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ST. JOHN yin. 44.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—Unfortunately for the ingenious theory of Professor Courtney Kenny that the nine Honour Mods. candidates had all read Dr. Moncure Conway's Idols and Ideals (London, 1877), the story was told to me by Mr. Sargent when we were travelling to Norway together in 1876. Moreover, he assured me that he had convinced himself by a searching examination in viva voce that not a single one of these men had any theory whatever about the ancestry of the Devil. I may add that it was not I who wondered, but the examiners.—I am, Sir, &c.,