21. A Letter to the Converted Negroes in America 1742. in the church, and (2) tending flowers in her garden. The portraits of several wellknown parishioners are also introduced in 22. the backgrounds of the pictures. JOHN T. PAGE. en TOKE OF NOTTS (12 S. ii. 250).—This family is mentioned by Thoroton under the variant names of Touc, Touk, Toke, Tolka, Tuke, Tuc, and Thucke, chiefly in the Kelham section of his History. A Touk was feoffed before 1163 by Robert Ferrers, and another was fined by Richard I. for being out with John in the rebellion of 1194. In 1218 Henry de Tuc (of Leake ?) witnesses a Staythorpe deed of gift to Rufford Abbey (p. 105). The chief references to this family will be found in vol. iii. of Throsby's edition, but various members of the family are also noted on pp. 45 and 46 of vol. i. A Letter of Apology on a Woman's Printing. 23. A Letter to the Lovers of Christ in Philadelphia. 1743. *24. A Letter to Christians at the Tabernacle. 25. Letters on the Ordinance of Baptism. 1746. 26. A Letter to Mr. Cudworth. 1747. 27. A Letter on Perseverance, against Mr. Wesley. 28. A Letter on Justification. *29. A Letter on the Application of the Holy Scriptures. 30. Five Letters of Advice to Parents and Children, the Young and Aged, &c. 31. A Letter on the Saviour's Willingness to Receive and Save all who Come to Him. 32. A Letter on the Dominion of Sin and Grace. 33. Letters on the Divine Eternal Sonship of Jesus Christ, and on the Assurance of Faith. 34. Letters on the Chambers of Security for God's *35. Five Letters to a New-Married Pair. 1759. People, and on the Duty of Prayer. 36. Three Letters on the Marks of a Child of God. 37. A Letter against Sabellianism. *38. Letters on Spiritual Subjects, sent to Relations and Friends. Prepared for the press by the Author before her death. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of God's Dealings with her in her last illness. In 8 vols., now publishing. (Only 2 vols. printed.) I have several of the foregoing, and most of them have at one time or another passed through my hand. Part III. of her Life' and the Appendix consist mostly of an account of her publications, with dates of to 1750. Her connexion with The Spiritual Magazine is quite new to me. issue up R. H. was reported to have been introduced into Mr. Nelson Lee or some other pantomime Scotland from Flanders or Holland. Through- writer may have bestowed the name of out Ayrshire and Renfrewshire the woollen- "Fatima on the inquisitive wife. weaving industry is the principal one in all ST. SWITHIN. the towns and villages. As the plaids were worn by all the Scottish clans, it is probable that they were woven in the cottages of the various districts throughout Scotland. Women's dress was also woven there, as well as blankets and bed-linen, &c. ARCHIBALD J. DUNN. ST. PETER AS THE GATEKEEPER OF HEAVEN (12 S. ii. 90, 177, 217, 273).— Froude's remarks C on Julius Exclusus,' quoted at the last reference, treat the authorship of the dialogue as uncertain. But see More's letter to Erasmus of Dec. 15, 1516; F. M. Nichols, The Epistles of Erasmus, vol. ii. 446 sqq. ; and P. S. Allen's 'Erasmi Epistolæ,' tom. ii. pp. 502 sqq. :— "From this direct statement [says Mr. Allen] of the existence of a copy written by Erasmus's own hand, there can be no doubt that he was the author of it; although by many equivocal utterances-none of which is a direct denial-he attempted to conceal the fact." EDWARD BENSLY. BLUEBEARD (12 S. ii. 190).—To my regret, I cannot tell your correspondent who it was that orientalized Bluebeard; but I think it will interest her to hear that in an edition of Perrault's Contes de Fées' published at Lyons in 1865 the illustrator used Occidental costumes of the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Folk-lorists have a tendency to identify Bluebeard with Gilles de Rais, a monster of iniquity, who was born on the confines of Bretagne and Anjou about 1404, and who made charnel-houses of his castles of Machecoul and Tiffauges. For my part "I hae ma doots" concerning this identification. have never known a tailor to be called a SNOB AND GHOST (12 S. ii. 109, 235).—I snob in regard to his trade; but shoemakers, in particular those who cobbled, 66 were snobs," and in their case it was a tradename. The goose of a tailor, otherwise a "prick-a-louse," was known as a "gowse," often pronounced gowst." I knew one of the fraternity who travelled around twice a year in Derbyshire to mend and make clothes at out-of-the-way houses. He would sit on a kitchen dresser and while away part of his time by singing a ditty about himself, some lines of which ran :— Of his sleeve-board he made a mare And rode her off to Winkum Fair Cast threads away, And so the proud prick-a-louse went prancing THOS. RATCLIFFE. away. The Academ Roial of King James I. By Ethel M. Portal. