Mûsu têvs debbesîs, svêtîts lai tôp tavs vârds, lai nâk tava valstiba; tavs prâts lai noteek, ka debbesîs ta arridzan zemmes virzû; mûsû deeni[=s]ku maiz dôd mums [=s]odeen; un pametti mums mûsu parradus, ka arrimês pamettam saveem parradneekeem; un ne ceveddi mûs eek[=s] kârdina[=s]anas, bet atpesti mûs no ta launa. MONUMENTAL BUST OF SHAKSPEARE. Mr. T. Kite, the parish clerk of Stratford-on-Avon, has recently completed a copy in imitation stone from a cast of the monumental bust of Shakspeare, which appears to me, after a very close and minute comparison, to be a far more faithful transcript of the original than any of the kind hitherto accessible to the public. It gives in detail most accurately those peculiarities which led Sir F. Chantrey to the opinion that the artist worked from a cast made after death; and if you would kindly spare a few lines of your paper for a paragraph to that effect, I feel sure you would not only confer a benefit on Shakspearian collectors, but at the same time pay a just tribute to Mr. Kite, for the intelligent pains he has bestowed upon the work. It is scarcely necessary to say an accurate copy of the Stratford bust is the best memorial of Shakspeare the public can possess, it being so much superior in authenticity to any other resemblance. J. O. HALLIWELL. Stratford on Avon, Oct. 15. NOTES ON PASSAGES IN VIRGIL. I. "Acti Fatis."--_Virg. Æn. I. 36._ "Si _fatis_, nulla Junonis invidia est. Si Junonis invidiâ fatigabantur quomodo dicit _acti fatis_? Sed hoc ipsum Junonis odium fatale est. Agebantur _fatis_ Junonis, i.e. _voluntate_; vel _fatis_, pro _malis_, ut iii. 182."--SERVIUS. "Non tam quoniam hoc Junonis odium fatale erat, ut Servius; sed potius, quoniam hi ipsi Trojanorum, errores fatales erant."--HEYNE. Not only these two, but all other commentators and translators, as far as I know, have wholly mistaken the meaning of this passage, which is not _that the Trojans were_ jactati, fatigati, or agitati, _harassed, or driven hither and thither by the fates_, (_actus_ being never used in the sense assigned to it in such interpretation), but simply that they were _driven onward, or toward Latium, by the fates_ (acti fatis); while at the same time they were _driven backward, or from Latium, by Juno_, (arcebat longe Latio). The result was "multos per annos errabant maria omnia circum:" words could not more clearly express the opposition of the forces between which the Trojans were placed; an opposition on which hangs the whole action of the poem. The _invidia_ of Juno, concerning which Servius queries, was manifested by her using her utmost exertions to prevent the Trojans from arriving at the place toward which they were impelled by the fates, _i.e._ at which it was fated they should arrive.