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opened a magneto-therapeutic institution and effected several remarkable cures, the fame of which spread all over the Fatherland, but involved him in a lively controversy with the German doctors, in consequence of which he removed to Pesth. Here he attended lectures on anatomy, and subsequently opened another institution similar to that at Dresden. The new venture seems to have flourished, for the Count was obliged to employ eight or ten assistants. We are told, however, that he did not appropriate the profits.

At this period he published a treatise entitled ' Katechismus des Vital Magnetismus' (Leipzig, 1845). He continued his practice in Pestn until the outbreak of the revolution in 1848, when as an ardent adherent of the Court party he left his native country and removed to Paris, where he rented in the Avenue Balzac a house with thirty rooms, which he turned into a magneto-therapeutic hospital, and again did exceedingly well.

He numbered among his friends Bcranger, the elder Dumas, Isaac Pereire, Prosper Merimee, Jules Janin, and other celebrities, and sometimes gave lectures on somnambulism in the salon of Emil Proudhon, the eminent pianist, which were attended by the elite of Paris. Another book which he published on ' Magnetisme et Magneto-therapie ' (second edit., Paris, 1854) again embroiled him in a lively controversy with the faculty.

It was about this time that the Princess of Wied, described as until then a healthy and strapping woman, was suddenly struck down with paralysis in both legs. She was first taken in hand by the leading physicians oi Berlin and treated by them, but without the slightest success. Count Szjipary was nexl sent for, and he arrived at Bonn with one ol his old assistants from Pesth, Dr. Dombory by name, and had the patient conveyed in a specially arranged railway car to Paris, where she was installed in a house adjoining the hospital of the Count, who visited her dail^ and eventually restored the power of hei limbs. The cure naturally created grea sensation in Berlin.

The Count was next asked to try his skil on the blind Crown Prince George of Saxony but he wisely declined the invitation, on tht plea that ophthalmology was not in hi province.

Eventually the Count returned to am settled down in his native country on hi

Sroperty at Abony, where he died in 1875 is master, we are told, in his old age also retired into obscurity, " to walk silent on the shore of the Bodensee, meditating on much." The pupil whilcd away his time by studying

leeper the theory of animal magnetism, and

practising table-turning, upon which subject

ie wrote a book, the title and date of pub-

ication of which are not given.

The bulk of the above information is ex-

racted from BelaToth's 4 Curiosa Hungarica'

Budapest, 1899), which can be consulted in

he British Museum, together with two more

Dooks written by the Count, one entitled

Die magnetische Lehre' (Regensburg, 1845),

and the other ' Ein Wort iiber animalischen

Magnetismus ' (Leipzig, 1840). L. L. K.

EVIL SPIRITS AND INKBOTTLES (9 th S. xii. 106, 297, 356). The reply at the last reference s rather far from the point on which informa- tion was originally sought. If it be per- missible to cite modern instances there is Another that ought not to be forgotten R. L. Stevenson's story of 'The Bottle Imp,' in- luded among the ' Island Nights' Entertain- nents,' and surely one of the most happily inspired of all his shorter tales. * The Bottle Imp,' by the way, is understood to be founded on a play "once rendered popular by the redoubtable O. Smith," but I should judge that Stevenson borrowed little or nothing but the "name and root idea," which he admits appropriating. The conclusion seems peculiarly his own. L. H.

N OF THE TUIINLULLS (9 Ul S. xi. 109, 233, 329, 498 ; xii. 51, 353). I am sorry that my humble attempt to give some information on this subject should so far have disturbed MR. JONAS'S equanimity as to lead him to write a reply of more than two columns in length. I also much regret that he should have thought that I have misrepresented what he wrote. Buthavel? My quotation was textually correct. Mn. JONAS really did say : " The grant which Bruce made Willdmo dicto Turnlul of lands in Teviotdale is from the Ragman Roll." Neither in Benemund de Vicci's valuation nor in the record of the acts of homage is there, or could there be, any such grant. Nay, more, the Ragman Roll does not record any act of homage done by William Turnbull, nor indeed by any other Turnbull unless we take Tremblee (not Tremble) as a variation of the name. But Robert de Tremblee or Tremblay there mentioned was probably the father or some connexion of that Walter de Trembeley de Dolany men- tioned in the Exchequer Rolls. But the latter was a Kincardineshire man, and had nothing to do with the Borders. I am aware that Jerves, in his book on Angus and I Mearns, suggests that the name is a variant of i Turnbull, but modern charter scholars do not endorse this, opinion, and Mr. Stodart than