afford much pleasure, 190. This pleasure is shared alike by rich and poor, 191; but Epicureans deny it to themselves, 191. The Deity can neither do nor suffer wrong, 192. Therefore a friend of God must be happy, 193. Of such a satisfaction the followers of Epicurus would deprive us, 194. According to them, death is the extinction of our being,—a gloomy prospect, 195. All men shrink at the idea of annihilation, 197. A dark hereafter is better than none, 198. Epicureanism extinguishes hope and virtue, 199. The hope of another and better life gives additional comfort to the present, 200. Of all this hope and enjoyment the Epicurean doctrine deprives us, and thus debases and contracts our nature, 202, 203. ROMAN QUESTIONS. By Isaac Chauncy, of the College of Physicians, London. 1. Why do the Romans require a new-married woman to touch fire and water? 204. 2. Why do they light, at nuptials, five torches? 204. 3, 4. Questions about Diana’s temples, 205. 5. Why do persons falsely reported as dead, on their return home from foreign parts, not enter by the door? 206. 6. Why do women kiss their relations? 207. 7. Why are husbands and wives forbidden to receive presents from each other? 208. 8. Why may they not receive a gift from a son-in-law or father-in-law? 209. 9. Why do husbands returning from remote parts send to acquaint their wives of their approach? 209. 10. Why do men in divine service cover their heads, &c.? 209. 11. Why do they sacrifice to Saturn with head uncovered? 210. 12. Why do they esteem Saturn the father of truth? 211. 13. Why do they sacrifice to Honor bareheaded? 211. 14. Why do sons appear at their parents’ funerals with covered heads, &c.? 211. 15. Why do Romans not sacrifice to the god Terminus? 212. 16. Why must not maid-servants enter the temple of Matuta? 212. 17. Why do not women supplicate this goddess in behalf of their children? 213. 18. Why do the rich pay tithes to Hercules? 213. 19. Why does the Roman year begin in January? 213. 20. Why is not myrtle brought into the temple of Bona Dea? 214. 21. Why is worship paid to the woodpecker? 215. 22. Why is Janus described as double-faced? 215. 23. Why are funeral things sold in the temple of Venus Libitina? 216. 24. Explain the Kalends, Nones, and Ides, 216. 25. Why are the days after the Kalends, Nones, and Ides, considered unlucky? 217. 26. Why is white sometimes worn as a sign of mourning? 219. 27. Why are walls reputed sacred but not the gates? 219. 28. Why are children forbidden to swear by Hercules within doors? 220. 29. Why must not the new-married woman step over the threshold but be carried? 221. 30. Why is she to say, “Where thou art Caius, I am Caia”? 221. 31. Why is the name Thalassius sung at nuptials? 221. 32. Why are effigies of men, in some cases, called Argives? 222. 33. Why did not men in ancient times sup abroad without their sons? 222. 34.