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?
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, The brightest gem that nature can impart, The point essential in the tenant's lease, The well-known signal in the time of peace, The farmer's comfort when he holds the plough, The soldier's duty and the lover's vow, The planet seen between the earth and sun, The prize that merit never yet hath won, The miser's idol and the badge of Jews, The wife's ambition and the parson's dues. If now your noble spirit can divine, A corresponding word for every line, By the first letters plainly will be shown, An ancient city of no small renown."
115. _Poulster._--Can any one inform me if I am right in supposing that this word, used in the reign of George I. as an addition expressing trade, is the same as our _upholsterer_?
_Reverend Cæsar de Missy._--Can you furnish me with any particulars respecting the Rev. Cæsar de Missy? Bishop Middleton, in his work on the Greek article, quotes once or twice some MS. notes of his, now in the British Museum; and a rare edition of the Septuagint (Basil, 1545), now in my possession, contains his autograph under date Londini, 1745. I have not met with his name in any biographical work, and should therefore be obliged by any information respecting his life and works.