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markable Passages in the Life of a Private Gen- tleman (1715) ; which, upon the warranty of the auctioneer's catalogue, I bought as an auto- biographical piece by Daniel Defoe ; but which, I need hardly say, proved on examination a sell. This book is but An Account of some Remark- able Passages in the Life, Sfc. (2nd edit., 1711), melted down to half its size ; and, as I find the larger book, in its turn, now offered to the public by a respectable bookseller as Defoe's, it will not be ill-timed to explode the belief, even at the ex- pence of Lowndes' accuracy, that this writer ever did publish such a work. The Spiritual Diary of this unknown gentleman (who long lived under the beli 'f that God had marked him out as a Second Spird), displays nothing of the healthy tone of the practical Daniel ; the author, indeed, is expressly said to be defunct before 1708, when the first edition was published.

Perhaps some of yonr readers may clinch my view of this matter, by showing us who this "Private Gentleman" really was. F. S, the editor, vouches for the book being the genuine produc- tion of " a person of an estate, generous and cha- ritable, liberally educated in a celebrated academy abroad;" while the Rev. R. Mayo endorses the same by an attestation that F. S. being an " emi- nent physician," the work is entitled to all credit. The book, I may add, is sometimes confounded with a contemporary one : Some Remarkable Pas- sages in the Holy Life and Death of Gervase Disney, Esq. (1692). J. O.

Magdalen College, Oxford. At the time of the "Troubles" in 1688, the president received the following on the 30th of March :

"James R. Trusty and well-beloved, -we greet you well. Whereas there are several Demys' places now voyd in your College of St. Mary Magdalen, we have thoug'ht fit hereby to signify our will and pleasure to you, that you forthwith admit our trusty and well-beloved John Hud- dleston, John Berington, John Eales, William Hungate, Charles Lavery, Edward Casey, Samuel Cox, Thomas Blunt, John Digby, Thomas Seymore, Henry Colgrave, Thomas Ashwell, James Eden, John Duddell, and Robert Stafford, to be Demys of the said College, with all the Rights, Priviledges, Profits, Perquisites, and advantages to the same belonging or appertaining, without adminis- tering to them, or any of them, any oath or oaths but that of a Demy, any law, statute, custome, or constitution to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding, with which we are graciously pleased to dispense in this behalfe, and for so doing this shall be your warrant. And so we bid you farewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall the 25th day of March, 1688, in the fourth year of our Reigne."

I should be exceedingly obliged for any account of the persons here mentioned. Many of them are names of the most respectable Roman Catholic families of the time, MAGDALENENSIS.

Wine at the Celebration of the Holy Communion. Is the hind of wine to be used at this feast any- where specified ? p. J. F. GANTILLON.

Dramatic Works. Is anything known of the authors of the following dramatic pieces', which are not mentioned in the Biographia Dramatica ? 1. Folly, a Farce, Newcastle, 4to., 1736. 2. West- meon Village, an Opera in three acts, 1780.

3. The Patriot Prince, a Tragedy, printed at Cal- cutta, 1809. In the Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1821 (vol. xci. part n.), there is an epilogue to Durand; or, Jacobinism Displayed, a Tragedy, published in 1816. Who is the author of this tragedy? X. (1.)

MS. P%. The following MS. plays were formerly in the possession of Mr. Jones, editor of the Biographia Dramatica. Is anything known regarding the authors ? 1. Evanthe, a Tragedy, altered from Beaumont and Fletcher's Wife^for a Month. 2. The Lucky Hit ; or, Love at a Venture, a Farce. 3. The Royal Argives, a Tragedy.

4. Tamerlane, Part Second, a Tragedy. 5. Vul- can's Wedding ; or the Lovers Surprised, a bur- lesque opera. X. (1.)

" Psalmi et Confessiones." In p. 17. part ii. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754, reference is made to a hymn from Psalmi et Confessiones. Can any of your readers give an account of this work ? JNO. C. HOTTEN.

Critical New Testament. Bagster's Critical New Testament, Greek and English, 16mo. London, no date. Can any of your correspondents tell me if the English version in this elegant little volume is a "reprint of the edition of 1611," given with Chinese exactness, mistakes and all? I have ob- served that it frequently differs somewhat from the ordinary text, and do not know whether this is to be set down to the above cause, or to mere carelessness. Here are some examples from a single epistle.

Hebrews, v. 7. A full stop at end, making non- sense apparently.

Heb. xi. 38. After a full stop at end of v. 37., thus printed : " Of whom the world was not worthy : they wandered in deserts," &c. This gives a fair sense, q. d. They of whom the world was not worthy wandered in deserts, but it differs from the common construction, in which " of whom the world was not worthy " is parenthetical.

Heb. xii. 1. '' Let us run with patience unto [sz'c] the race that is set before us."

Heb. xiii. 7, 8. Full stop at end of v. 7., leaving v. 8. without any construction. As usually punctuated, the words " Jesus Christ " are in ap- position to " the end of their conversation," a de- cided mistranslation, but still sense.

Other variations might be added, but these are enough to illustrate my Query, A. A, D,