"Eos, Ἠώς, in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. At the close of night she ascended up to the heaven from the river Oceanus to announce the coming light of the sun to the gods as well as to men. In the Homeric poems, Eos not only announces the coming Helios (the sun), but accompanies him throughout the day, and her career is not complete till the evening: hence she is sometimes mentioned when one would have expected Helios (_Od._ v. 390. x. 144.); and the tragic writers completely identify her with Hemera (the day), of whom, in later times the same mythes are related as of Eos." As Aurora rises from the river Oceanus, he may be called her _father_, and as she sinks into the same, he may be called her _grave_. The expression then will mean neither more nor less than this, "We returned home before the close of day." Perhaps Mr. Tennyson had a line of Lycidas running in his mind: "So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed." Milton's day-star, however, I take to be the sun himself. Another of your correspondents, I see, suggests a different interpretation of the "crimson-circled star." I hope I shall not be considered as taking too great a liberty if I avail myself of the medium of your pages to request Mr. Tennyson (deus ex machinâ) to descend and settle the question. X. Z. _Cardinal Azzolin_ (Vol. iii., pp. 370. 371.).--Cardinal Azzolini was appointed by Alexander VII. Intendant to Queen Christina on her receiving a pension of 12,000 scudi from that Pope. On the withdrawal of this grant by Innocent XI., her majesty wrote a furious letter to the Cardinal, which is one of the most curious pieces contained in a _Collection of Letters_, edited by M. Matter (Paris, chez Amiot). That a close intimacy existed between the Queen and the Cardinal appears from some allusions in contemporary letters (1685-1687). See M. Valéry's _Correspondence de Mabillon et de Montfaucon avec l'Italie_ (Paris, 1846), vol. i. p. 99.: "La Reine de Suède, grande amie du Cardinal Azzolin" ... vol. ii. p. 83.: "Il n'y a plus de différend qu'entre le marquis Del Monte et le Cardinal Azzolin [_sic_], à qui aura meilleure _part dans les bonnes grâces de la Reine pendant sa vie_, et dans son testament après sa mort." The editor adds (vol. iii. p. 298.): "Le Cardinal Azzolini fut _le principal héritier de Christine_." C. P. Ph***. _Babington's Conspiracy_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--In Dr. Maitland's _Index of English Books in the Lambeth Library_ will be found the following entry: "* Babington (Anthony), His Letter to the Queen. No place, printer, or date." The asterisk denotes that it is not mentioned by Herbert in his edition of Ames. This, I believe, will be a satisfactory answer to J. BT.'s Query.