that all Provincial Magistrates should be tried by a Jury of Senators for the Sempronian Law of Caius Gracchus, which transferred the judicial power from the hands of the Senate, to a body of three hundred persons of the Equestrian order. Portia: Drusus did not propose to found 3000 colonies in Italy, but 12 colonies, each composed of 3000 Roman families.

35. Charissa: Jugurtha was not the brother, but the cousin of Hiempsal and Adherbal, whose kingdom he usurped. Horatius mistakes Metellus for Marcellus. Mabel: it was not Gulussa, but Massiva, the son of Gulussa, whom Jugurtha caused to be assassinated at Rome.

36. Portia: it was the Teutons (not the Cimbrians) whom Marius defeated at Aqua Sextiæ (Aix in Provence), and the Cimbrians (not the Teutons) whom he defeated at Vercellæ (Vercelli in Piedmont).

Note. All students are requested to send their names and addresses, with their noms de plume attached, by December 8th, to 'Clio,' under cover to Miss Edith Coleridge, Eldon Lodge, Torquay.

CHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY.

SCHEME FOR 1888.

'Bog Oak' kindly undertakes to continue the Historical Society for Church History. From the month of January, answers should be addressed accordingly.

I. CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES.

January. To the end of the Acts of the Apostles.

February. Close of the Apostolic Age, including Persecutions of Nero and Domitian.

II. PERIOD OF THE PERSECUTIONS.

March.-From Trajan to the end of the Antonines.
April.-Severus to the death of Decius.

May.-Under Valerian and Aurelian.

June. The last Great Persecution and Victory of the Church.

III. ANTE-NICENE HERESIES AND SCHISMS.

July.-Gnostics, Sabellians, Samosatenes.

August.-Manichæans, Montanists, Donatists, Novatians.

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IV. EARLY WRITINGS.

September. The Apostolic Fathers-St. Irenæus.

October.-The Apologists, and writers of the Alexandrian and African Schools.

November.-Early Liturgies, and Constitution of the Church.
December.-The Church in Britain during this period.

Books recommended, not necessarily all, but one or other: History of the Church under the Roman Empire, by the Rev. A. D. Crake (Rivington), 78. 6d.; The Beginnings of the Christian Church, by W. H. Simcox, M.A. (Rivington), 78. 6d.; Smith's Student's Ecclesiastical History (Murray), 78. 6d.; Church History, by the late Bishop of Lincoln. Vol. I. 48. 6d. a volume; Dr. Plummer's Church of the Early Fathers, 2s. 6d.; C. M. Yonge's Eighteen Centuries of Church History (Walter Smith), 58. Other books of reference will be mentioned from time to time.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Can any one tell me who St. Spitlhin was? He and St. Manghold seem to be peculiarly Manx Saints. St. Spitlhin has two days in each year kept in his honour: a summer and a winter Feast Day. He shares May 1st with St. Philip and St. James, and November 18th is also dedicated to him. The Manx Calendar for this year can tell nothing more about him. THE MUFFIN MAN.

A. P. C.-There is no connecting link between Scenes and Characters' and 'Two Sides of the Shield.'

W. The best chance would be to ask a secondhand bookseller to look out.

Ono asks, where to find a little poem called, 'Little Daisy's Faith,' beginning

'Down in de bright, deen meadow,
De pittie daises home.'

It was published many years ago in a magazine, 'The British Juvenile,' but I cannot refer to the date.

MADAM,

It is not often that any mention of the Scottish Church, its work, and its needs, appears in your pages; sometimes it seems to be a little ignored by its larger and more prosperous sister in the south. Struggle is still the keynote of our existence, but we are at least no longer that shadow of a shade' which, some half a century ago, the Scottish Episcopal Church might too justly have been called; its growth, though slow, is sure and stedfast, all the more for difficulties encountered, and often overcome. One unmistakable sign of progress which later years have brought is the largely increased number of spiritual and charitable agencies in the Church; Sisterhoods, Guilds, Confraternities, and Societies, each with its own special objects and rules. Then, too, there are Homes for Penitents, and Orphans; for those who have fallen, or are in danger of falling, as well as others for the Aged and Incurable. It is for one of the latter that I ask your permission to plead in the Monthly Packet,' not for aid in money, but to make known its existence, and if possible, to awaken some interest and sympathy on its behalf, for it has needs, although we do not beg. Perhaps some of your readers who are endowed with pensioners, proverbially a long-lived race, might be glad to hear of a Home, where they could be comfortably cared for at a moderate cost. The Hospital for Aged and Incurable Women, of which I write, is in connection with All Saints' Church in Edinburgh, and under the charge of All Saints' Sisters, a branch of the Community from Margaret Street. It is intended for ten patients, answering to the description of aged or incurable, very often they are both. The class from which they chiefly come is that of respectable servants, who are paid for by their former employers; but during the ten years the Home has been open, many others have

come and gone, till now, from a succession of deaths, only three patients remain. The oldest inhabitant,' who had been bed-ridden for several years, died last spring at the age of 93, a sprightly old lady, retaining her mental faculties till the last, and talking of Waterloo and Trafalgar as if they were events of yesterday. It was curious to hear her description of the mingled sorrow and rejoicing when news of this last victory came, and how the windows in the High Street were wreathed in crape and illuminated with candles at the same time. The great wish of the Sisters at present is to increase the number of patients, as with so few, the hospital is only kept open at a pecuniary loss, which it is unadvisable, indeed, impossible, to go on incurring. The ward is a large upper room, bright and cheerful with pictures, sunny all day long, and with just a glimpse of Arthur Seat, over intervening house-tops and chimney-cans, from one of the many dormer windows. The beds are separated by screens, and each patient has accommodation for her own private possessions and treasures close to her bed; the arrangements generally give a comfortable, homelike feeling of individuality, and not of being merely one among many. Only those who know with what horror and dismay the respectable poor look forward to the possibility of ending their days in the workhouse, can understand the boon to them a Home like this is, giving a restful end to a busy or a suffering life, with all necessities and every comfort provided, besides some few luxuries. Patients are received from any part of the country. Episcopalians perferably, although others are not rejected, if they can make themselves happy, and conform to the few simple rules of the Home. The Sister Superior, All Saints' Home, Glen Street, Edinburgh, will gladly supply any information and answer questions respecting the Hospital. Trusting that you will kindy insert this short appeal,

A SCOTTISH CHURCHWOMAN.

A very pretty book, called 'Grass of Parnassus,' prose, poetry, and illustrations, is being sold for 68., for the building fund of the Episcopal Church at Peterhead. It has good views of the Buchan scenery, and a memoir of Dean Banken.

Y. A. N. Miss Riddle, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, writes in 'Work and Leisure' that she will teach Hindustani and other Indian languages by correspondence to ladies intending to take up medical or educational work in India.

Errata.

Page 442.-Though Madame de Montespan's father was Duke de Mortémart (not Mortémar, but a village in Haute Vienne), her maiden name was not Mortémart, nor even Rochechouart, but Tonnay-Charente, one of the family fiefs, according to the puzzling nomenclature of the greater French nobles, where every member of one high family might bear a different surname.

Page 445.-Dies Ira is by Thomas of Celano, four centuries later than St. Notker, all whose poems are unrhymed. I have translated several of them.

Page 447.-Masses for dead were not daily, except in chantry foundations.