the register does not begin till 1685. Qy. if not a book lost?--5th Oct. 1829." [1685 Pop. ret.] St. George, Southwark, beg. abt. 1600 [1602 Pop. ret.] St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, begins 1548 (Lysons); but from end of 1642 to 1653 only two entries made; viz. one in Nov. 1643, and another Aug. 1645, which finishes the first volume; and the second volume begins in 1653. St. Saviour, Southwark, begins temp. Eliz. [1570 Pop. ret.] St. Thomas, Southwark, begins 1614. ROB. COLE. [Footnote 2: _Note in the Book_--There are registers before this in the hands of Mr. Pridden.] * * * * * FOLK LORE. _Divination by Bible and Key_ seems not merely confined to this country, but to prevail in Asia. The following passage from _Pérégrinations en Orient_, par Eusèbe de Salle, vol. i. p. 167., Paris, 1840, may throw some additional light on this superstition. The author is speaking of his sojourn at Antioch, in the house of the _English_ consul. "En rentrant dans le salon, je trouvai Mistriss B. assise sur son divan, près d'un natif Syrien Chrétien. Ils tenaient à eux deux une Bible, suspendue à une grosse clé par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne se rappelait pas avoir reçu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir remis. Le Syrien disait une prière, puis prononçait alternativement les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame déclarée par-là en erreur. Elle se leva à l'instant, et ayant fait des recherches plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou." I hardly think that this would be an English superstition transplanted to the East; it is more probable that it was originally derived frown Syria. E.C. Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850. _Charm for Warts_.--Count most carefully the number of warts; take a corresponding number of nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the _cerealia_ (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a cloth, and deposit the packet in the earth; _all the steps of the operation being done secretly_. As the nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some artists think it necessary that each wart should be _touched_ by a separate nodule. This practice was very rife in the north of Scotland some fifty years since, and no doubt is so still. It was regarded as very effective, and certainly had plenty of evidence of the _post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc_ order in its favour. Is this practice prevalent in England?