Voici trois autres formes de an: uand, quand; uant, quant; ems, tems, forme discutée de temps.

J'ai aussi une observation à faire à MR. THOS. KEIGHTLEY. C'est à tort qu'il met sainte et saintes dans les seing, ceint, &c. Sainte se prononce sain-te en deux syllabes.

De même pour ceinte qui se prononce cein-te. Quand deux consonnes terminent un mot la dernière le plus souvent ne se prononce pas; mais au milieu d'un mot elle passe à la syllabe suivante, généralement s'entend, et alors se prononce, e.g. quant, quan-ti-té; champ, cham-pêtre; rudiment, rudimen-taire, &c. Qu'il se console d'ailleurs, si je lui enlève deux ain, je les lui remplace avantageusement: sins, coussins; sym, symphonie; syn, synchronisme; scin, scinder; cym, cymbale. Hen dans hendecagone-à ajouter aux an.

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CRASSIPIES (4th S. ii. 104.)-Has this word any relation to grasse and poisson? Possibly peche once signified fish, whence pecheur. It does not seem to mean sturgeon; for Bracton says, de sturgione verò observetur quod rex illum habebit integrum: de balænâ verò sufficit si rex habeat caput et regina caudam." The reason for this division was said to be that the queen's wardrobe would thus be furnished with whalebone (Prynne, Aur. Reg. 127), which captains of whalers say is to be found in the animal's head only.

J. WILKINS, B.C.L.

"FAIS CE QUE TU DOIS," ETC. (3rd S. v. 34.)— The famous old knightly motto, "Fay ce que doy advienne que pourra," F. H. inquired about, is to be found (at least a variation of it) in P. Corneille's Horace, where the old man says:

...

"Weston. . . . And that first supper was called ȧyárn; can you tell what that is?

Latimer. I understand no Greek; and yet I think it meaneth charity." (Fox's account of the disputation at Oxford, 1554.)

Latimer's after-appeals to the Latin versions, and his non-notice of the Greek, show the same :"Latimer. Will you give me leave to turn my book? 1 Cor. 11: Probet autem seipsum homo,' etc. I pray you, good master, what gender is homo?

Weston. Marry, the common gender.
Cole. It is in the Greek ὁ ἄνθρωπος.
Harpsfield. It is ȧvýp, that is vir.

Latimer. It is in my book of Erasmus' translation, 'Probet seipsum homo.'

Feckenham. It is probet seipsum' indeed, and therefore it importeth the masculine gender.

Latimer. What then? I trow when the woman touched Christ he said: 'Quis tetigit me? Scio quod alius me tetigit,'-that is, 'Who touched me? I know that some man touched me.' B. NICHOLSON.

WHIT-SUNDAY DECORATIONS (4th S. i. 551.)— How common may be the custom of decorating churches at Whitsuntide with birch, I do not know. But it may be worth while to state my own limited experience. Some years ago I was curate of Monk Sherborne, near Basingstoke. There was a good deal of birch in the woods of the parish, and it was customary to decorate both the parish church and the priory church with birch on Whit-Sunday. I always thought the reason to be, simply, that it was the prettiest example of the foliage of the season. J. S. St. Bees, Whitehaven.

WILLIAM BREWSTER, THE "PILGRIM FATHER" (4th S. ii. 125.)-I cull the following from the Selling-off List of Ebenezer Palmer, for August:

"Faites votre devoir et laissez faire aux Dieux."

POPE'S INDELICACY (4th S. ii. 105.)-The letters of Pope to the Marriotts of Sturston, quoted in my "Memoir of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, have never I believe been published, which accounts for F. J. H.'s difficulty. They form part of the collection for the new edition of Pope's Works, so long in preparation by Mr. Murray, which I was permitted to examine when preparing my Memoirs. MOY THOMAS.

A TOMBSTONE EMBLEM (4th S. ii. 37, 93.)As "the subject is curious" I should like to see its elucidation. Had Dr. Rogers described the other three figures, this fourth might possibly have been more easily apprehended. Unless it be interpreted with or by the other emblems, I should be inclined to view it as a masonic mark, implying that a stonemason, being at the same time a Freemason, had tooled the stone in some way, and then inscribed his particular mark as a sign or witness to that effect. The other day I saw some stones which had been tooled, and amongst the marks I found one which reminded me of the present subject. I think every genuine free stonemason adopts some sign or emblem when he tools stone for certain purposes. J. BEALE.

