myself here thirty days ago with these companions, and the cause of my so doing was to terminate the captivity in which until this moment I was to a very virtuous lady, in token of which I have worn this iron collar continually every Thursday.  The condition of my ransom was, as you know, three hundred lances broken or guarding this Pass thirty days, awaiting knights and gentlemen who should free me from said captivity; and whereas I believe, honorable sirs, that I have fulfilled everything according to the terms set down at the beginning, I therefore beg you will command me to remove this iron collar in testimony of my liberty.”

The judges answered briefly as follows:  “Virtuous gentleman and knight, after hearing your declaration, which seems just and true, we hereby declare your enterprise completed and your ransom paid; and be it known to all present that of the three hundred lances mentioned in the agreement but few remain yet to be broken, and these would not have remained unbroken had it not been for lack of adversaries.  We therefore command the king-at-arms and the herald to remove the collar from your neck and declare you from this time henceforth free from your enterprise and ransom.” | The king-at-arms and the herald then descended from the stand, and in the presence of the notaries with due solemnity took the collar from Quinones’ neck in fulfilment of the judges’ command.

During the thirty days’ jousting sixty-eight knights had entered the lists:  of these, one, Messer Arnoldo de la Floresta Bermeja (Arnold von Rothwald?), was a German; one an Italian, Messer Luis de Aversa; one Breton,[10] three Valencians, one Portuguese, thirteen Aragonese, four Catalans, and the remaining forty-four were from the Castiles and other parts of Spain.  The number of courses run was seven hundred and twenty-seven, and one hundred and sixty-six lances were broken.  Quinones was afterward killed by Gutierre Quijada, one of the knights who took part in the Passo Honroso, and with whom he seems to have had some kind of a feud.  Quinones’ sword may still be seen at Madrid in the Royal Armory, No. 1917.

T.F.  CRANE.

AUTOMATISM.

CONCLUDING PAPER.

A few months ago, walking along Fifteenth street, I came up behind a friend and said, “Good-morning.”  No answer.  “Good-morning, sir,” a little louder.—­“Oh, excuse me:  I did not hear you the first time.”—­” How then did you know that I had spoken twice?” My friend was nonplussed, but what had happened was this:  on my first speaking the impulse of the voice had fallen upon his ear and started a nerve-wave which had struggled up as far as the lower apparatus at the base of the brain, and, passing through this, had probably even reached the higher nerve-centres in the surface of the cerebrum, near to which consciousness resides, but not in sufficient force to arouse consciousness.  When, however, the attention was excited by my second