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of the Logarithms, Nepayres bones, and many new Pro- 
positions, touching the Quantities, Qualities, Resultments, 
and Rules of Medicine.” 
The second book is a treatise “on the great Rule 
of Algebra in Species; resolving all Arithmeticall 
Questions by Supposition.” My copy of this very 
rare book is of the first (perhaps only) edition. 
It was published by Nathaniel Brookes, at the 
Angell in Cornhill, 1650. 
The forty-fifth edition of Cocker’s Arithmetic 
was published in 1731, only fifty-four years after 
the publication of the first; this shows its great 
popularity. The fifty-sixth edition, “ printed and 
published by John Hawkins,” is dated 1767. 
This work was called the System of Vulgar Arith- 
metic. Cocker’s Decimal Arithmetic was published 
by Hawkins in 1684. ‘The sixth edition is dated 
1729. Pisnuy Tompson. 
Stoke Newington. 
Replies ta Minar Muerte. 
Gabriel Hounds (1*'S. xii. 470.) —In answer 
to your correspondent Arruur Hussey, I may 
state, that the anatomical structure of the organ 
of voice in several of the species of the true goose 
is so much alike, that great similarity in the sound 
of their notes might be expected. A single note, 
repeated at short intervals, from many mouths 
frequently heard at night from a flock in the air, 
perhaps to prevent separation, has been considered 
to resemble the cry of a pack of hounds by several 
writers. I have heard it from large flocks of the 
bean-goose in midday, subdued in tone from the 
great elevation at which the birds were flying, and- 
in the History of British Birds I quoted. authori- 
ties for the resemblance to the noise of hounds in 
other species. The stuffed skin of a goose, ex- 
posed, and an exact imitation of the call-note, is 
the most successful decoy with the North Ameri- 
can hunters. Wo. YArReExL. 
Portrait of George Herbert (1 8. xii. 471.) — 
Bromley mentions two portraits of Herbert, one 
engraved by R. White some time in the seven- 
teenth century, and the other by J. Street, in 
1709. Both are prefixed to editions of his works, 
and it is not known from what painter they are 
engraved, CR GO) 
_ Running Footmen (2" S. i. 9.) —It was stated 
in the public journals, early in 1851, that on the 
opening of one of the assize courts in the North 
of England (Carlisle, I believe,) the sheriff and 
judges were preceded by two running footmen. 
I recollect that, nearly forty years ago, a very old 
man was residing at Lyndhurst who had been a 
running footman. It was his boast of having run 
from London to Lyndhurst (about eighty-six 
a 
miles) in one day. If I mistake not, he was em- 
ployed in the after part of his life by the gentle- 
men of the New Forest Hunt, in attending to 
some of their matters on the chace, for which his 
fleetness and strength of constitution well adapted 
him. No doubt but there are persons now living 
in Hampshire who remember a tall, white-headed 
man, attired in a faded scarlet hunting-coat and 
jockey velvet cap, frequenting the Forest Courts, 
even when unable to do more than walk out for 
recreation. That man was poor old Choats, the 
running footman. Henry Epwarps. 
Incense (1* §. xii. 495.) —In answer to the 
inquiry of R. H.§. respecting the composition of 
the incense used in Catholic churches, I beg to 
inform him that the church recognises only simple 
frankincense (Thus). This, however, is of differ- 
ent kinds and degrees of purity, and the gum 
called olibanum is accounted the best, and is 
chiefly used in Rome. It is customary to mix 
other ingredients with the olibanum or frankin- 
cense in many places; but the former ought to 
form at least one half of the composition. The 
articles most commonly employed to add greater 
fragrance are gum benzoin, storax, and aloes, and 
sometimes cascarilla bark, cinnamon, cloves, and 
musk. But many persons are deceived by the 
sweet smell of some things, and mix them with 
frankincense, forgetting that when burnt they 
emit a very different odour. PeOo. 
The particulars of the composition of the better 
kinds of incense are kept secret by the various 
manufacturers. What is used in the churches 
at Rome is nothing but pure “gum olibanum.” 
If R. H. S. wishes for specimens of the incense 
generally used in this country, I can give him 
the following references to parties who keep it 
on sale ; — 
Richardson & Son, 147. Strand, agents for 
Martin's fragrant incense, at 2s. 6d., 4s., and 7s..6d, 
per lb., in canisters of one, two, and three lbs. 
M. A. M‘Dowall, 11. George Street, Portman 
Square, agent for Dr. Piquot’s canonical incense, 
3s. per lb. 
M. Andrews, 13. Duke Street, Smithfield. 
E. Buller, 29. Cannon Street, Preston. 
E. Travis, 57. Scotland Road, Liverpool. 
CEYREP. 
The Ballad of Sir Hugh (1* S. xii. 496.) — 
This ballad evidently refers, under the name of 
Sir Hugh, to the martyred child St. Hugh, who 
was tortured and crucified by the Jews of Lincoln 
in contempt of Christ and the Christian faith, on 
a Friday, August 27, 1255. Our old historians 
relate that the Jews buried him in an obscure 
“place, but his body being miraculously cast up by 
the earth, they threw him into a well. There his 
body was discovered by his own mother, and 
