Lubbock's Elementary Treatise on the Tides.
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Notices to Correspondents.
We hope next week, in addition to many other interesting articles, to lay before our readers a copy of a remarkable and inedited Proclamation of Henry VIII. on the subject of the Translation of the Scriptures; and some specimens of the Rigby Correspondence.
Hercules. The custom (which we hope does not very generally obtain) of sending green ribbons, called willows, tied round bridal cards, to rejected suitors of the bride, is no doubt derived from that alluded to by Shakspeare and Herrick, and especially Fuller, who tell us the willow "is a sad tree, whereof such as have lost their love make their mourning garments."
Robin Hood. A Subscriber would be obliged by H. K. (Vol. vi., p. 597.) giving a precise reference to the Act of the Scotch Parliament prohibiting "the plays and personages of Robin Hood." &c.
C. Mansfield Ingleby will find the proverb "When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's lap," &c., in our Number for the 12th Feb., p. 157.
Viator. The imprecatory Epitaph referred to has already appeared in our columns.