copiant les uns les autres, doivent être réduits à BRETON SONG (11 S. v. 449).-I am inun seul témoin qui est Baleus, témoin manifeste-debted to a most kind Breton lady, Madame ment récusable, puis qu'il écrivoit en guerre ouverte contre le Pape, & contre toute l'Eglise Romaine." WILTSHIRE PHRASES (11 S. v. 326, 434).— la Générale Lebon, née Le Bris, of Kérozar Pretty is little Marie Yvonne, Red like a little rose, And blue (are) her two eyes. 66 Paris. I would render the lines thus :- 66 I should very much like to give my variant I translate koantik by "nice" because I of Sour as a wig." Down in South do not know an English diminutive of Somerset, in my younger days, "Sour as a nice." Koantik is a diminutive of koant, grig was a common expression. A"grig" is which comes (like the English the bullace (Prunus spinosa), or quaint ") better from the Old French coint (Latin cognitus. known among the lads of Somerset as the in the sense of "familiar "). wild plum. "As sour as a grab (crabapple) is another Somerset expression. But the superlative absolute of sour is contained in the wild plum, and “ As sour as a grig is, therefore, a peculiarly apt phrase, and one full of expression. I do not know how sour "whig or whey may be, but I do not think it could possibly equal the acidity a grig. May I suggest that the Somerset expression is the correct one, and the Wiltshire a bad imitation? of 66 Exeter. 66 W. G. WILLIS WATSON. CURIOSITIES OF THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR (11 S. v. 447).-The sentence quoted by L. L. K. should have read " Under the present calendar a century cannot begin on a Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday.' 1701 began on a Saturday, 1801 on a Thursday, 1901 on a Tuesday, and 2001 will begin on a Monday. After this the days will recur, as the calendar is complete in four centuries, and these contain an exact number of weeks. L. L. K. will find the calendar explained in Bond's 'Handy Book of Dates' or any other work on chronology. R. C. F. The charm of these verses lies in the use of the diminutive -ik. Marion-ik is а diminutive of the French Marion, itself a diminutive of Mary; and ros-enn-ik is also a double diminutive of rose. I translate glaz by "blue" by way of compliment, and because of the saying "Black for beauty and blue for love"; but the word means also "green" and "grey," as in Welsh, and, to some extent, in Irish. This Celtic colourblindness is probably suggested by the variable and marvellous spectacle of the sea. H GAIDOZ. 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris (VI). v. 397). That the conjecture of W. S. S. MR. CECIL CLARKE also refers to Garraway's in his reply at 11 S. v. 433. Boston, U.S. ALBERT MATTHEWS. DR. FELL: MARTIAL (11 S. v. 490).— The translator of the epigram was the facetious Tom Brown (1663-1704), author of numerous miscellanies. When at Christ Church, Oxford, he is said to have got into serious difficulty over an extravagant escapade, and to have retrieved his position by conferring poetic immortality on Dr. Fell, Dean of the College. The story is thus told by C. H. Wilson in a biographical preface to The Beauties of Tom Brown,' 1808 :Tom having committed some great fault at the university, the Dean of Christ Church (Dr. Fell) threatened to expel him; but Tom, in a very submissive epistle, pleaded his cause with such success, that the Dean promised to forgive him upon this condition, viz., that he should translate this epigram out of Martial extempore: Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere, Non amo te. 66 My mother was born and bred in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, at the beginning of the last century, the lord of the manor of Upton Lovel being a near relative; and I have no doubt that at that period the Lord Lovel of the milk-white steed was localized at Heytesbury. In spite of the numerous authorities brought forward by MR. HUMPHREYS (11 S. v. 291) to dissociate the story of Lord Lovel's skeleton from the neighbourhood of Heytesbury, I seem to have known it all my life, and although I cannot remember any authority to quote for it, I was always under the impression that the scene of the tragedy was in the old manor house of Upton Lovel, Wilts. G. J., F.S.A. REV. GEORGE JERMENT (11 S. v. 448).