En passant, I have elsewhere seen the opinion quoted by a correspondent (Vol. ii., p. 464), "Sedem animæ in digitis ponunt," attributed to the Hindoos. Query, Has not the profession of θεληται (see Dr. Maitland on _Mesmerism_) prevailed among them? Their propensity to conjuring is so proverbial, that, according to a writer in the _Asiatic Researches_, that term is derived from one of their tribes. See also on their witchcrafts, Acosta's _East and West Indies_, chap. xxvi. Before I dismiss the subject of swearing, permit me to observe what appears to me to be the origin of the apothegm "Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum" (Vol. ii., p. 494.), which, with a slight change, was afterwards adopted by Ferdinand, emperor of Austria. May it not have originated in an oath similar to that of Chaganus, king of the Huns, recorded by Otrokoesi, in his _Historiæ Hungaricæ_?-- "Abarico ritu jusjurandum ad hunc modum præstitit. Ense edueto et in altum sublato sibi et Abaricorum genti dira imprecatus _si quid mali_, &c. _Coelum_ ex alto ipsis et Deus Ignis qui in coelo est, _irrueret_." More sententiously he may have said: "Fiat [a me] justitia, [in me] ruat Coelum, [si non]." On the inviolability of oaths among the heathens, in addition to the works referred to in Vol. iii., p. 192., see _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. i. p. 415.; on the singular notion, in the fourteenth century, of the harmlessness of colloquial and affirmative oaths, see _Archæologia_, vol. xx. p. 43.; and on the opposition made by the Lollards to this unchristian practice, Purvey's _Remonstrance against the Corruptions of the Church of Rome_, edited by the Rev. J. Forshall, London, 1851. T. J. HUGH HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS. (Vol. iii. p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.) The querist on Hugh Holland and his works, must be content with a reply of unvarnished brevity. 1. "Where are these lines taken from, and what do they mean?"--The lines are from the _Cypress garland_ of Hugh Holland, 1625. 4to. The meaning is obvious. I assume that Holland may be trusted as to his own age, to which Wood gives no clue. 2. "Who says he did not quit Westminster school till 1589?"--Wood says he was bred in Westminster school, and "elected into Trinity coll. in Cambridge, an. 1589." Welch, from official documents, gives the same date. Wood nowhere states that he "matriculated at Baliol in 1582." 3. "My words are, '_about_ 1590 he succeeded to a fellowship.'"--Wood says he was elected to Trinity college in 1589, "of which he was _afterwards_ fellow." It may have been some years afterwards. 4. "Why does not MR. CORNEY give your readers his interpretation of the mysterious H. H.?"--He reserved it for another occasion, but now consents to satisfy the curiosity of the querist and others. In 1632 Henry Holland dedicated to Charles I. an English version of the _Cyrvpædia_ of Xenophon, made by his father Philemon Holland. In the dedication, which is signed at length, he says: