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Notices to Correspondents.
In consequence of our having to publish the present Number on Thursday instead of Friday, we have been compelled to omit several highly interesting articles, our Notes on Books, &c.
A. X. Nineveh is said to have been destroyed by fire, when taken by the Medes and Babylonians. The date of this is fixed by Clinton, in his Fasti Hell., vol. i. p. 269., at 606 B.C. Layard (Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 161.) also adopts this date.
B. N. C. The words "à secretis," in the passage quoted, signify that the party alluded to was a member of the Privy Council.
J. G. B., who asks if Monkey is not derived from Homunculus, is referred to Skinner, who derives it from Monikin, or Manikin, i. e. Homunculus.
H. H. B. (St. Lucia). The wishes of our Correspondent shall be attended to.
T. Massey (Manchester) is referred to Richardson's Dictionary, s. v. with, within, without, for a solution of his Query. Nisi Prius are the first words on certain legal records, where an issue is appointed to be tried by a jury from the county, unless before the day appointed (nisi prius) the judges shall have come to the county in question. The judges of assize, by virtue of their commission of nisi prius, try the causes thus appointed.
E., who asks the origin of "Mind your P's and Q's," is referred to our 3rd Vol., pp. 328. 357. 463. 523.