Among the greatest and most highly esteemed curiosities of the place, is a statue of Christ on the cross, with a head of real hair, which is cut twice a year, and always grows again! This faculty of reproduction is as profitable as it is wonderful; for, besides the resort of pious visitors, drawn by the capillary attractions of such a miraculous piece of sculpture, the locks that are cut off are stated, by the ecclesiastical functionaries in charge of the statue, to be a sure preservative against all harm to the wearer, and are of course in request as an article of commerce. My object in communicating to you these notes, is to introduce to you a copy, which I transcribed myself, of one of the state papers preserved in the archives of the republic. It appears to be a letter of encouragement, addressed by the Priors and Gonfaloniere of the republic of Florence to that of S. Marino, during a siege that the latter was undergoing. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to point out the precise occasion that called for the letter. SYDNEY SMIRKE. "Magnifici viri amici nri car^{mi}, Habbiamo vedato la lettera vi scrive il Governatore, et habbiamo inteso la volunta dello exercito della Chiesa. Dovete essere di buono animo et stare constanti et fermi: et perdere la vita insieme con la liberta che e meglo allo huomo uso a essere libero, essere morto che essere servo. Iddio a chi piace la liberta vi aiutera difenderai: et noi et la nra lega non vi manchera: havete inteso le provisioni facte et di denari et di gente ad Arimino; et faremo delle altre tante che saranno abastanza. Valete. Ex palatio nro die viij. Junij, M.CCCCLXVIIIj. "Priores libertatis et } Vexillifer Justitiae } Populi Florentinj. "Barth. Scala. "Magnificis Viris hominibus terrae S[=a] Marini amicis nris car^{mis}." * * * * * ST. FRANCIS. I think Mrs. Jameson, in her _Legends of the Monastic Orders_, has left unnoticed the very remarkable book of the _Conformity of St. Francis's Life with that of Jesus Christ_, a work, the blasphemy of which is only equalled by its absurdity. The book was written by Bartholomew of Pisa, a monk of the order, and licensed in 1399 by the general of the Minorites. "Approbatum est a fr. Henrico ord. frat. Minorum generali ministro et servo et caeteris ministris et diffinitoribus capituli generalis apud Sacrum locum de Assisio die 2 Augusti A.D. 1399." {322} The title of the first edition, which is very rare, is as follows: "Liber Conformitatum Vitae S. Francisci ad Vitam Jesu Christi. Authore Fr. Bartholomaeo degli Albizzi, ex recens. Fran. Zenonis. Impressum Mediolani per Gotardum Ponticum apud templum Sancti Satyri. Anno M.CCCCCX. die 18 mensis Septembris. In fol. literis quadratis." The Second edition: