The evening star in a summer twilight is seen surrounded with the glow of sunset, "crimson-circled." The rose, too, was a flower sacred to Venus, which might justify the epithet. But I suppose the blush of the sky was what the poet thought of at such a moment. Venus sinking into the sea, which in setting she would appear to do,--falls into the _grave of Uranus_,--her father, according to the theory of Hesiod (190). The part cast into the sea, from which Aphrodite sprung, is here taken, by a becoming license (which softens the grossness of the old tradition), for the whole; so that the ocean, beneath the horizon of which the evening star sinks, may be well described by the poet as "_her_ father's grave." That Venus is meant, the gender of the pronoun relating to the star seems to prove beyond a doubt; there being no other sufficiently important to occur in a picture of this kind, to which a female name is given. V. Belgravia, June 12. 1851. _The second King of Nineveh who burned his Palace_ (Vol. iii., p. 408).--D. X. will find all that is known of this king in the Armenian version of Eusebius's _Chronicle_, 53., and in the _Chronographia_ of Georgius, Syncellus (and subsequently Patriarch) of Constantinople, p. 210. B. The former gives as his authority Abydenus, and the latter Polyhistor. Both passages will be found in Cory's _Ancient Fragments_. The Median king is called in both Astyages, and not Cyaxares; but the date of the catastrophe being fixed by Ptolemy's Canon in 625 B. C., the reviewer, I suppose, considered himself justified in altering the name to that of the king who appears from Herodotus to have governed Media at that date. E. H. D. D. _Legend in Frettenham Church_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--Your correspondent C. J. E. may find some account of the legend illustrated on the walls of Frettenham Church in the _Calendar of the Anglo-Catholic Church_, from which it appears that St. Eligius, Eloy, or Loye, is the hero of the incident. He was the patron of blacksmiths, farriers, &c.; and accomplished, on one occasion, the shoeing of a refractory horse by amputating the leg; and the operation performed, he replaced the severed member. Doubtless, as C. J. E. suggests, the shoeing might have been effected without so much periphrasis; but perhaps the saint intended to teach the animal docility, and inspire the spectators with a more palpable proof of his supernatural powers, than the performance of the operation by his mere _ipse dixit_ would have afforded. The church of Durweston, Dorsetshire, is named in his honour, and a rude sculpture over the doorway commemorates the incident. C. A.