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be translated ('Five Weeks in a Balloon') did not appear in English until 1870.

Unfortunately, I am unable to refer to any volumes of ' Every Boy's Annual ' other than those in my possession ; but there must be many readers of ' N. & Q.' who have access to them, and I should esteem it a favour if I could be informed of any story of Jules Verne's appearing in the magazine (or in any other magazine) besides those of which I have the names already.

The volumes of ' Every Boy's Annual ' which I now know to contain Verne's stories are 1874-5-6-7-8, 1885-6. I can state definitely that the following do not contain his stories: 1880,1887-8-9: 1889 was the last publ'shed volume. I should gladly welcome further information.

P. H. LING. 7, Chandos Road, Redland, Bristol.

UPRIGHT STONES IN OPEN CHURCHYARDS. What is the earliest known date on any such now existing in England ? and where are they to be found ? A. A. M.

Hove.

EARLY DOUBTS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL JESUS.-r-In his ' Geschichte der Leben- Jesu- Forschung ' (1913, p. 444) Prof. Schweitzer writes that the first upholders of the paradox lately made familiar 'to the public by B. Smith and Drews were Dupuis and Volney. The latter is responsible for Napoleon's question to Wieland (1808) : "Do you really believe that Jesus existed ? " Now a passage in Voltaire (' (Euvres, 5 ed. de Kehl, vol. xxxiii. p. 273) runs thus : " J'ai vu quelques disciples de Bolingbroke qui niaient 1'existence de Jesus," and a few lines further he calls them " ces jeunes gens."

Who were those young disciples of Boling- broke ? Did some one of them express his opinion in print ? SALOMON REINACH.

[Correspondents are requested to adhere to the terms of the query, as the rules of 'N. & Q.' do not admit of controversy.]

PYROTHONIDE. Can any reader quote references showing the use of this substance in ancient medicine ? RENIRA.

DRAMATIC CRITICISM. 1. What book gives an account of the revivals of ' Romeo and Juliet,' &c., at the Haymarket Theatre, under Adelaide Neilson ? I know Cyril Maude's book.

2 Does any book (besides Dutton Cook's ' Nights at the Play ') give critiques of the old comedy revivals at the Imperial Theatre when managed by Marie Litton ?

3. What papers (besides Punch and The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News) give sketches or illustrations of the London stage from 1875 to 1885 ? I believe there were papers called The Entr'acte and The Owl. N. L. P.

HARPERT TROMP. Can any of your readers give me information concerning the Burgemeester of Delft of this name ?

I wish to find a portrait of him, and have applied to many foreign galleries. A portrait by an unknown painter was in Amsterdam, and was included in 1788 in the Cornelia van Kinschot sale. Harpert Tromp lived 1632-91. I should be glad of any particulars that would enable me to obtain a photograph of this portrait. M. Y. P.'

JOHN CHAPMAN. I should be glad to have information concerning John Chapman, for many years editor of The Westminster Review. His name does not seem to be included in any biographical dictionary. CLEMENT SHORTER.

ELIZABETH JOANNA W T ESTON : LUDOMILLA KELLEY. (US. viii. 306.)

IT would certainly be of some interest to know to which family Elizabeth Weston belonged. We could then improve on Fuller, who, finding " an ancient and wor- shipful Family of the Westons flourishing at Sutton," provisionally assigned her in his ' Worthies ' to the county of Surrey, " ready to remove her at the first informa- tion of the certain place of her Nativity." But the particulars of the possible clue indicated at the above reference were not quite accurately given. The letter of 12 Oct., 1598, was not written by Elizabeth. She was the recipient of the letter, which was addressed to her by her brother John Francis. The person described as " affinis nostra " (not " noster ") is not said to be returning to England, but to have started for England. The actual words are these :

"Intellexi non ita pridem, charissima Soror, ex Rev. Dn. Thomse ad me datis Dnm. affinem nostram Ludomillam Kelleam in Angliam, assump- tis duobus filiolis suis, minori vero natu matri terrse relicto, deducente Dna Matre nostra, pro- fee tarn esse ; si se res ita habet, gaudeo certe et summopere laetor, illam tandem aliquando ad metam pervenisse optatam, filiolum vero minorem in coelestem transmigrasse Patriam." In E. J. Weston, 'Opuscula,' Frankfurt, 1724, p. 196.