_Mind your P's and Q's_ (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 357.).--This phrase was, I believe, originally "Mind your _toupées_ and your _queues_,"--the _toupée_ being the artificial locks of hair on the head, and the _queue_ the pigtail of olden time. There used to be an old riddle as follows:--Who is the best person to keep the alphabet in order?--Answer: A barber, because he ties up the _queue_, and puts _toupées_ in irons. NEDLAM. "_Lay of the Last Minstrel_" (Vol. iii., p. 367.).--The BORDERER, with whom, I fancy, every one will fully agree, has himself been guilty of _incuria_ in charging it upon Walter Scott. The great festival at which Michael Scott marches off with the Goblin Page, was to celebrate, not the _nuptials_, but the _betrothal_, of the hero and heroine. I do not think I have read the _Lay_ since I was a boy; but yet I will bet five nothings to one, that the following lines are spoken by the Lady, when she gives way, as she says, to Fate:-- "For this is your betrothing day, And all these noble lords shall stay And grace it with their company." It would be an excellent thing if some of your correspondents would furnish you with materials for a corner, to be entitled, "The Prophecy of Criticism." It should give, by short extract, those presages in which criticism abounds, taken from the Reviews of twenty years or more preceding the current year. Thus, in this year of 1851, the corner should be open to any prophecy uttered in or before 1831, and palpably either fulfilled or falsified. In a little while, when the subject begins to cool, the admission should be restricted to prophecy of precisely twenty years of previous date. Such a corner would be useful warning to critics, and useful knowledge to their readers. M. _Tingry_ (Vol. ii., p. 477.).--In reply to E.V.'s Query, if there is any place in the north of France bearing that name, I may inform him that Tingry is a commune near Samer, in the arrondissement of Boulogne. Tingry Hill is the highest spot in the neighbourhood. In the Boulogne Museum are several mediæval antiquities found at Tingry. P. S. KG.