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 176 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. AUG. 26.1905. dering into " Latin letters " (p. xxx). Besides upwards of thirty " pentacles,1' very few of which make readable words, there are endless squares by which to work enchantments. In ch. v. p. 178 are three " pentacles" out of twelve squares, by each of which "familiar spirits" may be retained : No. 8, " In the form of a soldier" ; 9, "In the form of an old man"; 11, "In the form of a serpent." There are no fewer than thirty chapters of this kind of thing. Ch. xxi. shows how ' To Transform Oneself, and take different Faces and Forms'; ch. xxvii., ' To Cause Visions to Appear'; ch. xxviii., 'To have as much Gold and Silver as one may wish.' The demand for a translation of such a book cannot be to meet a mere literary demand, but must be strong evidence that belief in magic is not confined to the simply ignorant, even in these days of education and science. F. T. ELWORTHY. See the great 'Thesaurus Linguae Latinae,' in course of publication by Teubner of Leip- sic. where, in vol. ii. col. 506, is found the following: " arepo vocabulwm gadlinmi ut videtur, cf. arepennis. Corp. xii. *202 sator arepo tenet opera rotas (versus recwrrens) 6 trirfipatv "ipoTpov xparti tpya. rpoyous. Cf. Dieterich, Rh. Mus., 56, 1900, 92." It may be noted that vol. xii. of ' Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum" consists of the inscriptions of Gallia Narbonensis. M. A. F. HOLMES. Macedon, New York. A NAMELESS BOOK (10th S. iv. 123). — I think MR. CUHRY will find, on careful exami- nation, that the 112 pages without a title, about which lie asks, are no separate book, but simply the 'Satyrical Censures' (men- tioned on the title-page which he quotes) •with a separate pagination. See Halkett and Laing'g ' Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain,' vol. i. col. 649. EDWARD BENSLY. 23, Park Parade, Cambridge. _ No doubt it was 'Vulgar Errours in Prac- tice Censured, such as Keproaching Red- haired Men; Scandall; Reproaching the Feminine Sex," ike., 1659. It seems to have been anonymous, but I have not seen the book. W. C. B. LOOPING THE LOOP: FLYING OR CENTRI- FUGAL RAILWAY: WHIRL OF DEATH (10th S iv. 65).—The Daily Graphic of 6 June, 1903, reproduced a lithograph of a centrifugal railway, "constructed by C. Esplin, S Higgiubottom, and others, from a model oi S.T. Roberts, of the firm of Sharp, Roberts Co., Manchester. The first constructed jpon a scale large enough to convey a living: traveller." The accompanying paragraph refers to a communication made by Sir William Bailey to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, in which he said ie remembered Mr. R. Roberts made about he year 1836 the working model which is low in the Royal Museum at Salford. It is jrobable that the railway was first exhibited n Lancashire before removal to London. At east the woodcut illustration of the bill is )y a Liverpool artist. It was shown at the Egyptian Hall in 1842 not 1850), but the length was reduced from 200 to 150 feet. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N. [About the date mentioned we saw it at the Leeds vlusic Hall, then existing in Albion Street.] It is evident the idea of the centrifugal railway had spread to other towns beside London at a comparatively early date, since [ read in a description of Liverpool in a book called 'England and Wales,' by J. G. Kohl, London, 1844, the following: " Anything new that makes its appearance in London is quickly imitated in Liverpool So also Liverpool had already its Centrifugal Rail- way." It would be interesting to know in what building it was located. A. H. ABKLE. BALLAD OF FRANCIS RENYI (10th S. iv. 69). —The poem sought for by L. L. K. is 'The Ballad of Splendid Silence,' by E. Nesbit (pseud.), and may be found in her poems, and in many collections of recitations. JOHN S. CRONK. PRAYER FOR TWINS (10th S. iii. 428).—In the Hebrew liturgy we have a prayer thank- ing God that being men we cannot have twins. M. L. R. BRESLAR. COLISEUMS OLD AND NEW (10th S. ii. 485y 529 ; iii. 52, 116, 189, 255, 437, 496).—I should like to be allowed to mention that through the generosity and kindness of my friend Mr. Ambrose Heal, whose unrivalled collec- tion of prints, &c., relating to St. Pancras, arouses the emulation of London topographers, I have been enabled to complete nay set of Ackermann's engravings of the Colosseum. The missing plate ii. is entitled, " South side of the Grounds surrounding the Colosseum, Regent's Park." It represents a view, chiefly consisting of a fountain, seen from a kind of open verandah, furnished with rustic chain and tables, and occupied by ladies and gentle- men dressed in the picturesque costumes of