and in no other books than these two have I discovered any of
the letters of this alphabet.

"The mistake has arisen from the circumstance of there having
been a piratical reprint of the book at Antwerp in 1525, but of
which no copy is known to exist."

The following is the title of the tract referred to by Mr. Rodd:--

"_Eyn wolgeordent und nützlich buchlin, wie man Bergwerck suchen
un finden sol, von allerley Metall, mit seinen figuren, nach
gelegenheyt dess gebirgs artlich angezeygt mit enhangendon
Berchnamen den anfahanden_" and the colophon describes it as
"_Getruckt zu Wormbs bei Peter Schörfern un volendet am funfften
tag Aprill_, M.D.XVIII."


_The Term "Organ-blower._"--In an old document preserved among the
archives of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, is an entry relative to
the celebrated composer and organist HENRY PURCELL, in which he is
styled "our _organ-blower_." What is the meaning of this term? It
certainly does not, in the present case, apply to the person whose
office it was to fill the organ with wind. Purcell, at the time the
entry was made, was in the zenith of his fame, and "organist to the
king." Possibly it may be the old term for an organist, as it will be
remembered that in the fifteenth century the organ was performed upon by
_blows_ from the fist.

At the coronation of James II., and also at that of George I., two of
the king's musicians walked in the procession, clad in scarlet mantles,