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# Glimpses of Bohemia/Prefatory Note

PREFATORY NOTE.
The Second General Council of the Presbyterian Alliance, held at Philadelphia in September, 1880, adopted the following Minute as to the mode of helping Continental Churches:—
“The Council approve of the Report of the Committee, and record their thanks to them for what they have done in the Waldensian Pastors’ Aid Fund, and express their hope that that movement will be prosecuted to a close. They authorise the Committee to take such steps as they may deem best to show sympathy with the Bohemian and Moravian Churches, on the occasion of the Centenary of the Edict of Toleration next year. The Council resolved that the Committee shall consist of a European and an American section, to work in concert, as follows: The European Committee—J. A. Campbell, Esq., LL.D., M.P., and David Maclagan, Esq., C.A., Joint Conveners; Rev. Dr. John Marshall Lang, Rev. Dr. Blaikie, Rev. Dr. Robertson, Rev. Dr. Dykes, Rev. William Welsh, Rev. Dr. A. Thomson, Rev. John S. MacIntosh, Rev. W. Gillies, James Macdonald, Esq. The American Committee—Henry Day, Esq., Chairman; Rev. Dr. Breed, Rev. Dr. Murkland, Rev. Dr. Hall, of New York, Rev. Dr. Van Nest, Hon. W. E. Dodge, Rev. Dr. Prime, William Neely, Esq., Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor, Hon. Stanley Matthews.”
The European Committee of the Alliance, acting under the above appointment, resolved to aim at raising a sum of £5000, in aid of the Reformed Churches of Bohemia and Moravia, and the following pages are offered as the writer’s contribution to this effort. He trusts that they may be of some service in affording information to, and stimulating ​the interest of the Christian public of Britain in the struggling Protestantism of the “Land of Huss.”
In connection with the movement, a Bazaar is to be held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, on 21st, 22nd, and 23rd December, 1882.
The objects which it is specially desired to aid from the funds thus to be raised are:—(1.) The extension of the Reformed Church by grants in aid of new Congregations and Preaching Stations (see p. 50 et seq.); and (2.) The full equipment of the “Comenius Association” (see p. 50), a society instituted by the Evangelical Pastors for the creation and diffusion of Christian Literature.
J. M‘D.
Edinburgh, 4th December, 1882.
# Glimpses of Bohemia

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GLIMPSES OF BOHEMIA,
PAST AND PRESENT.
THE BRIDGE & CASTLE OF PRAGUE.
GLIMPSES OF BOHEMIA,
PAST AND PRESENT.
BY
JAMES MACDONALD, W.S., EDINBURGH.
Edinburgh: PRINTED BY LORIMER & GILLIES, 31 ST. ANDREW SQUARE. 1882.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY LORIMER AND GILLIES, 31 ST. ANDREW SQUARE.
CONTENTS.
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# Handbook of Ophthalmology

HANDBOOK
OF
OPHTHALMOLOGY.
BY
PROF. C. SCHWEIGGER, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN.
TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION
BY
PORTER FARLEY, M.D., ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.
WITH DIAGRAMS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1878.
Copyright, 1878, by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
In presenting his work to the profession, the translator wishes to acknowledge the assistance received during its preparation from his friend Dr. Charles E. Rider, of Rochester, N.Y.
During the work of translation his advice on all doubtful points was freely sought and as freely given. While the book has been passing through the press, he has, at the expense of great labor and care, assisted in the reading and revision of the entire proof.
Rochester, N.Y., Feb. 15, 1878.
CONTENTS.
PART FIRST.
PART SECOND.
PART THIRD.
# Gymnastics

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* "Gymnastics" by Alfred Worcester in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (May 1883)
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# Gypsy Oil Co v. Escoe/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
275 U.S. 567
GYPSY OIL CO. v. ESCOE.
Argued: Nov. 21, 1927. ---
This petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the state of Oklahoma is denied.
The application was not made in accordance with section 8(a), Act of February 13, 1925, ch. 229, 43 Stat. 936, 940 (28 USCA § 350 (Comp. St. § 1228b)), which provides:
'No writ of error, appeal, or writ of certiorari * * * shall be allowed or entertained unless application therefor be duly made within three months after the entry of such judgment or decree. * * *'
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered March 22, 1927. A timely petition for rehearing was denied June 14, 1927. On June 18, 1927, an application for leave to file a second petition for rehearing was indorsed:
'Leave granted to file-Fred C. Branson, Chief Justice.'
'On August 2, 1927, as appears from the minutes, the following proceedings were taken by the court:
'Gypsy Oil Company v. Escoe et al. Application for leave to file a second petition for rehearing denied; application for oral argument denied.-Fred C. Branso, Chief Justice.'
On September 30, 1927, more than three months after denial of the petition for rehearing (June 14), the present petition for certiorari was filed.
The running of the time within which proceedings may be initiated here to bring up judgment or decree for review is suspended by the seasonable filing of a petition for rehearing. But it begins to run from the date of denial of such petition and further suspension cannot be obtained by the mere presentation of a motion for leave to file a second request for rehearing. Morse v. United States, 270 U.S. 151, 153, 154, 46 S.C.t. 241, 70 L. Ed. 518.
If, however, a timely motion for leave to file the second petition is granted and the petition is actually entertained by the court, then the time within which application may be made here for certiorari begins to run from the day when the court denies such second petition.
Mr. Chester I. Long, of Wichita, Kan., for petitioner.

