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The Minster of Minster in Thanet. A pamphlet of 32 pp. (8x5in.), with ten illustrations. My copy is dated 1907, third edition. It is sold at the church, price Qd.

Parish Church, Great Yarmouth. A four- paged leaflet (8x 5 in.), with ground plan and view of church, giving systematic direc- tions for seeing the church, and drawing attention to those points which chiefly interest " common clay," or the man -in -the - street. My copy is dated 1903. You help yourself to a copy, and put a contribution in the box.

My collection of pamphlets or booklets descriptive of churches contains many which may have been acquired in the edifice itself, but many more which were purchased at adjacent shops, to which the visitor is sent by the verger. I have noticed a con- siderable increase in the number of these little monographs during the last few years, and have seen printed descriptions framed and hung up in many churches, and more than once I have been handed a manuscript description of the building when examining a church. WILLIAM BRADBROOKE.

Bletchley.

The subjoined may be added to the in- stances already given. In Norton Church, Evesham, an account of the church fabric, by the Rev. Narcissus G. Batt (vicar 1854-91), hangs framed near the Bygges' Chapel, over the desk on which the Visitors' Book lies. The narrative describes the fabric as he found it on his appointment as vicar, and is valuable as a chapter in the history of a venerable and interesting Worcestershire church. Also, in the vestry of Hartshill Church, near Atherstone, there is a framed history of the parish and locality, which I wrote when acting as locum tenens in 1909. Both above histories are, of course, in print, taken in the first instance from the Evesham Parish Magazine of 1888 ; in the second from The Manchester Weekly Times of November, 1909. . J. B. MCGOVERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

In June, 1906, I observed octavo leaflets for visitors in the minster of St. Denys, Warminster, and small quarto leaflets in St. John Baptist's, Froome.

A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS.

Printed guides of Pevensey and Westham churches can be had at the churches at Id. each. At the latter is another penny pamphlet dealing with the registers, account books, &c. R. B R.

South Shields.

ONIONS PLANTED WITH ROSES (11 S. VI.

509). The custom referred to by EMERITUS was, or is, probably general : The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighboured by fruit of baser quality.

' Henry V.,' 3 1. i. 60-62.

Bacon has similar ideas in * Sylva Syl- varum.' P. A. MCELWAINE.

SIMPSON AND LOCOCK (US. vii. 170). The Dr. Simpson referred to in ' Pendennis ' was, of course, Dr. (afterwards Sir) James Young Simpson, the famous gynaecologist, with whose name, in connexion with the introduction of anaesthetics, all Europe was ringing when the first part of ' Pendennis ' appeared in November, 1848. Exactly a year previously Simpson, with his assistants, had made in his Edinburgh surgery his epoch-making experiment of the inhalation of chloroform.

The apparent association, in Thackeray's mind, of Simpson with mesmerism is inter- esting, in view of the fact unnoticed, by the way, by his biographers in the ' D.N.B.' that the eminent physician was all his life keenly interested in mesmeric phenomena, and possessed himself mesmeric gifts of a marked kind. I well remember as a small boy hearing him tell my mother how he was in such rapport with a lady living in Vienna that he could induce her to sleep or to wake at any time he pleased.

D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus.

The Editor has already identified Dr. Locock in ' Pendennis ' ; the other physician mentioned in that work is Sir James Simpson, pioneer in administering chloroform in childbirth. It is recorded that some of the " unco glide " were scandalized at such a profane device for evading the sentence pronounced upon woman, " In sorrow shalt thou bring forth," &c., and solemnly remon- strated with Simpson upon his conduct. In defence he told them that he also had read the Bible, and had noted that God, before extracting a rib from Adam, " cast him into a deep sleep."

HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith.

Simpson was, no doubt, the eminent Edin- burgh M.D. who did much to introduce the use of chloroform, and who was, perhaps, the first to employ it in obstetrics. He was born in 1811, and he died in 1870. The World owes much to Sir James Young Simpson. ST. SWITHIN.