"No finer or pithier Examples than in y'e excellent Comedies and Tragedies following, full of sweet and wise discourse. A notable Dictionarie for the Grammer." * * * * * "Ut de hac Terentii tralatione sentirem honorificentius; fecit Aldus exquisita editio." I thought these notes worth transcribing, not only as showing the attention paid by the learned students of this time to _the drama_, as well ancient as modern, but more especially for the mention made of the _Jocasta_ of George Gascoigne, and the _Antigone_ of Sophocles, translated, as he says, by Watson, Bishop of Worcester, and not by Thomas Watson, as Warton supposed. It may be doubted whether this translation was into English; but Harvey seems to imply that it was acted, as well as the Jocasta. Bishop Watson was celebrated for his dramatic skill, in his Latin tragedy of _Absalon_, by Roger Ascham, who says,-- "When M. Watson, in St. John's College at Cambridge, wrote his excellent Tragedie of Absalon, M. Cheke, he, and I, had many pleasant talkes togither, in comparing the preceptes of Aristotle and Horace with the examples of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca.... M. Watson had another maner of care of perfection, with a feare and reverence of the judgement of the best learned: who to this day would neuer suffer yet his Absalon to go abroad, and that onelie bicause (_in locis paribus_) _Anapæstus_ is twise or thrise used instead of _Iambus_." In a volume in the Bodleian Library marked Z. 3., Art. "Selden," is "The Life of Howleglas," printed by Copland: at the bottom of the last page is the following MS. note: "This Howleglasse, with Scoggin, Skelton, and (L----zario----?) given me at London of M. Spenser, xx Decembris, 1578, on condition y't I shoold bestowe y'e readinge on them, on or before y'e first day of January immediately ensuinge: otherwise to forfeit unto him my Lucian in fower volumes. Whereupon I was y'e rather induced to trifle away so many howers as were idely overpassed in running through y'e aforesaid foolish bookes; wherein methought y't not all fower together seemed comparable for fine and crafty feates with Jon Miller, whose witty shiftes and practises are reported among Skelton's Tales." Mr. Malone, from whose memoranda I copy this, says, "I suspect it is Gabriel Harvey's handwriting." I have a copy of the Organon of Aristotle in Greek, which bears marks of Gabriel Harvey's diligent scholarship. It is copiously annotated and analysed by him when a student at Cambridge, and he has registered the periods at which he completed the study of each part. S. W. SINGER. Mickleham, Aug. 15. 1851. THE ANTIQUITY OF KILTS.