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# Gypsy Smith: His Life & Work

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* Introduction
* Note To My Readers
* Chapter 1: Birth And Ancestry - With Some Notes Of Gipsy Custom
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# Gypsy Smith: His Life & Work/Note To My Readers

A little over three years ago this story of my life was sent to the printers, at the request of many of my friends, but much against my judgement; I thought the time was not ripe for its publication. I knew tens of thousands had listened to the story from my lips, but whether they would read it, and feel its grip, in cold type, was quite another thing. But my fears soon vanished when the story was published; the reviewers and the public were all kind and treated it better than I had ever hoped. I have no doubt now that the advice of my friends was right. The story has reached people whom I shall never see, and from whom I have had letters of thanks. From all parts of the world have they come, telling of blessing received while reading of the power of the Cross over the Gipsy tent.
And, now, as the book has reached its fiftieth thousand, I desire most gratefully to offer my thanks to all who have helped to make the story, in book form, such a splendid success.
GIPSY SMITH ROMANY TAN, CAMBRIDGE.
# Gypsy Blues

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# Gypsy Oil Co v. Escoe

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United States Supreme Court
275 U.S. 567
GYPSY OIL CO. v. ESCOE.
Argued: Nov. 21, 1927. ---
PER CURIAM.

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# Gypsy Song

English-language translations of Zigeunerlied include:
* "Gipsy Song" translated anonymously (1832)
* "Gipsey Song" translated by John Anster (1837) (external scan)
* "The Wood Gypsy’s Night Song" translated anonymously (1839)
* "Gipsy Song" translated by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1894) (external scan)
# Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Charms

Tibetan Charms. Exhibited at Meeting, 18th November, 1903. (See Plate II. and p. 1.)
1. Tibetan phur-bu, or exorcist's dagger, for stabbing demons. The central part represents a thunderbolt, and the upper end the four heads (one being a horse's) of the fiend Tamdin.
2. Tibetan ga-u, or charm-box, studded with turquoises and holding four rolls of charms (4) and a fifth roll (5) bound with silk of three colours and having attached to it some fragments from the robe of a lama or of a sacred image.
3. Metal hand: Hebrew charm against the evil eye, inscribed with the blessing of Joseph (Genesis xlix. 22-26).
6 and 7. Mediæval bronze amulet cases, one book-shaped, the other heart-shaped.
A. R. Wright.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Drum and Trumpet

Tibetan Drum and Trumpet.
(Exhibited at Meeting of Society. See Plate VII. and p. 243.)
The object to the right of Plate VII. is a drum made of the caps of two human skulls secured together at their apices, and with their bases covered by human skin. The drum is beaten by jerking it from one side to the other by the supporting band, so that the two hanging leather bobs strike the skin coverings.
The other object shown is a kaṅ-liṅ, or trumpet made of a human thigh-bone, the lower part of which is covered wnth human skin. Such a trumpet "is sometimes encased in brass, with a wide copper flanged extremity, on which are figured the three eyes and nose of a demon, the oval open extremity being the demon's mouth. In the preparation of these thigh-bone trumpets the bones of criminals or those who have died by violence are preferred, and an elaborate incantation is done, part of which consists in the Lāma eating a portion of the skin of the bone; otherwise its blast would not be sufficiently powerful to summon ​the demons." (Waddell's The Buddhism of Tibet, p. 300.) A trumpet of this kind is blown at the beginning of a mystery play. A Lama with a thigh-bone trumpet also walks before a corpse on its way to burial or cremation, holding the end of a white band secured to the corpse, and by the use of his trumpet attracts the soul and guides it in the right direction.
Both the objects illustrated are placed upon temple altars. Cannibalism is stated by the Tibetans themselves to have been their ancient custom, and is alleged still to linger in very remote districts. The use of the implements described may be a vestige of the practice.
A. R. Wright.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Prayer-Wheels

