"Mr. Secretary Winwood is dead, whereby you see Death expects no Complement, otherwise he would certainly have kept it at the Staff's End, with a kind of Hollander's austerity." [Sir Th. Wentworth to Sir H. Wotton, Nov. 8. 1617, Strafford's Letters and Despatches, vol. i. p. 5.]
C. P. PH***.
Brother Jonathan.
—Why is, and when first was, this fraternal cognomen bestowed upon the United States of America? Is it strictly applicable to the whole of the Union, or only to those states which were settled and peopled by the Puritan fathers?
HENRY CAMPKIN.
Authorship of the "Groves of Blarney."
—Can any one inform me when, and by whom, the ludicrous ballad, entitled the Groves of Blarney, was composed, and where it may be found. Everybody knows the lines which describe "Cupid and Venus and old Nicodemus, all standing out in the open air."
E. V.
Carnaby.
—What is the derivation and meaning of this word, as the name of a square or street?