this custom was general before A.D. 1400'';
but how he obtained that date out of the
previous communication no one can tell.

The _Times_ made a strange blunder in
describing a gallery of pictures: ``Mr.
Robertson's group of `Susannah and the
Elders,' with the name of Pordenone,
contains some passages of glowing colour

which must be set off against a good deal
of clumsy drawing in the central figure of
the chaste _maiden_.'' As bad as this was
the confusion in the mind of the critic of
the New Gallery, who spoke of Mr Hall's
_Paolo and Francesca_ as that masterly
study and production of the old Adam
phase of human nature which Milton
hit off so sublimely in the _Inferno_.

A writer in the _Notes and Queries_
confused Beersheba with Bathsheba, and
conferred on the woman the name of the
place.

It has often been remarked that a
thorough knowledge of the English Bible
is an education of itself, and a
correspondence in the _Times_ in August 1888
shows the value of a knowledge of the
Liturgy of the Church of England. In a