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where apparently the greater part of her life was spent.

The year of her death is said to be 520. The pamphlet gives various authorities wherein the story of her life is told. The first account of it seems to have been written by Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem.

A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

The story of St. Mary the Egyptian is included in ' The Early South English Legendary' (1280-90), forming No. 39 of the collection. This volume was published, by the Early English Text Society in 1887, a summary of the legends being given. W. B.

The story may be found at length in Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the Saints,' vol. iii. (April), pp. 15 et seq. St. Mary being an Eastern, the Roman rule of withholding the cup from the laity does not apply to her, though her date (somewhere prior to 556) was long anterior to the formulation of that rule. W. HENRY JEWITT.

MR. POWELL will find an account of St. Mary of Egypt in Alban Butler's ' Lives of the Saints ' under 9 April. There is little doubt that there is a fuller account of her in the ' Acta Sanctorum,' probably under the same day, but this is not certain, as the Eastern saints' days sometimes differ from those in our Western calendars. August Potthast in his ' Bibliotheca Historica Medii ^Evi ' gives in his list of saints the 28th of February and the 2nd of April as well as the 9th as her festival.

She, being an Egyptian, would receive the Blessed Sacrament according to the Eastern rite, which differs from that of the Western Church.

Her death is believed to have occurred in A.D. 421. EDWARD PEACOCK.

That useful little shiUingsworth ' A Book of the Saints,' by Lawrence H. Dawson, has an account of her under " S. Mary of Egypt, Penit., and S. Zosimus, Ab. : 2 Apr. (also 1, 4, or 9)."

The Roman Martyrology under 2 April has : "In Palaestina depositio Sanctae Mariae ^Egypticse, quse Peccatrix appellatur"; and under 4 April : "In Palaestina Sancti Zosimi Anachoretae, qui funus Sanctae Marise ^Egyptiacae curavit." It is to be observed it says nothing about Zosimus being an abbot. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

MR. POWELL will find the legend of St. Mary in ' Saints and their Symbols,' by E. A. Greene. WILLOTJGHBY MAYCOCK.

There is a detailed biography of her in Mueller and Mothes's ' Archaeologisches Woerterbuch ' (Leipzig, 1878). Scenes from her life are represented in the stained-glass windows of the cathedrals at Chartres and Bourges. L. L. K.

Notes dealing with her history and repre- sentations have already appeared in 3 S. iv. 433, 483 ; 4 S. iii. 108 ; 5 S. vi. 333, 520 ; 7 S. iv. 246. W. C. B.

[Replies from MR. H. HEMS and MB. J. COLTER MARRIOTT have been forwarded to MR. POWELL.]

H.M.S. CALLIOPE (10 S. xi. 349). A tele- graphic description from Sydney, New South Wales, appeared in The Times of 6 April, 1889 ; and on 30 May the official report from the commander, Capt. H. C. Kane, appeared, having been published as a Parliamentary Paper, together with the commendation of the Admiralty to him and the crew for their behaviour on the trying occasion. In The Illustrated London News for 27 April of the same year is an account from an eyewitness, with a sketch of the officers and crew of the American man-o'- war Trenton cheering the Calliope ; also a representation of a gold medal presented to Capt. Kane. A. RHODES.

An excellent account of the escape of H.M.S. Calliope from the harbour of Apia, Samoa, during the hurricane of 16 March, 1889, was printed in The Sydney Mail for Saturday, 13 April, 1889 ; a chart of the harbour and other illustrations also appear. If A. cannot obtain a copy from the London office of the paper, I can lend him one.

J. J. H.

A full account appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald of Monday, 1 April, 1889, and we should be pleased to show it to any one who might call here.

B. S. LLOYD & Co.

40, King Street, Cheapside.

[MR. R. J. FYXMORE also thanked for reply.]

"LIVERPOOL": ITS ETYMOLOGY (10 S. xi. 261, 354). MR. JOHN WARD may like to know that the ordinary yellow iris is par- ticularly common in this locality. I have gathered roots on wild marshy ground within a short distance of the Mersey, and have had them growing and multiplying in my small garden for the last ten years.

I consider PROF. SKEAT'S explanation of this much-debated name as brilliant and authoritative as it is simple.

WILLIAM JAGGARD.

Liverpool.