Sicut Sol oriens Mundo in Altissimis Dei
Sic Mulieris bonæ Species in ornamentum domus suæ.
Ecclus. 26.
AEIOU."
I should be glad if any of your learned readers could elucidate the meaning of the five vowels at the foot of the inscription.
J. A. DOUGLAS.
16. Russell Square, June 7. 1851.
Dr. Young's Narcissa (Vol. iii., p. 422.).
—J. M. says that the Narcissa of Dr. Young was Elizabeth Lee, the poet's daughter-in-law. The letter quoted in the same article from the Evan. Mag. of Nov. 1797, calls her Dr. Young's daughter. Has not your correspondent been led into a mistake by calling Narcissa Dr. Young's daughter-in-law? as, if she were so, how could she have been named "Lee?" She might have been his step-daughter, though it has been generally understood that Narcissa was the poet's own and favourite daughter. Will you, or your correspondent J. M., be so good as to clear up this point?
W. F. S.