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this was the rule at the Kelmscott Press And yet he would be an " Ostrogoth and Jutlander " who would put a Kelmscott on the shelf to rub sides with other volumes. . have a ' Macbeth ' printed in Paris endorsee from foot to head, and a paper-backed RusTcii printed in New York, bearing the title from head to foot ! ME. FLEMING should not omi the music publishers when he issues hi circulars. Oratorios are almost invariably wrongly endorsed. AETHUE MAYALL.

INDIAN MAGIC (9 th S. i. 88). There is a great deal on this in the works on the super natural by Dr. Lee, of Lambeth, ' The Other World,' " 214-221; 'More Glimpses,' 11-20 and in ' Glimpses in the Twilight ' there is a whole chapter, vii., on the subject. Dr. Lee gives facts which, if correct, lead to the belie: that the feats are done in the power of the devil, and may be checked by an act of faith on the part of a devout observer. Probably my writing those words "if correct" is an unwarrantable concession to modern ideas for I at least refuse no credence to the facts. C. F. S. WAEEEN, M.A.

Longford, Coventry.

EDWAED GEOEGE KIEWAN BEOWNE (8 th S. x. 196). I am now in a position to answer my own query which appeared in your columns so far back as 5 September, 1896. Mr. Browne was born on 26 August, 1821, at Chittagong, in India, where his father, Capt. Edward Browne, H.E.I.C.S., was then on active service. Capt. Browne's father was the younger son of Edward Browne, Esq., of Ardskea, co. Galway, Ireland. His wife Sarah, youngest daughter of Henry Swinhoe, solicitor, of Calcutta, and her party were the first white ladies who had been seen in the neighbourhood of Chittagong, where their appearance caused great astonishment among bhe natives.

Capt. Browne's death occurring in 1824, his wife soon afterwards came to England with tier son, who passed through the usual course of an English education, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, but left the univer- sity without taking a degree. He was ordained by Dr. Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, and on 26 August, 1844, was appointed to the curacy of Bawdsey, Suffolk. Having taken a great interest in ning, he found it impossible to remain in the Church of England, and accordingly he was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 26 December, 1845. A list of his publica- tions, chiefly on religious subjects, will be found in my former communication; and I
 * ne Tractarian movement from the begin-

may add that during the last fourteen years of his life he was translator for a periodical entitled The Annals of the Holy Childhood. He died on 25 July, 1883, and was buried on the 28th of that month in the Catholic cemetery at Kensal Green. He married at Wigan, in 1853, Miss Grace Mary Bailey. By this lady, who died at Forest Gate on 19 March, 1897, he left two sons, the elder of whom is the Rev. Wilfrid Browne, O.M.I., and the younger Mr. J. E. Nott Browne, of the City of London. Both the daughters joined the order of Our Lady of Sion. The elder of them, Sister Dieudonnee de Sion, was buried at Kensal Green in November, 1887. THOMPSON COOPEE, F.S.A.

BEEWSTEE'S ' LIFE OF NEWTON ' (9 th S. i. 43, 78). It is many years since I have been in Cambridge, and I am not sure that I have ever seen the window in question. Brewster himself alludes to the anachronism of intro- ducing Bacon ; still there is a certain degree of fitness in this, as Bacon laid down the true rules of philosophical investigation on which Newton worked. But there is no special appropriateness in bringing in George III., ana therefore I thought it was probably a misprint. It is true that Sir William Her- schel thought that George III. knew more of astronomy than Napoleon did ; but that he might have done without knowing much. Had Newton been a scientific agriculturist, perhaps " Farmer George " might have been more appropriately introduced. But if it were necessary to bring in a sovereign, it should surely have been Queen Anne, from whom Newton received knighthood, and that in Cambridge. In conclusion, I should like to ask W. C. B. what he means by the " treble "

nachronism on the window.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

WEEN AND RIDOUT FAMILIES (9 th S. i. 87). Lieut.-General Jordan Wren, 41st Regiment, vas the recipient of one of the gold Cumber- and medals, of which only four were struck ifter the battle of Culloden ; he bequeathed t in the following terms to his nephew, Capt. "ohn Christopher Ridout, 46th Regiment, of Sanghurst House, Hants, as next of kin :

My gold Cumberland Medal I bequeath to a oyal possessor till time shall be no more, in honour f a Prince by whose courage and conduct the English maintained their Religion and Laws, and vhose bust dignifies the gold."

Lt Capt. John Christopher Ridout's death, in 817, the medal came into the possession of lis son, Capt. Cranstoun George Ridout, who t Elbodon commanded the right squadron