed the poem at case (the printer's phrase), but worked it off at press with his own hands. J.M.G. Worcester. "_Preached as a dying Man to dying Men_" (Vol. i., p. 415.; Vol. ii., p. 28.).--Some time ago there appeared in this series (Vol. i., p. 415.) a question respecting a pulpit-phrase which has occasionally been used by preachers, delivering their messages as "dying men to dying men." This was rightly traced (Vol. ii., p. 28.) to a couplet of the celebrated Richard Baxter, who, in one of his latest works, speaking of his ministerial exercises, says,-- "I preach'd as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men." The passage occurs in one of his "Poetical Fragments," entitled "Love breathing Thanks and Praise."