kind of composite ideal picture), is no doubt, as E. W. has
suggested, Capel Curig; and I imagine the actual scene lies about a
mile south from Glaslyn, while it owes something at least of its
colouring in the book to that strange lake. The 'Knockers,' it must
be remembered, usually depend upon the existence of a mine near by,
with old partly fallen mine-workings where the dropping of water or
other subterranean noises produce the curious phenomenon which is
turned to such imaginative account in the Snowdon chapters of
_Aylwin_.

There is another question--a question of a very different
kind--raised by several correspondents of _Notes and Queries_,
upon which I should like to say a word--a question as to _The
Veiled Queen_ and the use therein of the phrase 'The Renascence of
Wonder'--a phrase which has been said to 'express the artistic motif
of the book.' The _motif_ of the book, however, is one of
emotion primarily, or it would not have been written.

There is yet another subject upon which I feel tempted to say a few
words. D'Arcy in referring to Aylwin's conduct in regard to the cross
says:--

You were simply doing what Hamlet would have done in such
circumstances--what Macbeth would have done, and what he would have
done who spoke to the human heart through their voices. All men, I
believe, have Macbeth's instinct for making 'assurance doubly
sure,' and I cannot imagine the man who, entangled as you were in a
net of conflicting evidence--the evidence of the spiritual and the
evidence of the natural world--would not, if the question were that
of averting a curse from acting on a beloved mistress, have done as