Tibetan Prayer-Wheels. (Exhibited at Meeting of Society. See Plate VI. and p. 243.)
Plate VI
Plate VII.
The mantra or formula appropriate to the contained prayers must be repeated before a wheel is turned, and also at the end of the rotation, or else no merit will be gained. The mantra should also be repeated as often as possible while the turning is going on, and the faster the turning the greater the merit. It is also necessary that the wheel shall be turned only in the direction in which a person would go keeping his right side always to the axle. To turn in the reverse direction is to undo all that has been previously done by a right turning.
The smaller prayer-wheel, mounted on a long wooden handle and seen to the left of the Plate, is for hand use, and is kept in motion with very little effort by the help of the chain and weight. A hook and chain are also provided for the suspension of the wheel, which contains the usual formula, and has embossed on it the "eight glorious emblems" found in Buddha's footprints, viz. the golden fish, umbrella, conch-shell trumpet of victory, lucky diagram, victorious banner, vase, lotus, and wheel.
A. R. Wright.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 16/A Solution of the Gorgon Myth

CORRESPONDENCE.
A Solution of the Gorgon Myth.
(Vol. xiv., 1903, p. 212 sq.)
I have recently had an opportunity of making a sketch of the fresco from Pompeii at the Naples Museum numbered 9688, and mentioned on p. 235 of the article above referred to. From the print herewith it will be seen that the description given in the text is fully borne out, and, as I think, it conclusively establishes my solution of the myth. Upon the same fresco, alongside the Perseo-lobster, is a sea cow with a long fish tail, of a greenish colour, completing the picture. The remarkable feature of the whole is that the lobster is rather larger than the cow swimming by its side.
Naples Museum, 9688.
Quite recently the papers have recorded the capture of an enormous lobster, so that there is no reason to reject the Pompeian fancy as anything more than poetic or artistic license.
I am also able to complete my illustrations by a sketch of the ​group in the Palermo Museum from the Temple of Selinunte (see p. 232). This is probably the most ancient representation in existence of the exploit of Perseus. It is interesting to compare the Medusa in this relief, with that from six De Gorgone on p. 231—where the peculiarly shaped leg-scrolls of the Gorgon (Fig. 20) are nearly identical with those of the Perseus in the sketch herewith.
Palermo Museum.
At the Etruscan Museum at Florence is a terra-cotta having the face of a split-tongued Medusa of the type of Fig. 2, but instead of the tentacles shown on Figs. 2 and 3, there is mounted on the head as a part of it, an Acroterion almost identical with Fig. 17. Another specimen of the same kind is to be seen among the terra-cottas at the Louvre; indeed, much more evidence might be produced if it were necessary to further support that already provided.
The remarks on the Manaia (pp. 240-1) should lead to the examination of the Maori Feather-box illustrated in ‘Man,’ 1904, No. 111. The gaping mouth and the scrolls are repeated on all sides, but on the bottom is the same nondescript pair of jaws, attacking the head, as depicted on Figs. 26, 27. Much also ​has of late been written about Rapanui or Easter Island, but nothing specially to throw light on my suggestion. I would, however, ask for a careful and candid comparison of Fig. 27 with the representation here given of Perseus and Medusa from Selinunte.
F. T. Elworthy.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 16/The Whitby Snake-Ammonite Myth

Plate XXV.
WHITBY AMMONITES AND CHARMER'S LADLE.
To face p. 333.
COLLECTANEA.
The Whitby Snake-Ammonite Myth.
(Read at Meeting, 19th April, 1905.)
One of the most interesting features in the study of superstition is the remarkable array of objects which are associated with magic by primitive folk nearly all over the world.
In this catalogue fossils occupy a prominent place, and it really seems only natural that such shapely forms and designs should appeal to the very ignorant as being something beyond their ken, and therefore of course "magical." Most of these were, and even still are, considered to have been "thunder-bolts," as also were the arrowheads and polished celts of neolithic man. Later on, when some advance in civilisation brought about more knowledge, these fossils occupied a somewhat higher position in superstition, so that an ammonite, instead of being a thunderbolt, became, say, a "petrified snake." The segments of encrmite stems were St. Cuthbert's beads: echini = "shepherds' crowns"; nummulites = "fossil money"; and so on.
Among the most interesting of these superstitions is the snake-ammonite myth of Whitby. The geological formation there is the Lias, and in certain zones of this deposit large numbers of the fossil cephalopods, known as ammonites (of many species), occur. The old idea was that these were petrified snakes, turned into stone by the patron saint of Whitby, Saint Hilda. This delightful legend is referred to in Sir Walter Scott's ​Marmion, Canto ii. 13; when "Whitby's nuns"
"told, how, in their convent cell, A Saxon Princess once did dwell. The lovely Edelfled; And how of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone. When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found; They told how seafowls' pinions fail As over Whitby's towers they sail. And, sinking down, with flutterings faint. They do their homage to the saint."
So strong was the belief, that the town arms of Whitby—three ammonites on a shield—once represented these shells with snakes' heads. An old Whitby copper token of "Flower Gate," dated 1667, also shows them as coiled snakes with heads.
The fact that ammonites were never found with snakes' heads was, of course, always more or less of a stumbling-block, though the workmen and others frequently got over the difficulty by making and fixing heads to the ammonites on their own account. Plate XXV., Fig. 2, shows two specimens with these forged heads. The town arms of Whitby, upon a cake, are also shown in the plate (Fig. 1).
But the glory of the legend has departed. I have met many people even of late years who still believed in it, but if you ask a man or boy in Whitby now if he knows anything about the petrified snakes of Saint Hilda, the chances are that he will say, "It is all rot! "
Edward Lovett.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of Fidelity (b)

