stands for murg, Scot. morgue, a solemn face; murgeon, to mock by making mouths (Jamieson); from Fr. morgue, a sour face, a solemn countenance, morguer, to look sourly; cf. Languedoc murga, countenance. One might add the Paris dead-house, known as the morgue. These etymologies have not, I think, been alluded to by previous correspondents. J. H. MACMICHAEL. 'RECOMMENDED TO MERCY' (10th S. i. 109, 232). A friend remembers reading in India a book with this title by Mrs. Eiloart. M. E. F. [We have failed to find this under Mrs. Eiloart's name in the English Catalogue.' Mrs. Houstoun's work with the same title is not the one MR. LATHAM requires.] BATROME (10th S. i. 88, 173, 252).-HELGA is surely mistaken in speaking of Barthram's Dirge as an old Border ballad. That Sir Walter Scott believed in its antiquity cannot be called in question, but there can be no doubt that it was composed by Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, the Durham antiquary. For evidence of this see George Taylor's 'Memoir of Robert Surtees,' a new edition, with additions by the Rev. James Raine (issued by the Surtees Society, 1852), pp. 85, 240. ASTARTE. KNIGHT TEMPLAR (10th S. i. 149, 211).Much information on this subject may be found in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum,' which, with other works, may be consulted at 61, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. P. A. X. "FIRST CATCH YOUR HARE" (9th S. xii. 125, 518; 10th S. i. 175, 254). In my copy of "The Art of Cookery, by Mrs. Glasse" (a new edition, 1803), there are two directions which might easily have led to the above expression. To Roast a Hare' (p. 22) begins, "Take your hare when it is cased," &c. and Florendine Hare' (p. 126) begins, "Take a full-grown hare," &c. Mrs. Raffald (1807) also uses the same expression (p. 118): "To Florendine a Hare. Take a grown hare," &c. It is easy to imagine a wilful misunderstanding of the word "take" in these instances, and to treat it as if it meant to "catch." St. Thomas, Douglas. ERNEST B. Savage. HERALDIC REFERENCE IN SHAKESPEARE (10th S. i. 290). In 'The Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry,' published by J. H. Parker, of Oxford, in 1847, p. 34, it is stated that the sun behind a cloud is embroidered on Richard II.'s robe on his effigy at Westminster. N. M. & A. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A New English Dictionary on Historical Prin ciples. - P- Pargeted. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) A DOUBLE section of the great dictionary, issued tains a total of 3,803 words, and carries the alphabet under the direct charge of the editor in chief, confrom P to Pargeted. Few previous parts are more interesting or instructive than this, and in none is the editorial comment more edifying and important. In the introduction Dr. Murray explains how, while as an initial it occupied a small space in the Old English vocabulary, the letter p has grown to be one of the three gigantic letters of the modern English dictionary. He is responsible for the startling statement that of the 2,454 main words discussed in the double section, one only, pan, the culinary vessel, can claim to be a native Old English word. From France came the great invasion which followed the few Latin words that preceded the Norman Conquest. Many of these supply proof of Court or warlike usage-as page, palace, pale, though a few were derived direct from the Latin palfrey, palisade, papal, pardon, and the likeby scholars. While individual words came from Danish, Italian, Burmese, Chinese, Malay, Algonquin, Tamil, &c., a third of those given are of Greek derivation. We hope Dr. Murray will able to the growth of words in p to which he not think it trifling if we ask whether it is ascribrefers that we find, in the alphabeted books supplied us as a means of indexing entries, the letter p is that invariably which first proves inadequate and gives out. The numerous words in ph answering to the Greek & have, it is stated, have those in ch to e; that is, they constitute no more relation to the p words proper than an alien group, and only for alphabetical convenience are assigned the place they occupy. Under the heading p is supplied much curious information as to minding one's p's and q's, or, in what seems an earlier form, to be P and Q. Pabulum=food for thought, was a commonish journalistic word 18601865. Pace, a varying but definite measure of length, is an interesting study. The same may, however, be said of other significations of the term as well as of innumerable words. Padding, in relation to literary articles or books, is first traced in 1861, which we suppose is about the time of its introduction. A singularly interesting article is that instance is advanced than 1790. To "pad the hoof" on pad. As applied to the foot of the fox, no earlier is used by Washington Irving. The origin of all the senses of paddle seems to be "rare," "unknown,” or "obscure." In the form of padenshawe Padi shah is encountered so early as 1612. The origin ordinarily assigned Paduasoy, of silk of Padua, seems scarcely to be accepted. Paan, a song of praise, is used in 1544 as the title of a book, The Prayse of all Women, called Mulierum Pean.' Pagan-paramour is rare, though it is used by Shakespeare. In sense 2 the words of the song put by Scott into the mouth of one of the characters in The Abbot might be noted: "The pope, that pagan full of strife." That page boy is derived from Greek Taistov is doubted. Thackeray's use, "Ho! pretty page with the dimpled chin," deserves citation as an instance of special use. Milton's fine phrase Mask