Query, Can any of your readers inform me if this extraordinary story is founded on fact?
M. W. B.
139. Rhynsault and Sapphira.
—Whence did Steele derive the story of these personages in the Spectator (No. 491.)? A similar story is told by Jeremy Taylor, from John Chokier (Duct. Dubit., book iii. chap. ii. rule 5. quæst. 3.); and that of Colonel Kyrke furnishes another parallel.
A TR.
140. Mallet's Second Wife.
—I should be glad to know in what year the second wife of Mallet died. It is stated that he returned from abroad shortly before his death, without his wife.
F.
141. Proverb, what constitutes one?
—What distinguishes a proverb, and is essential to its being such, as distinct from a short familiar sentence?