— Which he immediately rendered into English thus: McKelvie's Annals of U.P. Church' has : I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this know, and know full well, He made ample amends, however, for this sally of the moment, in a Latin epitaph on the doctor, which is much admired for the beauty of the expression, and the justness of the thoughts." In addition to variants given in 7 S. vii., mentioned in the editorial note, one may recall the parallel remark of Lucetta (Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I. ii. 23), when asked to explain an estimate. I have," says she, no other but a woman's reason: I think him so because I think him so.' 46 66 "Geo. Jermant, D.D., from Burntisland, where his father was minister. Ordained Oxenden Church, London, 26 Sept., 1782, D.D. from America in 1817. Died 23 May, 1819, in 60 year age, 37 ministry. Author of 3 series Discourses : Parental Duty,' Early Piety,' Religion the Glory of Old Men.' Address Peace, to the Heathen.' Memoir Archbishop Leighton preContinuation of Gibbons's Memoirs of Pious Women.' fixed to new edition of works, 3 vols. Memoir' of colleague Rev. D. Wilson prefixed to posthumous vol. of Sermons, Trump and Harp.” A foot-note adds : 66 Native of Peebles. Educated Edin. University, U.P. Divinity Hall. Married 1789 a daughter of Prof. Moncrieff, and a second time in 1797 a daughter of Rev. A. Moncrieff of Abernethy. 'In the zenith of his days his style both as preacher and writer was nervous, classical, and elegant.' Bunhill Fields Burial Register has :66 Geo. Jermant, D.D., Scots Presbyterian minister, Oxenden St. Buried 1819." He was one of the founders of the L.M.S. "Most fine is a Scotticism. R. S. ROBSON. 35, Hawthorn Street, Newcastle. HEWER OF CLAPHAM (11 S. v. 429).-In spite of the reference to Clapham in the obituary notice of Hewer Edgley Hewer, who died 6 Nov., 1728, aged about 36, leaving a widow and an estate of about 4,000l. a year, but no issue, it would seem that there is no connexion between the Hewer and the Ewer families. In the 1792 List of London Liverymen there are four Ewer entries, one of them John Ewer of the Skinners' Company and residing at Clapham. There is one Hewer entry, Thomas Hewer of Newgate Market, of the Butchers' Company. 6 Speaking generally, the Hewers appear This was George Augustus Sala (1828–96); to have belonged mostly to Norfolk, and see 'Edmund Yates, his Recollections and the Ewers to Hertfordshire. There are Experiences,' vol. i. chap. viii. many Ewer entries in Musgrave's 'Obituary' and in the Wandsworth parish registers. LEO C. BISHOP R. Foxe, d. 1528 (11 S. v. 447).— Though his appointment to the Prebend of Grantham is not in the 'D.N.B.,' it will be found in Cooper's Athenæ Cantabrigienses,' i. 35. G. J. GRAY. Cambridge. THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN (11 S. v. 469). The author of the 'Roving Englishman' (1854), the 'Roving Englishman in Turkey' (1855), &c., was Eustace Clare Grenville Murray. He was, says the 'D.N.B.,' the natural son of Richard Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos; matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 1 March, 1848, and was entered a student of the Inner Temple in 1850. He was attaché to the British Embassy at Vienna, and afterwards at Constantinople, where his relations with Sir Stratford Canning became so strained that he was removed, and appointed Vice-Consul at Mitylene. He was transferred to Odessa in 1855, but returned to London in 1868, when he took up journalism as a profession. As the result of a quarrel he left the following year for Paris, where he became correspondent to The Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette. In 1874 he joined Edmund Yates, embarking 500l. in the establishment of The World a Journal for Men and Women, the first number of which appeared on 8 July, 1874. His persistence in regarding the journal as a medium for his private quarrels caused Yates to buy him out in December, 1874, for 3,000l. Besides the pseudonym" Roving Englishman," he published under the name "Trois Etoiles," whilst his posthumous 'Strange Tales from "Vanity Fair " (1882) was by "Silly Billy." Saffron Walden. THOMAS Wм. HUCK. This was Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1824-81), a journalist. Over thirty books and translations appear under his name in the British Museum Catalogue. In 1869 he founded The Queen's Messenger; charged with perjury for denying the authorship of an article in this paper, and being remanded on bail, he escaped to Paris, where he acted as correspondent to several London papers. