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fied through being carried a long time in the pocket.

Each potato is marked with a small label bearing some such inscription as this: 'Carried from Nov. 12, 1878, to May 18, 1880. Very efficacious.' The collector claims that the potato carried in the trousers pocket has proved to be the best of the many remedies he has tried. He carries one potato until the return of his rheumatic twinges seems to testify to the decline of the tuber's curative properties. Then he takes a new potato and locks the old one up in his cabinet. This trouserspocket, or faith-cure habit, it should be said, applies only to the Irish potato. The common potato has, it is maintained, no charm, except as food for a hungry man." C. P. HALE.

THE JUXON MEDAL OF CHARLES I. (8th S. xi. 145).-We beg to offer a slight correction anent the history of the Juxon medal. Your correspondent states that "at the recent sale the Trustees of the British Museum acquired the medal for 770l." This is incorrect, as we purchased the piece for 770l. for ourselves at the sale referred to, and the Trustees of the British Museum have since acquired it of us. We are not in a position to state the precise sum they have paid for it, but no doubt an inquiry on that point at the Museum would be readily answered by the officials in charge. SPINK & SON.

COL. HENRY MARTIN (8th S. xi. 68). -Two portraits of this man are noted at p. 197 of vol. v. of the fifth edition of Granger's 'Biographical Dictionary': (1) An original picture in the possession of Charles Lewis, Esq., in Coxe's 'Tour in Monmouthshire'; (2) an engraving (with his seal and autograph) by J. Tuck.

Lancaster.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

LICENSES TO EMIGRATE, 1635 (8th S. xi. 108). Possibly "The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 16001700," may furnish the required information. A copy of this work may be consulted in the Library, Guildhall, E.C. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST'S ABBEY, COLCHESTER (8th S. xi. 147). The document referred to by your correspondent containing a drawing of the execution of the last Abbot of Colchester is in the British Museum (MS. Egerton, 2164). I have just had it reproduced, and it will form a frontispiece to the second volume of the Colchester Chartulary which is being printed privately by Lord Cowper for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club. J. E. LATTON PICKERING, Librarian. Inner Temple.

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"GERT"=GREAT (8th S. xi. 6). -Gert or girt thus used with the g hard is familiar to me as occurring in the north of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland. A big girl in the North Riding is called a "girt lass," and a stupid lout is dubbed a "girt sammy raw-heead." Girt is also used in the sense of familiar, friendly, intimate, as "they're varra girt tegither." For transposition of letters compare girse for grass.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

Girt=great occurs in the Dorset dialect. Readers of Wm. Barnes's 'Poems of Rural Life' will remember "The girt woak tree that's in the dell," "The girt wold house o' mossy stwone," "The girt wood vire"; or, again, "The girt glassen house" of the "Lon'on vok." H. F. MOULE.

This is given in Mrs. Sarah Hewitt's 'Peasant Speech of Devonshire.' It is not given in the Encyclopædic Dictionary, although gret, grete, and grat are.

Also in North Lincolnshire.

D. M. R.

J. T. F.

MEDALS FOR THE BATTLE OF THE NILE (8th S.

376, 466). - I have one of these copper medals,

which I purchased at the sale of Sir Alex. Davison's

effects at Swarland Hall (Northumberland) some five-and-twenty years ago. One side shows the

French fleet at anchor, and the English ships taking up their positions in Aboukir Bay. Encircling them is "Almighty God has blessed His Majesty's arms," and below, "Victory of the Nile, August 1, 1798." On the other side a female figure, holding a branch in her right hand, rests on an oval shield, on which is a half-length bust of Nelson, with the legend, "Europe's Hope, and Britain's Glory." Encircling this, "Rear Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile." On the edge the inscription already quoted. The artist's name is "C. H. Kruchler." In front of Swarland Hall, and close to the high road, Davison erected an obelisk-shaped monument to the memory of Nelson. On the body are the words, "England expects every Man to do his Duty"; and on the pedestal, "Not to commemorate the Public Virtue and the Achievements of Nelson, which is the Duty of England, but to the Memory of Private Friendship, this Erection is dedicated by Alexander Davison." The trees near it were arranged so as to show the positions which the fleets occupied at the battle. Alnwick.

