and none of them escape. Yet in such cases one
generally hears of a few desperate men bursting
through the ranks of the beleaguering foe. The
case of Sisera tells the other way, since, directly
after this expression, the fate of Sisera is recorded
at full length. Now, it is very curious that
nothing whatever is said personally of Pharaoh in
the chapter which records the destruction of his
army, and yet he had all along been a principal
actor in the history. He is merely joined on to
"his host," ch. xiv. v. 4; "his servants," v. 5.
There is no doubt that he was there (v. 10), but he
is personally ignored; and just as Xerxes may be
said to have been present at the battle of Salamis,
though in reality he was merely a spectator on
Mount Egaleos, and to have been defeated there,
so that his army was to all intents and purposes
"annihilated," so Pharaoh may not have entered
the Red Sea at all, but, acting on the principle in
vogue among Oriental despots, "qui facit per alium
facit per se," have kept at a safe distance. In the
song of Moses, ch. xv., there is not the slightest
allusion to the personal fate of Pharaoh. How
different is the case with regard to a far inferior
character, Sisera, in the song of Deborah and
Barak, Judges v. 28. The verse in Psalm cxxxvi.
15, speaking of "Pharaoh and his host," may be
paralleled by many passages in which the king is
identified with his army. Take, for example, |
Judges iv. 23, So God subdued on that day
Jabin king of Canaan before the children of
Israel"; and, in the next verse, they are ultimately
said to have "destroyed Jabin." Yet Jabin was
certainly not in the battle, and may have died in
his bed eventually. The purpose of the author
was clearly to show the triumph of God's plans
and the utter frustration of those of Pharaoh, and
the individual fate of Pharaoh was of little con-
sequence. A very similar mode of treatment is
pursued with respect to Sennacherib, who, it is
well known, gained many victories after the
destruction of his army. Yet that destruction is
immediately followed by the announcement of his
flight, his dwelling at Nineveh, and assassination
(2 Kings xix. 37). A didactic purpose was served;
history was not perverted, his victories of
eighteen subsequent years being passed over in
silence.
H. F. WOOLRYCH.

"EARTH TO EARTH" (5th S. iii. 148, 394.)— With reference to CIVILIS's statement as to the mode of burying in the East, it may be mentioned as a fact beyond all dispute that the Sinclairs, the Barons of Roslin, near Edinburgh, descendants of the old Earls of Caithness, and Hereditary Grand Masters of the Freemasons of Scotland, were entombed in their vault at Roslin Chapel without being put into any coffin, but they were clad in complete armour; and this custom continued till about the middle of last century, when the widow of (I think) the last descendant of the old line thought it was a barbarous way of performing the funeral rites, and, dispensing with the armour, had her husband put into a coffin in the ordinary way. HENRY KILgour.

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Memorials of Millbank, and Chapters in Prison History. By Arthur Griffiths, Captain H. P. 63rd Regt., and Deputy-Governor of Millbank Prison. With Illustrations by R. Goff and the Author. 2 vols. (H. S. King & Co.) MILLBANK PRISON will soon be a thing of the past. It deserved a chronicler, and it could not have had one better qualified, by local experience and by ability, to give that experience sensible expression, than Captain Griffiths. The book is at once sad and amusing. As far as it goes, it gives a history, or a chapter in the history, of human nature. It is not without reflections demanding attention, as to the purpose in view of the treatment of criminals. It is, in short, a book of his"SKATING RINK" (5th S. iii. 469; iv. 54.)- tory, a book of philosophy, and a rich collection of The Scottish word "rink," lately rendered familiar anecdotes. It is consoling, too, on one point, in London and elsewhere by the establishment of namely, that Millbank does occasionally encage a skating rinks, is not derived from the German great rogue as well as many little ones. Many a "ring," as MR. JEVONS suggests, or as Dr. Jamie-"gentleman highly connected" has been there, son, in his Scottish Dictionary, previously supposed, from the Anglo-Saxon hring, a circle. A rink does not signify a circle, but, according to Dr. Jamieson's own showing, a course, a race, the run of a river, a station allotted to each party at the

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