112. The Termination "Ship."
—What is the origin of the termination ship, in such words as consulship, prætorship, lordship, and others?
A. W. H.
113. Nullus and Nemo.
—I have two old quarto tracts, of eight pages each, printed, as seems both by the type and by an allusion contained in one of them, between 1520 and 1530, or thereabouts. They are part of a satirical controversy, the subject of which is very obscure, between Nemo of Wittemberg, and Nullus of Leipsic. Though printed, we must suppose, at the two places, the opponents have evidently clubbed for a woodcut to be common to the two title-pages.
In this cut an unfortunate householder stands in an attitude of despair, surrounded by what are as much in our day as in his the doings of nobody, as broken crockery, hardware, &c. In the distance his kitchen is visible, in which two nobodies are busy with his meat and wine. A young woman is carrying an infant to the priest to be baptized; and from the way in which the worthy man holds up his finger, we may fear she has just confessed that it is nobody's child. Can any of your readers give any information?
M.
114. The noblest Object of the Work of Art.
—Can any of your readers discover the answer to the adjoining riddles which I have met with, though I neither know its author nor answer?—
"The noblest object of the work of art,