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Containing a double calendar; viz. The good, new, true, upright, downright, honest and punctual English account; and also the whimsey-headed, minute-splitting and fantastical account of sorry Saints and sad Sinners, from the beginning of this Year to the latter end of the same. Written by honest poor old Poor Robin, Knight of the Burntisland, and a most hearty well wisher to the Mathematics. Being the One Hundred and Thirteenth Edition, and the Third after Bissextile or Leap Year. We use no weather-wise predictions, Nor any such-like idle Fictions; But (which we think is much the best) Write the plain Truth-or crack a Jest: And (without any further Pre-tence) Confess we write-and think of the Pence. For that's the aim of all we write,

Profit to gain, mix'd with Delight. London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for the Company of Stationers. [Price Nine-Pence, stitched.] Stamp, two-pence."

This almanac contains 28 pages. We have now:"Poor Sir Robin, MDCCLXXV., The second Part containing an everlasting Prognostication for the Year of our Lord God 1775. Abundantly setting forth, First and foremost; that is to say on the other side of this identical Leaf, an Inspectional Table, whereby you may see and know, not only which days of this year are nearly of the same Length; but likewise the whole Length of every day in it, as near as need be. Then, with the same opening on the Right-Hand Page, you have a Table of Amplitudes; whereby if you know the declination of the Sun or a Star, you'll find how far they rise and set from the East or West points of the Horison from 50 to 60 degrees of Latitude; which Table is there inserted, in the room of that of the Weight and Value of Foreign pieces of Gold; they being gone out of fashion. Then over the leaf you have two other useful Tables; that on the Left gives you the Rising, Southing and Setting of the Seven Stars, every fifth day in the year; and that on the right tells you what o'Clock it is in London, when it is noon at almost Forty other places. After that a table of buying and selling by the Great Hundred; on the right of which you have another very useful table of Expences, or Wages, all which are followed by that ugly, frightful Thing, called the Anatomy. After which Raree-Shew, you have a faithful account of all the Four invisible Eclipses; two of which be of the Sun and the other two of the Moon, all which are followed by one thing after another, till towards the Bottom of the last Leaf, you come to Finis. Done very artfully by Old Poor Robin: and exactly suited to the Capacity of Children of all Ages, &c.

Do not the Hist'ries of all ages
Relate miraculous Presages,

Of strange turns in the World's Affairs,
Foreseen b' Astrologers, Soothsayers,
Chaldeans, learned Genethliacs,

And some that have writ Almanacs.-Hud.

London: Printed by H. Baldwin, for the Company of

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"Speculum Anni, or Season on the Seasons, for the Year of our Lord 1775..... By Henry Season, Licensed Physician, and Student in the Celestial Sciences, near Devizes. The Author's Forty-Second Impression. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers. [Price Nine-Pence, stitched.] Stamp, two-pence." This almanac contains 49 pages. Next is :«Ολύμπια Δωματα or, an Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1775....

Non est e terris mollis ad Astra Via. By Tycho Wing, Philomath. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers. [Price, stitch'd, Nine-Pence.]" This almanac contains 39 pages. Next is :"Wing. A Prognostication for the Year of our Lord God 1775."

A continuation of the above. We now have :

:

"Arλaç Ovpávios, The Coelestial Atlas, or, a New Ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1775, &c. . wherein is contained the Heliocentric and Geocentric Places of the Planets, the Eclipses of the Luminaries, and other remarkable Phænomena that will happen this year....... By Robert White, Teacher of the Mathematicks. Οι ουρανοι διηγούνται δοξαν Θεοῦ. The Twenty-Sixth Impression. London: Printed by R. Hett, for the Company of Stationers. Price Ninepence, stitched. Stamp, two-pence." This almanac contains 50 pages.

All these almanacs are well, clearly, and carefully printed; they are full of red-lettering; the paper is excellent; and, as specimens of almanacmaking a century ago, they are curious and interesting records of a time when astrology was much cultivated. MAURICE LENIHAN, M.R.I.A.

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THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE RIGHT REV. JAMES THOMAS O'BRIEN, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF OSSORY, FERNS, AND LEIGHLIN. A complete list of the writings of the late George Miller, D.D., Vicar-General of Armagh, having been inserted (4th S. iii. 187, 188), I now, with the same object in view, send a list of those of the late Bishop O'Brien; and from his high character as a scholar and divine, I feel assured that it will prove acceptable to the readers of "N. & Q.," and be found useful, at present and hereafter, in more ways than one. He, like Dr. ber of Trinity College, Dublin. His "Sermons," Miller, was for many years a distinguished memit is almost needless to remark, are masterpieces, while his "Charges," dealing fully with some of the leading topics of the day, are not mere pamphlets, but rather weighty volumes; and though one may not agree with his opinions in every particular, there can be no question whatever as to the force and ability of his writings.

The following list of them, large and small, has been compiled with care, and is believed to be complete :

1. Two Sermons upon Hebrews iv. 15, preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin. London [? 1833]. 2. Ten Sermons upon the Nature and the Effects of

8vo.

Faith. London, 1833. Second edition, 1862. Third, 1863. 8vo.

