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" Chinese " Gordon. He had a curious way 1 Selfe Deniall. .

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his " Gordon " (see the facsimile signature 1 Grotii de satisfactione 1 Bp. Raynoldes works "3.00 Catech.isrn.es ..

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in Boulger's ' Life of Gordon,' facing p. 195), so that the " G " looked like " E." Prince
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Ibrahim-Helmy in his bibliography of the 1 A ns worths workes

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' Literature of Egypt and the Soudan ' 1 Owen on the Hebrewes .1 Giotii de Religione 1 Large Chest 1 Bishop Rynalds on Ecc Leastes

10 2 16 4 0000 repeats the R. G. S. mistake. . J. M. BULLOCH. 37 Bedford Square, W.C.I J2 8 L. M. ANSTEY. ' CHRIST CHURCH,' BY THE REV. HENRY L. THOMPSON : CORRIGENDA.. I have a copy of this book, published 1900, being one of the ' University of Oxford College Histories,' which was given by the author to the late Canon Ellacombe. In it is a letter from Thompson to the Canon, dated 7 Keble Road, Oxford, Feb. 13, 1901, which no .doubt accompanied the gift. In it the writer says, " I have noticed overleaf a few ' errata.' ' They are : P. 95, 1. 6 and 7, dele " Easter Day." P. 96, 1. 11 from bottom, dele " had." P. 98, 1. 10 from bottom, for " north " read "south." P. 104, 1. 12 from bottom, for " Lavers '' read " Laver." P. 109, 1. 18, for "Kidlington" read " Kiddington." P. 198, 1. 16, for " Banff " read " Bamff." P. 223, 1. 15, for " seven " read " eight." P. 223, L 26, " Ossulston " read " Ossing- ton." P. 243, 1. 2 from bottom, for " Oxford " -read " Christ Church." P. 169. It was on the death of Bishop Moss (1812), not of Bishop Smallwell, that W. .Jackson succeeded to the see of Oxford. P. 256. Rosetta of course was 'not in the Peninsula. It may be that those who have the book will be interested in Thompson's corrections. ROBERT PIERPOINT. " CHINESE " GORDON'S SIGNATURE. I have been greatly puzzled by two letters on the Soudan written to The Times of Oct. 23 and 26, 1880, by " 0. E. Gordon," Simi- larly in the 1877 Proceeding? of the Royal Geographical Society (vol. xxi. pp. 48-50, 56-58) there a~e three com mmications about the Nile from "Col. C. E. Gordon." All A MEETING OF WAYS. The little village of Bowling, on the north bank of the Clyde and about eight miles from Glasgow, makes a bid for notoriety which, so far as I can gather, is unique. Perhaps some reader may be able to lower its flag. At no other place in the world, so it boasts, are there so many ways of communication within such a small breadth of ground roughly about one hundred and fifty yards. Within that space and at a point just where the Kilpatrick and Dumbuck hills touch the river, there are (1) the river Clyde, (2) the North British Railway, (3) the Forth and Clyde Canal, (4) the Caledonian Railway, (5) the main road, (6) an old road, (7) the tram lines. While resident in New York I heard of a spot in the vicinity of the Central Station there which might rival this record, and I believe a similar claim is made for some Californian Station, but I have no facts available to establish these claims. CHARLES MENMUIR, M.A. 25, Garscube Lan 1, Glasgow. JOHN MARCELLO. De Blainvillo (' Travels,' ii. 8), writing of Venice Mar. 5, 1707, mentions an island occupied by the Carthusians, the cloisters on which were built by Sansovino, and contained very ancient tombs of persons of distinction, and says : " The most remarkable of all the Tornhn in these Cloisters is that of the Senator Joan. Mareello. It was believed he died of an Apoplexy, and as such was buried in his Faniily Tomb. Two days afterwards a Sacristian. passing by that Way heard a Noise within the Tomb, and ran. to tell the Father Prior, who went to the Cloisters, accompanied by several of the Clergy. The Tomb was immediately opened, and the poor Marcello was found still alive, but so sick that it was a long Time before he could [be] restored to Health. He ordered the Story to be kept Secret until he should be quite recovered. That was very easily done in a small Island, separated from the rest oi, the World, and among Carthusians, onj of the first of whose Rules is to be almost as mute as the Fish they feed on. As soon as he had recovered his Health he went to his Relations who refusscl
 * 1) hese refer to G. C. Gordon, that is to say