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in affording means to fix the time of year usually at the solstice in days when almanacs were non-existent.

If it be true that Christian churches were orientated to the place where the sun rises on the morning of the patron saint's day agriculturists could learn in church when to pursue their operations.

As to the "when " arid the "where "of orientation, the reply might be "neolithic times " and "everywhere." E. L. P.

The article "Altar" in the "Catholic Encyclopaedia " has (vol. i. p. 365) a section on " Orientation," in the course of which it is stated, as follows :

" The custom of praying with faces turnec towards the East is probably as old as Christianity The earliest allusion to it in Christian literature is in the second book of the Apostolic Constitu- tions (200-250, probably) which prescribes that church should be oblong with its head to the East- Tertullian also speaks of churches as erected in
 * high and open places and facing the light

(Adv. Valent., iii) The existence of the

custom among pagans is referred to by Clement of Alexandria, who states that their ' most ancient temples looked towards the West, that people might be taught to turn to the East when facing the images ' ('Stromata,' vii., 17, 43)."

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

ST. ANTHONY or PADUA (12 S. vii. 31, 98, 152). Will Father Fletcher be kind enough to give his authority for the incident con- cerning the common-place book mentioned by him at the last reference ? It does not appear to be mentioned in the life of the Saint by M. 1'Abbe Albert Lepitre, trans- lated by Edith Guest, and published by Messrs. Duckworth and Co. in 1902.

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

PARR'S BANK (12 S. vii. 149, 193). Another London fusion was with the res- pected house of Fuller, Banbury & Co. of .Lombard Street. CECIL CLARKE.

IN PRAISE OF INDEXING (12 S. vii. 130, 174). As appropriate to this subject, what ehall be said of those shameless publishers who neglect to date the title-pages of the books they issue ? My library shelves reveal many such omissions.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenamm Club.

In Sir Edward Cook's 'Literary Recrea- tions ' there is a paper on ' The Art of Indexing ' which may interest your cor- respondent. C. A. COOK.

Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming.

FRANCISCUS TURRETTINTJS (12 S. vii. 150). The ' Dictionnaire Biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois ' by Albert de Montet (2 vols. 8vo., Lausanne, 1878) con- tains a list of the works of the Genevan theologian Franois Turrettini (1623-1687) in which the work about which MR. J. B. McGovERN desires information is mentioned as follows : " De necessaria secessione nostra ab ecclesia romana, Gen. in 4to., 1661 : nouv. edit, in 4to., 1687." There is a copy of the latter edition in the library of the Venerable Company of Pastors in Geneva.

HENRY F. MONTAGNIER.

Champery,Valais.

The elate of the ' Be Xecessaria Secessione,' editio altera, Genevae, apud S. de Tournea, is "M. DC. LXXXVII," 1687. The first edition is rare, but not the. second, which was reprinted in 1691, 1696 and 1701 (all "editio altera"). Turrettini, wrote the whole of the work, both the Disputationes and the Decas. The names of " different writers " are only those of respondents when the master propounded his theses or disputations. FAMA.

CALVERLEY'S PARODIES (12 S. vi. 335 ; vii. 58, 152, 177). G. G. L.'s list brought me several new references. Here is one that I found for myself the ' Lines on hearing the Organ ' are after Longfellow's ' To the River Charles.' The first stanza is delightfully close to the original. And look at Long- fellow's eighth and then at C.S.C.'s fifth. JOHN CHARRINGTON. The Grange, Shenley, Herts.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (12 S. vii. 149). MR. ACKERM ANN'S inquiry recalled to my mind a passage in Mr. (now Sir) J. Foster Fraser's interesting book ' Canada, As It Is ' 1905), where in a chapter (xxiii) in 'The Red Indians and Foreign Settlements ' l^e wrote :

' There are now over a hundred thousand Indians in the Dominion. Their health is fairly ?ood, and though the population is increasing, ion of one or two bands at no very distant date, .vithput any particular reason being apparent for mch a condition of things. There seems to be iome idiosyncracy of constitution in some parti-
 * he rate of mortality seems to threaten the extinc-
 * ular tribes reluctant to accommodate itself to

ihanged conditions of life, and it can only be icped that in their case, as with the majority, he turning point will soon be reached."

Until reading this, my impression had )een that the race was on the decrease.

C. P. HALE.