"Lett me not thinke once of the smalest thought May speake of less then of the greatest gref, Wher every sence with sorrowes overwrought Lives but in death, dispayring of relef, While thus the harte with torments torne asunder Maye of the worlde be cal'd the wofull wonder." These two stanzas are by no means favourable specimens of the entire poem, but I prefer to give them, because the work itself may be printed. If it appears, on inquiry, to be still inedited, I may venture to submit a few other extracts from it of a more illustrative character. Our bibliographers would be more useful guides, were they always to give the first lines of old poems. I have a tolerably good library, but can find no work sufficiently descriptive of Breton's works to enable me to trace the above. H. THE VIRTUOSI, OR ST. LUKE'S CLUB. Where is to be found that intensely interesting MS. Lot 120., Sixth Day's Sale, at Strawberry Hill, a _folio tract_ entitled _The "Virtuosi," or St. Luke's Club, held at the Rose Tavern, first established by Sir Anthony Vandyke; with Autographs of all the eminent Artists of the day_? Such is the account of Mr. George Robins, to the sound of whose hammer it fell, let us hope, into worthy hands. By the aid of a note made whilst the several precious contents of that "Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome," as I think Pope described it, were on view, I hope to whet the appetite of some of our literary vultures: "Rose Tavern, Mar. 5. 1697. "An order for raising an annual fund for pictures; with twenty names of stewards." What say you, Mr. Editor, to such subscribing parties as, among others, "Grinling Gibbons, Michael Dahl, J. Closterman, and Christopher Wren?" I cannot remember more, but I think "Alex. Verrio" was among them. Mem. the second: as entries in a sort of journal: "That our steward, John Chicheley, Esquire, gave us this day a Westphalia Ham, which had been omitted in his entertainment on St. Luke's day." Again: "Paid and spent at Spring Gardens, by Knightsbridge, forfeiture £3 15_shgs._" Why, Mr. Editor, here are the new Roxburgh Revels of the Knights of the Brush and Palette. And now that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day is expected to take out his diploma, and the ex-Premier is to be the new Professor of Perspective, _vice_ the author of the _Fallacies of Hope_, it becomes a question of prevailing interest, which I commend to the research of your dilettanti querists. It may be a thread of connexion with those stores of precious materials obtained by Walpole from the widow of that persevering investigator George Virtue. J. H. A. THE RABBIT AS A SYMBOL.