of your correspondents can most probably afford information on both these
points.

R.E.G.

4. Lidlington Place, Harrington Square.

_Erasmus and Farel._--In D'Aubigné's _History of the Reformation_, ii. 149.
(White's Translation), it is said that Erasmus "instead of Farellus would
often write _Fallicus_, thus designating one of the frankest men of his day
with the epithets of cheat and deceiver."

But Mr. Dyer, in his late _Life of Calvin_, spells the word _Phallicus_,
and supposes it to allude to some amorous propensities of the reformer.

Which of these authorities are we to believe?

J.C.R.

_Early Culture of the Imagination._--I have somewhere read, possibly in an
article of the _Quarterly Review_, the opinion very strikingly expressed,
and attributed to Mr. Lockhart, that children's imaginative faculty ought
to be more prominently cultivated than their reason; and, on this ground,
the reading of _Fairy Tales_, _The Arabian Nights_, &c. was recommended for
children. Will any one kindly refer me to this passage? And, as it is
wanted for an immediate purpose, an early insertion and reply to this query
will oblige me.

ALFRED GATTY.