Spittlegate, Grantham.

LORD LOVAT (4th S. ii. 59.) — Your correspondent is in error in stating that Hogarth's etching of Lord Lovat was taken from an oil painting of his lately discovered. On the contrary, it is a facsimile of a pen, ink, and pencil sketch taken by him at St. Alban's for Major Gardner, under whose escort Lord Lovat was travelling, August 14, 1746. Mrs. Gardner was a Miss Farington; the sketch came into the possession of the Faringtons of Worden, and was exhibited by Miss Farington at Lancaster the other day, during the visit of the Archæological Institute, where I had the pleasure of seeing it.

P. P.

BREWSTER FAMILY (4th S. ii. 125.) I should be glad to assist in tabulating a pedigree of this family. In Barbados, and later in Jamaica, are many notices in parish registers of a family of the In the former island these extend far back into the seventeenth century, and in the

name.

"GIDEON" (4th S. ii. 133.)-Surely the answer is a living composer, and published his oratorio to this query is incorrect. "Dr. Stainer of Oxford" Gideon at Novello's either last year or the year preceding. If any other Gideon-composer named Stainer can be found in oratorio history I shall be much obliged for some account of him. There was a pasticcio oratorio named Gideon, compiled in part from the works of Handel, by J. Christopher Smith (Handel's amanuensis), and of this Dr. Morell wrote the libretto.

Sydenham.

W. J. WESTBROOK.

THE JOURNEY TO CALVARY (4th S. ii. 104.)— At Antwerp I recollect seeing, many years ago, a very curious representation of Our Lord's journey to Calvary, sculptured in high relief, the figures as large as life. I doubt not but it still exists, as it used to be taken very good care of, the rather that it was in the open air. P. A. L.

THEOLOGIA GERMANICA (4th S. i. 527.) — The Latin translation of this work (from the German edition printed at Basle in 1557) was published at Antwerp, in 1558, by Christopher Plantin. The translator's name, Sebastian Castalion al. Chateillon. Here is the title:

"Theologia Germanica: libellus aureus: quomodo sit exuendus vetus homo, induendusque novus, ex Germanico translatus studio Joan. Theophili. Antverpiæ, Christ. Plant. 1558."

Chateillon also translated this work into French.

A copy of the first edition, which is scarce, is in the university library at Louvain. The title runs thus:

"La Theologie germanicque, liuret auquel est traicte comment il faut depouiller le vieil homme et vestir le nouueau. A Anvers, de l'imprimerie de Christophe Plan

tin. M.D.LVIII."

The privilege is dated October 6, 1557.

W. H. JAMES WEALE.

Lasos. F. R. S. will find references to the above, a LASSUS (4th S. ii. 131), called also Lasus and Greek poet, in Biographie Universelle (vol. xxiii.); Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique; Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography; or Müller and Donaldson's Literature of Ancient Greece, whichever he may have at hand; but none of these explain the lines in Lord Lytton's Devereux. A reference to the works of Lasus, doubtless, would do so: these are excessively scarce. British Museum may have a copy, or part of them may be in Poetæ Græci principes heroici carminis et alii nonnulli (curante Stephano), 1566. J. D. MULLINS.

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Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Edited from MSS. in the British Museum, Lambeth, and Bodleian Libraries, with Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Richard Morris. First Series, Parts I. and II.

Sir David Lyndesay's Works. Part III. The Historie of ane Nobil and Wailzeand Squyer William Meldrum, umquhyle Laird of Cleische and Bynnis. Compylit by Sir David Lyndesay of the Mont. With the Testament of the said William Meldrum, Squyer. Edited by F. Hall, Esq. D.C.L.

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These new volumes just issued by the Early English Text Society are alike creditable to the zeal of those who have the management of the Society and to the learning and industry of the respective editors. The first of these, the First Part of Mr. Morris's Old English Homilies, is issued as one of the publications for 1867, in lieu of Mr. Toulmin Smith's book on English Guilds, which is not yet finished, and has moreover far outgrown the money available for its production, and has therefore necessarily been postponed until 1869. Those who know how difficult it is to estimate accurately the extent and consequent cost of a volume, or the labour it may entail upon an editor, and consequently the time at which such labour may be brought to a close, will be disposed rather to congratulate the Early English Text Society on the general punctuality with which their books are published, than be surprised at the present delay. This delay has, moreover, led to one advantage, namely, the publication at the same time of both parts of Mr. Morris's First Series of Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises. These are no less than twenty-nine in number, derived from MSS. in the British Museum and in the Lambeth and Bodleian libraries. They do not consist of a continuous series of homilies, as was originally intended, but of fragments and smaller treatises arranged in the order in which the editor was fortunate enough to meet with them; but in Mr. Morris's opinion the first six homilies are by one and the same author. These have really but one theme, that is shrift, which, as explained by the homilist, is to renounce the devil, to repent of sin, and to determine to lead a better life for the future. These points, as Mr. Morris observes, are by no means unskilfully handled, and the author stands before us in his discourses as a plain but earnest and outspoken instructor of the "lewd." The work will interest two distinct classes of readers students of philology, who will find in the language of the Homilies, Mr. Morris's Grammatical Introduction, and his Notes and Illustrations, much which will greatly interest them; while those who, caring little for philology, yet desire to know something of the pulpit eloquence of the Middle Ages, will be well rewarded by a perusal of Mr. Morris's translations of these sermons of by-gone days.

Mr. Hall has, in the third book on our list, furnished a further instalment of his edition of The Works of Sir David Lyndesay; while the fourth consists of woodcut

great authors. That of Samuel Richardson has for the last half century been at the lowest ebb-so low, indeed, that the accomplished editor of this new edition of Clarissa does not hesitate to declare that "there are scores of circulating libraries throughout the land, in which you shall ask for the finest, the most powerful, and most penetrating novel in the English language, and the librarians will tell you they never heard of it." But we suspect the tide will soon turn; and shall not be surprised, under the influence of its new editor's vindication of its merits, to find all the world sharing Macaulay's admiration of Clarissa, who "knew it almost by heart," and Sir James Mackintosh's opinion, that it is "the finest work of fiction ever written in any language."

One of the causes, and perhaps not the least influential, of the neglect with which Clarissa (which no less an authority than Dr. Johnson has declared to be "the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart," and Alfred Musset has pronounced the "premier roman du monde") has of late years been treated, is its prolixity. This prolixity, as Mr. Dallas well observes, is of three kinds: the first of which may be described as that of the gossip, the second as that of the moraliser, and the third as that of the complete letter writer. With the first of these Mr. Dallas has wisely interfered but little; as wisely has he dealt more freely with Richardson's sermonising; and, which required yet greater judgment, with his habit of making all the actors in a scene narrate each in his own way his story of what took place. Here Mr. Dallas has exercised the pruningknife most effectually, feeling that here Richardson's narrative might most safely be abridged, and that "without abridgment he is not to be read at all." Let our readers take heart, therefore, and determine to read Clarissa; and our word for it, they will not lay it down till they have finished it-unless, like the Chief Justice of Calcutta, they can't read it for tears.

Notices to Correspondents.

UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART.-All Additions and Corrections should be addressed to the Editor, South Kensington Museum, London, W.

A. B. G. There are satisfactory reasons for the omission. There can be no doubt of its genuineness.

T. T. W. For notices of Francis Moore and his Almanacks, see "N&Q." 1st S. iii. 263, 339, 381, 466; iv. 74, 162; 2nd S. iii. 226, 278.

Q. H. F. For some account of the ministerial wooden spoon, consult "N. & Q." 3rd S. v. 214, and also 2nd S. xii. 247.

TRANSLATOR. There are at least five English editions of Abp. Cranmer's Defence of the True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament. J. S. A. The lines on Tobacco " are by Thomas Jenner. See the whole song, in two parts, in" N. & Q." 2nd S. i. 258, 320, 378.

CHARLES WYLIE. For flea read flee, and the meaning of the saying is obvious.

HERMENTRUDE. The lines are by John Byrom of Manchester. See his Miscellaneous Poems, ed. 1824, ii. 219.

P. The Architect and Building Operative [called Gazette in vol. ii.] made twenty parts, or two vols. The first number is dated April 5, 1849, and the last Nov. 30, 1850.

T. D. L. Spoonfuls, not spoonsful; just as we say handfuls, not handsful. See Todd's Johnson for examples.

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