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. Reference Library, Bolton. Dublin. Notes on Books. L A. W. An American Glossary. By Richard H. Thornton. 2 vols. (Francis & Co.) ON his title-page Mr. Thornton modestly states that this American Glossary' is "an attempt to illustrate certain Americanisms upon historical than 14,000 illustrative citations, and of these only principles." His two volumes contain no fewer a few hundred are duplicates, in the admission of which the following rules have been observed: "When a brief citation includes two or more noted words, it is printed under each heading"; and "When the citation, though somewhat long, is separable, it is given in full in one place, and in part in the other, with a cross-reference. As to the definition of an Americanism, the author says: "It would be difficult, and indeed impossible, to construct a definition which should be comprethe task, but has included forms of speech now hensive and concise"; and he does not attempt obsolete or provincial in England which survive in the United States, as well as words and phrases of distinctly American origin; names which indicate quadrupeds, birds, trees, and articles of persons and classes of persons and of places; and food that are distinctly American; names of words which have assumed a new meaning, as well as words and phrases of which he has found earlier examples in American than in English writers. Curious instances are given of survivals which have included in the author's address To the Reader,' not taken root; of these forty-one examples are as he thought it best not to include them in the body of the Glossary. Among them is "preacheress," and we are thankful that it is but a survival. 64 Mr. Thornton's volumes contain only Americanisms of recognized standing or of special interest. 'Accordingly it will be found that over 80 per cent of the illustrative quotations are half a century old." The compiler has made no attempt to register the reader who wishes to investigate such phrases the voluminous outpourings of modern slang; and as Adam and Eve on a raft' or to get a wiggle on' will have to pursue his researches elsewhere. But some slang words and phrases are too characteristic to be left out, although modern; while others belong to the period of the hunter and the backwoodsman." The plan of the work is admirable. The quotations illustrating each word or phrase are arranged chronologically, beginning with the earliest; and to each quotation is allotted a separate paragraph, which is preceded by its date, so that the history of a word is seen at once. In taking a first glance at these volumes one naturally turns to words frequently in use. Under Yankee there are no fewer than sixty references, dating from 1760 to 1889. It appears that the origin of the word cannot be ascertained with certainty. Smollett writes of a Dutch yanky,' probably a sailing vessel, possibly a Dutch sailor; 66 but this cannot be connected with the odd word in morean. Let a man from the north of the Potomac The opinions quoted in reference to the Yankee are as varied as they are amusing. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee said in the House of Representatives that he did not consider it "exactly right to damn every Yankee, because they disliked some whom they had met" and then he had the condescension to remark, "There were some very clever gentle. men among them." Crockett in his 'Sketches,' published in 1833, refers to them as being "generally well educated." We had no idea that the term Yankee had been applied to a European, but we find that Mr. Dix in his speech delivered in the Senate on the 23rd of January, 1849, styled the Northern Germans "the Yankees of the continent in bargaining.' Many of the Americanisms it is impossible to comprehend without explanation. We cite a few. "Whole cloth is a lie from beginning to end. "Whole soul" offers a warning to editors: "When an editor marries, he is no longer the wholesoul'd pleasant chap' he once was. "Ripstaver" is a