_"Pretended" Reprint of Ancient Poetry_, in J. Taylor's Catalogue of 1824 (Vol. ii., p. 463.), replied to by CATO (Vol. ii., p. 500.).--My attention has been drawn to the above, wherein doubts have been raised as to the existence of a volume supposed to be UNIQUE; and criticisms follow on my note, which records the fact, that "only TWO COPIES were reprinted." CATO has already stated that the reprinting the TWO COPIES was at the expense of the late Rev. Peter Hall; and ONE COPY produced at his sale twenty shillings: the other copy bore the impress of Mr. Davidson, a highly respectable printer; and that only two copies were reprinted, one of which came direct to me from the Rev. Peter Hall. This copy was purchased from me by an eminent statesman, who has formed one of the finest libraries in the kingdom. JAMES TAYLOR, Formerly of Blackfriars Road. Newick, Jan. 27. 1851. _Lights on the Altar._--I would refer your correspondent D. SHOLBUS (Vol. ii., p. 495.) to one of the Canons published under King Edgar, about the year 968. Lambard's Latin version of the ordinance is as follows:-- "Semper in ecclesia lumen ardeat dum Missa decantetur." ([Greek: Archaionomia], ed. Wheloc. p. 70. Cantab. 1644. Compare Cressy's _Church History of Brittany_, p. 870. A.D. 1668.) R. G. _Cognation of the Jews and Lacedaemonians_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--I should occupy too much space in your interesting publication were I to give a list of the critics or ethnographers who have commented on this passage, and shall therefore be content to mention some of the most important works which may afford sufficient information, or at least enable your correspondent to pursue the inquiry farther. Calmet's _Dissertation sur la Parente des Juifs et des Lacedemoniens_, which is included in his Dissertations, Paris, 1720, in 3 vols. 4to, and also in his _Commentaires_.--Stillingfleet's _Origines Sacrae_, book iii., c. 4., who admits the probability that the Spartans had relation to Abraham, as deriving from Phaleg, from whom Abraham came. This appears to have been intended by the expressions of Josephus, [Greek: ex henos genous kai ek tes pros Abramon oikeiotetos] (book xii. c. iv.); but the Versions, and most critics, interpret the words in the 12th chap. of 1 Maccabees, [Greek: ek genous Abraam], as implying that they came from Abraham: see Selden, _de Synedriis_, l. ii. c. iii. s.v.--The Rev. Charles Forster's _Historical Geography of Arabia_, part i. sect. vi., in which he discusses "the vestiges of Arab colonies, and maintains the Arabo-Abrahamic origin of the Greeks."--Stephanus Morinus, in _Diss. de Cognatione Lacedaemoniorum et Hebraeorum_ (inter dissertationes viii. Dordraci, 1700, 8vo.)