_Can a Man baptize himself?_ (Vol. vi., pp. 36. 110.).--This question has not yet received any {28} correct answer. The following quotation from the _Summa_ of St. Thomas Aquinas will resolve it as far as your querist W. is concerned: "Similiter autem Forma mutaretur, si diceretur 'Ego baptizo me;' et ideo nullus potest baptizare seipsum propter quod et CHRISTUS a Joanne voluit baptizari."--_Summa_, 3^{tia} Pars, Quæstio lxvi. Art. v. Arg. 4. The REV. A. GATTY, while right in the negative answer which he gives to the question of W., is quite wrong in the reasons on which he founds it. "Christian fellowship" is _not_ of necessity a requisite for administering the sacrament of holy baptism. I quote again from the _Summa_ of St. Thomas: "Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod Baptismum a schismaticis recipere non licet, nisi in articulo necessitatis: quia melius est de hâc vitâ cum signo CHRISTI exire, a quocumque detur, etiam si sit Judæus vel Paganus, quam sine hoc signo, quod per Baptismum confertur."--_Summa_, 2^{nda} Pars, Quæstio xxxix. Art. iv. Arg. 1. As our own Church apparently only recognises sacerdotal baptism in her formularies, in answering such a question as that of W. we must have recourse to the schoolmen and casuists of earlier times. W. FRASER. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. SHARP'S PROSE WRITERS. Vol. IV. 21 Vols. 1819. Piccadilly. INCHBALD'S BRITISH THEATRE. Vol. XXIV. 25 Vols. Longman. MEYRICK'S ANCIENT ARMOUR, by SKELTON. Part XVI. DONNE. [Greek: Biathanatos]. 4to. First Edition, 1644. ------ ------ ------ Second Edition, 1648. ---- PSEUDO-MARTYR. 4to. ---- PARADOXES, PROBLEMS, AND ESSAYS, &c. 12mo. 1653. ---- ESSAYS IN DIVINITY. 12mo. 1651. ---- SERMONS ON ISAIAH l. 1. POPE'S WORKS, by WARTON. Vol. IX. 1797. in boards. PERCY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS. No. 94. Three copies. MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESS OF ABRANTES. (Translation.) 8 vols. 8vo. Bentley. SMITH'S COLLECTANEA ANTIQUA. 2 vols. 8vo.; or Vol. I. BREWSTER'S MEMOIR OF REV. HUGH MOISES, M.A., Master of Newcastle Grammar School. RELIGIO MILITIS; or Christianity for the Camp. Longmans, 1826. MILTON'S WORKS. The First Edition. DR. COTTON MATHER'S MEMORABLE PROVIDENCES ON WITCHCRAFT AND POSSESSIONS. Preface by Baxter. Date about 1691. GIBBON'S ROMAN EMPIRE. Vols. I. and II. of the twelve volume 8vo. edition. MÜLLER'S NOTES ON THE EUMINIDES OF ÆSCHYLUS. CAMPBELL'S GAELIC POEMS. COLUMBUS' CONUNDRUMS. POEMS OF "ALASDAIR MAC MHAIGHSTIR ALASDAIR" MACDONALD. TURNER'S COLLECTION OF GAELIC POETRY. MAC AULAY'S HISTORY OF ST. KILDA. GRANT'S GAELIC POEMS. GILLIES' COLLECTION OF GAELIC POEMS. *** _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send their names._ *** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. * * * * *