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On p. 477 of the same volume Mr. Yama- zaki has given a Korean story resembling the above, which reads thus :

" In the eighth century there dwelt at the base of Mount Wu-kwan a hermit named Pau Yuh with his wife, and a stranger predicted them to have a Chinese emperor as their son-m-law. Years after they begat two daughters in succession, Shin-i, the younger one, being particularly beauti- ful and sagacious. Shortly after her reaching the a^e of puberty, her elder sister told her of a strange dream she had the night before : that she had climbed Mount Wu-kwan to its s ^ r " n * t ' whence she discovered the whole world flooded by i swirling stream. Shin-i proffered her damask petticoat to buy that dream with. This bargain being struck, she requested her sister to relate her dream once more. No sooner was the recital finished than she manipulated thrice as if she put it in her bosom, when she felt, as it were, some- thing mvsterious entering her own body, happened" in A.D. 753 that the Chinese emperor Siih-tsung [reigned 756-62], then the heir apparent to the throne, travelled incognito in Korea, and put up in Pau Yuh's cottage. When Pau luh s daughters were descried by the future emperor, their loveliness much pleased him, so that he asked their father to bring either of them for mending his garment. Now the hermit's apprehension that his disguised guest was a very noble Celestial put him in mind of what had been prophesied before his daughters' births. He directed his daughter to present herself, but she had scarcely crossed the door-sill when she bled at the nose, which obliged him to send Shin-i in her stead. Living with the guest for one month, she con- ceived, when he "departed to his own land, atter divulging his own birth and handing her his bow and arrows, which he charged her to give to their forthcoming child, should it prove to be a male. In the due month she brought forth a splendid son, who became, when grown up, the founder of a new kingdom."

Such stories of purchasing a dream are verv likely to occur in the historical, bio- graphical, or folk-lore writings of several other peoples. Practically, however, I have never met even a single instance from beyond Japan and Korea, and shall be greatly beholden for any information.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

THE REV. JOHN KEMPTHORNE, B.D

(See ante, p. 401.)

KEMPTHORNE died 6 Nov., 1838, and wa buried at St. Aldate's, Gloucester, wher there are tablets to his memory and tha of his first wife, who died 21 Dec., 1823. The inscriptions on these are :

1.

Sacrel to the Memory of | John Kempthorne, B D. I Formerly Fellow of St. John s College, Cambridge, I Four Years Curate of this Parish, | L%stly ten Years Rector of St. Michael s, | In this City. 1 At an early age | Distinguished with high

academical honours, | In after life | More eminent as a Minister of Jesus Christ. | The zeal, judg ment, and perseverance, | Tempered with humilit and tenderness of heart | which he dedicat- through grace to his Master's service | will fully known at the last day : | He died in pea Nov. 6th, 1838. | Aged 63 years.

Reader follow them " who through faith patience | Inherit the promises."

2.

Elizabeth Sandys Kempthorne | Wife of the Revd. John Kempthorne | died after a very short illness | on Sunday Deer 21st, 1823 | Aged 40 Years | leaving 11 Children (3 too young to- enow their loss) | whom she cheerfully com- mitted to God | in her last moments | Gentle Kind nd from her youth religious | yet conscious of ler lost estate without Christ | She placed all ler trust in her Saviour | and through Grace by epentance | amidst the trials of life prepared or death. | She found the same Saviour precious ,o the end | and departed in sweet peace I meekly but steadfastly | looking unto Jesus | leader In health prepare for death | prepare to> Lay | This Tablet f is dedicated by her sorrowing lusband | to her beloved memory.

The period of Kempthorne's incumbency of St. Michael's should have been stated as twelve, not ten years.

There is also a cenotaph to his memory in the south ambulatory in Gloucester Cathe- dral, with the following interesting inscrip- tion on a brass plate :

In Memory of | The Rev. John Kempthorne, B.D. | Prebendary of Lichfleld Cathedral | Rector of St. Michael's, Gloucester. | And formerly Fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, | in which University he obtained the highest mathematical Honours. | The intellectual superiority and patient industry | Which marked his Academical career | Were conspicuous in him through life. | Deriving fresh lustre from the deep humility | Which characterised his whole deportment. | In habitual piety and reverence for sacred things | In trans- parent simplicity of purpose and love of truth | In meek and cheerful resignation to the Divine Will | Under severe bodily sufferings and domestic bereavements | He so walked with God as to honour Him before men. | The friend in early life and afterwards Curate | Of the esteemed and beloved Henry Ryder | The faithful attendant, Chaplain, Counsellor of that Prelate | When Bishop of Gloucester, | His name will long be associated with that of his revered Patron | By the inhabitants of this City ; | Where, for twenty- two years, with unsparing self-devotion, | Pub- lickly, and from house to house, | Preaching Christ's blessed Gospel (his own only hope) | He laboured to promote God's glory in the salvation of man, | And to maintain inviolate the principle* and privileges | of the Church of England. | How tenderly he regarded the spiritual welfare of his flock f The Church of St. James, Barton Terrace, Reared chiefly through his exertions, | Is itself a monument. | Let this Memorial, raised by his friends, testify | How much they loved him, | And lead others to magnify the Grace of God in him. | He died, Nov.vi. A.D. MDCCCXXXVIII. the chancel of St. Aldate's Church | In this City.
 * In the 64th year of his age. | And was buried i