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 12 s. ix. DEC. 3, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 447 guides, slept out a night on the mountain, and arrived in Courmayeur the next day. Edward Baines, in his ' Letters from the Con- tinent ' (1825), says they bivouacked at the foot of the col at an altitude of ten or eleven thousand feet above sea-level. Their exploit is also mentioned by F. Clissold in his narrative of an ascent of Mont Blan^ (1823), Comte Theobald Walsh, in his ' Voyage en Suisse ' (1834), and a few other contemporary visitors to Chamonix. With the exception of a Chamonix peasant- girl named Maria Paradis, who ascended Mont Blanc with a party of local guides in i 1809, and two English ladies, the Misses Par- minter, who reached the summit of the Buet (10,201ft.) in 1786, Mrs. Campbell and her daughter were the first of their sex to under- take a serious expedition above the snow- line in the Alps. Their passage of the Col du Geant was the first effected by a tourist in the nineteenth century, the last recorded traverse being that of the Vicomte de Serrant in 1790. Any information regarding these two ladies would be highly appreciated. HENRY F. MONTAGNIEB. Champery, Valais. MEDAL OF POPE PAUL II. The Stony- hurst Collection of Papal Medals contains a medal of Pope Paul II.. (1464-1471) with, on the obverse, the Pope presiding over a consistory of Cardinals, with the legend " SACRVM PVBLICVM APOSTOLICVM CONCIS- TORIVM PAVLVS VENETVS PP. ii." ; and, on the reverse, Our Lord enthroned amidst a number of angels and saints, with the legend " IVSTVS ES DOMINE ET RECTVM IVDICIVM TVVM MISERERE NOSTRI DOMINE MISERERE NOSTRI." The medal is in bronze, 3'lin. in diameter, and refers to the excommunication of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia, by this Pontiff. According to Venuti (' Numis- mata Romanorum Pontificum ') it is very rare, but neither he nor Bonanni give the author, and Mazio (' Serie dei Conj di Medaglie Pontificum,' ed. of 1824) does not mention it at all. I have not come across it in Ferrer's ' Biographical Dictionary of Medallists,' though it may be mentioned there. I should say the medal might be of German or Austrian workmanship. Could any reader tell me who the artist is, or refer me to a work in which I might find definite information on the matter ? J. O'C. Stonyhurst. JOHN FREWEN : TITLE PAGE OF * CER- TAINE FRUITFUL INSTRUCTIONS.' In the it is stated that his ' Certaine Fruitful Instru tions and Necessary Doctrines,' pub- lished in 1587, is a very rare book. During a summer spent in the libraries of Oxford and London I failed to find a copy. In the McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology in the library of the Union Theo- logical Seminary in New York there is a cc py which lacks the title page and the dedication. On the basis of the statements in the ' D N B.,' Maunsell's first part of the ' Catalogue of Eng- lish Printed Books ' and ' Arber's Register,' v., it has been possible to reconstruct the title and imprint after a fashion but not satis- factorily. It is my desire to obtain a correct c py of the title page, including the imprint, line by line, observing the use of capitals and punctuation, for use in a catalogue which is to be printed soon. I shall be very much obliged for aid from any source which will give the material needed. I may say that the collection mentioned contains about 15,000 titles down to 1700. It is estimated that the catalogue will fill about five volumes of some 600 pages each, with a sixth volume devoted to an index in which there will be upward of 40,000 entries under authors, anonymous titles, and cross-references to persons and books mentioned on title pages. The col- lection has been in process of growth for more than fifty years, and while far from complete it is a notable one. The catalogue has been in course of preparation for a dozen years. The entries will indicate the spelling as given on the title pages, including mis- spellings and errors, and the ending of each line will be indicated by a vertical mark. The entries will be in full, excepting Scrip- ture quotations, mottoes, and the like. Similarly the imprints will be given in full. CHARLES R. GILLETT. Former Librarian, 1883-1908. Union Theological Seminary, Broadway, at 120th Street, New York. DOMINOES. I am exceedingly interested in the history of this game and should like to hear from any of your correspondents whatever they know regarding it. The ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' is almost silent about it, merely stating that they (dominoes) were first known in Western Europe in the eighteenth century and were called by their distinctive name because they were made of two pieces of ivory, the face
 * D N B.,' under the name of John Frewen,