G. H. THOMPSON.

RACHEL DE LA POLE (8th S. x. 516; xi. 94). — I would add to my previous reply that in 1871 there was in the hands of a bookseller for sale a

plan on parchment of the interior of the church of reserved to the close of the volume, the magnificent Mucleston, co. Stafford, dated 5 Jan., 1565/6, rock-temple of Aluwihari. At Mihintale, as elsewhere, showing the position (or seating) for each parishioner, with their respective names, John Meredith and Thomas Rider being then churchwardens. W. I. R. V.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Ruined Cities of Ceylon. By Henry W. Cave, M.A. (Sampson Low & Co.)

BENEATH the all but impenetrable jungles of Ceylon lie hidden the remains of one of the most ancient of civilizations the most ancient of which England is the fully accredited possessor and guardian. During long centuries these have remained all but unvisited of Europeans, and it is only of late that, under the direction of the Archæological Commission, serious attempts at excavation have been carried out. Great gain has attended the labours that have been accomplished. Now, even, though the difficulties of travel are to some extent diminished, the results of the explorations are known to but few, and enormous tracts remain to challenge further research. The difficulties attending a personal visit to the spots of highest interest are sufficient to daunt all but the most energetic of the thousands of Englishmen who, for pleasure or profit, visit the island, and the names of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa convey little or nothing to European scholarship. Among those who have visited the once mighty city of Anuradhapura-now represented by a few native huts-and explored its remains is Mr. Cave, and the result of his visit is apparent in the handsome and profusely illustrated volume before us. To the same writer we are indebted for 'Particulars of Picturesque Ceylon,' a work in three volumes, to which this is to some extent a supplement. The earlier work reproduced by admirably executed photographs the life of to-day in Colombo, with views of temples, parks, fishing villages, and tea plantations; Kandy, with its unsurpassable tropical scenery, which has won for Ceylon the reputation of an Earthly Paradise; and Nuwara Eliya, with its mountain peaks, its foaming streams, and its flashing cascades. In place of these things we now have views of monuments, the hugest in some respects that are due to human labour-huge enough to have withstood the ravages of time and to remain to throw contempt on our pigmy efforts. Once more, for the purpose of preserving a record of these things of the huge gardens, now desolate, of the rock dwellings, and of the other features of these rarely explored regions-Mr. Cave has employed photography, his management of which places him in the foremost rank. Into the history of the spots he depicts we may not venture. The task of narration calls for knowledge we do not claim, as well as space we cannot afford. We content ourselves with admiration of the clearness of the atmosphere that is preserved and the sharpness of the carvings which are reproduced. In the illustrations lies the real value of the work, the text doing little more than supply the information that renders the views intelligible, though it gives also a few particulars of travel and of residence in the picturesque and comfortable little rest-houses erected by Government in order to facilitate travel. At Mihintale, the cradle of that Buddhist influence to which the Singhalese owe the constructive energy which they display in the building of these vast cities and huge monuments, the illustration of religious edifices begins. We had previously, however, seen, though the explanation was|

the impression conveyed is that of a natural hill, with precipitous sides, covered with vegetation; and close necessary to perceive "a gigantic ruined edifice, in the erection of which many millions of bricks were brought to the top of the mountain and carefully laid." Its height of a thousand feet is reached by one thousand eight hundred and forty gigantic steps. Of a picture of Maha Seya Dagaba, which for twenty centuries has resisted disintegrating influences of time and vegetable growth, Mr. Cave says, "Some idea of the proportion of this dagaba may be gathered by noticing that what appears to be grass upon the upper portion of the structure is in reality a mass of forest trees that have grown up from seeds dropped by birds." The Mahariegha garden, twenty square miles in extent, is depicted as it last year showed. Of the Brazen Temple, erected on sixteen hundred monolithic columns of granite, the columns alone remain. It is, however, useless to continue mentioning buildings which, without the aid of the illustrations, cannot be realized by the reader. We can but recommend the volume to those interested in antiquities, and in particular to those in whom archæological knowledge or interest is combined with patriotic sentiment and admiration for natural beauty. Some portions of the book are painful reading. Such is the information supplied of the purely nominal rates at which elephants, now scarce in Ceylon, are allowed to be caught and deported.

