Query, is _this_ the origin of the phrase?
If I cannot give _my_ authority, perhaps "J.R.F." may be able to give
_his_, for deriving it from "_Forest Customs_?"
H.T.E.
_El Buscapie_.--A very full and able disquisition on the subject of MR.
SINGER's query (No. 11., p. 171.), respecting _El Buscapie_, will be
found in the appendix to a work which is just published, viz. Ticknor's
_History of Spanish Literature_, vol. iii. Appendix D. 371. _et seq_.
That writer, whose opinion is entitled to credit as that of a consummate
student of Spanish letters, and who gives good reasons for his
conclusions in this instance, pronounces against the authenticity of the
poor little pamphlet recently put forth as belonging to Cervantes.
Those who take an interest in Spanish literature will find this book of
Ticknor's a most valuable contribution to their knowledge of its whole
compass, and worth "making a note of."
V.
_Richard of Cirencester, &c.--Bishop Barlow_.--Your correspondent
"S.A.A." (No. 6., p. 93), who is desirous of further information
respecting Richard of Cirencester, will, I am sure, peruse with much
interest and gratification a dissertation on that writer by K. Wex,
which first appeared in the _Rheinisches Museum fuer Philologie_ for
1846, and was shortly after translated and inserted in the _Gentleman's
Magazine_, with valuable notes by the translator.--Respecting the
writers of notes on the margin of books, few notes of the kind, I
apprehend, deserve better to be collected and published than those by
the very learned Bishop Barlow, Provost of Queen's College from the year
1657 to 1677, and who left the chief part of his library to that
society.
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