“ABSINTHIUM, [Greek:  apsinthion, aspinthion], Comicis, ab
    insigni amarore quo bibeates illud aversantur."-Junius,
    Nomenclator ap.  Nicot.

    “Absinthites, wormwood wine.—­Hutton’s Dict.

“Hujus modi autem propomatum hodie apud Christianos quoque maximus est et frequentissimus usus, quibus potatores maximi ceu proemiis quibusdam atque praeludiis utuntur, ad dirum illud suum propinandi certamen. Ae maxime quidem commune est proponia absynthites, quod vim habet stomachum corroborandi et extenuandi, expellendique excrementa quae in eo continentur.  Hoc fere propomate potatores hodie maxime ab initio coenae utuntur ceu pharmaco cum hesternae, atque praeteritae, tum futurae ebrietatis, atque crapulae.... amarissimae sunt potiones medicatae, quibus tandem stomachi cruditates immoderato cibo potuque collectas expurgundi cause uti coguntur.”—­Stuckius, Antiquitatae Corviralium.  Tiguri, 1582, fol. 327.

Of the two latest editors, Mr. Knight decides for the river, and Mr. Collier does not decide at all.  Our northern neighbours think us almost as much deficient in philological illustration as in enlarged philosophical criticism on the poet, in which they claim to have shown us the way.

S.W.  SINGER.

Mickleham, Aug. 1850.

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AUTHORS OF THE ROLLIAD.

To the list of subjects and authors in this unrivalled volume, communicated by LORD BRAYBROOKE (Vol. ii., p. 194.), I would add that No.  XXI. Probationary Odes (which is unmarked in the Sunning-hill Park copy) was written by Dr. Laurence:  so also were Nos.  XIII. and XIV., of which LORD BRAYBROOKE speaks doubtfully.  My authority is the note in the correspondence of Burke and Laurence published in 1827, page 21.  The other names all agree with my own copy, marked by the late Mr. A. Chalmers.

In order to render the account of the work complete, I would add the following list of writers of the Political Miscellanies.  Those marked with an asterisk are said “not to be from the club:”—­

    “* Probationary Ode Extraordinary, by Mason.

    The Statesmen, an Eclogue.  Read.

    Rondeau to the Right Honourable W. Eden.  Dr. Laurence.

    Epigrams from the Club.  Miscellaneous.

    The Delavaliad.  Dr. Laurence.

    This is the House that George built.  Richardson.

    Epigrams by Sir Cecil Wray.  Tickell and Richardson.

    Lord Graham’s Diary, not marked.

    * Extracts from 2nd Vol. of Lord Mulgrave’s Essays.

    * Anecdotes of Mr. Pitt.

    Letter from a New Member.

    * Political Receipt Book, &c.

    * Hints from Dr. Pretyman.

    A tale ‘at Brookes’s once,’ &c.  Richardson.

    Dialogue ‘Donec Gratus eram Tibi.’  Lord J. Townshend.