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VII. (Humphrey Milford, 18. 6d. net.) THERE is some entertainment, if nothing else, to be gained by trying to imagine how the seventeenth century would have gone in England if politics and proportionate share of the nation's energies. the Civil War had not diverted to themselves a disSuppose James I.-not sixty when he died-had lasted another fifteen years, we should at any rate have had a British Academy, known as the Academ Roial. This would have been an imposing institution "for the study and encouragement of history, of literature, and of heroick doctrine," and it will depend on each individual student's reading of the character whether he considers that it would or complex and rather incalculable English intellectual would not have made much difference to English letters and learning. Perhaps it would have kept things that the revival of attention to them, of alive so accurate and eager an interest in mediæval which Scott was the main instrument, would have been unnecessary. Miss Portal gives us here a pleasant and scholarly account of the attempt which was frustrated by the death of James and the indifference of his successor. It was made by the members of the who had failed to obtain a charter from her. There first Society of Antiquaries in Elizabeth's_dav, is plenty of material by which to reconstruct the steps they took, to be found chiefly in the writing of the worthy Edmond Bolton, who, if not the one animating spirit of the enterprise, wielded the principal active pen on its behalf. The "Academ Roial" was to have been incor- The Origin of the Cult of Artemis. By J. Rendel THIS is a reprint, from the Bulletin of the John What are the corresponding elements in the We cannot indicate even in outline the wealth of subsidiary detail with which Dr. Rendel Harris has enlivened his essay. Having read it, one will always see much that one did not see before in the conception of Artemis. As to his main conclusion, however, we feel than doubtful. In order to make it more credible it is necessary, in the first place, to make certain that Artemisia has in reality the conspicuous effects that the herbalists attribute to it. We think that the cleverness of the students who reconstruct the beliefs of prehistoric peoples runs rather to waste through taking these people to be more stupid from a religious point of view than It is one thing to worship sun, and they were. thunder, and fire-or even wine-as gods. The effects of these are seen, and they are great; and they are also beyond man's power of control. There is no unreasonableness in the ignorance which takes them for deities. But to say that the origin-not the gift or the attribute, but the origin of a great goddess is a plant no more conspicuous, even as to its predominant qualities, than many others, is surely to exaggerate the foolishness of ancient man, and to ride the theory of the " magical" origin of religions-itself not very convincing psychologically-to death in absurdity. Given the goddess, and you may make play with mugwort as being even a manifestation of her proper self, that is, represented as such by witch doctors. But an account of this the other way about is an altogether different thing. What we decline to believe is that the mugwort came first, and out of it the cult of Artemis and the general For one thing, it is to conception of Artemis. be supposed that the myth-makers had some knowledge about the breeding of wild animals; and while they believed that the mother dropped her young safely through the protection of Artemis, they might observe that the use of mugwort had nothing to do with that, since it took place as well in regions where mugwort did not grow as where it did. We found this essay fascinating reading, and, as to several minor things, most suggestive, even instructive; but it occurred to us, once or twice, to wonder whether it was not intended, as to its main contention, as something of a jeu d'esprit. The Athenæum now appearing monthly, arrangements have been made whereby advertisements of posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to publish weekly, may appear in the intervening weeks in 'N. & Q.' Notices to Correspondents. 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