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author. He used to read aloud to me with rapturous enthusiasm the wondrous tales of German Illuminati ; and he was disappointed, sometimes even displeased, when I expressed doubt or disbelief."

A. R. BAYLEY.

LEGEND OF THE MAGI (12 S. iii. 129). by Henry Van Dyke in a charming little book of five chapters bearing the above title, and published by Harper & Brothers of New York.
 * The Story of the Other Wise Man ' is told

In his interesting preface the author claims for the story that it is original, " not written in any other book nor found among the ancient lore of the East," but that it was sent to him as a gift, while he lay upon his sick bed in the watches of the night, and in his own words, " it seemed as if I knew the Giver, though His name was not spoken." EDWIN C. BEDFORD.

I have a small book called ' The Story of the Other Wise Man,' written by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, author, preacher, and Professor of English Literature in Princeton University, N.J. (see 'Who Who'), which embodies the story your correspondent is in search of.

In the preface the author states :

" One thing is certain, it is not written in any other book, nor is it to be found among the ancient lore of the East. Yet I have never felt as if it were my own. It was a gift. It was sent to me ; and it seemed as if I knew the Giver, though Hi.s name was not spoken."

The book I have was printed in the United S'.ates, published by Harper & Brothers, New York and London, and though there is no date, it was copyrighted in 1895.

I shall be glad to lend the book for perusal. A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

BUTLER'S ' ANALOGY ' : BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ii. 369 ; iii. 56). Some interesting and helpful lectures on Bishop Butler's ' Analogy ' were given at Oxford, in Novem- ber, 1879, and February, 1880, by the then Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Rev. C. Prit chard. They were printed in extenso -at the time in The Oxford Herald and in The Oxford Guardian. I am not aware whether they were also printed in pamphlet form.

Dr. Edward Steere, afterwards Missionary Bishop in Central Africa (U.M.C.A.), brought out an edition of the ' Analogy ' with a ^valuable Introductory Preface in 1857. Pour years previously he had unearthed in the British Museum some apparently

unknown MS. fragments of Bishop Butler's, which he printed with an Introduction in 1853. He exchanged " the Law " for " the Gospel," and his edition of the ' Analogy ' was published during the time of his diaconate. Heanley. in his ' Memoir of Bishop Steere,' speaking of his examination for priest's orders, writes :

" It is said that some of the candidates [at Lincoln] were inclined to look down upon the quiet, self - contained, comparatively elderly- looking man, and one remarked after the Butler paper : ' Let me give you a hint, if you are ploughed by the morning's paper, Get the edition with an Introduction by a man called Steere, and if you know that you are sure to get through next time.' ' Yes,' quietly replied the author, ' I have some acquaintance with the work.' "

Bishop Butler was born at Wantage in 1692 ; and in the " seventies " of the last century the house in which the great Analogist had first seen the light of day was used as a clergy house, and was occupied by the large staff of curates who were being trained by the vicar, himself a distinguished namesake of the Bishop, Canon William Butler. The house and the room in which Bishop Butler had been born had remained practically unchanged. It was my privilege, during my time at Oxford, to spend a few days at the Vicarage with Canon Butler. He was insistent on the advisability of a careful study of the ' Analogy,' and stated that for many years past he had made a practice of reading it through every year.

JAS. M. J. FLETCHER.

The Vicarage, Wimborne Minster.

BEVIS MARKS (12 S. iii. 91). A thorough- fare in St. Mary Axe, near Houndsditch. It is referred to in Dickens's ' Old Curiosity Shop ' as being the locality of the office of Sampson Brass and his sister Sally. Strype (vol. i. bk. ii. p. 73) says :

" Then next is one great House, large of Booms, fair Courts and Garden Plots, sometime pertain- ing to the Bassets, since that, to the Abbots of Bury in Suffolk, and therefore called Buries Marks, corruptly Bevis Marks. And since the Dissolution of the Abbe% of Bury, to Thomas Heneage the Father, and Sir Thomas the Son.

" This House and Ground is now encreased into many Tenements : and among the rest, the Jews of London have late built themselves a large Synagogue here, wainscotted round. It stands East and West like one of our Churches. The 'great Door is on the West: Near to which West End is a long Desk upon an Ascent' some- what raised from the rest of the Floor ; where I suppose the Law is read. The East wall is in part railed in ; and before the Wall is a Door, which is to open with a key, where their Law seems to be laid up. Aloft on this Wall are the Ten Commandments, or some part of them, inscribed in Golden Hebrew Letters without