_Epitaph on Dr. Humphrey Tindall_ (Vol. iii., p. 422.).--The epitaph in Killyleagh churchyard is not unlike the following inscription on the tomb of Umphrey Tindall, D.D., Dean of Ely and President of Queen's College, Cambridge, who died Oct 12, 1650, in his sixty-fifth year, and is buried in the south aisle of the choir of Ely Cathedral:-- "In presence, government, good actions, and in birth, Grave, wise, courageous, noble, was this earth; The poor, the Church, the College say, here lies A friend, a Dean, a Master, true, good, wise." K. C. Cambridge. _Specimens of Composition._--In the current (June) number of the _Eclectic Review_ there is a critique on Gilfillan's _Bards of the Bible_, the writer of which indulges in the use of several most inelegant, extraordinary, and unpardonable expressions. He speaks of "spiritual monoptotes," &c., as if all his readers were as learned as he himself professes to be: but the climax of his sorry literary attempt is as follows: "Over the whole literature of modern times there is a feeling of reduced inspiration, milder possession, relaxed orgasmus, tabescent vitality, spiritual collapse."--P. 725. What would the author of the _Spectator_ have thought of a writer who could unblushingly parade before the literary public such words as "relaxed orgasmus," "tabescent vitality," "monoptotes," &c.? J. H. KERSHAW. _Burke's "mighty Boar of the Forest."_--It has been much canvassed, what induced Burke to call Junius the "mighty boar of the forest." In the thirteenth book of the _Iliad_ I found that Idomeneus, when awaiting the attack of Æneas, is compared to the "boar of the mountains." I think it therefore probable that Burke applied the comparison (quoting, from memory) to Junius. Perhaps you will not think this trifle unworthy of a place among the "Notes." KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE. Queries. QUERIES ON TENNYSON. I should be much obliged to any of your correspondents who would explain the following passages of Tennyson: 1. _Vision of Sin_ (_Poems_, p. 361.): "God made himself an awful rose of dawn." 2. _Vision of Sin_ (_Poems_, p. 367.): "Behold! it was a crime Of sense avenged by sense that wore with time." 3. _In Memoriam_, p. 127.: "Over those ethereal eyes The bar of Michael Angelo." (Coleridge, _Introduction to Second Lay Sermon_, p. xxvi., says: "Whose ample foreheads, with the weighty bar, ridge-like, above the eye-brows, bespoke observation followed by meditative thought:" but why the allusion to Michael Angelo?) [Is our correspondent aware that the "_Bar_ of Michael Angelo" has already formed the subject of a Query from MR. SINGER. See our 2nd Vol., p. 166.] 4. _The Princess_, p. 66.: "Dare we dream of that, I ask'd, Which wrought us, as the workman and his work, That practice betters."