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shilling parts (1871-2) ; in book form by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, 1871 ; and again in London (342, Strand) in 1872. At least one other edition was pub- lished by the Petersons, so that the present (Fenno's) edition is the third (or later) in American book form. I think, but am not quite sure, that the property passed through the hands of another publisher, between the Petersons and the Fennos, and that this inter- mediate hand placed the names of Charles Dickens, jun., and Wilkie Collins on the title- page, at a time when both the parties and also the real author were dead. Mrs. Morford informs me that these facts have been brought to the notice of Messrs. Feuno & Co., who have undertaken that any new edition of the book which may be demanded shall be duly credited to Henry Morford.

Particulars of other "continuations" of 1 Edwin Drood ' are to "be found in ' Dickens- iana,' by F. G. Kitton (George Redway, 1886), and in ' The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens,' by the same (Elliot Stock, 1900). H. SNOWDEN WARD.

Hadlow, Kent.

SMOTHERING HYDROPHOBIC PATIENTS (10 th S. i. 65, 176, 210). That this custom obtained in England in the eighteenth century seems very probable, for Gunning, in his 'Remi- niscences of Cambridge,' mentions it. Speak- ing of the Rev. Samuel Peck, B.D., one of the Senior Fellows of Trinity College, he observes :

"An opinion once prevailed in this county [Cam- bridgeshire] (and I fear in many others) that when a person had been bitten by a mad dog, and symp- toms of having taken the infection showed them- selves, the relations of the suffering party were justified in smothering the patient between two leather beds. This question he formally proposed to the judges, and to their answer that 'persons thus acting would undoubtedly be guilty of murder ' he gave all possible publicity. For this he deserved great credit, as I have heard persons of undoubted veracity declare that it was considered not only to be legal, but really to be an act of kindness."- Vol. n. p. 108.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. JNewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Under the heading of 'The Dog Days' and ' Mad Dogs ' in his ' Every -Day Book,' Hone has the following :

no cure for the bifce of a mad dog, and as at this time dogs go mad, it is proper to observe, Uiat immediate burning out of the bitten part bv caustic, or the cutting of it out by the surgeon's kmte, is the only remedy. If either burning or cutting be omitted, the bitten person, unless opmmed to death, or smothered between feather beds, will m a few days or weeks die in unspeak- ible agony. Ihe latter means are said to have been

sometimes resorted to as a merciful method of extinguishing life."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

HELL, HEAVEN, AND PARADISE AS PLACE- NAMES (10 th S. i. 245). Coventry has a Paradise Street, and a row of houses in it are marked Eden Terrace. Two miles away, but still within the city, is a district always known as Paradise.

H. C. WILKINS.

19, Gloucester Street, Coventry.

In the first ' Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies,' compiled by W. H. Wells, and pub- lished in 1848, localities called Paradise and Pandemonium are noted on p. 330, and one styled Purgatory is referred to on p. 350. In the early years of colonization there was a good deal of this eccentric, un- conventional nomenclature, the pioneer gold- diggers being probably the worst offenders. Many of the erratic, incongruous, rough- and-ready names then conferred have been very properly abolished during recent years, and the places rechristened with more grace- ful and euphonious titles. J. F. HOGAN.

Royal Colonial Institute.

The pretty little Norwegian village of Hell is reached by a line connecting Trondhjem with Storlien, twenty (English) miles from the former, and forty-six from the latter. I have visited it on several occasions, and ca i testify it is by no manner of means in "a deep hollow, or a darksome place" (ante, p. 95). It lies near the mouth of the Stjordalselo and in the midst of fine scenery. All its houses are of wood, and these are prettily painted yellow, grey, and a dark red being the predominant colours. The church itself is of a Salvation Army red, with white win- dow frames, and has a black turret. The very signposts are a pillar-box red. The name " Hell " is in big block-letters upon the railway station ; whilst just outside it is a public-house rejoicing in the sign of the " Bell Bageri." HARRY HEMS.

Vester Boulevard, Copenhagen.

Three farms near Leyland, in Lancashire, are named the Old Purgatory Farm, the New Purgatory Farm, and Paradise Farm.

HENRY TAYLOR.

Birklands, Southport.

There is a Paradise Street in this city and a Paradise Works in it.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford.

COSAS DE ESPANA (10 th S. i. 247). The troop of ostriches in the gardens of the Buen