_Essay on the Irony of Sophocles, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 389.).--Three Queries by NEMO: 1. The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, now Bishop of St. David's, is the author of the essay in question. 2. Cicero, _Tusc. Disp._, i. 15. 39.:--_Errare_ mehercule _malo cum Platone ... quam cum istis vera sentire_; (again), Cicero, _ad Attic._, l. viii. ep. 7.:--_Malle_, quod dixerim, me _cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum istis vincere_. 3. The remark is Aristotle's; but the same had been said of Homer by Plato himself: "Aristot. [_Eth. Nicom._ l. i. cap. 6. § 1. ed. Oxon.] is reluctant to criticise Plato's doctrine of _Ideas_, διὰ τὸ φίλους ἄνδρας εἰσαγάγειν τὰ εἴδη: but, he adds, the truth must nevertheless be spoken:--ἀμφοῖν γὰρ ὄντοιν φίλοιν, ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν.] "Plato [_de Repub._, X. cap. 1. p. 595 b.]:--Φιλία τίς με καὶ αἰδὼς ἐκ παιδὸς ἔχουσα περὶ Ὁμήρου ἀποκωλύει λέγειν ... ἀλλ' οὐ γὰρ πρό γε τῆς ἀλήθειας τιμητέος ἄνηρ.]" C. P. PH***. _Achilles and the Tortoise_ (Vol. ii., p. 154.).--S. T. Coleridge has explained this paradox in _The Friend_, vol. iii. p. 88. ed. 1850: a note is subjoined regarding Aristotle's attempted solution, with a quotation from Mr. de Quincey, in _Tate's Mag._, Sept. 1834, p. 514. The passage in _Leibnitz_ which Ἰδιώτης requires, is probably "_Opera_, i. p. 115. ed. Erdmann." C. P. PH***. _Early Rain called "Pride of the Morning"_ (Vol. ii., p. 309.).--In connexion with this I would quote an expression in Keble's _Christian Year_, "On the Rainbow," (25th Sun. after Trin.): "_Pride of the_ dewy _Morning_! The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning, Nor trusts else the gorgeous sky." C. P. PH***. _The Lost Tribes_ (Vol. ii., p. 130.).--JARLTZBERG will find one theory on this subject in Dr. Asahel Grant's book, _The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes_, published by Murray; 12mo. C. P. PH***. "_Noli me Tangere_" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 253. 379.).--There is an exquisite criticism upon the treatment of this subject by various painters, accompanied by an etching from Titian, in that delightful book, Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_, vol. i. pp 354. 360.; and to the list of painters who have illustrated this subject, add _Holbein_, in the Hampton Court Gallery. (See Mrs. Jameson's _Handbook to the Public Galleries_, pp. 172. 353., 1845.) C. P. PH***. "_The Sicilian Vespers_" (Vol. ii., p. 166.).--Your correspondent is referred to _The War of the Sicilian Vespers_, by Amari, translated by the Earl of Ellesmere, published very lately by Murray. C. P. PH***. _Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol ii., pp. 216. 521.)--C. B. says, alluding to JARLTZBERG's references, "there is nothing in Solinus;" I read, however, in Solinus, cap. xv. (fol. 70. ed. Ald. 1518), under the heading, "Thracum mores, etc.":