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WHITAKER & SONS, 12, Warwick Lane, E.C. 66 The name Bohemia (Böhmen), home of the Boii, is paralleled by the French name for Germany, Allemagne, from the forgotten Alemanni. The derivation of the native Cechy, adjective Cesky (usually represented in English and German by the Polish Czech, but sometimes transliterated Chekh, French Tcheque), is apparently obscure. The name of the country is plural, as in the sentence Cechy isou casti Rakouska," Bohemia are a part of Austria.* Like Polish, the Bohemian language is written with compounds of Latin letters, while the other Slav tongues-Russian, Servian, and Bulgarian-employ the Cyrillic alphabet, with certain modifications and variations peculiar to each. The nasals have been practically lost in all the Slav tongues except Polish, of which Mr. Morfill observes, "As regards phonological subtleties, Polish is one Declensions of substantives and adjectives in of the most remarkable languages of Europe." REPLIES:-"Inundate," 497- - "Chink" - English Mile, 498-Cockayne-Clifford: Braose-"Kidcoat"-Politician, 499-Fonblanque-Nesquaw"-Cutting Babies' Nails, 500 - Borough-English- "Petigrewe" Game of Tables French Society in the Last Century-Stamp Collecting, 501" February Fill-Dyke"-Beezeley - Royal ArmsTennyson Query, 502-Weather Folk-lore-C. Merrett-Chekh follow broadly the lines of the cognate Proverb-"Lazy Laurence," 503-The Strappado-Mazes cut in Turf-"Intentions Old Songs- "Several". "Viridical,' 501-Rogers's Ginevra "Wound" for "Winded"-Johnson's Birthplace-"Spotted negro boy," 505-Bernard and Bayard, 506. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Coleridge's 'Works of Byron' Circle-Jackson's Glossary of Botanic Terms-Richardson's 'Coutts & Co.'-Kidson's 'British Music Publishers.' Notices to Correspondents. Hotes. THE BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE. A RECENT lecture by Count Lützow has drawn attention to a language and literature of which there are probably few students in this country. The fact that the lecturer refuted ideas that Bohemian was connected with The tongues, perhaps approaching to Polish more for a church. gipsies is a proof of this, and the mysterious Bohemia of which Thackeray and others give us glimpses somewhat resembles the old Alsatia, though the latter was, of course, far more lawless. The late Mr. A. H. Wratislaw, a deep scholar of the Slavonic languages, There are numerous words of foreign origin, especially of the Bohemian language and e.g., farar (G. Pfarrer), pantofel, parlament, literature, was descended from a family of personalia, rytir (G. Ritter), sice (G. sicher), that nationality. The indefatigable Reader Vanocni (adjective from G. Weihnacht). in the Slavonic Languages at Oxford* has It is not easy to recognize such names as followed Vaclav and Vladislav under the forms of his series of Slavonic up grammars with one of Chekh, which has certain advan- Wenceslaus (hero of a popular Christmas tages over the preceding ones. As in the carol) and Ladislaus. It is worthy of note case of his Bulgarian grammar, Mr. Morfill that the motto of the Prince of Wales, Ich provides extracts in prose and poetry from dien, from the arms of the blind King John of Kollar, Sladek, and others for reading-lessons. Bohemia, slain at Creçy, is German, and not Slavonic. The king, however, was a member * Since this was written Convocation has constituted Mr. W. R. Morfill professor of these languages at Oxford University. * This recalls the plural word Bucharest, discussed lately by MR. JAMES PLATT in these columns. of the Luxemburg family, and married the heiress of Bohemia. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Brixton Hill. CATALOGUES OF ENGLISH BOOK SALES. (Continued from p. 431.) I OUGHT to have mentioned in my introductory notice a valuable MS. list by the late Mr. Puttick of the sales of Messrs. Puttick & Simpson from 1846 to 1870. It is in the British Museum (Newspaper Room), and is arranged alphabetically. A large number of anonymous sales at this house, and within the period indicated, may be identified through this list. Caldecott, Thos., 1833, Dec. 9 and 5 days. S. Campbell, John, 1826, June 19-21. E. Cashel, Archbishop of [Brodrick], 1825, June 13-17. S. Cashel, Bp. of. See Daly, R. Celotti, Abbé (MSS.), 1821, Feb. 26-28. S.-1825, March 14-17. S. Chalmers, Geo., Part I., 1841, Sept. 27 and 8 days. E.