The earliest he mentions is the English one of 1675, and an edition in the French, "a Paris, 1677;" which states on the title, _Traduit de l'Anglois_, whereas the second part is "imprimee a Paris _chez l'Auteur_, 1678," from which Marchand concludes that Allais was the writer, adding,-- "On n'a peut-etre jamais vu de Fiction composee avec plus d'art et plus d'industrie, et il faut avouer {148} qu'il y en a peu ou le vraisemblable soit aussi ingenieusement et aussi adroitement conserve." Wm. Taylor, of Norwich, writes to Southey, asking,-- "Can you tell me who wrote the _History of the Sevarambians_? The book is to me curious. Wieland steals from it so often, that it must have been a favourite in his library; if I had to impute the book by guess, I would fix on Maurice Ashby, the translator of Xenophon's _Cyropaedia_, as the author." to which Southey replies,-- "Of the Sevarambians I know nothing!" (See _Gent. Mag._ N.S. xxi. p. 355.) Sir W. Scott, in his _Memoirs of Swift_, p. 304. (edit. 1834), speaking of _Gulliver's Travels_, says-- "A third volume was published by an unblushing forger, as early as 1727, without printer's name, a great part of which is unacknowledged plunder from a work entitled _Hist. des Sevarambes_, ascribed to Mons. Alletz, suppressed in France and other Catholic kingdoms on account of its deistical opinions." It would seem from this, that Sir Walter was not aware of the English work, or knew much of its origin or the author. F. R. A. _Histoire des Sevarambes._--The second edition of Gulliver's Travels, entitled _Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver_, 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1727, is accompanied with a spurious third volume, printed at London in the same year, with a similar title-page, but not professing to be a second edition. This third volume is divided into two parts: the first part consists, first, of an Introduction in pp. 20; next, of two chapters, containing a second voyage to Brobdingnag, which are followed by four chapters, containing a voyage to Sporunda. The second part consists of six chapters, containing a voyage to Sevarambia, a voyage to Monatamia, a voyage to Batavia, a voyage to the Cape, and a voyage to England. The whole of the third volume, with the exception of the introduction and the two chapters relating to Brobdingnag, is derived from the _Histoire des Sevarambes_, either in its English or French version. L. * * * * * TOUCHING FOR THE EVIL. (Vol. iii., pp. 42. 93.) There is ample evidence that the French monarchs performed the ceremony of touching for the evil. In a MS. in the University Library, Cambridge[18], is this memorandum:-- "The Kings of England and _Fraunce_ by a peculiar guift cure the King's evill by touching them with their handes, and so doth the seaventh sonne."--_Ant. Miraldus_, p. 384.