"A witty rogue, the other day, who sent me a letter subscribed 'Detector,' proved me guilty of stealing a passage from one of Vida's Latin poems, which I had never seen or heard of; yet there was so strong a general resemblance as fairly to authorise 'Detector's' suspicion." Lockhart remarks thereupon: "The lines of Vida which 'Detector' had enclosed to Scott, as the obvious original of the address to 'Woman' in _Marmion_, closing with-- "'When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!' "end as follows: and it must be owned that if Vida had really written them, a more extraordinary example of casual coincidence could never have been pointed out. "'Cum dolor atque supercilio gravis imminet angor, Fungeris angelico sola ministerio.' "'Detector's' reference is Vida _ad Eranen_, El. ii. v. 21.; but it is almost needless to add there are no such lines, and no piece bearing such a title in Vida's works. 'Detector' was, no doubt, some young college wag; for his letter has a Cambridge post-mark." It may interest to know that the author of this clever hoax was Henry I. T. Drury, then, I think, of King's College, Cambridge, and afterwards one of the Masters at Harrow. The lines will be found in the _Arundines Cami_. W. T. M. Hong Kong. Queries. IRISH QUERIES. 1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the _Post-Invasion Annals of the IV. Masters_, vol. iii. p. 2091. note, says that he "intends to publish a review of Spenser's _View of the State of Ireland_, in which he will give him full credit for his discernment of abuses, and expose all his intentional figments." Query, Has this review since appeared in any Irish periodical, or other publication? 2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly be the _identity_?) between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of William, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during Henry III.'s minority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of King Edward I.? 3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely indebted to any one who will inform him of the existence of a set of Middle-Age Maps of the countries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, published in England, _France_, or _Germany_, in print, or easily to be had second-hand, _more or less accurate_. Koch's _Révolutions de l'Europe_, tome iii., Paris, 1814, gives seven maps of the whole continent and its adjacent islands, at the following periods of Middle-Age history: (1.) Avant l'Invasion des Barbares; (2.) Vers la Fin du Ve Siècle; (3.) Sous l'Empire de Charlemagne; (4.) Vers la Fin du IXe Siecle; (5.) Vers 1074; (6.) Vers 1300: (7.) A l'An 1453;