The Poetry of Robert Burns. Edited by W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson. Vol. III. (Edinburgh, Jack.) THE third volume of the superb "Centenary Edition" of Burns of Messrs. Henley and Henderson has now appeared, leaving but one volume more to complete the work. Containing as it does the songs sent by Burns to Johnson's 'Musical Museum' and Thomson's 'Scottish Airs,' it comprises his loveliest and most familiar lyrice. In the case of some of the songs contributed to the latter miscellany Burns suffered to some extent, his editors hold, from the academic tastes of Thomson, who himself was a poetaster, and who urged Burns to write more English than was good for him. At the time, however, when, under the influence of enthusiasm, he began to write for Thomson, his best days were past. "Misfortunes, hardships, follies, excesses in fact and sentiment, success itself, so barren of lasting profit to himall these had done some part of their work; and already his way of life was falling into the sere and yellow leaf. With some happy exceptions, accordingly, the Thomson songs are not in his happier vein." In the case of both these collections the MSS. have been available for purposes of collation to Messrs. Henley and Henderson, who have profited greatly thereby. Much valuable information has also been gathered from old broadsides and garlands. A "clandestine literature" of ballad and song exists both in Scotland and England; but the product of the Scots "poetical shebeens is vastly preferable in the matter of melody and genius." This statement will scarcely be disputed. Ballad literature is emphatically of Northern growth. The notes are numerous and practically exhaustive. So numerous are they, they defy either analysis or description. All that is known concerning Burns's share in reshaping and altering popular lyrics they tell us. In not a few cases, however, the matter remains in doubt. As an instance how much information may be given in a single note, we would refer the reader to the observations, pp. 402 et seq., on the 'Red, Red Rose.' The new volume has, of course, all the attractions of its predecessors, and is delightful in type and in execution generally. Its illustrations comprise an engraved portrait from the picture by Alex- Marjoram." Besides showing when sweet marjoram was

ander Nasmyth in the National Portrait Gallery, a repro-
duction of the engraving by John Beugo in the Edinburgh
'Burns' of 1787, another of a silhouette by G. Burns Begg
of Motherwell, and facsimiles of "Does haughty Gaul
invasion threat?" and "Scots wha hae." For Southron
readers this edition remains incomparably the best.

Demon Possession and Allied Themes. By the Rev.
John Nevius, D.D. (Redway.)

DR. NEVIUS's remarkable work on demonic possession has
now reached a second edition, which is ushered in by an
introduction from the pen of the Rev. F. F. Ellinwood,
D.D., and accompanied by indexes of unusual extent and
value by Mr. H. W. Rankin. Much to our comfort, the
fact that the work is a second edition dispenses with the
necessity of describing it at length, since it is a difficult
work with which to deal. During forty years Dr. Nevius
was a missionary belonging to some American Wesleyan
mission. During his long residence in China he came
across very numerous cases of what were held to be, and
at length commended themselves to him as, demonic
possession. The belief in such appears to have been
general in the districts in which he dwelt. In its early
pages his work is a record of cases of the kind in which
the name of Jesus proved a cure as potent as in the
days of the Gadarean swine. After mentioning the cases
he deals with explanations of the phenomena, holding,
as hold many of his companions and disciples, that the
most spiritualistic interpretation is the best. Concern-
ing the good faith of Dr. Nevius, who has now passed
into the land of shadows, no doubt is permissible. He
has entered deeply into the question with which he
deale, studied the works of the most erudite of his oppo-
nents, and has displayed the possession of eminent
expository gifts, warped for good or for evil by more or
less conscious preconvictions. After summing up, in
chapter x., the character of the evidence he supplies and
the facts he holds it to have established, he deals with
the various theories of explanation. In regard to im-
posture he consults Hecker's Epidemics of the Middle
Ages'; in respect of evolution, Tylor's Primitive Cul-
ture,' from which he quotes at some length. In dealing
with pathological explanations he takes an American
work of Dr. Wm. A. Hammond. The psychological
theory follows, and is succeeded by others, into which
we have neither time, ability, nor inclination to enter. In
endeavouring to establish a theory of modern miracles-
for to this, practically, it seems to extend-Dr. Nevius
arrays against himself not only the entire medical
profession, but many who would limit the domain of
purely scientific rule. His adversaries, even, are im-

