This small volume of devotional verse is further entitled, _Heart Imployment with _GOD_ and Itself; the concordant Discord of a Broken-healed Heart; Sorrowing, Rejoicing, Fearing, Hoping, Dying, Living: published for the Use of the Afflicted_. The Introduction is dated "London: at the Door of Eternity, Aug. 7. 1681." He yet survived ten years, in the course of which he was twice imprisoned and fined under {37} the profligate and persecuting reigns of Charles II. and James II. for his zeal and piety. J.M.G. Hallamshire. _Authors of Anonymous Works._--On the title-page of the first volume of my copy of _The Monthly Intelligencer_ for 1728 and 1729, which was published anonymously, is written in MS., "By the Rev. Mr. Kimber." This book belonged to, and is marked with the autograph of D. Hughes, 1730; but the MS. note was written by another hand. P.H.F. _Umbrellas_ (Vol. ii., pp. 491. 523., &c.).--I have talked with an old lady who remembered the first umbrella used in Oxford, and with another who described the surprise elicited by the first in Birmingham. An aunt of mine, born 1754, could not remember when the house was without one, though in her youth they were little used. May not the word umbrella have been applied to various sorts of _impluvia_? Swift, in his "Description of a City Shower," says:-- "Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the dangled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. The Templar spruce, while every spout's abroach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While _streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides_." _Tatler_, No. 238. Oct. 17. 1710. This might be applied to an oiled cape, but I think the passage quoted by MR. CORNEY (Vol. ii., p. 523.) signifies something carried over the head. By the way, the "Description of a City Shower" contains one of the latest examples of _ache_ as a dissyllable:-- "A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old _aches_ throb, your hollow tooth will rage." H.B.C. U.U. Club, Jan. * * * * * QUERIES. SONNET (QUERY, BY MILTON) ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE. In a _Collection of Recente and Witty Pieces by several eminente hands_, London, printed by W.S. for Simon Waterfou, 1628, p. 109., is the following sonnet, far the best thing in the book:-- "ON THE LIBRARIE AT CAMBRIDGE.