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 l I P 504 NOTES AND QUERIES. 19° S. VL Dm 29.1911 in the ‘Christmas Carol’ stave ii. where I read, “ A terrible voice [fthe schoolmaster’s] in the hall cried, ‘Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there !”’ and a few lines lower down, “Master Scroogc’s trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise,” &c. Dickens here may, but need not, have used different words to please the ear. J. F. B. COUNTY GUIDE-Books.-A suggestion that these should mention every place of interest in the county, and that the places should be arranged alphabetically, leaving the routes to the maps, was made by me in ‘N. dz Q.,’ 9“‘ S. iv. 2921 353. I have just seen an excel- lent little k ‘Sussex,’ by Mr. F. G. Brabant, M.A. (Methuen & Co.), which seems to run very much on the lines I had in- dicated. W. C. B. ° LANG’S ‘PRINCE Cnaanns Enwaan’-May I point out two small inaccuracies in this very entertaining and valuable book? They have not been mentioned in any notice of it which I have seen. 1. At p. 8 we are told of the proxy marriage of James and Clementina at Bologna, and the author adds that “ on September 2 James had returned from his futile S anish journey, and the wedding was duly celebrated.” But the wedding took place at Montefiascone, near Rome, on 1 Sep- tember. The marriage certificate, which is to be found at. 206, ‘Narratives,’ Dublin, 1894, may be taken as conclusive on this point-“ die prima Septembris ” (and see 9"*‘ S. ii. 271). 2. At p. 109 the author has some severe remarks on Carlvle of Inveresk for saying that Prince Charles had not “the spirit” to attend a Presbyterian service when at Edin- burgh, which would have won him some Lowland affection ; and at p. 242 the author, reverting to this subject, remarks at “the Prince’s chan e of faith came too late. In 1744 or 1745 it wouId (as Dr. Carlyle said at the timezl have won the Lowland Scots, but it would also ave estranged France.” There is no proof that Carlyle said so “ at the time.” He onlgf began to write his ‘Auto- biography ’ in t e year 1800, and the passage in it which Mr. Lang remarks upon so severely; seems to have been written in 1802, more t an fifty years after the Prince had declared himself a Protestant (see ‘Auto- biography,’ pp. 154, 155). W. S. Sm RICHARD As'roN, KNT., cmca 1717-78. -The ‘ Dict. Nat. Biog.,’ vol. ii. p. 211, states that it is not known when this judge began i to practise as a barrister. The books at Lin- coln’s Inn show that he was admitted to that Inn on 23 J anuag, 1735/6, and was called tn the Bar on 11 ovember, 1740. He died 1 March, 1778 (‘ Annual Reg.,’ xxi. 225). ln Mr. Kirby’s ‘ Winchester Scholars,’ p. 234, the judge is identified with a scholar who was admitted in 1728 as “Aston, Richard (bap tized 23 January, 1716/7), St. Jame1,‘IWest- minster.”. C. S1-an FU on SI-NGAN FU.-It may daerve a brief record that Si-an Fu, the present refuge of the Chinese Empress, is but another spelling of Si-ngan Fu, the more common name of the well- known ancient capital (also written Si-gan Fu or Hai-an Fu), situated in the western province Shensi, in the west of that part o the Hoang-ho, or Yellow River, .which runs from north to south. The literal meaning of this name is “Western-Peace Cit§." I owe this kind information to Prof. ullock, of Oxfoxél. K Kino ARTHUR IN CORNWALL. (See ante, p. 4oo.)-We have here two contradictor' theories, as between Cornwall and Scotland Now the “qrveith Camlan” is known to us only from a elsh source, viz., the ‘Annales Cambrize,’ so its transference to Cornwall, and a further migration into Scotland, are totally devoid of authority. There really is a Camlan near Dinas l owdd wy, in Merioneth- shire, so, if this section of the Arthurian cycle is of Welsh origin, we must accept it as it stands; but if it is only a Welsh version of what took place elsewhere, still the Welsh Camlan remains the primitive source of this particular place-name. A. HALL. Highbury, N. A Casa or TRANCE.-I venture to think that the accompaliying extract, taken from the Tunes of 16 ovember should be per- manently recorded m ‘N. dr (¥.’ I am the more interested in this subject rom the cir- cumstance that an ancestress of mine was buried alive, escaped from her tomb, and lived for many years a terwards :- “At the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle-on;Bne, yesterday, Dr. Drummond, one of the l ing physicians of the city, gave a demonstration in the presence of a number of doctors with regard to a case of trance in the institution which has been fol- lowed with much interest by the medical _profes- sion. The subject was a clerk, belongin to Hebburn-on-Tyne, who is twenty-six years of age, and has always been of a reserve disposition, with a tendency to depression, and who was regarded b his associates as somewhat eccentric. At the end of March last he sank into a state of gzrofound stupor or trance, and was taken to the ewcastle i