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following paragraph, which has been going the rounds of the press, will be of interest : "An extraordinary case, which has baffled the medical profession, is reported from Buckingham. Last October (says the Daily Express) a girl, aged twenty-two, living in a village near Buckingham tell ill. ,She gradually became worse, and in Feb- ruary last vomited a number of live animals about the size of a sixpence. Then she was taken to the Buckingham Nursing Home, where she received medical attention for about six weeks. At the end of that time she was taken to a hospital in London The X rays were applied, and the cause of the il ness was found to be the presence of a large anima near the left shoulder-blade. The girl was advise to return home for a week's rest, after which sh returned to the hospital, where she underwent a operation, from which, unfortunately, she did no recover. An animal, white in colour, quite flat, am almost as large as the palm of the hand, was dis covered, surrounded by scores of smaller ones Several members of the medical profession wer present at the operation, and others have seen th animals, and they all agree that such a case ha never before been known, neither can any idea b given as to the origin of the animals. It is suggestec that the girl may have eaten watercress on whicl there was some kind of spawn ; but, of course, thi is mere conjecture."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

PRIVY COUNCIL UNDER JAMES I. (9 th S xii. 367). MR. PINK has waited patiently nearly fourteen years for an answer to his previous query (7 th S. ix. 167), but without effect. I fear there is, therefore, no proba- bility of the required information being now supplied. Is he aware that it is stated (7 th S. iv. 327) that, among other missing volumes, those from 1603 to 1612 were, by tradition, destroyed by the fire at Whitehall Palace on 12 January, 1618 ?

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. /I, Brecknock Road.

^"PARTING OF THE WAYS "(9 th S. xii. 309, 377). Whatever may be the origin of this English formula, it inevitably recalls the " Choice of Hercules "the pleasing and sug- gestive apologue in Xenophon's 'Memora- bilia,' II. i., the conception of which the author attributes to Prodicus the sophist. The alternative that faces the youth hesi- tating as to his way on the borders of man- hood aTTopovvra, as Xenophon expresses it, oTTOTtpav TOW 6Swv Tpa,7n?Tcu is here depicted with attractive significance. The solution of the difficulty is finally exemplified for uni- versal edification in the narrative that describes the Temptation in the Wilderness. The chapters in the second book of ' Sartor Resartus ' which Carlyle devotes to the throes that accompany the spiritual birth of his clothes-philosopher present a modern setting

of the ancient allegory, and strenuously pro- claim the new and perfect outlook. '"The Old World," exclaims the biographer of Teufelsclrockh," knew nothing of Conversion ; instead of an tfcce Homo, they had only some Choice of Hercules." Still the Greek sophist was wise in his generation, and skilfully pic- turesque in the elaboration of his immortal fable. The crisis reached at the " parting of the ways "is stated and impressed with sove- reign authority in St. Matthew vii. 13, 14, and St. Luke xiii. 24. THOMAS BAYNE.

THE " SHIP " HOTEL, GREENWICH (9 th S. xii. 306, 375). My only authority for stating that a token was found during the excavations for the Blackwall Tunnel bearing the inscrip- tion "Ship and Turtle Tavern, of Greenwich, 1640," was a note made at the " Ship " a few days before the tunnel was opened. A token of the kind was certainly exhibited, though I may have been mistaken in the date, arid possibly it was 1649, though several news- paper cuttings taken from papers of the day give the date 1640. The Daily Mail for 26 September makes a similar statement in an article on ' Historic Taverns,' and several other London papers do the same. Your correspondent AYEAHR, being an authority on the subject, is no doubt correct ; though it is curious that such a mistake should have occurred, as I find that more than one authority on tokens had made a similar note

the one I myself made, giving the date 1640. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

JOHN DOWLANP (9 th S. xii. 367). It may be

noted that the first, second, and third books

f 'Songs or Airs' (1597, 1600, and 1603) by

Tohn Dowland, Bachelor of Music, with his

A Pilgrim's Solace' (1612), are all reprinted

n Mr. Arber's 'English Garner,' vol. iv.

original edition), pp. 28, 519, 609, and 644.

The poem beginning

/ly Thoughts are winged with Hopes, my Hopes with Love,

s the third lyric in the first book of ' Songs r Airs' ('Garner,' iv. 35).

G. L. APPERSON.

COUNT SZAPARY (9 th S. xii. 227). I am now i a position to answer my own query. Count Vancis Szapary was born in Hungary, and is wonderful cures were effected by " mag- eto-therapie," which he learnt from Mesmer imself, to whom he was introduced by a ommon friend. He first experimented on country folk round his residence in Abony n Hungary, but eventually removed to )resden, where, in company with a German hysician of the name of Dr, Koch, he