It will be seen that the third line, according to the usual pronunciation of the last word, is defective in scanning; that, if derived from _divido_, the vowel in the penultimate syllable would be _i_ and not _a_; and that, even if intended to express the word _divided_, as suggested by one of our commentators, would be too vague and inexpressive. Might I suggest that the derivation is not from the word _divido_, but rather from a compound of the words _divitiæ_ and _do_; the expression "riches-giving shores" not only completing the sense of the passage, but forming a compound not uncommon with our immortal bard. W. S. D. _Bachelor's Buttons._--That should be their name if they exist; but, if so, where are they to be got? I never heard of them. I should think a clever fellow might make a fortune by inventing some kind of substitute which a man without the time, skill, or materials necessary for sewing on a button, might put in the place of a deserter. If you do not insert this Query, may your brace buttons fly off next time you are dressing in a hurry to dine with the grandest people you know! YOUR WELLWISHER. _Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, eldest Sons of the Kings of England._--In the _New Memoirs of Literature_, vol. iv., July, 1726, it was announced that Mr. Bush, one of the Clerks of the Record Office in the Tower, and late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, designed to print a Collection of Charters, Letters Patent, and other instruments concerning the creation and investiture of the eldest sons of the Kings of England as Princes of Wales, Dukes of Cornwall, Earls of Chester and Flint, &c. &c., from the time of Edward, the first Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward II.), to the time of Edward IV. Can any of your correspondents inform me whether such a work ever was published? and who was the editor of the monthly review entitled _New Memoirs of Literature_, which extended to six volumes 8vo.? It contains notices of many old and now rare works, and stopped in December, 1727. G.