connexion with church briefs, may be studied with advantage. The use of cot as a verb vomir is not confined to Lincolnshire and Warwickshire. Apropos of canker, many meanings of which are supplied, it may be of use to say that there was, and probably is, in Leeds a street called Cankerwell Lane, derived, we fancy, from a chalybeate spring. An interesting and a valuable article appears on cantrip. Many words for which no authority can yet be given, and some the significance of which is not yet known, are included in the prefatory matter. The first volume ends at Byzen, and the pages in Part III. which are occupied with C are so arranged as to be capable of being detached. The pagination is, however, continuous, six hundred double-columned quarto pages having appeared. We can but end with commending once more this noble work to the attention and support of our readers. the light but ten years ago, and deals with events Reviews and Essays in English Literature. By the Rev. Duncan C. 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