-Part II., 1842, March 7 and 5 days. E. Part III., 1842, Nov. 10 and 7 days. E. Chambers, R., F. L.S., 1860, June 4-8. P. * This exceedingly important sale of MSS. has long been a puzzle to me. It is described as "the entire property of a gentleman of the highest consideration in Holland, by whose family they have been accumulated." My authority for assigning the property to the Archbishop of Cashel is A List of Original Catalogues of the Principal Libraries which have been Sold by Auction' at the house of Sotheby, 1744-1828, printed by Mr. Sotheby in 1828, where is this entry: Cashell, Archbishop of (Unpublished Manuscript Historical Documents).' The heading of the sale catalogue is, "Unpublished Authentic Manuscript Historical Documents, Autographs, Letters, &c.," and it is the only sale of this year which answers to Mr. Sotheby's parentheses. It is strange that the name of the proprietor should have been suppressed, for the archbishop's library (see next entry) was sold as that of "His Grace the Archbishop of Cashel, lately deceased." This would be the Hon. Charles Brodrick, who died in 1822. The collection comprises letters to the Princes of Orange and Nassau, and four of the highest interest from Elizabeth and Charles I.; about 3,000 pieces relating to English and other political events from 1706 to 1726; and an extensive collection of Alba Amicorum. It would be interesting to have explained why the Arch bishop of Cashel should have been a gentleman "of highest consideration in Holland." The printed date of sale is May 30, but the B.M. copy has this struck out and June 20 written in. Chambers, Sir Robert, 1842, April 13-16. S. Chambers, Robert, 1854, June 29-30. Geo. Berry. Chambré, Sir Alan, 1824, May 18-20. S. Charles I.-Anne (auto. letters and papers), 1869, April 5 and 5 days. S. [Charlotte, Queen], 1819, June 9 and following days (4,515 lots). C.-Prints, &c., (563 lots). C. Chauncy, Charles and Michael, 1790, April 15 and 14 days. S. Cheney, Edward, 1886, June 25-30. S. P. Clarke, Dr. Adam, 1833, Feb. 18 and 9 days. E.- Clifford, Lord de (MSS.), 1834, Feb. 11-14. C. Aug. 2. P.-Part II., 1867, July 29 to Aug. 1. P. Combe, Taylor (of the B.M.), 1826, Dec. 7 and 11 * Part I., July 6-10. E.-Part II., July 15-16. E. [Constable, David], 1827, Jan. 26-29. S. Conybeare, Dean W. D., 1857, Dec. 7 and 5 days. S. Cooper, Austin, 1831, Feb. 21 and several following days. Edward Maguire, Dublin. Cooper, C. Purton [1852], April 18 and 7 days (and addenda). S. Corley, John, 1865, Nov. 29 and 5 days. S. Cottle, Joseph, 1865, March 13-14. S. and 5 days. S.-Part II. (books on angling), 1838, Dec. 20. S.-Part III. (trials and letters), 1839, June 17 and 4 days. S. Remaining portion, 1848, Sept. 7-8. S. Courthope, W., 1867, Jan. 23-4. S. * I mention this sale in order to correct an error which Mr. Norgate committed in the Library, Sept., 1891, in his list of Evans's sales. He there states that the copy of Martialis Epigrammata,' Ferrara, 1471, purchased for the Bodleian for 607., of which only two or three copies are known, was bought at Combes's sale. This is not so. It occurred in an anonymous collection "consigned from Italy," and sold by Evans in 1837, Nov. 22 and 4 days. The importance of the Martial must be my excuse for this note. Cowley, Lord, 1848, July 11-13. P. Elwyn, W. B., 1833, June 10-15. P. Cox, Francis (and others), 1850, July 15 and 5 days. Ernouf, M. le Baron, 1861, July 29-31. S. S. E. Cox, Samuel, 1839, July 16-19. E. T. & J. Poetical Davenport, R. A. (editor of 'The Davies, Geo., and Dr. Neligan, 1850, Aug. 5-8. S. Elliot Davy, Rev. M., D.D. (Master of Gonville and Caius Dawson, Benj., 1820, Nov. 17 and 5 days. S. [Evans, E., of Hoare's Bank], autograph letters * Fairfax, the Lords, with additions by the Rev. Dr. Ford, Rd. (author of 'Handbook for Spain'), 1861, Forman, H. Buxton, 1884, Nov. 12. S. -Part II., April 25 and 8 days. E. Denyer, Eliz. Dennis, 1824, Aug. 4. S. Dering collection, Part I., 1858, June 8 and 4 days. P.-Part II., 1861, July 10-13. P.-Part III., 1863, Feb. 7.-Part IV., 1865, July 13-15. P. Dibdin, T. F. (drawings in " Tours"), 1822, Feb. 11-14. E. (In Isted catalogue.) Dillon, John, MSS., 1869, June 10 and 4 days. [Dimsdale, Joseph], 1824, June 18 and 4 days. Disney. See Hollis. S. S. D'Israeli, Isaac, 1849, March 16 and 3 days. S. E. P.-MSS., Donnadieu, M., 1864, Aug. 8. S. Fryer, Dr., 1827, Feb. 11-12. E. Fydell, John, Jan. 30-31. W. Wise, Bath. Gancia, M., 1856, June 27-8. S.-[Gancia, M.], 1858, Dormer, Sir Clement C., 1764, Feb. 20 and 19 days. Gardner, J. Dunn, 1854, July 6 and 10 days. S. Drummond, Miss, 1862, May 6-9. S. Drury, Rev. H., 1827, Feb. 19 and 22 days. E. Ebers, Messrs., 1863, April 20-22. P. This sale included the celebrated Bedford Missal, among other rarities, and several Greek vases, of which illustrations are published in the catalogue. See Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron,' iii. 111-27. Garnons, Rev. W., 1864, March 2-4. S. Gibbons, Thos. (D.D.), 1785, April 18 and 4 days. |