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a Catachresis) equally runnes against the Schooles, and the arts themselves. I am perswaded he used to be sorely beaten in the Schooles with stripes, and that hath raised up in him, this fatall indignation, v:o worth the hand that gathred the twigs, that made the rod, that trhipt the . . . .for what if he were uncapable of Arts ? " (The italics, except the word " beaten," are mine.)

This is strongly reminiscent of the stick that was to beat the pig in the story of ' The Old Woman and her Pig,' while the rhythm of the phrases recalls that of ' The House that Jack Built.' Whether the writer coined the above sentences ad hoc, or was merely repeating phrases already current among schoolboys, it is difficult to believe that the original inventor of them had not the above-mentioned two well- known cumulative stories in mind.

WM. SELF WEEKS.

LAUGHARNE FAMILY OF PEMBROKESHIRE. These entries relating to the Laugharne family are taken from the Registers of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest, mentioned at 12 S. ii. 446 :

Baptisms. [1680.] May 31. Lewis Laughame, ye son of

James Laugharne.

1683. Aug. 10. Sibles Laugharne, the daughter of Thomas Laugharne.

1684. Feb. 23. Ann Laugharne, the daughter of Thomas Laugharne.

1702. Sept. 2. John, son of John Laugharne. 1704. Nov. 7. Rowland, son of Job. Laugharne. 1708. Dec. 10. Thomas, son of John Laugharne. 1710. Jan. 21. William, son of John Laugharne.

Marriage.

1603. May 22. Jeinkinus Lloyd et Ellena Laugh- arne.

Burials.

1683. Dec. 16. Sibles, the dau. of Tho. Laugh- arne. was buried in the body of the church.

1687. May 20. Thomas, ye son of Thomas Laugharne, was buried in the body of the church.

1688. June 26. Thomas Llaugharne was buried.

The arms of the Laugharne family are Gules, three lions' heads erased or.

J. T. EVANS. Newport Castle, Pembrokeshire.

SCOTT : SLIP IN 'OLD MORTALITY.' It is amusing to notice a blunder which Scott made in the beginning of chap. iv. of this novel. He speaks of an innkeeper who had been " a strict Presbyterian of such note that he usually went among his sect by the name of Gaius the Publican." This sobriquet is presumably intended to be an allusion to some New Testament phrase. But in the New Testament the word " pub lican " is, of course, never used except in its sense of " tax-collector." What ran in

Scott's mind was, doubtless, the passage in Rom. xvi. 23 :" Gaius, mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you." I am sure that Scott himself would have laughed heartily at the slip, if it had been pointed out to him. JOHN \VILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ANTICIPATED.

On p. 37 of "Valoe, conte ; par Hen-

riette de C " (Londres, 1817), which

contains a " Liste des Sou script eurs," we read :

" Voyez ce cercle immense, resplendissant de lumiere, au milieu de la nuit sombre qui 1 en- vironne : il a la propriety admirable de faire penetrer la vue a travers les corps opaques qu 01 lui oppose, quelle que soit leur epaisseur, et rapprocher en mme temps les objets et les sons, de maniere a permettre de voir et d'entendre qui se passe me'me trea loin de nous." This paragraph of a fairy tale contains a curious foretelling, or forethinking, of some recent scientific discoveries, which are facts, and not " une operation magique." EDWARD S. DODGSON.

Albert House, Bath.

AUSTRALIAN MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS : III. ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY. (See 12 S. iii. 269, 330.) The following abstracts were made in 1895:

1. A handsome altar-tomb of Caen stone bearing the recumbent full-length effigy of the bishop, inscribed on side : Gulielmus Grant Broughton, S.T.P., Primus Episcopus Sydniensis, Australasias Metropolitans, obiit xx Feb., MDCCCUH., setat. lxv

2. On a tablet on north wall. William Grant Broughton, first Bishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of Australasia, consecrated Feb. 14, 1836. Born May 22, 1788. Died Feb. 20, 1853.

3. Sarah Broughton, wife of William Grant Broughton, D.D., first Bishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan of Australasia. Born Feb. 20, 1/83. Died Sept. 16, 1849.

4. John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia. Born A.D. 1827 ; killed at : Nukapu, Sept. 20, 1871.

5. Frederic Barker, second Bishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of Australasia, consecrated Dec. 30, 1854. Born March 17, 1808. Died April 6, 1882.

6. Jane Sophia Barker, the beloved wife of the Bishop of Sydney. Died at Bishop's Court, March 9, 1876, aged 68 years.

7. William Tyrrell, D.D., first Bishop of Newcastle, consecrated June 29, 1847. Died March 24, 1879, aged 72.

8. William C. Sawyer, first Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, consecrated Feb. 2, 1867. Drowned in Clarence River, March 15, 1868, aged 36.

9. Augustus Short, first Bishop of Adelaide. Born June 11, 1802 ; consecrated June 29, 184 / ; died Oct. 5, 1883.

10. Canon Stack, died June 14, 1871. Canon Vidal, died Jan. 10. 1878. Canon O'Reilly, died Dec. 18, 1881. Canon Walsh, died Dec. 16, 1882.