first-rate person or thing. The Lone Star State is Texas, and the Banner State "the one which rolls up the greatest vote in an election." Space will not permit, or we could add hundreds of specially interesting examples. All we can do is to advise our readers to get the book for themselves. For public libraries, both in Britain and America, it is indispensable. IN The Burlington Magazine for this month Mr. O. M. Dalton brings an interesting account of Mr. Pierpont Morgan's Byzantine Enamels to a conclusion with a description of the two reliquaries of the Holy Cross in the Stavelot triptych, and a concise discussion of the merits and characteristics of Byzantine enamel in general. Mr. Lewis Eckstein's Notes on Chinese Painting' abound in pleasant and instructive detail, and the illustrations belonging to them, though the reproduction seems hardly to do them justice, are well worth looking at carefully. Other good articles are Mr. Hobson's Chinese Cloisonné Enamel,' and 'Fra Lippo Lippi's Portrait' by Mr. Montgomery Carmichael. Mr. Roger Fry pays graceful tribute to the services of Sir Sidney Colvin at the Print-Room in the British Museum, and Mr. Hermann Voss contributes a paper on "A Lost "Crucifixion" by Albrecht Dürer.' and but little convincing discussion of the present IN The Nineteenth Century we have a rambling position of Art in Mr. Robert Fowler's 'Is Art a Failure?' a charming article on 'Some Foreigners in Shakespeare's England,' by Mr. E. S. Bates; and Mr. Wilfrid Ward on The Edinburgh Review on Cardinal Newman.' The last makes good, we think, its contention that the reviewer in The Edinburgh had no adequate understanding of Newman's mind, nor of his purpose and method in writing. In "Capt. Synge's Experiences at Salamanca' Lieut.Col. Tottenham has revived for us an account of sufferings on the battlefield, and afterwards in the surgeon's hands, which in these days of X-rays and anæsthetics have come to seem at once incredible and intolerable. Another paper worth mentioning is that by Mr. E. B. Osborn on Olympic Athens.' THE July National Review is chiefly given up to politics, and offers us no article of a literary character Mr. Thornton refers so handsomely to previous workers in the same field that we feel it is due to since Mr. Rudyard Kipling's The Benefactors him to state this. He records that "the principal (an allegory to point a fairly obvious social moral) dictionary of Americanisms hitherto published is can hardly be accounted as such. In Episodes of that of Bartlett," whose "painstaking and valuable the Month' Sir Sidney Lee's biography of King work has furnished considerable material for the Edward VII. comes in for some severe criticism. 'New English Dictionary'"; and Mr. Thornton Mr. J. O. P. Bland, comparing Young China and remarks that "it is no discredit to him that he Young Turkey, augurs little good for the fortunes lived before the method of arranging and dating of the former. Miss Frances Pitt contributes citations came into vogue; and unfortunately only another pleasant study of animal life-this time a few of his references can be verified.' Mr.The Brown Rat.' Her writing would be more Farmer's Dictionary' is mentioned as being effective if it were both more terse and more"valuable in another way, as illustrating the great grammatical. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—JULY, MR. ROBERT MCCLURE'S Glasgow Catalogue 21 contains interesting Italian MSS. of the seventeenth century, biographical, historical, and topographical, some having formerly belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Under Music is a Collection of Welsh Airs with English Words,' folio, 1809, 15s. There are several works relating to America. A copy of Bayle's Historical Dictionary,' 4 vols., may be had for 10s. Works under Early Printing include Porta's De Furtivis Literarum Notis,' with quaint diagrams, 1563, 17. 18. There are also lists under Glasgow and Occult, and a number of old songs. Under Roman Pontiffs is a Latin manuscript on paper, folio, from Lord Guildford's collection, 57. 10s. In the Addenda are an unexpurgated edition of Balzac, 53 volumes, freely illustrated, 12., and Henley's Burns,' 4 vols., 17. 38. The Caxton Shakespeare, edited by Sir Sidney Lee, 20 vols., is 61. 38. 