Mannin, the Isle of Man, Mana, or Mona, may be thus divided, Man-n-in. Persian, _māna_, a sect of the Magi. Sanscrit, _māna_, to investigate, seek or desire knowledge, to give knowledge, to respect, _revere_, _worship_. A. Saxon _mont-ige_, _Mona_ insula; _monige_, monitiæ; _monigean_, monere, to teach, instruct, &c. Gaelic, _man-ach_, a monk. And lastly, let us not despise tradition, however absurd it may at first sight appear. Among a few legends, I have been told one, probably imperfectly, by a lady; viz. "A man was thrown from the top of a mountain in Mona; and was afterwards, sometimes seen as a sheep in the plain below, sometimes as a goat." Will any person of _Mannin veg veen_ do me the favour of giving the _complete_ legend; with any other legend respecting the peopling of their island? It may throw more light on the _peculiar_ occupation of the Magi. Your's truly, T. R. BROWN. G. W. _fears, with regret, that the_ "PUNCH" _Artist, to whom his learned Correspondent's sketch was forwarded to copy, has been more humourous than correct in its transfer._ DANIEL O'ROURKE. There is a sort of mystery attached to this legend or story, as to the authorship of it, that requires some clearing up. The first time I read it was in T. C. Croker's "Fairy Legends," which appeared in 1825, 3 vols. small 8vo.; but what the editor or writer calls a compressed edition, forms a volume of "Murray's Family Library," and was published in 1834. At page 134 of this latter edition the story commences, as if narrated by Daniel himself, and the writer says, "I knew the man well,--an old man was he at the time _he told me the story_, and it was on the 25th of June, 1813, that _I heard it from his own lips_." All this seems very circumstantial, but it is somewhat singular that this same story, with very slight variation, is to be found in the 18th volume of Dr. Anderson's "Bee," for January, 1794, p. 338, the party communicating it, saying, "The inclosed is genuine, and I honour the _lady_ who had the merit of putting it in writing." There is also some account of its previous publication, communicated in the 34th volume of the "Dublin University Magazine," p. 202, but not having the volume at hand, I do not recollect the particulars, my chief object being to refer to Prior's "Memoir of the Life of Burke," third edition, 1839, at p. 100 of which we are distinctly told that Mr. Doyle, a surgeon, of Dublin, was the _author_ of Daniel O'Rourke's Dream. Now it is right that the real author should not be deprived of the merit of a story, which has even been translated into French, and published in the "Magasin Pittoresque" for 1843, with two humorous wood cuts. A. Oak House. TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. Dublin, March 5th, 1852.