_Hornchurch_ (Vol. v., p. 106.).--Permit me to call the attention of your correspondents to some other peculiarities relating to Hornchurch. There once, I believe, were (are there now?) a pair of horns over the east window of the church; thence the name is probably derived. The great tithes were once the property of the monks of the celebrated monastery of St. Bernard in Savoy. Are not the horns connected with the arms of Savoy? New College received the great tithes directly from the monks, and have in their possession the license from the crown to alienate. A. HOLT WHITE. _Buzz_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--Corruption of _bouse_ or _booze_, to drink to excess. In Scotland they say "bouse a'," drink all. J. R. J. "_Buzz_," _to empty the Bottle_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--The connexion between this and the drunken man, "with his head full of bees" (Vol. iv., p. 308.), must strike every thoughtful reader! A. A. D. _Melody of the Dying Swan_ (Vol. v., p. 107.).--A reference to Platon's _Phædon_, p. 84. sub fin., with Fischer's note, forms a tolerable answer to a Query on this subject. Fischer says-- "De cantu cygnorum, qui jam multis veterum fabulosus, v. _Lucian. de Electro_, c. 5.; _Ælian. H.A._ ii. 32.; xi. 1.; xiv. 13.; _Pausan._, i. 30.; _Eutecnius Paraphr. Ixeut. Oppian._, p. 78. 5.; _Eustathius ad Il._ βʹ., p. 254., aliosque qui a Jac. Thomasio laudati sunt in libelli singulari de cantu cygnorum." [Where is this to be heard of?] Add Arist. _H.A._, viii. 11.; Ovid. _Heroid._ vii. 1.; Hesiod. _Sc._ 316.; _Æsch. Ag._ 1444. A. A. D. _"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is but a Step"_ (Vol. v., p. 100.).--In MR. BREEN'S interesting article entitled "Idées Napoléoniennes" (p. 100.), is the following passage: "It will be seen that the original saying has undergone a slight modification, Longinus making the transition a gradual one, κατ' ὀλίγον, while Blair, Payne, and Napoleon make it but 'a step.'" Now there is nothing in the whole range of scholarship and philology that requires more tender handling than the Greek preposition, unless it be the prepositional adverb, which results from the combination of a preposition with an adjective. I would not be so bold as to assert that κατ' ὀλίγον does _not_ mean "gradually, by little and little." I feel convinced that I have seen it so used before now; but I beg to submit that in the powerful passage quoted from Longinus it can only mean "_presently, at once, with little_" delay or interval. The purport of the passage seems to be this:--[The instances which I have cited] "exhibit rather a turbid diction, and a confused imagery, than a striking and forcible discourse. For, take them one by one, and hold them up to the light, and what first looked terrible shall _presently_ take its true colour, and appear contemptible."