To give up her freedom for sorrow and care,
He own'd she deserv'd to be damn'd.

"For punishment he never study'd a whit,
The torments of hell had not pain
Sufficient to curse her; so Pluto thought fit
Her husband should have her again.
But soon he compassion'd the woman's hard fate,
And, knowing of mankind so well,
He recall'd her again, before 'twas too late,
And said, she'd be happier in hell."

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Foreign Medical Education_ (Vol. viii., p. 341.).--Your correspondent
MEDICUS will find some information respecting _some_ of the foreign
universities in the _Lancet_ for 1849, and the _Medical Times and Gazette_
for 1852. For France he will find all he wants in Dr. Roubaud's _Annuaire
Medical et Pharmaceutique de la France_, published by Bailliere, 219.
Regent Street.

M. D.

"_Short red, good red_" (Vol. viii., p. 182.).--Sir Walter has probably
borrowed this saying from the story of Bishop Walchere, when he related the
murder of Adam, Bishop of Caithness. This tragical event is told in the
_Chronicle of Mailros_, under the year 1222; also in _Forduni
Scotichronicon_, and in Wyntoun's _Chronicle_, book vii. c. ix.; but the
words "short red, good red," do not appear in these accounts of the
transaction.

J. MN.

_Collar of SS._ (Vols. iv.-vii. _passim_).--At the risk of frightening you
and your correspondents, I venture to resume this subject, in consequence
of a circumstance to which my attention has just been directed.

In the parish church of Swarkestone in Derbyshire there is a monument to
Richard Harpur, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the reign
of Elizabeth; on which he is represented in full judicial costume, with the
collar of SS., which I am told by the minister of the parish is "distinctly
delineated." It may be seen in Fairholt's _Costumes of England_, p. 278.

As far as I am aware, this is the only instance, either on monuments or in
portraits, of a _puisne_ judge being ornamented with this decoration. Can
any of your correspondents produce another example? or can they account,
from any other cause, for Richard Harpur receiving such a distinction? or
may I not rather attribute it to the blunder of the sculptor?

EDWARD FOSS.

_Who first thought of Table-turning_ (Vol. viii., p. 57.).--It is
impossible to say who discovered the table-turning experiment, but it
undoubtedly had its origin in the United States. It was practised he