The gardens were first opened for the accommodation of persons who partook of the mineral springs; subsequently, amusements were added; and in Bickham's curious work, _The Musical Entertainer_ (circa 1738), is an engraving of Tom Hippersley mounted in the "singing rostrum," regaling the company with a song. About half a century after this date, a regular orchestra was erected, and the entertainments resembled Marylebone Gardens and Vauxhall. The old house and gardens were demolished in 1842, to make room for several new streets. Edward F. Rimbault. * * * * * NOTES ON COLERIDGE'S AIDS TO REFLECTION (2nd Edition, 1831) Introductory Aphorisms, No. xii., p. 7.: "Tertullian had good reason for his assertation, that the simplest Christian (if indeed a Christian) knows more than the most accomplished irreligious philosopher." The passage referred to is in the Apology, c. 46: "Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit et ostendit et exinde totum, quod in Deo quæritur, re quoque assignat; licet Plato affirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem." Note to Aphorism xxxi., p. 30.: "To which he [Plato] may possibly have referred in his phrase [Greek: theoparadotos sophia]." Possibly Coleridge may have borrowed this from Berkeley's _Siris_, § 301., where [Greek: theoparadotos philosophia] is cited from "a heathen writer." The word [Greek: theoparadotos] occurs in Proclus and Marinus (see Valpy's _Stephani Thesaurus_), but not in Plato. The motto from Seneca, prefixed to the Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion, is from the fourty-first Epistle of that writer. The question from Tertullian in the Comment on the eight of those Aphorisms, "Certum est quia impossibile est."--p. 199. is from the _De Carne Christi_, cap. v. Aphorism iv., p. 227.: "In wonder all philosophy began." See Plato's _Theætetus_ § 32., p. 155. Gataker on Antonin, i. 15. Plutarch _de EI Delph_. cap. 2. p. 385 B. Sympos, v. 7., p. 680 C. Aristot. _Metaph_. 1. 2. 9. In the "Sequelæ" annexed to this Aphorism, it is said of Simonides (p. 230.), that "_In the fortieth day_ of his mediation the sage and philosophic poet abandoned the problem [of the nature of God] in despair." Cicero (_de nat. Deor._ i. 22. § 60.) and Minucius Felix (_Octav._ 13.) do not specify the number of days during which Simonides deferred his answer to Hiero. Aphorism x. On Original Sin. (note, p. 252.) [Greek: sunetois phonun], &c., from Pindar, _Olymp._ ii. 85. (152.) Conclusion, p. 399.: "_Evidences_ of Christianity! I am weary of this word," &c. See the remarks on this passage in Archbishop Whately's _Logic_, Appendix III., near the end. The quotation from Apuleius, at the end of the book (p. 403.), is from the _Metamorphos._, i. 3. J.E.B. Mayor Marlborough College. * * * * * MINOR NOTES.