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solemnly sung after Compline whilst the brethren were asperged by the prior. St. Philip Neri used to frequent the ' Salve ' procession at the Church of the Minerva at Rome. There is also a custom, universal throughout the Order, of chanting the ' Salve ' round the deathbeds of its members, so that all may pass into eternity with those holiest words ringing in their ears.

" Confessions before Mass " is another phrase which seems to me hardly explicit. Does it refer to the Chapter of Faults?

The Dominican refectory, according to the Rule and Constitutions, is to be utterly unlike a dining-room. It is as much a room to pray in as to eat in. Further, it is a place of inviolable silence.* During meals from a little raised pulpit one of the brethren reads aloud from some devotional book, that, as the Rule of St. Augustine enjoins, " whilst the body is refreshed, the soul also may have its proper food."

Great stress is laid in the Constitutions on the wearing of woollen material next the skin; and this, no hardship here, is doubtless felt to be sufficiently penitential in the burning climates of the South. Linen is only permitted to the infirm and sick. According to the beautiful symbolism of the Venerable Julia Cicarelli of Camerino (1532- 1621), " Woollen garments show the patience and meekness of the lamb; the white habit purity of heart; the black mantle death to the world."

One would certainly be inclined to render culcitris mattresses, but in this context it must particularly mean a soft mattress, as a hard mattress is allowed by the Rule.

The first General Chapter of the Order, held in the lifetime of St. Dominic, ordered that each cell should contain a crucifix and an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is an interesting allusion to the first of these injunctions in Blessed Raymond of Capua's ' Life of St. Catherine.'

Why should the " term fratres " be so exclusively appropriated to the Dominicans? Is it not equally to be applied to Augustinians (eremites), Franciscans, Carmelites, Trini- tarians, Mercedarians, Servites in fact to all Mendicant Orders?

MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.

Arising out of your recent notes on the Dominican Order, perhaps you will kindly allow me space for a query which demands a preface. Very little seems to be known of

cession and privilege allow conversation at dinner.
 * If a bishop is present he may as a great con-

the writings of Primate Walter Jorz of Armagh, and of Archbishops Darlington and Hotham of Dublin. The fact is strange, for these prelates were men of uncommon dis- tinction in their time. All three were English Dominicans, and fairly prolific writers, as we may infer from the lists of their works in Bale, Pits, Ware, Tanner, Quetif, and Echard. Darlington was one of the compilers of the famous ' Concordantiae Magnae,' the second earliest concordance of the Bible. He afterwards became the confessor and trusted friend of Henry III., served for many years as collector of the Crusade subsidies in England, and died Archbishop of Dublin. William Hotham, a distinguished professor in the theological schools of Paris, was twice Provincial of the Dominicans in England. Refusing the see of Llandaff, he was promoted to that of Dublin. After negotiating more than one truce between Edward I. and Philippe le Bel, he was sent by the English monarch as his ambassador to the Holy See, and died at Dijon on the return journey. Primate Walter Jorz, brother of Cardinal Thomas Jorz, resigned his uneasy throne at Armagh^ and spent his declining years, apparently, at Oxford. The first volume of my ' History of the Irish Dominicans ' contains the fullest extant account of these prelates, but I am regretfully conscious of having failed to add anything of importance to the bare and oft- repeated lists of their writings. Their works,, if discovered and described, might throw useful light upon the social condition as well as the theological thought of their tirne^ The best account of their writings, so far as I am aware, is that given two hundred years- ago in the first volume of Quetif and Echard' s ' Scrip tores Ordinis Praedicatorum,' and reproduced in my book. But that ac- count should be considerably out of date nowadays. Perhaps some reader may be able to throw fresh light on the question. M. H. MAC INEBNY, O.P. St. Saviour's Priory, Dublin.

'THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN/ BY "NAVAL OFFICER" (12 S. iii. 70). The author of this book is Alfred Thornton. It was first published anonymously in 1817.. It is illustrated with coloured plates by C. Williams, but who this artist is I cannot find out. The number of plates varies; in some copies there are 23, in others as many as 25. Two copies of the book have recently been sold, of which one had 23 plates, the other 24. Other books of the same author are very scarce and command a high price- Two of these are entitled ' Don Juan ' and