1. Arras, according to M. le Chev. de Linas. 2. Compiègne. A point. 3. Cracow, in Poland, according to M. Goſſelin. 4. Florence. 5. Lagney. 6. Troyes. So that no leſs than twenty-nine towns claim the poſſesſion of thirty-two nails, all differing in form, the number of which can only be accounted for by the ſuppoſition that only a portion of the holy nails has been incorporated into each of them. [Illustration: _The Title of the Croſs._] One of the moſt intereſting relics in connection with the holy nails is the Iron Crown of Lombardy. This, as may be ſeen by reference to the illuſtration (Fig. 1), is a circlet of gold, ornamented with precious ſtones, and it is indebted for its name of “Iron” to a thin band (=A=) of that metal, which is inſide the gold circlet. The Crown itſelf is of very antique form, being even devoid of rays, and is too ſmall to go on the head. Charlemagne was crowned with it in 774, and Napoleon did not think himſelf King of Italy until he had placed this precious diadem on his head, in 1805. It is kept at Monza, nine miles from Milan, in the Cathedral, which is of great antiquity. There it repoſes in a huge croſs placed over the altar. Of the relics of the Croſs there now remains but two ſpecks of the title or inſcription thereon, and here, again, I am indebted to M. Rohault de Fleury for the illuſtration on page xciv., as it ſeems to me to be the beſt yet publiſhed. The Evangeliſts, although agreeing in the ſpirit of the inſcription, vary as to the letter. Says St. Matthew: “This is Jeſus the King of the Jews.” “ St. Mark: ”The King of the Jews.“ ” St. Luke: “This is the King of the Jews.” “ St. John: ”Jeſus of Nazareth the King of the Jews.“ Neither St. Matthew nor St. Mark note the tri-lingual character, and SS. Luke and John vary as to the order of the different languages; the former ſaying it was in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew—the latter that it was in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The latter is the generally accepted form, and the reaſon given is, that Hebrew, being the common language, it would naturally come firſt, as we ſhould do in an Engliſh notice, firſt in Engliſh, then, ſay in French and German, for the benefit of foreigners, as were the Greeks and Romans in Jeruſalem. The tradition is that, along with the Croſs, St. Helena found the inſcription, and that ſhe ſent it, together with a piece of the Holy Croſs and a number of other ſacred relics, to Rome, where it was depoſited in the baſilica of Santa Croce. Here it remained until Valentinian, fearing that it might fall into the hands of the Goths and Huns, hid it in the wall of the building, until it was found in 1492.