To present a knife between lovers is said to be an omen of parting, to counteract which some trifle must be given in exchange; Shakespeare, in reference to this belief, makes Gratiano repeat the motto-Love me and leave me not. Daggers, knives, and swords in Shakespeare's time presented frequent instances of inscriptions and mottoes, in single lines and couplets. A knife of the early part of the sixteenth century, purchased at Bernal's sale, for the Museum at Marlborough House, has, on the back edge, in raised letters-DE LA FIDELITÉ DERIVE MA FORTVNE. DIALECTS.-Professor Adelung asserts there are 3664 known dialects and languages in the world; in America, 1624; in Asia, 937; in Europe, 587; and in Africa, 276; the aggregate of these numbers, however, make but 3424. INVOCATION OF THE VIRGIN. EXAMPLES of the Invocation of the Virgin in inscriptions on monumental brasses, are now I believe rarely found, caused doubtless by their being defaced and destroyed as idolatrous by the authorities at the commencement of the Civil War, between Charles the First and the Parliament. The only instance that has fallen under my observation in this county, is at Loughborough, where on the south side of the chancel is a large slab commemorative of a former vicar, whose effigy has long since been erept, but on the margin, on a brass label, so much of the inscription remains + Hic iacet.... Rector istius Ecclesie qui o... ..ssionem gloriose Virginis Marie. ppiciet. Deus. Amen. What other instances are known? Leicester, July 14. WILLIAM KElly. UNICORN.-What was the original use of the Unicorn in Heraldry? Was it derived from the East? BILL NOR BAN! In Dumfries-shire, it is a usual expression with the creditor, when no security has been taken of the debtor, to say "he has neither bill nor ban Knives were formerly presented in pairs, in richly em- of him." Formerly, or till within the last sixty or bossed or enriched sheaths, either of leather, or metal richly seventy years, it was the practice when a loan was studded, chased or engraved. A pair of such knives, pre-made, for the borrower, to take the lender into his bire, sented by a lady to her lover occurs in the Bernal sale, no. 3394. The blades steel, but with twisted red horn and silver ornamented handles. On the blade of one is engraved. 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