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information of the best kind. As in former volumes, so
in this there is a small body of notes at the end. We
have before remarked that these editorial notes might
be much extended with advantage. They are so good
that we are sorry that we have not more of them.
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset. Edited by
Hugh Norris and Charles Herbert Mayo, M.A.
(Sherborne, Sawtell.)

nineteenth century collection of Elzevirs. To the volume,
which is in all respects suited to the series, is prefixed a
very characteristic portrait from a photograph.
Flora's Feast: a Masque of Flowers. Penned and Pic-

tured by Walter Crane. (Cassell & Co.)

Or Christmas gift-works few are so dainty in conception and in execution as this pretty fancy of Mr. Crane, the quaint and poetical designs of which are admirably executed in colour. The animated lilies, roses, daisies, and buttercups of Mr. Crane are things of absolute beauty. MESSRS, UNWIN BROTHERS have issued Ephemerides: London Almanack in the Olde Style for 1889. An ingenious idea is pleasingly carried out.

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MR. WM. HUTT, of 3, Hyde Street, New Oxford Street, will issue for the new year a catalogue containing many works of interest from the libraries of Mr. Turner and Mr. Gibson Craig.

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WE had already mentioned in these pages the proximate appearance of a new offshoot of the old tree of N. & Q.,' and we are glad now to be able to speak of it as actually bearing fruit. We always knew that the West Saxon land contained a large substratum of Celtic blood, but we were hardly prepared to find so Hibernian a strain as seems to be indicated by the publication of parts ii. and iii. of Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries with never a part i. It is true that some Continental learned societies are quite as eccentric in their sequence of parts and volumes; still, we hope to reach part i. some day. Prof. Tylor, of Oxford, is interested in Dolemoors, and wants sketches of the marks stated by Collinson to have been traditionally handed down to distinguish the several doles on Congresbury Common. The placename of these Dolemoors reminds us of the Celtic strain to which we have alluded, St. Congarus being a saint of the Scoto-Celtic church, whose existence was once somewhat rashly denied by an omniscient Saturday Review writer. He is venerated at Turriff, in Aberdeenshire. "Shig-Shag Day," which is asked after on the same page as the "Dolemoors," is an instance in which the General Index to our Fifth Series might have been, but evidently was not, consulted. Local N. & Q.' correspondents should try to spare their editors the repetition of questions long since asked in our pages, save in the W. B. ("The Pope he leads a happy life").-This is few cases where we have ourselves failed to elicit a the title as well as the first line of the song. It appears satisfactory reply. In any such case, of course, we should be grateful to our friends for helping with their in A Thousand and One Gems of Song, selected and local knowledge. The list of Somersetshire and Dorset- arranged by Charles Mackay (Routledge). The original shire contributors to the defence of this country at the German, and the version is said to be by Charles time of the Armada is carefully annotated by the editors. It would have been better to have called Sir John Harrington's seat (he was then "Armiger ") Kelston, rather than Kelweston, an unfamiliar form, American readers may be interested in John Farewell, of Holcombe, probably related to the ancestor of the Farwells in the United States, and in Nicholas Wadham, of Merefield (sic, ? Merifield), for the same reason as regards American Wadhams.

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Sartor Resartus. By Thomas Carlyle. (Kegan Paul &
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INDEX.

SEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. VI.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS
FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and Songs and Ballads.]

A. (A.) on tenemental bridges, 72

Zodiac, ancient views of, 53

A. (S.) on a poem, 68

Abbotsbury Church, arms in, 388, 457
Abbott family arins, 5

Abbott (J. T.) on Abbott family, 5
Halliwell's Dictionary,' 112

Abdiel, the archangel, 507
Abhba on Ball family, 474

Abney (Sir Thomas), his epitaph, 104
Abrahams (I.) on parallel passages, 445
Academic heraldry, 478

Accurate on the execution of deeds, 509
Ache on initials after names, 107

Achilles, merchantman privateer, 367, 471
Actor longest in same theatre, 88

Adalbert (Prince) of Prussia, his biography, 449
Adam of Hertford (Cardinal), his biography, 68, 313
Addison (Joseph), MS. of 'Sir Roger de Coverley,' 428
Adjectives ending in -ic, -ical, 34

Advent, muffling bells during, 484

Aerolite suspended in church, 325
Africans, tailed, 328, 433

Agincourt, battle of, 444

Ainsworth (W. H.), his 'Tower of London,' 133
Alcestis and the daisy, 186, 309, 372

Aldersgate Ward, its aldermen, 287

Aldis (H. G.) on church bells, 181

Alice on Bishop Latimer, 127

Alinement alignement, 206, 315

Alington (F. W.) on the Plague of London, 453

Alison (Sir A.), mistranslation in his 'Europe,' 386
Allen (J. E.) on punishment for perjury, 296
Scotch newspapers, 195

Allibone's 'Dictionary,' notes on, 184

Allison (J. W.) on a Belgian custom, 456

Church steeples, 78

Cromwelliana, 204

Dickens (Charles) and Sir Theodore Martin, 176

Diddle, its meanings, 217

Eagle Court, 396

Fanny (Lord), 134

Funeral custom, 356

Lightning let out, 96

Milton (John), 324

Perjury, punishment for, 296

Proverb defined, 449

Rose, thistle, and shamrock, 430

Alliteration in the 'Rolliad,' 226

Allnutt (W. H.) on John Shakspeare, 344

Alpha on Alumni Westmonasterienses,' 475
Beaconsfield (Lord) and the primrose, 55
Church steeples, 77
Herrick (Robert), 436

