publishing the _Geist der Zeit_, seeming to call for a new and modified association, led to its extinction, and the creation of a new secret society, the celebrated _Tungen-Bund_, in its place. It will be seen that in the foregoing I have confined myself to that part of your correspondent's Query which relates to "the Brethren of the Rosy-Cross." I have not ventured to allude to the Alchymists, or the writings of Paracelsus, his predecessors and followers, which form a library, and demand a catalogue for their mere enumeration. If MR. E. S. TAYLOR, however, is desirous of farther information, and will favour me with his address, I shall be happy to assist his researches in Hermetic philosophy to the extent of my ability. WILLIAM BATES. Birmingham. The Society of Rosicrucians, or Rosecroix (whom Collier calls a sect of mountebanks), first started into existence in Germany in the seventeenth century. They laid claim to the possession of divers secrets, among which the philosopher's stone was the least. They never dared to appear publicly, and styled themselves _The Invisible_. {108} In 1622 they put forth the following advertisement: "We, deputed by our College, the principal of the brethren of the Rosicrucians, to make our visible and invisible abode in this city, through the grace of the Most High; towards whom are turned the hearts of the just: we teach without books or notes, and speak the languages of the countries wherever we are, to draw men like ourselves from the error of death." The Illuminati of Spain were a branch of this sect. In 1615 one John Bringeret printed a work in Germany containing two treatises, entitled _The Manifesto and Confession of Faith of the Fraternity of the Rosicrucians in Germany_. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. * * * * * INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS. (Vol. vi., p. 554. Vol. vii., p. 633.) My note-book contains a considerable number of inscriptions on bells; some extracted from books, but others transcribed from the bells themselves. I send you a few of the most remarkable inscriptions, with one or two notes on the subject. Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: 1. "God save the Church." 2. "Non sono animabus mortuorum, sed viventium." S. Benet's, Cambridge (see Le-Keux' _Memorials_): 1. "Of all the bels in Bennet, I am the best, And yet for my casting the parish paid lest. 1607." 2. "Non nomen fero ficti, Sed nomen Benedicti. 1610." 3. "This bell was broke, and cast againe, by John Draper, in 1618, as plainly doth appeare: Churchwardens were, Edward Dixon, for one, who stood close to his tacklyn, and he that was his partner then, was Alexander Jacklyn." Girton, Cambridgeshire: "Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei." Stoneleigh, Warwickshire: 1. "Michaele te pulsante Winchelcombe a petente daemone te libera. 2. "O Kenelme nos defende ne maligni sentiamus focula."