_Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?_ (Vol. iv., p. 100.).--Is it too much to suppose that the learned "Secretary for Forreigne Tongues" was acquainted with the _Paraphrasis poetica Genesios ac præcipuarum sacræ Paginæ Historiarum, abhinc Annos MLXX. Anglo-Saxonicè conscripta, et nunc primum edita a Francisco Junius_, published at Amsterdam in 1655, at least two years before he commenced his immortal poem? Hear Mr. Turner on the subject: "Milton could not be wholly unacquainted with Junius; and if he conversed with him, Junius was very likely to have made Cædmon the topic of his discourse, and may have read enough in English to Milton, to have fastened upon his imagination, without his being a Saxon scholar."--Turner's _Anglo-Saxons_, vol. iii., p. 316. Both Mr. Turner and Mr. Todd, however, appear to lean to the opinion that Milton was not unskilled in Saxon literature, and mention, as an argument in its favour, the frequent quotations from the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ which occur in the History. It is also worthy of note that Alexander Gill, his schoolmaster, and whose friendship Milton possessed in no small degree, had pursued his researches somewhat deep into the "well of English undefiled," as appears from that extremely curious, though little known work, the _Logonomia Anglica_. SAXONICUS. _English Sapphics._--I admired the verses quoted by H. E. H. (Vol. iii., p. 525.) so much that I have had them printed, but unfortunately have no copy by me to send you. I quote them from memory: PSALM CXXXVII. _By a Schoolboy._ "Fast by thy stream, O Babylon! reclining, Woe-begone exile, to the gale of evening Only responsive, my forsaken harp I Hung on the willows. "Gush'd the big tear-drops as my soul remember'd Zion, thy mountain-paradise, my country! When the fierce bands Assyrian who led us Captive from Salem "Claim'd in our mournful bitterness of anguish Songs and unseason'd madrigals of joyance-- 'Sing the sweet-temper'd carols that ye wont to Warble in Zion.' "Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion, Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, Land of my fathers!" O. T. DOBBIN. Hull College.