The manuscript was in German and very much effaced, so that I am not able to remember the words, though I very well remember the meaning.
Could any reader inform me in what part of the Bible this prophecy of Elijah's is to be found? for I have searched for it in vain.
C. H. M.
"O Juvenis frustra," &c.
—I should be glad to be informed, through your publication, where I may find this line,—
"O Juvenis frustra est tua Doctrina Plebs amat Remedia."
J. W. V.
All-fours.
—In Macaulay's essay on Southey's edition of The Pilgrim's Progress (Longman & Co., p. 184.) occurs a curious use of this expression:
"The types are often inconsistent with each other; and sometimes the allegorical disguise is altogether thrown off.... It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours. But we believe that no human ingenuity could produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing signified should be exactly preserved. Certainly no writer ancient or modern has achieved the adventure."