This edition of the book does not appear to have been known to Sir Alexander Croke: I will therefore give the general precepts for the twelve months which are prefixed to it. "Januarius { Ante cibum vina { tu sumas pro medicina. Februarius { Non minuas, non balnearis, { Mala ne patiaris. Marcius { Hic assature { tibi sunt balnea quoque cure. Aprilis { Ut vivas sane minuas venam { Medicinam. Mayus { Carnes arescentes { non sume sed recentes. Junius { Sanus eris totus { si fons erit tibi potus. Julius { Ut tua te vita { non vitas balnea vita. Augustus { Potio te lædit { te quippe minutio sedat. September { Tempore Septembris { prodest agrimonia membris. October { Sumere que potes { et musti pocula potes. { Hoc tibi scire datur November { quod reuma Novembri curatur, { Potio sit sana { atque minutio bona. December { Sit tepidus potus { frigori contrarie totus." Such were the popular dietetics, and the almanacks were made the vehicle of communicating them. As late as the year 1659, Edmund Gayton, author of the _Festivous Notes on Don Quixote_, put forth a book in verse entitled _The Art of Longevity, or a Dietetical Institution_. He had graduated in physic at Oxford, but in his book he plays the part of a Merry Andrew more than that of a physician. The book, however, is curious as well as rare. S. W. SINGER. EPIGRAM ON DR. FELL. (Vol. v., pp. 296. 333.) Your correspondent E. F. may very probably have been informed, by ladies intimate with the Sheridan family, that Tom Sheridan composed the lines on Dr. Fell, respecting whose author and subject inquiries were made by a querist in page 296.; but it is nevertheless quite untrue. My memory of those lines goes back to a date earlier than Tom Sheridan's capacity for writing an epigram; and this on Dr. Fell may be found, if memory does not deceive me, in the _Elegant Extracts in Verse_, of a date at least as early as Tom Sheridan's work. The subject of the epigram was Dr. Fell, who held the deanery of Christ Church with the bishopric of Oxford, in the times of Charles II. and James II. Its author probably put it into circulation anonymously, as is usual with such brief specimens of personal satire. As lodged in my memory, the third line was,-- "But this I'm sure I know full well."