What I want to know is, of whom is this story told? I regret that not having seen the carving in question, I can give no particulars of dress, &c., which might help to determine its age; nor could my informant, though he perfectly well remembered the subject represented. He told me that he had often mentioned it to people likely to know of the existence of such a legend, but could never gain any information respecting it.
C. J. E.
King's Col. Cambridge, May 9. 1851.
King of Nineveh burns himself in his Palace.—In a review of Mr. Layard's work on Nineveh (Quarterly, vol. lxxxiv. p. 140.) I find the following statement:
"The act of Sardanapalus in making his palace his own funeral pyre and burning himself upon it, is also attributed to the king who was overthrown by Cyaxares."
May I ask where the authority for this statement is to be found?
X. Z.
Butchers not Jurymen.—
"As the law does think it fit
No butchers shall on juries sit."—Butler's Ghost, cant. ii.