Suecas.
Mob (Vol. viii., p. 524.).—I have always understood that this word was derived from the Latin expression mobile vulgus, which is, I believe, in Virgil.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
"Days of my Youth" (Vol. viii., p. 467.).—In answer to the inquiry made a few months since, whether Judge St. George Tucker, of Virginia, was the author of the lines beginning—
"Days of my youth."
the undersigned states that he was a friend and relative of Judge Tucker, and knows him to have been the author. They had a great run at the time, and found their way not only into the newspapers, but even into the almanacs of the day.
G. T.
Philadelphia.
Encore (Vol. viii., pp. 387. 524.).—A writer in an English magazine, a few years ago, proposed that the Latin word repetitus should be used instead of encore. Among other advantages he suggested that the people in the gallery of a theatre would pronounce it repeat-it-us, and thus make English of it.