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and all were drowned with one solitary exception. The survivors in all cases bore the same name Hugh Williams.

ANETJRIN WILLIAMS.

CASANOVA IN ENGLAND. (See 10 S. viii. 443, 491; ix. 116; xi. 437; 11 S. ii. 386; iii. 242 ; iv. 382, 461 ; v. 123, 484 ; 12 S. i. 121, 185.) With reference to my theory that the name Vanhel is a misprint for Vanneck (see ante, p. 122), I have received the following note from Dr. Tage E. Bull of Copenhagen :

" Your conjecture concerning Vanhel = Vanneck is very probably correct, since a MS. receipt signed by Passano, and preserved in the Castle of Dux, bears the following marginal note in Casanova's

handwriting : * in Shorter Court, Throgmorton

Street, behind the roiale Exchange, chez Josua Gerard, Vanneck C, London.' It appears from this that Casanova had dealings with the firm."

I had hoped to discover some documents at the Public Record Office relating to Casa- nova's appearance before Sir John Fielding, but I am informed that all the old records of Bow Street were destroyed some time ago. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

THE REV. S. J. STONE'S HYMNS. In the years 1882 and 1883, shortly after leaving Cambridge, I had the pleasure of doing some week-end work as a layman in the parish of St. Paul, Haggerston, London, E., under the late Rev. S. J. Stone, and became intimate with him.

One evening at his Rectory I asked him why his hymn ' The Church's one founda- tion ' was spoilt by a false rime, which always offended such little poetic sense as I owned, viz. :

Yet she on earth hath union

With God the Three in One, And mystic sweet communion

With those whose rest is won. He told me that this was no fault of his, and that he had written :

Yet she on earth hath union With Father, Spirit, Son, And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won ;

but that the editors of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' had altered his words owing to the fact that he had mentioned the Persons of the Trinity in the wrong order.

He further pointed out that in the last stanza of his famous hymn ' Weary of earth and laden with my sin,' the third line had been altered from " Like Mary's gift let my devotion prove" to "Myself, my gift, let my devotion prove," which appears an inadvisable alteration ; also that both the text-mottoes of his hymns had been changed.

I asked him why he did not object, and he replied that so long as any of his writings were of use to the Church of Christ he did not care how they were altered.

He wrote another beautiful hymn begin- ning :

Remember Me ; show forth My Death

Until Mine Advent be ;

which the choir used to sing at St. Paul's,, Haggerston, but which I have never seen, reprinted in any popular hymnal.

His poems and hymns are to be found in. a volume called ' The Knight of Intercession,, and Other Poems,' published by Rivingtons in 1882. TRIN. COLL. CAMB.

THE VERY REV. PATRICK F. BRANNAN.- (See sub ' Military Executions, 1 11 S. v. 318.) As some doubt has been thrown on the use of mixed cartridges to avoid responsi- bility in these executions, and as at the above reference I cited a living authority for their use, I wish to say something, further about him, now that he is no longer living.

The Very Rev. Patrick F. Brannan died at St. Joseph's Infirmary, Fort Worth,. Texas, aged 68, on Jan. 29, 1916. He was the first Democratic Mayor of Weatherford, Texas, in 1872. After the death of his wife he entered St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore,, and was ordained 'priest. The Fort Worth Record says :

" Among the first to enlist at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was then known as the youngest soldier of the Confederacy. His diminutive stature made it impossible for him to shoulder a, musket, and he became known as tha drummer boy of Company K, Fifteenth Alabama, Colonel James Cantey commanding. The Fifteenth Ala- bama was under constant fire from the battle of Cross Keys in June, 1862, until the close of the war at Appomattox Courthouse. Through it alL young Brannan stood shoulder to shoulder with his more mature comrades."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"DAT GALENUS OPES," &c. (See US. vii.. 208, 273 ; viii. 37, 158.) At the first reference DR. ROBERT F. ARNOLD asked whether the origin of the following distich was known :

Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,

Pauper Aristoteles cogitur ire pedes, or

Sed vacuos loculos semper Homerus habet. Another version of the couplet was quoted: at the second reference from Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' but the earliest ex- ample that I could produce of line contrast- ing the profit to be made by Law and Medicine (to these the discontented Scholar nowadays would add " Technical Science ")/