_Defoe's Quotation from Baxter on Apparitions_ (Vol. ix., p. 12.).--The story copied by DR. MAITLAND from Defoe's _Life of Duncan Campbell_, is to be found nearly word for word in pp. 60, 61. of {63} _The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits fully evinced by the unquestionable Histories of Apparitions, &c._, by Richard Baxter, London, 1691. I can trace no mention of the Dr. Beaumont, author of the _Treatise of Spirits_, unless he be the "eminent apothecary in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden," stated by Nichols (_Literary Anecdotes_, vol. ix. p. 239.) to be the father of Mr. Beaumont, Registrar of the Royal Humane Society. [Greek: Halieus]. Dublin. _Barrels Regiment_ (Vol. viii., p. 620.).--If the song referring to Barrel's regiment was written about 1747, it was not original, but a parody or adaptation of one in _The Devil to Pay_, performed as a ballad opera in 1731; and which still maintains its place, if not on the stage, in recent editions of the "acting drama." I have not an old edition of the play, but quote from a collection of songs called _The Nightingale_, London, 1738, p. 232.: "He that has the best wife, She's the plague of his life; But for her that will scold and will quarrel, Let him cut her off short, Of her meat and her sport, And ten times a day hoop her barrel, brave boys, And ten times a day hoop her barrel." May I append a Query to my reply? Was _The Nightingale_ published with a frontispiece? My copy is mutilated, but has belonged to some person who valued it much more highly than I do, as he has neatly repaired and replaced torn leaves and noted deficiencies. Prefixed is a mounted engraving of a bird in the act of singing, which, if intended for a nightingale, is really curious; as it is of the size and shape of a pheasant, with corvine legs and beak, and a wattle round the eye like that of a barb pigeon. The book is "printed and sold by J. Osborn," and shows that the post assigned to him in _The Dunciad_ was not worse than he deserved. H.B.C. Garrick Club. [Our correspondent seems to have the veritable original engraving; the nightingale or pheasant, or whatever it may he, is mounted on a branch over a stream near to three houses, and a village on its banks is seen in the distance.] _Sneezing_ (Vol. viii., pp. 366. 624.).--To the very interesting illustrations given by Mr. Francis Scott of the ancient superstitions associated with sternutation, I should like to add one not less curious than any which he has given. It is recorded in Xenophon's _Anabasis_, lib. iii. cap. 2.