TO THE READER ix 



Page 237, footnote. I regret very much the inconvenience caused 

 to the publishers of Mr. Beebe's Monograph by the statement 

 that he was dead. I had been told that he was killed on 

 active service, and I rejoiced to learn that he had returned 

 safely and had resumed preparation of the remaining volumes 

 of his fine work. 



Page 291, lines 1 to 5. A priest of the Church of Rome writes to me 

 that some of the holy persons who lived before Christ are 

 commemorated with the Christian Saints in the Roman 

 Martyrology, and gives Isaiah and Jeremiah as cases in point. 

 He also says that I have blundered egregiously in confounding 

 the Immaculate Conception with the Virgin Birth. That may 

 well be so, such matters being too high for me. 



Page 314. Archduchess Isabella's constancy, and the colour of her 

 chemise when she defied it after three years' wear, are com- 

 memorated, not only in the scientific title of the Nankin lily, 

 but in that bestowed on the tawny bear of Sikkim Ursus 

 Isabellin-us. 