Alpha on Anne Trelawny, 68

Alpue, its meaning, 39, 96

Altar flowers, 115

Alton Castle, co. Stafford, 48, 137

America, England and Scotland reproduced in, 212,
330; slate gravestones in, 307, 414, 492; two ballads
on war with, 341

Amsterdam Bourse open to children, 447

Amsterdam Coffee-house, its locality, 167, 291, 496
Anagram on Voltaire, 467

Anderson (P. J.) on academic heraldry, 478

Andrewes family, co. Gloucester, 28

Andrewes (H. E.) on Andrewes family, 28
Anecdotes, religious, 87, 191

Anglesey, springs at, 367, 489, 518

Angus, Duke of Douglas, 87

Angus (D.) on quotation by Budæus, 497
Angus (G.) on mistakes by Dickens, 375
'Salve Regina,' 492

Stuart family, 134

Annas, a woman's Christian name, 54
Anointing, religious, 189

Anon. on Acts ii. 9-11, 230

Arms of cities and towns, 149
Burial of horse and owner, 468

Cata wimple, its meaning, 128

Child, forty-first, 305

Church festivals, 306

Coffins, iron, 516

Courts, open-air, 487

Digby (Kenelm Henry), 507
Dunkirk, its arms, 68
Fanny (Lord), 69
Faroe Isles, 408

Goose building in trees, 287
James (G. P. R.), 27
Jet and sealing wax, 308
Lent customs, 85

Leyden, its foundation, 349
'Lincolnshire Poacher,' 97
Missal, misuse of the word, 466
Praxedis and Henry IV., 269
St. Dominic, his Litany, 168
'Salve Regina,' 429
Scotch coal, 168

Anonymous Works :-

Abrégé de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, 324, 456
Amours of Messalina, 404

Arcana Aulica, 446

Art of Dressing the Hair, 315

Book of Jasher, 468

Commissioner, The, 27, 111, 234

Cross Roads, 447

Curious Dance round a Curious Tree, 428, 471

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Aprons, blue, worn by waiters, 48

Arbuthnot (Dr. John), his residence, 427

Archer (W.) on Macready, 7

Argentine Confederation, changes in the language, 156

Aristotle and the elephant, 25
Arithmetic, novelist's, 105, 213

Armigeri: Generosi, their difference, 167
Arms. See Heraldry.

Arms, manual in use in British army, 1770-5, 507
Armytage (G. J.) on the Harleian Society, 479
Arndt (E. M.), his account of Orkney and Shetland, 92
Arnold (Matthew), his death, 54; his East and
West,' 367, 489, 518

Arnold (Sir Nicholas), his biography, 287, 394
Art for art's sake, 268
Artist, his name, 29, 77

Arundell family, 29, 213

Ascham (Antony), his writings, 284

Ashmole (Elias), his tomb and residence, 28

Assist used as a noun, 125

Astarte on aerolite, 325

Budæus, lines quoted by, 289
Epitaph, 117

Holy bread, 246

Ice, foreign, 366

L. (L. E.), her epitaph, 86

'Legenda Aurea,' 108

Lucan, his Pharsalia,' 224

Mass, error regarding, 506
Overseer, female, 65
Ovid, his Fasti,' 193

Rockall, in the Atlantic, 9

Surnames, Swedish, 444

"Whet is no let," 106

Austria, "if not windy is pestilent," 389

Authors, their difficulties in the 17th century, 186
Avery (J.), jun., on Westminster Library, 298
Axon (E.) on Brooke of Astley, 158

Venables (Robert), 134

Axon (W. E. A.) on Forster and Shelley, 161

B. (A.) on the Birkenhead, 194
Edward III., his sons, 498
Hussar pelisse, 17

B. (C. C.) on Alcestis and the daisy, 309
Anythingarians, 195

Balk, its meanings, 35
Bay berries, 237

Birth hour recorded, 237
Brocken spectre, 510
Century: Centenary, 36
"Certain age," 36
Christabel, the name, 194
Church steeples, 78
Clergy and religion, 213
Coins, leather, 190
Colours as surnames, 272
Daffy's elixir, 138
Fox, its cunning, 396
Go-cart, 191

Golden Horn, 492

Goose building in trees, 431

Gordon's 'Grammar of Geography,' 307

H, its mispronunciation, 110

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'Impossible is not French," 193

"In his buttons," 365

Mayflower, the, 72

Nynd nigh-hand, 174

Parallel passages, 426

Plastic art in the Eastern Church, 430
Rewe rowed, 295

"Roodselken," 437

Rose, thistle, and shamrock, 311
Rowlandson (Thomas), 10, 472

Russia, Black, White, and Red, 475
Salmon (Dr.), 376

Shakspeariana, 263

Shelley (P. B.), his 'Adonais,' 431
Skulls on tombs, 33
Sny, its meaning, 249

Thomson (James) and 'Winter,' 393
"Tib and Tom," 188
Tooth brushes, 293

Ware spend, 293
Worsen and worsened, 331

B. (F. E.) on riddles on trees, 28

B. (G. F. R.) on Alumni Westmonasterienses,' 47
Amsterdam Coffee-house, 292
Bayly baronetcy, 211

Best (Judge), 493

Boswell (James), 473
Brooke (Lord), 417

Coleraine (fourth Baron), 47, 294

Dunbart (Robert), 187

George I., his burial-place, 51

Glover's History of Derby,' 294

Gordon (P.), his 'Geography,' 395

'Gulliver's Travels,' 252

Hackman (James), 87

Hamilton (Lord Archibald), 187

Harcourt (Lord Chancellor), 188, 478

Jackson and Lloyd (Bishops), 136

'Library of Fiction,' 398

'Medusa, The,' 193

Monsey (Dr. Messenger), 30
'Musæ Juveniles,' 471
Pitt Club, 89

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