and antique pageantry is an early and significant use of the last word. Pagoda appears as pagotha in 1634. Paigle for the cowslip, and pail, a vessel, are of uncertain origin, Paiocke peacock as is supposed, is encountered only in Shakespeare. Palace, paladin, palatine, all repay close study. Paladin first appears in Daniel's Delia,' 1592. Palanquin is found in 1588. Ben Jonson has palindrome, and also palinode. Very interesting is the development of pall, and not less so that of palm in its various senses. Pan should be closely studied in all its senses. Pang, a brief spasm of pain, is uncertain in origin. The song cited for pannuscorium, and called popular, is a little earlier than c. 1860, and is, we fancy, by Planché. Panorama dates from 1796. Pantagruel, Pantaloon, and pantomime have all much interest. The name pantiles seems to be erroneously applied to the parade at Tunbridge Wells. The earliest quotation for papa-father, once a genteel" word, is from Otway. Paraphernalia has, as scholars know, a curious origin and history. Pap with a hatchet and Panjandrum both supply entertainment. The Prelude. By William Wordsworth. Edited by Basil Worsfold. (De La More Press.) Eikon Basilike; or, the King's Book. Edited by Edward Almack. (Same publishers.) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Edited by C. C. Stopes. (Same publishers.) To the pretty, artistic, and cheap editions of the De La More Press have been added three works of great but varying interest. Wordsworth's Prelude' forms, of course, an indispensable portion of his poems. It contains many fine passages, but is, on the whole, more valuable from the autobiographical than the poetic standpoint. The present edition is accompanied by an admirable portrait, a map of the Wordsworth country, an introduction, and a few serviceable notes. Mr. Almack, to whom is due a Bibliography of the King's Book,' for an appreciation of which and of the compiler himself see 8th S. x. 147, has edited an edition of the Eikon Basilike,' the work in question. Unlike previous modern reprints, this is taken from the first edition, an advance copy of which, saved from destruction by a corrector of the press-a most interesting item in many respectshas been used. Mr. Almack still holds strongly to the royal authorship of the volume, and is in entire opposition to the claims of Bishop Gauden. The new edition is beautiful and convenient. It is enriched by a handsome and rather sentimentalized portrait of Charles I., and has some interesting appendices. Its appearance will doubtless com mend the work to some to whom it is not yet known. Mrs. Stopes's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most convenient with which we are acquainted. So handy is it that we have set it apart for that pocket companionship for which, before almost all others, the book is to be commended. An indispensable preliminary to solving the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets is, as Mr. Butler has told us, to commit them to heart. Special value attaches to the edition from Mrs. Stopes's introduction. That we agree with all her conclusions we may not say. What she writes, however, is worthy of study. So firm a believer in the Southampton theory is she that the portrait of the Earl, reproduced from that at Welbeck Abbey, forms a frontispiece to the volume. This edition of the Sonnets appears to form part of what is called 'The King's Shakespeare.' The three works we have conjoin to form a notable addition to "The King's Library." Old Falmouth. By Susan E. Gay. (Headley Brothers.) MISTRESS GAY (if we may use the old term, ambiguously convenient to a reviewer) has made extensive collectanea of all that illustrates the history and fortunes of the interesting old town from which she writes, and we can hardly find fault if Falmouthian events and personages loom disproportionately large in the eyes of its enthusiastic historian. At times the minute conscientiousness with which local details are given reminds us of those old chronicles of which a satirist remarkedIf but a brickbat from a chimney falls...... All these, and thousand such like toyes as these, They close in chronicles like butterflies. The author's industrious researches might have been prosecuted more widely with advantage. She has much to tell us about the Killigrews of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but no reference is made to Pepys's allusions to various members of the family, not even to the Tom Killigrew who was the favourite poet and booncompanion of Charles II. And what warrant is there for the assertion that the name Killigrew means a grove of eagles "?-which on the face of it seems unlikely. It is surely a rash con-clusion to draw from the mere appearance of the name Jerubbaal Gideon " in a baptismal register, that some Jews must have joined the Church! The Latinity of an epitaph (p. 46) needs some revision to make it intelligible. And what a quaint correction is this at the end of the book, that for "(Charles II. and) his father" (p. 20) should be read "his royal father"! There is a good supply of illustrations pleasingly produced, some of very local celebrities. 