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Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of tne Heart,' rendered from the Chekh or Bohemian original text (published in London by Dent, in 1905, among the " Temple Classics," having been finished by the translator on Dec. 10, 1900, at Zampach, as stated at the end of his Notes on the last page, p. 306). The first edition of Komensky's work appeared in 1631. A recent critical reprint, which lies before me (based upon an Amsterdam edition of 1663), was edited by Dr. Jan V. Novak, and bears the Chekh title, ' Labyrinth Sveta a Raj Srdce ' [i.e., ' The Labyrint of the World and the Paradise of the Heart '] v Praze [at Prague], 1906 (pp. xvi+272). H. KREBS.

ALLSWORTH, ARTIST (12 S. i. 151). This painter is W. Allsworth,who exhibited at the Royal Academy ten times between the years 1836-56, from the following addresses : 1836, 69 Pratt Street, Camden Town ; 1838-44, 107 Park Street ; 1848-53, 23 Glou- cester Street ; 1854-6, 8 St. James's Terrace, Camden Town. Nine out of the ten pictures exhibited in the Royal Academy were portraits. He also exhibited twice at the British Institution.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

W. Allsworth lived in Camden Town, London, during the first half of the nineteenth century. His work consisted largely of studies of everyday life. He belonged to the English School of Painters, and was an -exhibitor at the Royal Academy and at the British Institution between the years 1836 -and 1856. E. E. BARKER.

The John Bylands Library, Manchester.

CAPT. JOHN WARDE (11 S. viii. 509). from Guisnes, 1544, for the attack on Boulogne did he hold office there as lieutenant under Lord Sandys ? In Arch. Cant., xxx. p. 269, occurs the following reference to him : " The tilting helmet is thought to have belonged to a Captain John Ward who fought in the Battle of the Spurs.' ' This helmet is in Hythe Church, where Warde was buried Jan. 31, 1601 ; he could not, however, have taken part in that battle, although the helmet may well be his, as the crest may be a wolf, although popularly the chapel where it hangs is known as the " Cat's- head Aisle."
 * Capt. Warde states that he was summoned

An old house on the Bayle, Folkestone, has recently been pulled down, and some ceiling plaster panels were disclosed, one of which contained the arms of Warde a cross flory. B. J. FYNMORE.

MATERIA MEDICA IN THE TALMUDIC AGE (12 S. i. 102, 122). I must thank MR. BRESLAR for his very interesting articles, which add a great deal to what is said on the subject in the work to which I referred in my former note. Wootton, however, does not profess to deal with the vdiole subject, but only with the pharmacy of the Bible, though he refers at some length to the later medical lore of the Talmud.

MR. BRESLAR'S reference to sesame under kilcauyoun puzzles me. Sesame and croton are entirely distinct plants, yielding two very different oils. The Greeks knew the castor- oil plant (ricinus) as KIKL (Herodotus) and as KpoTuv (Theophrastus) ; their name for sesame was the same as ours. The identity of the castor-oil plant with the ' ; gourd ' of Jonah, as our A.V. reads, is not by any means certain ; I understand that Hastings rejects it, and it has always been in dispute.

C. C. B.

MlD-NlNETEENTH-CENTTJRY LITERATURE

FOR BOYS (12 S. i. 188). There is a book which contains a considerable amount of the information asked for by MR. FRANK JAY. It is :

"A Brief History of Boys' Journals, with interesting facts about the writers of boys' stories. By Ralph Rollington. Illustrated. (Copyright.) By H. Simpson, Grove Boad, Leicester, England."

It was published in 1913. A copy can be seen here. R. A. PEDDLE.

St. Bride Typographical Library, Bride Lane, E.G.

OIL-PAINTING (12 S. i. 29, 95). T. N. G. should not omit to consult John Burnet's " practical hints," published in four separate volumes by John Carpenter, Old Bond Street : ' Colour in Painting,' 1835 ; ' Com- position.' 1836 ; ' Education of the Eye,' 1837 ; and ' Light and Shade,' 1838. These works are helpfully illustrated.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.

" BONIFACE," AN INNKEEPER (12 S. i. 168). The following passages are in ' More. Mistakes We Make,' compiled by C. E. Clark (1901):

applied to innkeepers through an orthographical vagary. The account to be given of this is. first, that the name means * a doer of good ' (bonu.<t,facio)i and in this sense \vas adopted by several Popes from 418 to 1404; next, as applied to licensed victuallers, that it is a modern word, so we con- tinually read, derived from the name of the land- lord in Farquhar's ' Beaux' Stratagem. ' Fancy Farquhar's landlord being a bonifacMts the rascal ; why, he was in league with highwaymen. Now,
 * The personal name ' Boniface ' is erroneously