the waste-book may indeed be a weary waste; but he does not call it so for that reason, any more than he gives poetical names to the day-book or ledger. In short, we must not go to the merchant's counting-house at all to discover its meaning; or, if we do, "the book-keeper and cashier" who makes the Query may refer us to one of the elders, or head of the firm, who, if he be not too proud to own it, may just recollect that his progenitors or predecessors in the _chandler's shop_ made their rough entries in a book which was literally waste. For origins we must look to the lowest forms or types existing. The merchant's system of book-keeping was not invented perfect; and we may see its various stages in the different gradations of trade at the present day. In many respectable shops, in the country especially, the waste-book is formed by a quire or two of the commonest paper used in the particular trade, that will bear pen and ink, sown together. An advance upon this is the waste-book as a distinct book, bound and ruled, of which the day-book or journal is merely a fair copy; and this being made, the former is held of no account. The importance, however, of reference to original entries has no doubt led to the preservation of the "Waste-book" in regular book-keeping, and a modification of its character. S. H. St. John's Wood, April 22. 1851. _Sallust_ (Vol. iii., p. 325.).--May I ask your correspondent whether the following lines in the "Georgics" (iii. 284.), the most exact composition in existence, prove that _they_ were first delivered by word of mouth, from notes only:-- "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, Singula dum capti circumvectamur amore." I might add the passage in Pindar, 4th Pythian, 439.: "Μακρά μοι νεῖσθαι κατ' ἀμαξιτὸν ὥρα γὰρ συνάπτει· καί τινα οἶμον ἴσαμι βραχύν." Such passages are common in all authors. C. B. _Hand-bells at Funerals_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.).--With reference to B.'s remark on the Host being _often_ preceded by a hand-bell, it may more correctly be stated, that the Host, when carried in procession to the sick, is in all Catholic countries _uniformly_ preceded by a bell, in order to warn all persons of its approach, that they may be ready to pay all due reverence as the procession passes. The ringing of the bell on this occasion was first instituted by the Cardinal Guido, who was sent Legate to Germany, to confirm the election of the Emperor Otto. R. R. M. [Query, May not this have been the original _passing_ bell?] "_Laus tua non tua Fraus_," &c. (Vol. i., p. 416.; Vol. ii., p. 77.; Vol. iii., p. 290.).--There is the following allusion to these lines by Question and Answer in the _New Help to Discourse_, published about 1670, p. 102.: