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[Sept. 22. 1855. 



Old Deeds (Vol. xil., p. 185.). — These are often 

 of very great interest to all topographical collec- 

 tors, especially to such as collect for county his- 

 tories. Any for Gloucestershire or Devon would 

 be acceptable to H. T. EiiLAcoMBE. 



Clyst St. George, Topsliam. 



Sensations in Drowning (Vol. xii., pp. 87. 153.). 

 — The following extract is from a paper by Mr. 

 Warren in Blackwood's Magazine for Dec, 1854 : 



" I ventured to say that I knew an instance of a gentle- 

 man, who, in hastily jumping from on board the Excel- 

 lent, to catch a boat that was starting for shore, missed 

 it and fell into the water of Portsmouth Harbour, sinking 

 to a great depth. For a while he was supposed to be 

 drowned. He afterwards said that all he remembered 

 after plunging into the water was a sense of freedom from 

 pain, and a sudden recollection of all his past life, especi- 

 ally of all his guilty actions which he had long forgotten. 



" ' Possibly (says De Quincey), a suddenly developed 

 power of recollecting every act of a man's life may con- 

 stitute the Great Book to be opened before him at the 

 Judgment Day.' " 



^ E. H. A. 



Marriages made in Heaven (Vol. xi., p. 486. ; 

 Vol. xii., p. 72.). — Surely this is but an amplifi- 

 cation of Proverbs xix. 14. : 



' "House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and 

 a prudent wife is from the Lord." 



E. G. R. 



*^Maud" (Vol. xii., p. 124.). — Your corre- 

 spondent, in referring Tennyson's 



" Lord of the pulse that is lord of her breast " 



to A. Smith's " Lord of the beating heart," seems 

 to have forgotten that both writers obviously 

 borrow from Shakspeare's 



" My bosom's Lord sits lightly on his throne." 



Eden Warwick. 

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