pressed by his good faith and his sincerity, and by the

intense earnestness of his convictions. For ourselves, we
prefer not to enter into the subjects with which he deals,
and to content ourselves with announcing to the students
of the occult the appearance of a book which to them
at least, and not to them alone, makes earnest appeal.

First Records of British Flowering Plants. Compiled
by W. A. Clarke, F.L.S. (West, Newman & Co.)
THIS useful and well-executed little work is reprinted,
with additions and corrections, from the Journal of
Botany. It aims at showing the first mention of any
special flowering plant, drawn from the herbale, and
from various botanical catalogues, compilations, and
other works. As a first effort in this direction it is
greatly to be commended. It might, however, be very
much extended. We will supply Mr. Clarke with an
instance. In a note to his translation of Don Quixote,'
1612, Shelton speaks of "Jasmines, a little, sweet, white
flower that growes in Spaine in hedges, like our Sweet

known in England, it proves when-in some districts, at least-jasmine was not.

La Langue Sacrée; La Cosmoglyphie; Le Mystère de la
Création. Par Émile-Soldi. (Paris, Heymann.)

M. SOLDI will please those of our readers who take
interest in early religions, with their strange signs and
symbols, and in the tracing of the undoubted similarities
which exist between these symbols in parts of the world
so far removed from one another as Japan and Gaul,
or Egypt and Yucatan. M. Soldi is not one of those
gentlemen who have hunted to death the ideas of some
writers on Rosicrucianism, as it has been called; but, on
the other hand, he is not, we imagine, sufficiently learned
in Egyptology and Hellenism, or Americanism, to be
able to avoid a good many traps. His book, which is
the first volume of a great series, is plentifully illus-
trated, and contains enormous numbers of cuts, which,
although ill arranged, and with many pitchforked in
which should have no place in the volume, would, never-
theless, be of the greatest utility to real students if they
could be thoroughly trusted; but then the references are
in many cases not sufficient. For example, drawings
are given from stones which are not accompanied by
references to thoroughly well-known and solid works, and
it is impossible to be sure that the drawing is accurate
and unaccompanied by an exaggeration which the author
himself admits he has found to exist in the work of
many of his predecessors.

MESSRS. GIBBINGS & Co. promise 'National Ballad and Song,' a complete anthology of English, Scotch, and Irish lyrics prior to the year 1700, edited by John S. Farmer. Musa Pedestris,' already noticed in our pages, will rank as the first volume. Merry Songs, five volumes of which are in type, will follow, and be succeeded by 'Songs of Legend and Romance,' 'Political Songs,'' Military Songs,' &c. A faithful reproduction of text is guaranteed, and other features will appeal to connoisseurs and book-lovers.

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WHITADDER ("The mill will never grind again," &c.). We cannot definitely answer this constantly recurring question, and can only once more refer correspondents to 7th S. iii. 209, 299; x. 508; xi. 79, 139.

BLUE BEARD ("Blue Stocking Club"). -See 'N. & Q,' 3rd S. x. 37, 59, 98; 7th S. iii. 286, 417; iv. 15, 176; vii. 24, 206, 274.

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