that
"instead of 13 pore men beying Lepers, two pryest, and one clerke
thereof there is at this day but one pryest and two pore men."

In Scotland the disease lingered till the middle of last century. A
day for public thanksgiving for the supposed total deliverance of that
country from the scourge of Leprosy, was enjoined, in 1742. The
disease however was not quite extinct there; it may be now.

We are told at the present day, there are 123,924 Lepers in Hawaii;
and in India not less than 250,000, or a quarter of a million. There
are also large numbers in Barbadoes, and in the Sandwich Islands.

A striking and recent proof of the efficacy of isolation is seen in
the fact, that in Norway there were 2,000 Lepers in 1867. That number
has now been reduced to 700.

There are probably not more than 20 Lepers in England at the present
day.

In the February number of the Monthly Record of the Association in
aid of the Bishop of Capetown, is a short account of the Lepers on
Robben Island, to whom Her gracious Majesty the Queen has graciously
sent two photographs of herself, which we are informed will be much
appreciated, probably a great deal more, than the superabundance of
scientific literature which is sent for their delectation, not a word
of which can they read, much less understand. They are also surfeited,
we are told, by no small numbers of copies of that book, so dear and
so well known, to all Cambridge undergraduates, _Paleys' Evidences of
Christianity_. It would have been more considerate had the munificent
benefactors sent the lighter edition of the writer's great work,
familiarly known as _Paley's Ghost_.

There is just one other subject to mention, namely the common error
that the low narrow windows often seen in our older parish churches,
were to enable the Leper to hear the service, and to receive the
Eucharist, said to have been handed out to him. In support of this we
have but guess-work; of proof, there is none.

In concluding, it will not fail to be interesting, to quote a few
words from so eminent an authority as Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D., LL.D.,
F.R.C.S., ex-President of the Royal College of Physicians:--"If we
adopt the view that Leprosy is another instance of disease induced by
the presence of a particular microbe or bacillus, as in so many other
diseases now the subject of absorbing interest to both the
professional and the non-professional public, we may account for most
of the facts adduced in