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in the Grosse Bader on the left bank of the Limmat or Linth. It is below the Kurhaus. The only local name at all re- sembling Imrapen is Im Hasel, west of the Kurhaus. Possibly a Frenchman like de Blainville mistook this name. Baden (not being very far 14 miles from Zurich with which it was connected in 1847 by the first railway built in Switzerland) was a very fashionable resort for the Swiss. Besides Pricker's big book, see David Hess, ' Die Badenfahrt ' (Zurich, 1817).

W. A. B. C.

VOLTAIRE'S ' CANDIDE,' PART II. (12 S. vi. 296, 322). Just after having finished the reply at the second reference, I find in Larousse's ' Grande Encyclopedic,' iii. 258-59 an account of two Imitations and Con- tinuations of Voltaire's satiric chef d'oeuvre which are ascribed to him and fully answer your correspondent's inquiry. As stated, the first " Suite, ou Seconde Partie de ' Candide ' est tine curiosite bibliographique aujourd'hui a peu pres introuvable." It would be too long to quote the two accounts. I can only refer to Larousse. H. KREBS.

FOLK-LORE : THE DANGERS OF CROSSING (11 S. xii. 451 ; 12 S. i. 238). In Pliny's (vol. ii. p. 353, in Bonn's " Classical Library") we read :
 * Natural History,' bk. viii., chap. Ixxxiii.

" In whatever country it [the shrew-mouse] exists, it always dies immediately if it goes across the rut made by a wheel."

Bostock remarks thereon that, according to Cuvier :

" Elle ne p6rit point parcequ'elle a traverse^ une orniere, quoique souvent elle puisse y etre ecrasee. C'est un des quadrupedes que 1'on tue le plus aisement par un coup leger."

The Japanese of yore believed in the danger of being crossed, and held it dangerous to let a person pass between a man and wife or two relations or friends. This super- stition is said to have originated in a Buddhist Indian legend, which is this :

" When the Titanic King Bahu fell in the combat with the god Indra, every tune the latter cut off the former's head or limbs, in- stantly they were restored to his body. Now, Sachi, the wife of Indra, gathered and halved the flowers of blue lotus, arrayed them into two rows, and passed betwixt them. Indra understood her meaning, severed Rahu's limbs anew, threw them into right and left, and walked between them, which made them unable to return to the Titanic body, so that Rahu was for ever no more " (' Jinten Ain6 Sh6,' 1532, torn. iii.).

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

" OUIDA " IN PERIODICAL LITERATURE (12 S. v. 414). ' Ouida, a Memoir,' by Elizabeth Lee, pp. 34-35, says :

" In January, 1861, Ouida's first long novel, ' Granville de Vigne : a Tale of the Day," began to- appear in The New Monthly Magazine. It was- concluded in June, 1863, when Tinsley published it in three volumes, changing the title to ' Held in Bondage.' ....' Strathmore ' was begun in. The New Monthly Magazine in the following; month and ran until February, 1865. Next month the first instalment of ' Idalia ' appeared,. and was concluded in the number for February,

1867 These three romances were all written.'

for Harrison Ainsworth, the proprietor of the two periodicals mentioned."

For the other of the two periodicals men- tioned at above reference, see p. 32 of Miss Lee's ' Memoir.' " Dr. W. Francis Ainsworth, a cousin of Harrison Ainsworth, was their medical attendant, and to him the girL confided her attempts at stories. He intro- duced Ouida to Ainsworth, who was at that time editing Bentley's Miscellany. She sub- mitted some of the stories to him ; he at once recognised their merit, and eagerly accepted them for his magazine. The first, entitled; ' Dashwood's Drag ; or, The Derby and: what came of it ' appeared in the Miscellany for April and May, 1859, and she contributed 1 stories to each succeeding number up to- July, 1862 : all of them were signed 'Ouida.' .... Ouida s stories formed one of the chief attractions of the Miscellany in those years. In 1867, fourteen of the stories were pub- lished in a volume entitled ' Cecil Castle- maine's Gage, and other Novelettes.' '

F. J. HYTCH..

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Four Americans. By Henry Augustin Beers. .

(Yale University Press, 4s. 6d. net.) PROF. BEERS discourses, in this slender book, on> Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson and Whitman. We confess to having a complaint against him. It is one we would lodge against several of the newer academic writers of America. We complain and we half expect to surprise him thereby of his obscurity. He writes easily, and, if we may so put it, speakingly ; but the connection of ideas underlying the pleasantly flowing phrases re- peatedly eludes the reader. Not only so, but there crop up occasional sentences of which we can only say that we do not know what they mean. For example here is a passage from the first page of the essay entitled ' Fifty Years of Hawthorne ' :

" I heard Colonel Higginson say. in a lecture at Concord, that if a few drops of redder blood could have been added to Hawthorne's style, he would have been the foremost imaginative writer of his century. The ghosts in ' the ^Eneid ' [apparently a