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eluding threatening and promise. The publishing of it by Lord Kames [in 1774], without my con- sent, deprived me of a good deal of amusement which I used to take in reading it by heart out of my Bible, and obtaining the remarks of the Scripturians upon it, which were sometimes very diverting." ' Writings,' x. 53.

Now * The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams ' was first published, so far as is known, in 1792, or two years after Franklin's death, and hence Franklin himself h?d no opportunity of either claiming or disclaiming it as his own. It was one of seventeen pieces called ' Bagatelles,' which, according to Smyth (i. 184), were first published by W. T. Franklin in 1818, introduced with the following headnote :

" The Letters, Essays, etc., contained in this section were chiefly written by Dr. Franklin for the amusement of his intimate society in London and Paris, and were by himself actually collected in a small portfolio, endorsed as above. Several of the pieces were either originally written in French, or afterward translated by him into that language by way of exercises."

Smyth goes on to say that at least one of the pieces " was really written by Abbe Morellet." Is it net possible that Franklin took as a basis for this particular piece the French book published in 1746, or a passage in that book ? If so, he must have worked it over .-AS he did the ' Parable against Per- secution,' for there is an allusion to " the Black Hole at Calcutta " an allusion that cf course eould not have appeared in a book printed in 1746. Will not MB. ELKIN MATHEWS compare Franklin's ' Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams ' \\ith the book of 1746 and let us know the result ?

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

BUDDHA IN CHRISTIAN ART (11 S. ii. 147, 217). Andrew D. White, ex-ambassador of the United States to the Court of Berlin, sent me in 1905 a photograph (taken by himself) of Buddha as St. Josaphat in a church at Palermo.

For a description of the statue (or " idol," &* we should call it, in an alien religion) see White's ' Autobiography ' (New York, 1905, vol. ii. p. 455). The inscription is " Divo Josaphat." The authorities for the identi- fication of St. Josaphat (or Joasaph) with Buddha may be found in Rhys Davids' introduction to his translation of Jatakas 1-40 (London, 1880), and in White's ' History of the Warfare of Science with Theology ' (referred to in the 'Autobiography,' loc. cit.). ALBERT J. EDMUNDS.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

WALTER HADDON (11 S. iii. 128, 171). In thanking those correspondents who were kind enough to reply to my query I would like to give expression to my regret that I was the cause of valuable space in 'N. & Q.' being taken up with matter from the ' D.N.B.' Having something more than a mere nodding acquaintance with that invaluable work, I am entirely at a loss to understand how it came about that I overlooked the fact that a biography of Haddon was contained therein. WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

BAGEHOT ON THE CROWN (US. iii. 307). The sentence of which A. P. is in search occurs in * The English Constitution,' by Walter Bagehot (5th ed., 1888), p. 57, and the whole paragraph runs as follows :

" The popular theory of the English Constitu- tion involves two errors as to the sovereign. First, in its oldest form at least, it considers him as an ' Estate of the Realm,' a separate co-ordinate authority with the House of Lords and the House of Commons. This and much else the sovereign once was, but this he is no longer. That authority could only be exercised by a monarch with a legislative veto. He should be able to reject bills, if not as the House of Commons rejects them, at least as the House of Peers rejects them. But the Queen has no such veto. She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her."

Mark the words. Bagehot did not say that the reigning monarch must sign the warrant for his own execution if his " respon- sible ministers " were to submit it to him. It must be the unanimous decision of both Houses of Parliament. The King has still the power to veto the acts of his " responsible ministers," and even, if he chooses, to dismiss them. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY and MR. F. C. WHITE alsh supply the reference.]

SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF RUT- LAND (11 S. iii. 307). The work inquired for is Peter Alvor's ' Das neue Shakespeare- evangelium,' published in 1907. The author's contention is that the comedies are the work of Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland, and the histories and tragedies are from the pen of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. FRANK J. BURGOYNE.

The Tate Library, Brixton.

This theory is upheld by a German writer, Karl Bleibtreu, in ' Der wahre Shakespeare ' (Munich and Leipzig, Georg Miiller, 1907). The book consists of an introduction in which the author sets forth the grounds of his theory, and a five - act prose drama, ' Shakespeare,' the dramatis personce in-