66 Lent and Holy Week. By Herbert Thurston, S. J. (Longmans & Co.) MR. THURSTON'S book comes within our ken as being one that treats of the ritual observances of the Roman Church on their historical and antiquarian side rather than their devotional. Such subjects as the Carnival, the Tenebræ Herse, Maundy customs, the Harrowing of Hell, and other pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, afford him ample material on which to enlarge, and though there is little that can be called new or original, the author writes lucidly and pleasantly, and with an agreeable absence of controversial acidity. As, however, he disclaims any intention of discussing the origin and meaning of folk-customs-the use of Easter eggs and the like-even though they have been more or less recognized by the Church, his notices of such subjects are somewhat meagre and disappointing. Mr. Thurston candidly admits that many of the accepted symbolisms of the Roman Church are without doubt mere afterthoughts, which never entered the mind of the framers of the ceremony. To esprits forts some of them appear to be (if not childish) childlike in the simplicity of their make-believe. Such, for instance, is the custom of solemnly inserting five grains of incense in the substance of the paschal candle to typify the wounds of the Divine Victim. This particular practice, the writer conjectures, may have arisen out of a misunderstanding of the Latin words "incensi hujus sacrificium,' "the sacrifice of this lighted [candle]," as if they meant "the sacrifice of this incense. The book is excellently printed and illustrated, and deserves the attention of those interested in ritual observances. The Parish Clerk and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle. By Cuthbert Atchley, L.R.C.P. (Longmans & Co.) IN this tract, written for the Alcuin Club, Mr. Atchley makes out a case of merely academic interest in favour of the lay clerk being allowed to read the Epistle in the Communion Service as well as the Lessons. He has no desire, however, to see the old custom revived. Why should a completely baptized" be regarded as somewhat of a rarity (p. 5)? young man 66 of doing excellent work in the future, is decidedly entertaining. More than one of her stories exists in a slightly different form in Eastern England. For instance, Jack Kent, who sent the crows into an old barn while he went to a fair, had a fellowwizard in North-West Lincolnshire, where William of Lindholme, who also disliked "scaring birds" from the crops, imprisoned the sparrows in a similar manner while he went to enjoy himself at Wroot feast. The legend is also known to occur in France and Spain. PROF. SAINTSBURY has prepared a list of the most important of Carolinian poets whose work has been practically consigned to oblivion, and has arranged for the publication of their chief contributions to the poetry of the reigns of the first and second Charles. The scheme already includes Chamberlayne's Pharonnida' (1659), Marmion's 'Cupid and Psyche' (1637), Bishop Henry King's 'Poems (1657), Benlowes's Theophila ' (1652), T. Stanley's Poems (1651) and Aurora' (1657), Patrick Hannay's 'Poems' phin's Poems (a. 1643), Kynaston's Leoline and (1622), R. Gomersall's Poems' (1633), Sidney GodolSyndanis' (1641), T. Beedome's Poems' (1641), Robert Heath's Clarastella' (1650), Bishop Joseph Hall's Poems' (1651), Flecknoe's 'Miscellanies' (1653), Flatman's Poems' (1674), Katherine Phillips's ("Orinda ") Poems (1667), Philip Ayres's Lyric Poems (1687), Patrick Carey's Poems and Triolets' (1651), and John Cleveland's Poems (1653). The book, which will contain the necessary introductions and notes to each group of poems and a general introduction by Prof. Saintsbury, will be published at the Clarendon Press in two octavo volumes, of which the first will be ready in the autumn. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AMONG other points discussed in the Intermédiaire during the last three months are the blood of St. Januarius, the first introduction of pepper into France, symbolic shells used as amulets from prehistoric times, and the authorship of the wellknown phrase "Après moi le déluge.' This saying, it appears, was in reality coined by Madame de Pompadour, although "it was so exactly the mot, the expression of that reign of from hand to mouth, that it was believed, with reason, only the wellbeloved king could have uttered it." The ritual murder so commonly attributed to the Jews by WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. narrow-minded fanaticism is also dealt with. It To secure insertion of communications correwould be well if some learned Hebrew would pub-spondents must observe the following rules. Let lish a European bibliography of this subject, with each note, query, or reply be written on a separate a suitable introduction, paying due attention to slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and the fact that the bloodshed attributed to his co- such address as he wishes to appear. When answerreligionists in the Middle Ages can only have been ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous specially horrible from theological reasons. Every entries in the paper, contributors are requested to civilized" country in those days was so habituated put in parentheses, immediately after the exact to the idea of violence and outrage that the accused heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to must have been detested because they were held which they refer. Correspondents who repeat to be miscreants, in the old sense of the word, queries are requested to head the second comrather than because they were believed to be human munication "Duplicate." beings who had slain their fellows. Folk-lore for March contains The Story of Deirdre, in its Bearing on the Social Development of the Folk-tale,' an article demonstrating how a legend is necessarily modified and toned down by the gradual softening of manners among the people who transmit it from generation to generation. 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