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Let me also give a reference to Prideaux's Con- 

 nexion of the Old and Neiu Test., anno 107 b.c, 

 where it is stated that the Pharisees held the doc- 

 trine of pre- existence and transmigration of souls, 

 and that it was in accordance with this notion that 

 the disciples asked Christ in the case of the man 

 born blind, " Lord, who did sin, this man or his 

 parents that he was born blind ? " — which plainly 

 supposes an antecedent 'state of being, otherwise 

 it cannot be conceived that a man could sin be- 

 fore he was born. (S. John, ix. 2.) A .A. D. 



The following occurs in Tupper's Proverbial 

 Philosophy : 



" Of Memory. 



"Be ye my judges, imaginative minds, full-fledged to 

 soar into the sun, 



Whose grosser natural thoughts the chemistrj' of wis- 

 dom hath sublimed. 



Have ye not confessed to a feeling, a consciousness 

 strange and vague. 



That ye have gone this way before, and walk again 

 your daily life, 



Tracking an old routine, and on some foreign strand. 



Where bodily ye have never stood, finding your own 

 footsteps ? 



Hath not at times some recent friend looked out an old 

 familiar. 



Some newest circumstance or place teemed as with an- 

 cient memories ? 



A startling sudden flash lighteth up all for an instant. 



And then it is quenched, as in darkness, and leaveth 

 the cold spirit trembling." 



The following lines, too, appear to bear upon the 

 subject. They are American I believe : 



" We are such stuff as dreams are made of" 



" We have forgot what we have been, 

 And what we are we little know ; 

 We fancy new events begin. 

 But all has happened long ago. 



" Through many a verse life's poem flows, 

 But still though seldom marked by men. 

 At times returns the constant close ; 

 Still the old chorus comes again. 



" The childish grief — the boyish fear — 

 The hope in manhood's breast that burns ; 

 The doubt — the transport and the tear — 

 Each mood, each impulse, oft returns. 



" Before mine infant eyes had hailed 

 The new-born glory of the daj% 

 When the first wondrous morn unveiled 

 The breathing world that round me lay ; 



" The same strange darkness o'er my brain 

 Folded its close mysterious wings, 

 The ignorance of joy or pain. 

 That each recurring midnight brings. 



" Full oft my feelings make me start, 

 Like footprints on a desert shore, 

 As iftlie chambers of my heart 

 Had heard their shadowy step before. 



" So looking into thy fond eyes. 

 Strange memories come to me, as though 



Somewhere — perchance in Paradise — 

 I had adored thee long before." 



K. W. Hackwood. 



Here are a few references to passages on this 

 subject, besides those already given : 



Medwin's Life of Shelley (no note of page). 



Shelley's Prose Works, p. 61. (Moxon's edit. 

 1847). 



Richter's Levana, p. 346., edit. 1848, Longman 

 and Co. 



David Coppeifield, p. 268. 



Herder, Dialogues on the Metempsychosis. 



Dr. Wigan's Duality of the Mind. 



Chambers' Journal for May 17 and October 11, 

 1845. 



And last, not least, Tennyson, who explains the 

 mystery : 



" Moreover something is, or seems. 

 That teaches me with mystic gleams, 

 Like glimpses of forgotten dreams — 

 Of something felt, like something here ; 

 Of something done, I know not where ; 

 Such as no language may declare." 



The Two Voices. 



J. P. 



THE CASE IS ALTERED. 



(2°''S. iv. 188.) 



There is a well-known public-house with this 

 title near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, at the foot of 

 the hill on the left hand side of the turnpike road 

 leading into the above town from Southam ; and 

 the name had its origin from the circumstance of 

 its having been erected in place of a mere hovel 

 which formerly stood there, and answered the 

 purposes of a beershop and place of " entertain- 

 ment for man and horse." N. L. T. 



In the revolutionary war, about the year 1805, 

 large barracks were erected at Ipswich and at 

 Woodbridge, eight miles farther north ; and a 

 military force of nearly 15,000 men was stationed 

 in them. Public houses and military canteens 

 became of course a good speculation ; and one of 

 those inns, with the sign, I believe, of " The Duke 

 of York," was established on the left of the road 

 leading from Ipswich to Woodbridge. After- 

 wards came the time of peace. The barracks were 

 pulled down, the soldiers disbanded or dispersed : 

 the custom of the house was gone ; and, to mark 

 the sad change, the old accustomed sign was re- 

 moved, and in its place were inscribed the ominous 

 words, " The case is altered." T. C. 



Durham. 



I have been favoured with a communication 

 from Mr. Barnes, of Oxford, in which he informs 



