2nd. If no farther than to a point equivalent to our eleven o'clock, A.M., in what way is the vacant hour between that point and sexta, or noon, accounted for by Martial?
A. E. B.
Leeds.
214. Moonlight.
—A sermon of Dr. Pusey's contains the following beautiful illustrations of the danger of much knowledge and little practice:
"The pale cold light of the moon, which enlightens but warms not, putrifies what it falls upon."
Will any one inform me whether this is a physical truth, or only an allowable use of a popular opinion?
PHILIP HEDGELAND.
215. Ash-sap given to new-born Children.
—Lightfoot, in his Flora Scotia, vol. ii. p. 642., says—