common. When one comes to think of it, it is just as strange that a ghost should disappear, as that it should appear. How is it managed? Out of three ghosts which I have viewed, none disappeared, all went past, or round the corner, and I did not know they were ghosts till later circumstances made that theory highly probable, if not precisely capable of exact demonstration. One of them certainly was not anybody, could not have been, but was in a dress different from the dress actually worn at the moment by the living person of whom it was the phantom. If we may sleep suddenly for a minute, we may dream in that minute; but how is one to know one was asleep? Some cases of contradictory evidence may have arisen from these queer psychological conditions. A seer may be in for perjury with the best desire to tell the truth. Take Mark's case; he would have sworn to a brief alibi once, but he would have been forsworn. For scientific reasons I have been obliged to investigate the ( manifestations' at Rerrick in 1696. They were of the rapping, stone-throwing, noisy kind, with one apparition of a small white hand, with fire-balls, and so on. The account of them, by the minister of the parish, Mr. Telfair, is as clear, copiously attested, and businesslike as may be. The clergy prayed, fasts were held, and so forth, but no imposture was discovered, as far as we know. But a correspondent who has very kindly made some local inquiries says that the country people now absolutely scout the bogie. One night, they say, nothing occurred, and a disappointed inquirer remarked, 'The bogle canna get here for the spate,' or flood. Perhaps tradition knows that some discovery of fraud was made; it is curious that fragments of evidence should still be floating about, after two hundred years. But when old women at Rerrick, near the ruins of Dundrennan Abbey, are apt to scout the local ghost, ghosts must be in a bad way. The robust spectre tore down the wall of a cottage, and threw a stone trough weighing three stone at a man, whom it hit but did not hurt. So says Mr. Telfair, and adds the names of eye-witnesses. To the Song in the last Ship the initials H. C. should have been appended. IVY AND ROSES. RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ. We twine a wreath,-of ivy 'tis, and roses; 'For in this climbing spray methinks I trace Your dreams of fame, vain as the wind that blows is, And if,' said I, 'this spray my life discloses, 6 'Ah! that the selfsame hand might interlace With flowers my life, that cold as winter snows is!' No more she twines, no word, my doubts to chase, She whispers, as my hand each spray disposes. See, love, my wreath, when your sweet hand reposes, When never a rose the gloomy leaves embrace.' And soft she whispers, red as the rose that grows is, Let me twine in this rose, the gloom to grace.' What way were sweeter than the way she chose is Until the winter all our twining closes, We twine a wreath. 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