_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Franciscus_ (Vol. i., p. 385.).--Your correspondent JARLTZBERG may find a copy of the _Wyngaert_ in the library of the _Maatschappij van Letterkunde_ (Lit. Soc.) in Leyden, and may read an account of the work in vol. ii. pp. 151, 152. of the _Society's Transactions_. The copy in my possession is entitled _Den Wyngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol_ [not _van_] _schoone historien, legenden en deuchdelycke leeringhen allen menschen seer profytelyck_. Like most of the works issued from the press of Eckert van Hombach, it is well printed on good paper; the leaves (not the _pages_) are numbered up to 418, and besides there are six leaves without pagination for the index, as well as three for the prologue, in which we learn why the work was called _Wyngaert_. All the copies I have met with bear the date 1518, though in Hultman's _Catalogue_, p. 20. No. 92., we find 1578, probably an error of the printer. In J. Koning's _Catalogue_, 1833, p. 17. No. 59., we are referred to Bauer, _Bibl. libr. rar._, vol. iv. p. 301.; and to the _Catalogue raisonné_ de Crevenna, vol. v. p. 85., where we read: "Ce volume contient les vies des Saints de l'ordre de St. Franciscus, précédées de celle de son instituteur, _et n'est point une traduction_ du Livre des Conformités (_Liber Conformitatum_), quoiqu'il est probable qu'on ait pris beaucoup de ce livre." Van Bleyswijk, in his _Description of Delft_, vol. i. p. 339., says,-- "The Franciscans bought up the work, in order to suppress and destroy it: it is therefore no wonder that copies of it are scarce." Unless you read it, says Professor Ackersdijck, in his _Archief voor Kerk. Gesch._, you will hardly conceive it possible for any one to write such a mass of folly and absurdity. V. D. N. NAVORSCHER, p. 179. June, 1851. _Meaning of Tick_ (Vol. iii., p. 357.).--The following anecdote, as characteristic of the individual as illustrative of the above Query, may perhaps be considered deserving a corner in your Journal:-- "A well-meaning friend calling one morning on Richard B. Sheridan, wound up a rather prosy exordium on the propriety of domestic economy, by expressing a hope, that the pressure of some difficulties from which he had been temporarily removed, would induce a more cautious arrangement in future. "Sheridan listened with great gravity, and thanking his visitor, assured him that he never felt so happy, as all his affairs were now proceeding with the _regularity of clockwork_, adding (with a roguish twinkle of the eye, and giving his arm the oscillating motion of a pendulum), 'Tick, tick, tick!' It is needless to add, the Mentor took a hasty leave of his witty but incorrigible companion." M. W. B.