To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains unsupplied. Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for repeating the inquiry.
G.A.C.
Ancient motto.
Many years since I read that some pope or emperor caused the following, or a motto very similar to it, to be engraven in the centre of his table:—
"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam accumbere indignus est."
It being a maxim which all should observe in the daily intercourse of life, and in the propriety of which all must concur, I send this to "NOTES AND QUERIES" (the long wished-for medium), in the hopes that some kind "note-maker" can inform me from whence this motto is taken, and to whom ascribed.
J.E.M.
Works of King Alfred.
Sir,—If any of your readers can inform me of MSS. of the Works of Kings Alfred the Great, besides those which are found in the larger public collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not only on the Alfred Committee, who propose to publish a complete edition of King Alfred's Works, but also on their Secretary, who is your obedient servant,
J.A. GILES.