There is another story in this volume with the same title: Of Fidelity.
TALE LII.
OF FIDELITY.
Valerius (53) records, that Fabius redeemed certain captives by the promise of a sum of money; which when the senate refused to confirm, he sold all the property he possessed, and with the produce paid down the stipulated sum, caring less to be thought poor in lands than poor in honesty.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, Fabius is Christ, who at the expence of life, ransomed mankind from eternal death.
Note 53.Page 173.
The occasion of this noble proceeding is thus detailed. "Captivos ab Annibale interposita pactione nummorum receperat. Qui cum a senatu non præstarentur, misso in Urbem filio, fundum, quem unicum possidebat, vendidit, ejusque pretium Annibali protinus numeravit. Si ad calculos revocetur, parvum, utpote septem jugeribus, et hoc in Pupinia addictis, redactum: si animo erogantis, omni pecunia majus. Se enim patrimonii, quam patriam fidei, inopem esse maluit: eo quidem majore commendatione, quod proni studii certius indicium est supra vires niti, quam viribus ex facili uti. Alter enim quod potest, præstat: alter etiam plus quam potest." Valerius Maximus, Lib. iv. c. 8. Ex. 1.
The Fabius of whom this is told, is Fabius Maximus.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of Just Judgment

TALE III.
OF JUST JUDGMENT.
A certain emperor decreed, that if any woman were taken in adultery, she should be cast headlong from a very high precipice. It chanced that a woman, convicted of the crime, was immediately conveyed to the place of punishment, and thrown down. But she received no injury in the fall. They, therefore, brought her back to the judgment-seat; and when the judge perceived that she was unharmed, he commanded that she should again be led to the precipice, and the sentence effectually executed. The woman, however, addressing the judge, said, "My Lord, if you command this, you will act contrary to the law which punishes not twice for the same ​fault. I have already been cast down as a convicted adultress, but God miraculously preserved me. Therefore, I ought not to be subjected to it again." The judge answered, "Thou hast well said; go in peace:" and thus was the woman saved.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the emperor, is God, who made a law that if any one polluted the soul (which is the spouse of Christ) by the commission of any mortal sin, he should be precipitated from a high mountain—that is, from Heaven; as befell our first parent, Adam. But God, by the sufferings of his Son, hath preserved us. When man sins, God does not instantly condemn him, because His mercy is infinite; but "by grace we are saved," and not cast headlong into hell.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of Hanging

TALE XXXIII.
OF HANGING.
Valerius tells us, that a man named Paletinus one day burst into a flood of tears; and calling his son and his neighbours around him, said, "Alas! alas! I have now growing in my garden a fatal tree, on which my first poor wife hung herself, then my second, and after that my third. Have I not therefore cause for the wretchedness I exhibit?" "Truly," said one who was called Arrius, "I marvel that you should weep at such an unusual instance of good fortune! Give me, I pray you, two or three sprigs of that gentle tree, which I will divide with my neighbours, and thereby afford every man an opportunity of indulging the laudable wishes of his spouse." Paletinus complied with his friend's request; ​and ever after found this remarkable tree the most productive part of his estate. (29)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the tree is the cross of Christ. The man's three wives are, pride, lusts of the heart, and lusts of the eyes, which ought to be thus suspended and destroyed. He who solicited a part of the tree is any good Christian.
Note 29.Page 133.
This curious anecdote is recorded by Cicero, in his second book, "De Oratore," from whom, probably, Valerius Maximus copied it, if it be in his work. I cannot find it.
"Salsa sunt etiam, quæ habent suspicionem ridiculi absconditam; quo in genere est illud Siculi, cum familiaris quidam quereretur, quod diceret, uxorem suam suspendisse se de ficu. Amabo te inquit, da mihi ex istâ arbore, quos seram, surculos."—Lib. ii. 278.