Minor Notes.
Mental Almanac (Vol. iv., p. 203.).
—The additive number for this month of December, is 6. Hence next Sunday is 1 + 6 = the 7th of December. Christmas Day will be 25, less 20, that is 5, or Thursday.
A. E. B.
Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words (Vol. iv., p. 313.).
—The first person who settled in Honduras was the celebrated buccaneer Wallis, in 1638, from whom the principal town and river were named. The Spaniards called it Valis; and v and b having the same pronunciation in Spanish, it became Balis, then Balize, Belize, the actual name.
PHILIP S. KING.
Pasquinade (Vol. iv., p. 292.).
—Will A. B. R. allow me to correct one or two to typographical errors in the Italian version of his clever epigram? In the first place "Piu," in both places where it occurs, should be "Pio," which the sense demands, while Piu is downright nonsense. What A. B. R. intended to write was no doubt:
"Quando Papa o' Cardinale