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BISHOPS' TRANSCRIPTS (11 S. vii. 66). - I believe that it is not generally known that the fees paid by churchwardens to the Diocesan Registrar at the annual visita- tions include payment for " the tabulatin in the registry the copies of the register books of baptisms and burials, and other papers required to be annually transmitted *' {30 & 31 Viet. cap. 135 ; London Gazette, 19 March, 1869 ; Phillimore's ' Ecclesiastical Law,' 2nd ed., p. 1059). I would suggest that churchwardens should inquire whether the bishops' transcripts have been tabulated, and if not, that they should withhold pay- ment of fees until an assurance is given that the transcripts will be tabulated.

ANTIQUARY.

COTTON'S * ANGLER ' : ITS MOTTO (11 S. iv. 367). Apparently the " three well- known living Cambridge classics " whom MR. STAPLETON MARTIN speaks of as having given up the search for the source of this quotation did not push their inquiries far enough into the Latin literature of the Renaissance. The lines which appear on the title-page of Part II. of ' The Complete Angler ' are taken from the quatrain pre- fixed to Erasmus's ' Adagiorum Chiliades 7 :

Perfacile est, aiunt, prouerbia scribere cuiuis. Hand nego : sed durum est scribere Chiliadas.

Qui mihi nqn credit, faciat licet ipse periclum : Mox fuerit studiis requior ille meis.

EDWARD BENSLY.

EARTH-EATINC; (11 S. vi. 290, 351, 397, r>14; vii. 98). Earth-eating is sometimes associated with the presence of parasites such as the Ascaris lumbricoides or one of the species of Ankylostoma.

These parasites may cause perversion of the appetite, as a result of which geophagy is practised ; and since in certain countries the ova are excessively common in the soil, the indulgence in geophagy increases the infection. A vicious circle is thus estab- lished, parasitic infection being both the cause and effect of the earth-hunger.

JAMIESON B. HURRY, M.D.

Weatfield, Reading.

" BUCCA-BOO " (11 S. vii. 89). This word occurs in Russian as buka, denned by Reiff as " loup-garou, Knecht Ruprecht, bug- bear." In Pushkin's Shakspearian drama pectant crowds are awaiting Boris's decision to mount the throne or take monastic vows, a peasant mother frightens her weeping irifant with the threat that buka will have him. Later, whengeneral lamentation givois
 * Boris Godunov,' in the scene where the* ex-

the news that Boris will assume the COM!, the poor little one is terrified into adding his voice by another explosion of vot buka (bogy comes). FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S. vi. 428, 517 ; vii. 55). I do not know whether booklets or pamphlets, on sale within or at the doors of the churches of which they give the history and description, come within the scope of PEREGRINUS'S inquiry ; if they do, the following list includes some churches visited within the last three years where such are to be found :

Upper Warlingham, Surrey Four-page leaflet containing sketch of the history and ''points of interest" of the church, illustrated by views of the exterior before and after restoration and enlarge- ment in 1893. Sold at the church for one penny. You take a copy and put a penny in the box.

St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, City of London. Four- page leaflet giving history and description. Sold, I think, at the same price and in the same way.

Priory Church of St. Mary, Abergavenny, Mon- mouthshire. Guide - book by the Rev. Morgan Gilbert, Vicar: 64 pages and 8 illustrations, sold at the church for one shilling.

Parish Church, Leeds. AH illustrated booklet, 'History and Memorials,' by M O. Hodson, Precentor of the church. Sold at the church by the verger, price sixpence.

Old Parish Church, Chelsea. Booklet giving history and description, illustrated. Sold at church, price sixpence (or perhaps a shilling).

Lincoln Minster. Penny pamphlet, four pages with plan. Sold by the verger.

Ten years ago- and I suppose it is the same now at the Church of St. Bartholo- mew the Great, West Smithfield. there used to be sold at the vestry, for the benefit of the church, a history and description of it by Norman Moore, M.D. It was the second edition that was then on sale ; it has prob- ably by this time passed through several other editions. We can at least hope so.

One would be glad to see the practice which is the subject of this correspondence more commonly adopted, and be inclined to say, with reference to F. H. C.'s last remark, that even erroneous information is better than no information and a locked church. At Caferham the small but inter- esting old Church of St. Laurence, of a typical Surrey type, has been superseded by a much larger, but entirely uninteresting church on the other side of the road. The old c I lurch is apparently used for Sunday School, but is kept locked up during the week. I made two visits to the place (one on a Sunday after- noon), walking up the long and somewhat steep hill from the station to the church at the top, but was unable to get in or to find anv one who knew whero tli<> key was kepi.