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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io> s. n. AUG. 20, 1904.

In one important particular these papers throw a new light on ecclesiastical history. The exiled Stuart monarchs exercised what they conceived to be their Tight to nominate to Irish Catholic sees, and to the parallel office of Vicars Apostolic in England and Scotland. This continued for three-quarters of a century. The last nomination to an Irish see was in 1765. There is, we believe, still much confusion .as to the succession of the Irish Catholic bishops. 'The author's list, he tells us, contains several mames not in Gam's ' Series Episcoporuin Ecclesiae Oitholicse.'

There is one curious Anglican appointment well worth notice. Thomas Brown, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was collated to the Archdeaconry of Norwich on 28 March, 1694. The vacancy was caused by the death of the late ^archdeacon. Le Neve's 'Fasti' informs us that this ecclesiastic was John Conant, who died 12 March, 1694. Thomas Brown is not mentioned by him, so we may be sure that, whatever his rights dejure may have been in the eyes of nou jurors, the appointment never took effect. The deprived bishop to whom the document was addressed was William Lloyd, who lived until 1710. Is anything known of Thomas Brown? If a non juror, how came he to hold a St. John's fellowship ?

We wish the Marquis de Ruvigny had added to the other valuable information he has given a list of those who suffered death for the Stuart cause from the time of the " abdication " of James II. downwards. A complete catalogue of these Jacobite martyrs has, we believe, never been compiled.

THE Intermediaire keeps up its reputation as a treasury of general knowledge, yielding information on subjects so diverse as fashion in baptismal names, vitrified forts, incubators, and maladies caused by saints. As to these last, a correspondent observes : that province, belief in the injuries inflicted by the saints on sucking children is still deeply rooted. Whenever a nursling pines away and 'suffers, it is because he is ' battu des saints.' Near Ppns there is an old woman who has the speciality of de- feating the malice of the blessed." The writer then describes the rite used to discover which of the saints in the calendar are guilty, but adds that he 'has not been able to find out what means are employed to appease the anger of these "persecu- teurs nimbeV One wonders why missionaries flock to India and China while superstitions connected with cursing-wells, cursing-saints, and their like, 'Still hold their own among the " civilized " inhabi- tants of western Europe. It might be better to complete the conversion of nominal Christians from the heathendom of their ancestors before under- taking to deal with the "puerile credulities" of the East.
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'FROM SPELL TO PRAYER,' by R. R. Marett, is the chief paper in the latest number of Folk-lore, -and it is followed by an account of the forms of words used during the ceremonial which attends the work of a Toda dairy. After this article comes Mr. Clodd's obituary notice of Frederick York Powell, whose death inflicted a severe loss on the Folk-lore Society, and deprived England of a man inspired with that far-reaching sympathy which refuses to be bound by insularity of thought cha- racteristic of too many natives of the British Isles.

" In the thinning ranks of the friends who loved him 'this side idolatry,' there is a gap that can never be filled. The influence which stimulated a host of pupils to the pursuit of knowledge and of lofty ideals has vanished."

MR. THOMAS THORP, of Reading, and of 180, St. Martin's Lane, has issued six series of coloured postcards presenting views of Eton, Westminster, Rugby, Christ's Hospital, Winchester, and Charter- house Schools as they appeared in 1816. The designs are taken from Ackermann's ' Colleges and Public Schools,' and have, accordingly, much artistic value as well as great interest. They are safe to command a large sale.

THE Clarendon Press promises, under the general editorship of M. Leon Delbos, M.A., a modern French series of annotated texts from writers such as Balzac, Tocqueville, Taine, Gautier, c., in- tended for the use of students.

MESSRS. SANDS & Co. promise ' The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses of St. Monica's at Lou vain, 1548 to 1625, edited by Dom Adam Hamilton, O.S.B. To this important convent, which sheltered many English refugees, allusions may be found in ' N. & Q.' (see especially 3 rd S. vii. 268). The editor has added largely to the portrayal of the inner life of Catholics, and the book has some tine full-page illustrations, portraits, autographs, &c.

OUR contributor MR. W. E. A. AXON, of the Manchester Free Library, has been selected to speak at the St. Louis Exhibition on * The Library.' His colleague is Dr. Guido Biagi, of the Royal Medico-Laurenzian Library at Florence.

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