THE BOOK OF THE MOUSETRAP

Query for the Curators of the Bodleian. In that very singular and caustic book *Il Vocabolario Cateriniano* of Girolamo Gigli (which was suppressed by a papal bull, and the author banished forty miles from Rome by a decree of the pope, dated the 21st August, 1717), at fo. cciij. is the following curious passage:— "The Florentines have, better than the inhabitants of the other Tuscan provinces, widely spread their idiom by means of commerce. . . . And to this purpose I remember to have read (but, from the treachery of my memory, for the moment I know not where) that, for the propagation of Flor…