"I talk as glib, Methinks, as he that _farms the monuments_." The dean and chapter, however, in those days were more moderate in their demands, for the price of admission was but one penny to the whole. "This grant was made to the chapter in 1597, on condition that, receiving the benefit of the exhibition of the monuments, they should keep the same monuments always clean," &c.--See _Reply from the Dean and Chapter to an Order of the House of Commons_, 1827. BLOWEN. _Turning the Tables._--In Bingley's _Useful Knowledge_, under the head of MAPLE, I chanced to hit upon the following the other day: "By the Romans maple wood, when knotted and veined, was highly prized for furniture. When boards large enough for constructing tables were found, the extravagance of purchasers was incredible: to such an extent was it carried, that when a Roman accused his wife of expending his money on pearls, jewels, or similar costly trifles, she used to retort, and turn the tables on her husband. Hence our expression of 'turning the tables.'" Can any of your kind contributors supply a better derivation? [Omega]. [Phi]. * * * * * Queries. AUTHORS OF THE ROLLIAD--PURSUITS OF LITERATURE. I cannot doubt but that many of your readers feel with me under great obligations to your very able and obliging correspondents, LORD BRAYBROOKE and MR. MARKLAND, for the information afforded us upon the subject of the writers of the Rolliad. And, though not many of them are, probably, sufficiently old to remember as I do--if not the actual publication of that work, yet, at least, the excitement produced by its appearance--I apprehend that the greater number are aware that it really did produce a great sensation; and that, as with the _Letters of Junius_ before it, and the _Pursuits of Literature_ subsequently, public curiosity for a long time busied itself in every direction to detect the able and daring authors. With this impression, I have been not a little surprised to find, since the notice of the work in your pages, that I have failed in tracing any account of it in the two books to which I naturally turned, the _Gentleman's Magazine_ and Nichols' _Literary Anecdotes_. Very thankful therefore should I be if any of our correspondents would direct my inquiries to a better channel, and particularly if they would guide me to information respecting the authors,--for here I am completely at fault. I allude more especially to Richardson, Tickell, and General Fitzpatrick; who, I doubt not, were men of such notoriety and standing in their day, that "not to know them, argues myself unknown." And yet, humiliating as is this acknowledgment, it is far better to make it than to remain in ignorance; for the case can surely not be one "where ignorance is bliss," and where, consequently, "'tis folly to be wise."