6d. There is a cheap copy of the Edition de Luxe of McCarthy's History of our Own Times,' 7 vols., 27. 10s. MR. JAMES THIN of Edinburgh has sent us his Catalogue No. 171, from which we select for notice the following items as the most interesting a copy of that Book of Common Prayer ....for the use of the Church of Scotland," known as Laud's Service-book, which was suppressed owing to the tumults it occasioned, 1636-7, 107. 10s.; Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' first folio edition, Oxford, 1624, 5l.; Sir William Davenant's Works,' 1673, 6l. 108.; Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands,' a work which, owing to the destruction of a number of sets by fire, has become very scarce, 1891-7, 55l.; Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology,' 1833, 221. 108.; Adam Blackwood's Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse Douarière de France contenant le vray discours des traisons à elle faictes à la suscitation d'Elizabet Angloise,' 1588, 31. 38. ; and a first edition of Peregrine Pickle,' 1751, 4l. 48. Mr. Thin has a number of sets of periodicals to dispose of: The Annual Register to 1875, 51. 108.; the Chemical Society, New Series, 1873-1902, 251.; the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society's Publications to 1906, 241.; the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research to 1903, 51. 108.; Punch to December, 1900, 167. 168.; The Quarterly Review to October, 1901, 12., and several more. We may also mention a first edition of White's 'Selborne,' 1789, offered for 91. 98.; a first edition of Stevenson's The Pentland Rising,' 1866, 127. 128.; and the 15 vols. of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland,' brought out in 1807-12, 121. There are a large number of modern works on philosophy, of which the prices are moderate, and a good collection of works on Scotland. Roma Rowlandson's illustrations, also coloured, vols. ii. and iii. in the first edition, vol. i. in the third edition (with new plates), 15l. 158. ; a first edition of Hayley's Life of Romney,' illustrated by 12 engravings after the artist's work, of which The Shipwreck is by William Blake, 1809, 97. 98. ; Northcote and Brownlow's Sotterranea, or an Account of the Roman Catacombs, especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus,' 1879, 31. 38.; Lord Orrery's edition of Pliny's Letters, 2 vols., his own copy, which has about 250 pages of blank paper bound up with each volume, on which are numerous interesting MS. addenda, 1751, 67. 68.; and Lillywhite and Celebrated Cricketers from 1746 to 1864, 5l. 58. Haygarth's Cricket Scores and Biographies of A copy of Gould's Humming Birds' is offered for 601.; and a copy of the translation of Grimm's Fairy Tales,' illustrated by Cruikshank, the rare first edition, bearing Cruikshank's autograph, 22 November, 1868, for 501. There are good specimens also of early printing and of coloured plate-books and a few engravings, the best of these last being Morland's 'Country Butcher,' by T. Gosse, 721. 108.; and Morland's Story of Letitia,' 6 engravings on copper by J. R. Smith, in colours, 601. Nor must we forget to mention a good copy of Purchas his Pilgrimes,' 5 vols., "At ye Signe of the Rose in Paul's Churchyard," 1625-6, 607. This belonged, first to George Smith, then to Cecil Dunn Gardner, then to Sir E. Sullivan, and then to the collector from whom Messrs. Young acquired it; and a MS. note pasted into vol. i. attests that it has been carefully collated and found quite perfect, perhaps the finest copy extant, except "the Grenville copy in the Museum." [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"-Adver tisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers"-at the Office, Bream's Bildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forwarded to other contributors should put on the top left-hand corner of their envelopes the number of the page of N. & Q.' to which their letters refer, so that the contributor may be readily identified. wind").-This enigma has been much discussed in A. A. ("I sit low on a rock when I'm raising the N. & MR. J. P. OWEN offered a versified solution at 9 S. v. 332, and the REV. W. FOWLER a prose one at 10 S. xi. 345. See also 1 S. ii. 10, 77; xii. 365, 520. M. L. R. BRESLAR.-See Rubáiyát' of Omar Khayyám, vv. xlvi. and xlix. |