[Greswell, in his _Annals of Parisian Typography_, p. 307., says, "The designation _La Mer des Histoires_ seems, as a popular one, to have been given to French chronicles of various descriptions. Two impressions thus entitled appeared Parisiis, post 1500, viz., '_Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France_: extrait en partis de tous les anciens chroniquers, &c. jusqu' au temps de Francois I.,' 2 voll. fol. Galliot du Pres, 1514, 16; and more especially _'La Mer des Hystoires et Croniques de France_: Extraict en partie de tous les anciens croniquers,' 4 voll. fol.--'Le _premier_ volume,' Galliot du pre, 1517; 'Le _second_ volume,' M. le Noir, 1517; 'Le _tiers_ volume,' sine anno et impressoris nomine; 'Le _quatriesme_ liure,' Par. 1518. Panzer says that both these chronicles, of which the latter seems to be an improved edition of the former, are said to have been compiled by Johannes Descourtils, the French king's historiographer."] _"The noiseless Foot of Time."_--Not having by me at present the means of ascertaining, will some one kindly inform me where the above words are to be found in Shakspeare, giving me the exact reference? R. VINCENT. ["Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them." _All's Well that ends Well_, Act V. Sc. 3.] Replies. PASSAGE IN VIRGIL. (Vol. iv., p. 24.) Your correspondent ERYX inquires, in your paper of July 12, whether Servius's interpretation of "Viridesque secant placido æquore silvas." Virg. _Æn._ viii. 96. be correct. I beg to reply that it is not. The interpretations of Servius are almost invariably incorrect; Servius was a very illiterate, ignorant, and narrow-minded man, and totally unable to understand the author whom he attempted to illustrate. His comments on Virgil resemble those which we might expect a hedge schoolmaster in Yorkshire now to make upon Milton. These comments, which are only valuable on account of the mythological traditions which are preserved in them, have been very injurious to the right understanding of Virgil.