_Lunardi_ (Vol. ii., p. 469.).--I remember seeing Lunardi's balloon pass over the town of Ware, previous to its fall at Standon. I have seen the _moonstone_ described by your correspondent C. J. F., but all that I can remember of an old song on the occasion is. "They thought it had been the man in the moon," alluding to the men in the fields, who ran away frightened. But a servant girl had {154} the courage to take the rope thrown out by Lunardi, and was well rewarded. It caused a great sensation, and many of the principal inhabitants of Ware and Wadesmill assembled with Lunardi at the Feathers Inn, at the latter place. J. TAYLOR. Newick, Sussex. _Outline in Painting_.--J. O. W. H. (Vol. i., p. 318.) and H. C. K. (Vol. iii., p. 63.) are earnestly referred, for resolution of their doubts, to the work by Mr. Ruskin, in 2 vols. large 8vo., entitled _Modern Painters_, by a _Graduate of Oxford_, published by Smith and Elder, 1846. ROBERT SNOW. _Handbell before a Corpse_ (vol. iii., p. 68.).--Your correspondent [Hebrew: B]. has too inconsiderately dismissed the Query which he has undertaken to answer touching the custom of ringing a handbell in advance of a funeral procession. He says, "I have never considered it as anything but _a cast of the bell-man's office_, to add more solemnity to the occasion." The custom is _invariably_ observed throughout Italy, and is common in France and Spain. I have witnessed at least some hundreds of funerals in various cities and villages of Piedmont, Sardinia, Tuscany, the Roman States, Naples, Elba, and Sicily; and in Malta; yet never knew I one without the handbell. Its _object_, as first explained to me in Florence, is to clear the way for the procession; to remind passengers and loiterers to take off their hats; and to call the pious to their doors and windows to gaze upon the emblems of mortality, and to say a prayer for the repose of the departed soul. NOCAB. _Brandon the Juggler_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--Your correspondent T. CR. is referred to Scot's _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, p. 308. (edit. 1584) for a notice of this person and his pigeon. JAS. CROSSLEY. "_Words are Men's Daughters_" (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--This line is taken from Dr. Madden's _Boulter's Monument_ (Dublin, 1745, 8vo.), a poem which was revised by Dr. Johnson, but to which little attention has been paid by his biographers. Mr. Croker observes (edit. of Boswell, 1848, p. 107. note)-- "Dr. Madden wrote very bad verses. The few lines in Boulter's monument which rise above mediocrity may be attributed to Johnson." Those who take the trouble to refer to the poem itself, will, notwithstanding Mr. Croker's hasty criticism, find a great many fine and vigorous passages, in which the hand of Johnson is clearly distinguishable, and which ought not to be allowed to remain unnoticed. Perhaps on a future occasion I may, in support of this opinion, give some specimens from the poem. The line as to which T. J. inquires,--