ay consider a
fixed measure of value, or _punctum comparationis_, is varying in value
(=power of purchase) daily, even hourly, as regards almost every
exchangeable product. Tooke _On Prices_ is a first-rate authority on this
subject.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield.

_Grammars for Public Schools_ (Vol. ix., pp. 8. 209.).--Pray add this
little gem to your list, now scarce:

"The Gate of Tongues Unlocked and Opened, or else A Seminarie or Seed
Plot of all Tongues and Sciences, that is, a short way of teaching and
thorowly learning, within a yeare and a half at the farthest, the
Latin, English, French, and any other tongue, together with the ground
and foundation of Arts and Sciences, comprised under an hundred Titles
and 1058 Periods. In Latine first, and now as a token of thankfulnesse
brought to light in Latine, English, and French, in the behalfe of the
most illustrious Prince Charles, and of British, French, and Irish
Youths. By the labour and industry of John Anchoran, Licentiate of
Divinity, London, 1633."

Our British youths of those days seem to have been _apt scholars_.

I. T. ABBOTT.

Darlington.

_Classic Authors and the Jews_ (Vol. ix., pp. 221. 384.).--Any edition of
the _Historiae Augustae Scriptores Sex_, containing an index, ought to
supply B. H. C. with a few additional references. See, for instance, the
Index to the Bipont Edition, 2 vols. 8vo., [MDCCLXXXVII], under the words
"Judaei," "Judaicus," "Moses."

C. FORBES.

Temple.

_Hand-bells at Funerals_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.; Vol. vii., p. 297.).--A few
years ago I happened to arrive at the small sea-port of Roscoff, near the
ancient cathedral town of St. Pol de Leon in Britanny, on the day appointed
for the funeral of one of the members of a family of very old standing in
that neighbourhood. My attention was attracted by a number of boys running
about the streets with small hand-bells, with which they kept up a
perpetual tinkling. On inquiring of a friend of mine, a native of the
place, what this meant, he informed me that it was an old custom in
Britanny--but one which in the present day had almost fallen into
disuse--to send boys round from door to door with bells to announce when a
death had occurred, and to give notice of the day and the hour at which the
funeral was to take place, begging at the same time the prayers of the
faithful for the soul of the deceased. The boys selected for this office
are ta