No one could help being fond of Parkinson, despite the dreadful Latin pun on his own name which he uses for the title of his book: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris ??? Parkinson???s Earthly Paradise. ???A Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up??? ??? so he explains his title, and there is a frontispiece of the kindly bearded author holding