We warn the passenger that so
He move not this stone's bound.
In the year of Our Lord MCCCL."
His tomb, which was remaining thirty years ago, and may be now, is under a large lime-tree at Möllen, near Lubeck.
In Roscoe's German Novelists, vol. i. p. 141. et seq., there are references to several editions in various languages of the adventures of Thyll Eulenspiegel.
J. R. M., A.M.
Biting the Thumb (Vol. vi. pp. 149. 281. 616.).—The lower orders in Normandy and Britanny, and probably in other parts of France, when wishing to express the utmost contempt for a person, place the front teeth of the upper jaw between the nail and flesh of the thumb, the nail being turned inwards: and then, disengaging the thumb with a sudden jerk, exclaim, "I don't care that for you," or words of similar import. Is not this the action alluded to by Shakspeare and other writers, as "biting the thumb?"
Honoré de Mareville.
Guernsey.
Table-turning and Table-talking in Ancient Times (Vol. ix., p. 39.).—I have received from a correspondent in Berlin the subjoined translation of an article which was published in the Neue Preussische Zeitung of January 10: