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as stage doctors. John kept a dancing-school in
Dunse, in 1807. He afterwards resided at Larke-
hall, near Hamilton, and died there a few years
afterwards. M. G. F.
Value of Money in past Times (1 st S. xii. 494.) This is a subject on which historians are so much divided, as to preclude the hope of a satis- factory conclusion. Without attempting " rules or data," the following opinions may be con- sidered. Dr. Henry and Adam Smith make the value of money at the present time to be fifteen times greater than in the thirteenth century. But as the query of L. relates to the reign of Elizabeth, the following authorities maybe taken. Maitland, in his History of London and Westmin- ster, considers the present value six times greater than about the period of the Reformation. Dr. Lingard says six or seven times. Taylor, in his Index Monasticus, estimates it at fifteen times. Mackintosh, in his History of England, says six- teen times ; and finally, Cobbett, in his History of the Reformation, puts it down at twenty times.
F. C. H.
Right" and " Left Hand" (1* S. xii. 404.) Will HERMES inform us " What is instinct f " I do not think Sir B. Brodie's explanation right, as to the use of the right in preference to the left hand. There is no anatomical difference.
A clergyman, a relative of mine, has been long investigating what is called the instinct in the lower animals of creation, and has collected a great many very curious and extraordinary anec- dotes concerning it ; and he has come to the con- clusion, that it is mind and not instinct ! Now mind is a function of the brain ; and this natural function must depend on the form and develop- ment of that organ. The superiority of the mind of man is, he says, the consequence of the Almighty having breathed into him a portion of the Divine Spirit the soul ; which, at death, returns to Him who gave it. But the lower animals, having no such Spirit given to them, have lower mental faculties, depending on the formation of their brains.
I have just recollected the epigram on a school- master, who was born without a right hand : - " Tho' of thy right hand Nature hath bereft thee,
Right well thou writest with thy hand that's left thee."
W. COLLYNS, M.R.C.S.
Drewsteignton.
Weather Proverb (1 st S. xii. 260.) As a com- panion proverb to the above, perhaps you will find a corner for the following : " A plum year,
A dumb year."
Abundant proof of the one has been furnished by the year which has just closed. The other is as well known as the former in Norfolk, and is equally true.
It will be scarcely necessary to add the mean-
ing of the word dumb ; viz., that silence of which
death is the cause. W. B. D.
Magdalen Vicarage.
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