_Aldus._--What was the inscription on his printing-house, requesting his friends to dispatch their business with him as soon as possible, and then go about their business? A. D. F.R.S. [Over the door of his _sanctum_ Aldus placed the following inscription: "Whoever you are, ALDUS earnestly entreats you to dispatch your business as soon as possible, and then depart; unless you come hither, like another Hercules, to lend him some friendly assistance; for here will be work sufficient to employ you, and as many as enter this place." This inscription was afterwards adopted, for a similar purpose, by the learned Oporinus, a printer of Basil.] "_The last links are broken._"--Who is the author of "The last links are broken?" If they are by Moore, in what part of his works are they to be found? M. C. [This ballad was written by Miss Fanny Steers.] _Under Weigh or Way._--Does a ship on sailing get under "weigh," or under "way?" E. S. T. T. [Webster and Falconer are in favour of _way_. The latter says, "The _way_ of a ship is the course or progress which she makes on the water under sail. Thus, when she begins her motion, she is said to be under way; and when that motion increases, she is said to have fresh way through the water; whereas, _to weigh_ (_lever l'ancre_, _appareiller_) is to heave up the anchor of a ship from the ground, in order to prepare her for sailing."] _The Pope's Eye._--Why is it that the piece of fat in the middle of a leg of mutton is called the "Pope's eye?" J. D. G. [Boyer, in his _French Dictionary_, explains it: "Le morceau gras d'une éclanche ou d'un gigot de mouton." Others have derived it from _popa_, which seems originally to have denoted that part of the _fat_ of the victim separated from the thigh in sacrificing; and in process of time, the priest who sacrificed.] _"History is Philosophy," &c._--What is the exact source of the often repeated passage, "History is philosophy teaching by examples?" I am aware that it is commonly attributed to Bolingbroke, but a distinguished literary friend tells me that he cannot find it in Bolingbroke's writings, and suspects that, as is the case with some other well-known sayings, its paternity is unknown. T. [In the _Encyclopædia Metropolitana_, vol. ix., p. 13., this passage is attributed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus.] Replies. COVERDALE'S BIBLE. (Vol. v., pp. 59., 109.)