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geour's name; and for this reason, that Thomas 

 Ruddlman was tutor to David Young, and was 

 resident at Aldbar, and would hardly have failed 

 to notice, or to record, the existe ce of any so re- 

 markable a library as Scrymgeour's, or even of 

 Sir Peter Young's, who was himself an ardent col- 

 lector of books, as appears from some of his letters 

 to Sir Patrick Vans {recte Vaux) which I have 

 seen, and as might be inferred from his literary 

 tastes and pursuits. There is perhaps reason to 

 believe that Sir Peter's library did not descend in 

 his family beyond his eldest son, Sir James Young, 

 ■who made an attempt to deprive the sons of his 

 first marriage (the elder of whom died in infancy) 

 of their right of succession to their grandfather's 

 estates, secured to them under their father's mar- 

 riage contract, and which attempt was defeated by 

 their uncle. Dr. John Young, Dean of Winchester 

 (sixth son of Sir Peter), who acquired from Lord 

 Ramsay, eldest son of the Earl of Dalhousie, part 

 of the barony of Baledmouth in Fife. Dean Young 

 founded a school at St. Andrew's, on the site of 

 which is now built Dr. Bell's Madras College. 



Sir Peter Young the elder, knighted in 1605, 

 has been sometimes confounded with his third son, 

 Peter, who received his knighthood at the hands 

 of Gustavus Adolphus, on the occasion of that king 

 being invested with the Order of the Garter. 



Another fine library (Andrew Melville's) was 

 brought into Scotland about the same time as 

 Scrymgeour's ; and it is creditable to the states- 

 men of James's reign that there was an order in 

 the Scotch exchequer, that books imported into 

 Scotland should be free from custom. A note of 

 this order is preserved among the Harleian MSS. 

 in the British Museum ; but my reference to the 

 number is not at hand. De Camera. 



MORMON PUBLICATIONS. 



Can any of your correspondents oblige me by 

 supplying particulars of other editions of the fol- 

 lowing Mormon works? The particulars required 

 are the size, place, date, and number of pages. 

 The editions enumerated below are the only ones 

 to which I have had access. 



1. The Book of Mormon : 



First American edition, 12mo. : Palmyra, 1830, 



pp. 588., printed by E. B. Grandin for the 



author. 

 First European edition, small 8vo. : Liverpool, 



1841, title, one leaf, pp. 643., including index 



at the end. 

 Second European edition, 12mo. : Liverpool, 1849. 



Query number of pages? 

 Third European edition, 12mo. : Liverpool, 1852, 



pp. xii. 563. 



2. Book of Doctrine and Covenants : 



First (?) American edition, 18mo. : Kirkland, 

 1835, pp. 250. 



Third European edition, 12mo.: Liverpool, 1852, 

 pp. xxiii. 336. 



3. Hymn Book for the " Saints " in Europe : 



Ninth edition, 16mo. : Liverpool, 1851, pp. vii. 

 379., containing 296 hymns. 



As I am passing through the press two Lectures 

 on the subject of Mormonism, and am anxious 

 that the literary history and bibliograpliy of this 

 curious sect should be as complete as possible, I 

 will venture to ask the favour of an innnediate 

 reply to this Query : and since the subject is 

 hardly of general interest, as well as because the 

 necessary delay of printing any communication 

 may hereby be avoided, may I request that any 

 reply be sent to me at the address given below. 

 I shall also be glad to learn where, and at what 

 price, a copy of the first American edition of the 

 Sook of Mormon can be procured. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



14. Grove Road, 



North Brixton, Surrey. 



Minor «jauertei. 



Dimidiation. — Is the practice of dimidiation 

 approved of by modern heralds, and are examples 

 of it common ? W. Phaser. 



Tor-Mohun, 



Early Christian Mothers. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me whether the Christian 

 mothers of the first four or five centuries were 

 much in the habit of using the rod in correcting 

 their children ; and whether the influence acquired 

 by the mother of St. Chrysostom, and others of 

 the same stamp, was not greatly owing to their 

 having seldom or never inflicted corporal punish- 

 ment on them ? Pater. 



The Lion at Northumberland House. — One often 

 hears the anecdote of a wag who, as alleged, stared 

 at the lion on Northumberland House until he 

 had collected a crowd of imitators around him, 

 when he cried out, " By Heaven ! it wags, it 

 wags," and the rest agreed with him that the lion 

 did wag its tail. If this farce really took place, I 

 should be glad to know the date and details. 



J.P. 



Birmingham. 



The Cross in Mexico and Alexandria. — In The 

 Unseen World; Communications with it., real and 

 imaginary, 8fc., 1550, a work which is attributed 

 to an eminent divine and ecclesiastical historian 

 of the English Church, it is stated that — 



" It was a tradition in Mexico, before the arrival of 

 the Spaniards, that when that form (the sign of the 

 cross) should be victorious, the old religion should dis- 

 appear. The same sign is also said to have been dis- 



