I will add a very few words on the other point, though not relevant. What is holy at one time, becomes the direct contrary in subsequent times and circumstances. Homer's Minerva ascended to heaven [Greek: meta daimonas allous], among the other dæmons. But that word in modern Europe means a devil of hell. _Deva_ and _Devi_ are (I believe) god and goddess in Sanskrit. _Div_, in Persian (MR. L. says), is a wizard or dæmon. I have no _Zend Avesta_ at hand: but we require to know whether _Div_ had a decidedly evil and Ahrimanian sense, in the language of the dualistic Pagan ages; or only in Ferdoosi and the like. If _afriti_ is "blessed" in Zend, and "a devil" in Arabic, I again ask whether the allusion be to the literary remains of Arabic polytheism, or to Islam? I suspect the latter; and so, it would come to nothing. A. N. [Footnote 4: "word" corected from "work"--Transcriber.] I think MR. LITTLEDALE'S difficulty about the same Hebrew word's representing both [Greek: Diabolos] and _Adversarius_ is, on the contrary, rather a confirmation of the old derivation. Had he forgotten that "the Adversary" is often technically used for the _Devil_? Surely there can be no more doubt that _Devil_ comes from _Diavolo_, and that from [Greek: Diabolos], than that _journal_ comes from _giorno_, and that from _diurnus_. C. _Mummy Wheat_ (Vol. v., p. 538.).--Having a few grains of mummy wheat in my possession, I send you the following information concerning it, with a portion thereof as sample. About three years ago, when in New York, I purchased, at a sale of the Hon. Judge Furman's effects, a small parcel which was stated in his own writing to be "Egyptian wheat such as is mentioned in Scripture, and taken out of a mummy case." I planted a few of the grains in a flower-pot, and they came up in an apparently very healthy and flourishing manner, with an appearance similar to that represented in Scriptural illustrations as Egyptian corn. But after attaining a height of about two inches, I noticed that it began to grow sickly, and in a short time afterwards died away. Upon examining the mould I found some of the grains still there; but they looked as though some very minute insect had eaten away the entire heart, leaving the shell only. It seemed to me that such insect must have been within, and not entered the grain from without. Lately I have again tried in my garden a few of the grains I had reserved from the original stock. These, however, have not come up at all; and I find, on uprooting them, that the same sort of decay had taken place as occurred in New York. I am not able to forward you any of the husks, for they are now rotted: but I thought that some of your readers and your last correspondent might feel interested in knowing other attempts had also been made to rear mummy wheat. S. Meadow Cottage, Ealing.