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1847 to 1860 (or even later, according to some).

I will here give the most important part of the text, constructing it according to the usual critical principles. After a religious preamble, quoting the words of the voice that spoke to him, the seer continues :

" I saw them dividing in great heat. This division began in the Church on points of doctrine : it commenced in the Presbyterian society,* and went through the various religious denominations, and in its progress and close its effects were nearly the same. Those who dissented went off with hig'h heads and taunting language, and those who kept to their original sentiments appeared exercised and sorrowful. And when the dividing spirit entered the Society of Friends, f it raged in as high degree as in any I had before seen; and, as before, those ivho separated went off with lofty looks and taunting language;J those who kept their ancient principles retired by themselves. It next appeared in the lodges of the Freemasons : it broke out in appearance like a volcano, inas- much as it set the country in an uproar for a length of time.

" Then it entered politics throughout the United States, and did not stop until it produced a civil war, and abundance of blood was shed.|| In the course of the combat the Southern States lost their power, and slavery was annihilated from their borders.^!

" Then a monarchical power arose in this government, established a national religion, and made all societies tributary to support its ex- penses; I saw them take property from Friends to a large amount. I was amazed at beholding all this, and I heard a voice proclaim : ' This power shall not always stand; but with it I will chastise my Church until they return to the faithfulness of their forefathers. Thou seest what is coming on thy native country for their iniquities and the blood of Africa, the remem- brance of which has come up before me. This vision is yet for many days.' "

Thus ends the oldest form of the text, which survives in an Indiana reprint of 1889, based upon old copies. The common editions, including the Negro text of 1854, add :

" I had no idea of writing it for many years, until it became such a burden [the Negro text has " burthen "] that, for my own relief, I have written it."

The passage about monarchical govern- ment differs in the current text. I have used that of " some very old copies " known to the Indiana publisher of 1889. The


 * Cumberland Presbyterians, 1810.

t Hicksite Quaker schism, 1827-9.

t The words in italics are not in the text of 1854.

Anti-Masonic agitation, 1826-40. First Anti- Masonic political convention held at Philadelphia, 1S30.

I! 1861-5.

T 1865.

phrase " took the government of the States " is usually inserted. This final item of the vision was said by a son of the seer's to have been no part of the original of 1803, but to have been added at the time of writing.

ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

GERMAN PRINCES WHO HAVE FALLEN iisr THE WAR. The Almanack de Got! a for 1915 gives the names of the following members of German princely families who had fallen in the war before the date at which it appeared :

1. Prince Maximilian of Hesse (son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia, sister of the Kaiser), born 1894, died from wounds at the Convent of St. Jean Chapelle r 12 Oct., 1914.

2. Prince Frederick William of Lippe, born 1858, killed 6 Aug., 1914.

3. His nephew, Prince Ernest of Lippe, born 1892, killed at Villers les Guise, near St. Quentin r 28 Aug., 1914.

4. Prince Henri XLVI. of Reuss ( branche cadette)* born 1896, killed near Lille Oct., 1914.

5. Prince Frederick John of Saxe-Meiningen- Hildbourghausen, born 1861, killed at Namur r 23 Aug., 1914.

6. His younger son, Prince Ernest, born 1895, killed at Maubeuge, 28 Aug., 1914.

7. Prince Victor Wolrad of Waldeck, born 1892, killed at Masly, 17 Oct., 1914.

8. Count William of Fugger, born 1876.. killed 5 Sept., 1914.

9. Count Frederick Albert of Rechteren-Lim- pourg, born 1885, killed at Morgues, 24 Aug., 1914.

10. Prince Charles of Solms-Braunfels, born 1892, killed 1914.

11. Prince William of Carolath-Beuthen, bom 1881, killed at Meysse, near Brussels, 26 Aug., 1914.

A. FRANCIS STEUART. 79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

" NATJSCOPY." The definition of this term as given in 'The Century Dictionary ' is " the art, or pretended art, of sighting ships or land at great distances." The ' N.E.D.* gives a short quotation from ' The Encyclo- paedia Britannica ' of 1797, and references to the 1847 Webster and other dictionaries. Let me add that the inventor or originator was one ]i!tienne Bottineau of Mauritius, whose life is given in the ' Biographic Nouvelle des Contemporains' (Paris, 1820 1825). The discovery is described at some length in the inventor's ' Memoire,' an extrait from which appeared in 1786, based upon which The Scots Magazine published an article explaining the invention in its April number for the same year. Bottineau claimed that by certain signs in the clouds and on the surface of the sea he was able to