3. An Introductory Lecture in the Divinity School in Trinity College, 1837. Dublin, 1838. 8vo.

4. A Charge to the Clergy of the United Dioceses of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, at his Primary Visitation, 1842. London, 1843. Third edition, same year. 8vo. 5. The Expediency of restoring to the Church her Synodical Powers Considered. London, 1843. 8vo. 6. A Charge to the Clergy, 1845. London, 1846. 8vo. 7. Observations on the Duties and Prospects of the Church with reference to the Education of the Poor in Ireland. Extracted, by permission, from the Charge of 1845. Dublin, 1847. 8vo.

8. Speech at the Annual Meeting of the Church Education Society for Ireland, 1849. Dublin, 1849. 8vo. 9. Speech at the Annual Meeting of the Church Education Society, 1850. Dublin, 1850. 8vo.

10. A Charge to the Clergy, 1848. London, 1850. 8vo. 11. Speech at the Annual Meeting of the London Auxiliary to the Church Education Society, 1851. Dublin, 1851. 8vo.

12. A Sermon preached at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, for the Church Missionary Society, 1851. STO.

13. A Charge to the Clergy, 1851. Dublin, 1852. 8vo. 14. A Speech at the Annual Meeting of the Church Education Society, 1852. Dublin, 1852. 8vo.

15. Episcopal Counsel upon Ministerial Duties. Dublin, 1853. 8vo.

16. A Sermon on the occasion of the Funeral of John, Marquis of Ormonde, K.P., at St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, October 2, 1854. [Privately Printed.] 4to. 17. A Charge to the Clergy, 1854. London, 1855. 8vo. 18. Some Remarks on a Pamphlet entitled "The Education Question-Thoughts on the Present Crisis." Dublin, 1860. Second edition, same year. 8vo. 19. A Letter to the Clergy whose Schools are connected with the Diocesan Church Education Societies. Dublin, 1860. Second edition, same year. 8vo.

20. A Charge to the Clergy, 1863. London, 1864. 8vo. 21. A Speech at the Annual Meeting of the Church Education Society, 1866. London, 1866. 8vo.

22. A Speech on behalf of the Church Institution, Kilkenny. London, 1866. 8vo.

23. Observations on the Duty of the State with reference to the Establishment of the Church, and to the Endowment of other Religious Bodies. Reprinted, by permission, from the Charge delivered in 1848. Dublin, 24. A Charge to the Clergy, 1866. London, 1867. 8vo. 25. The Case of the Established Church in Ireland. London, 1867. Third edition, 1868. 8vo.

1866. 8vo.

25. The Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Irish Branch of the United Church Considered. Parts I. and II., with an Appendix. London, 1869. 8vo. 27. An Address to the Clergy and Laity in the Diocesan Synods of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, 1870. Dublin, 1870. 8vo.

28. Speech in the General Convention of the Church of Ireland, 1870. Edited by the Right Hon. Robert R. Warren, LL.D. Dublin, 1870. 8vo.

29. A Plea from "the Bible and the Bible alone" for the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration. Dublin, 1873. Second edition, same year. 8vo.

This pamphlet is a reprint, with a few additions and several corrections, of a paper on Infant Bap

tism, which was drawn up the year before "for private circulation amongst the members of the Revision Committee." It elicited sundry replies. An obituary notice of the Rev. Samuel John McClean, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, who died November 27, 1835, was written, as I have been informed, by Dr. O'Brien soon after his friend's decease, and appeared in the Christian Examiner, and Church of Ireland Magazine; but I have not as yet been able to see the article.

Having been elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1820, and Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity in 1833 (with which office he held in succession two country parishes), Dr. O'Brien was promoted in 1841 to the deanery of Cork, and, early in the following year, was consecrated Bishop don, December 12, 1874, in his eighty-third year, of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin. He died in Lonand was buried in St. Canice's churchyard, Kilkenny.

FOLK-LORE.

Авива.

TOAD.-A lady informed me the other day that, in the month of July, 1822, she was staying at Haselbury Brian, near Blandford, and that while she was there a man came in a gig, who was known as "the toad doctor." He brought with him a him from far and near with toads. The "doctor" number of small bags, and the people flocked to cut off the hind legs of these toads and put the severed portions into the bags, and hung them around the necks of his patients, the newly cut off limbs quivering on their naked chests. This was held to be a certain remedy for the king's evil. An old woman, whom my informant knew, told her that "it turned the blood wrong side up." The bags had to be worn around the patient's neck until the legs inside were quite decayed away. these bags, and at that time, I believe, the farm doctor" charged seven shillings each for labourers in the neighbourhood were not receiving more than six or seven shillings per week. It is open to question whether anything has been gained by the discontinuance of the custom of sovereigns touching for the evil, if the place of that comparatively harmless superstition has been supplied by a function as cruel and disgusting as the above. Can any of your readers inform me whether "toad doctors" are still to be found in those parts? EDWARD PEACOCK.

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STONEHENGE.-The following, from the "private correspondence" of the Scotsman, may possibly be worthy of a place among the notes of "N. & Q.," and its insertion might be the means of procuring from some "local" a probable or current reason for the spectacle referred to :—

On Midsummer morning "a party of Americans, who had left London for the purpose, visited Stonehenge for