Yours truly, H. K. SHOVEL BOARD. New York, 14th January, 1852. SIR,--It may possibly be amusing to some of your antiquarian friends to know that we have a game in use here, which I never saw or heard of in England, except in Shakspere's "Merry Wives of Windsor." I allude to Shovel-board, and I can assure you a capital game it is, requiring an eye as quick, and a hand and arm as steady, and much stronger, than billiards, which it somewhat resembles. If you wish it described with the rules of the game, say the word and I'm your man. SS. R. Mr. Willis. _G. W. will be glad to receive the information so kindly offered by his Correspondent._ LATIN AND ITALIAN INSCRIPTION.--At Savona, on the Church of the Virgin Mary, occurs the following inscription:-- IN MARE IRATO, IN TORBIDA PROCELLA, INVOCO TE, NOSTRA BENIGNA STELLA. Each of the words are both Latin and Italian. A. A. MONOGRAM.--The allusion made by your Correspondent C., in your "Current Notes" for February last, p. 11, to my relative Lord Glenelg's signature, reminds me that the letters of the following singular lines, if read backwards, will be found the same as if read in the usual manner. _Signa te, signa, temere me tangis et angis Româ tibi subito motibus ibit amor._ A. A. Bombay, July 16th, 1851. MRS. CRABB. Mr. Butterworth (7, Fleet Street) requests the attention of the readers of G. W.'s "Current Notes" to the distressing case of the Widow of the late Rev. George Crabb, whose death was recorded in the Literary and Scientific Obituary of last month (p. 16). This highly respectable lady was, at the age of 80, left perfectly destitute, had it not been for the sum of £60 immediately forwarded for her relief by the Royal Literary Fund. Some friends have since subscribed about the same amount, and Mr. Butterworth's benevolent object is to raise a sum sufficient to purchase an annuity of £50 per annum for Mrs. Crabb--as the "relict of one who has laboured for nearly half a century in the preparation of works of standard usefulness." TO CORRESPONDENTS.