A rather battered Purchas's _Pilgrim_ minus its title-page came into our hands recently. It appears to be the second edition, but the only actual indication of date that we can discover is to be found in the following passage, on which by a happy chance we lighted while turning over the pages of the book. "Sultan Achmet is now, Anno 1613, five and twentie yeares old: of good stature, strong and active more than any of his Court. He hath three thousand Concubines." We cannot help believing that someone had been pulling the Reverend Samuel Purchas's leg on the subject of young Sultan Achmet's harem. * * * * * The other day we bought a charming little first edition of _Candide_ (1759). The title-page is amusing: "Candide, ou l'Optimisme, traduit de l'Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph"; no publisher or place, but the date MDCCLIX. It was often Voltaire's custom not to acknowledge his publications till they were a success. _Zadig_ (1749) is similarly without author's or publisher's name. * * * * * Perhaps some of our readers may be able to throw some light on a curious and interesting book, _Specimens of Macaronic Poetry_, published by J. Richard Beckley in 1831. The volume contains epics written on a single letter, like that which begins: Cattorum canimus certemina clara canumque, Odes in this style: Emma! fer chartam, calamos, et inkum, And the old Scottish Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy, of which the first stanza runs: I Master Andro Kennedy, A matre quando sum vocatus, Begotten with some incuby, Or with some freir infatuatus; In faith I can nocht tell redely, Unde aut ubi fui natus, But in truth I trow trewely. Quod sum diabolus incarnatus. No author's name is given and we have had no time or opportunity to make researches. But perhaps, as we have suggested, some of our readers may be able to give us the information desired. * * * * *