“The slipper of Cinderella,” says the editor of the new edition of Warton “finds a parallel in the history of the celebrated Rhodope.” Cinderella is a tale of universal currency. An ancient Danish ballad has some of the incidents. It is popular among the Welch—also among the Poles—in Hesse and Swerhn. Schottky found it among the Servian fables. Rollenbagen in his Froschmauseler speaks of it as the tale of the despised {577} Aschen-possel. Luther mentions it. It is in the Italian Pentamerone under the title of Cenerentola. * * * * * Porphyry, than whom no one could be better acquainted with the theology of the ancients, acknowledged Vesta, Rhea, Ceres, Themis, Priapus, Proserpina, Bacchus, Attis, Adonis, Silenus, and the Satyrs to be one and the same. * * * * * Servius on Virgil's Æneid speaks of a _bearded_ Venus. The poet Calvus in Macrobius speaks of Venus as masculine. Valerius Soranus among other titles calls Jupiter the _Mother_ of the Gods. * * * * * In Suidas is a letter from Dionysius, the Areopagite, dated Heliopolis, in the fourth year of the 202d Olympiad (the year of Christ's crucifixion) to his friend Apollophanes, in which is mentioned a total eclipse of the sun at noon. “Either,” says Dionysius “the author of nature suffers, or he sympathizes with some who do.” * * * * * The most particular history of the Deluge, and the nearest of any to the account given by Moses is to be found in Lucian (De Dea Syria.) * * * * * The Greeks had no historian prior to Cadmus Milesius, nor any public inscription of which we can be certified, before the laws of Draco. * * * * * So great is the uncertainty of ancient history that the epoch of Semiramis cannot be ascertained within 1535 years, for according to Syncellus, she lived before Christ 2177, Patavius, ' ' ' ' 2060, Helvicus, ' ' ' ' 2248, Eusebius, ' ' ' ' 1984, Mr. Jackson, ' ' ' 1964, Archbishop Usher, ' ' 1215, Philo-Biblius from Sanconiathon, 1200, Herodotus about ' ' ' 713. * * * * * The book of Jasher, said to have been preserved from the deluge by Noah, but since lost, was extant in the time of Joshua, and in the time of David. Mr. Bryant thinks, however, very justly, that the ten tables of stone were the first written characters. The book of Jasher is mentioned Joshua x. 13, and 2 Samuel i. 18. * * * * * Andrè Chenier, imprisoned during the French Revolution, began thus some lines on his unhappy situation,