Helfenstein's Comparative Grammar of the Teu- to designate a long straight walking-stick, such as tonic Languages, p. 101. Cardiff. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. HONORIFICABILITUDINITY (6th S. iv. 29, 55, 77).—This word is given in E. Coles's Dictionary, 1701. For an example of the use of the Latin form of the word, cf. Iohn Taylor's Sir Gregory Nonsense, p. i, 1622;— "To the (Sir Reverence) Right Worshipped Mr. Trim Tram Senseless, &c.-Most Honorificabilitudinitatibus, I having studied the seven Lub berly Sciences (being nine by computation) out of which I gathered three conjunctions four mile Ass-under, which with much labour, and great ease, to little or no purpose, I have noddicated to your gray, grave, and gravelled Prate ection." Cardiff. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. 66 was cut out of a coppice, and sometimes thrown at AN OLD JOKE REVIVED (6th S. iv. 225, 393).— The joke referred to as Hogarth's is to be found at p. 16 of Nichols's Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, 1785. It is prefaced by a remark that "its authenticity must apologize for its want of other merit." AUSTIN DOBSON. THE FIFE EARLDOM (6th S. iii. 308, 435; iv. 53, 98, 152).—The illustration given at the lastquoted reference does not bear upon the point at issue; for it was by no means uncommon in the days of Horace Walpole and in the earlier part of There is no instance of this word amongst the the eighteenth century for the Duke of Hamilton slips sent in for the Philological Society's Dic- to be styled, even by educated people and in good tionary, and probably it never rose above the rank society, "Duke Hamilton," or the Duke Hamilof a dictionary word. But Bailey was not the in-ton." Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquary, ventor of it. Blount, in 1656, gives "Honorifica- styles him "Duke Hamilton" in his Diary, bilitudinity (honorificabilitudinitas), honorable-speaking of the murderous duel with Lord Mohun XIT. in which he was killed in 1712. Thackeray, in Esmond, in which he has given so charming a Picture of "the tea-cup times of hood and hoop, or while the patch was worn," calls him occasionally either "Duke Hamilton" or "the Duke Hamilton" indifferently, and makes the characters in the story give him the same appellations. ness. Though Marston in the Dutch Courtezan, 1604, V. i., writes, "His discourse is like the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus, a great deal of sound and no sense," yet Ducange quotes it as equivalent to honor from Albertus Mussatus De Gestis Henrici VII., lib. iii. rubr. 8. apud Murator., tom. x. col. 376:-" Nam et maturius cum Rex prima Italiæ ostia contigisset, legatos illò Dux ipse direxerat cum regalibus exeniis Honorificabilitudinitatis nec obsequentiæ ullius causa, quibus etiam inhibitum pedes osculari regios." W. E. BUCKLEY. JOHN PICKFORd, M.A. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. iv. 369, 398)."A man of kindness," &c. But in which of Hannah More's works do these lines appear? HIAWATHA. (6th S. iv. 329.) "Dear to the Lowland reaper," &c., will be found in a poem entitled The Pipes at Lucknow, by J. G. Whittier. SOPHIE AXON. OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. Will correspondents kindly intending to contribute to our Christmas Number be good enough to forward their communications, headed "Christmas," without delay? Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. MR. BINGHAM has redeemed, with much judgment and book. It is light reading enough for a very slight literary taste, while beneath its sparkle lies a solid substratum of history not unworthy the attention of the graver student. That the history of the Bonapartes should be a chronique scandaleuse is not so much Mr. Bingham's fault as that of the times which he describes, and we owe him thanks for having trodden warily and delicately over many very miry places. His dramatis persona are well arranged, and though he has many characters on the stage, he preserves their individualities with considerable power. We rise from contemplating the scenes he depicts with a vivid idea of the feeble Joseph, the vain and selfish Jerome, the cold-blooded Louis, the stern, parsimonious Madame mère, the too prudent Madame Baciocchi, and the vindictive Caroline Murat. Perhaps the most pleasing pictures, because they possess some touches of human feeling, are those of the bonhomme Lucien, who renounced kingdoms for the beaux yeux of Madame Jouberthon, and the fair erring Pauline, clinging to her fallen emperor's fortunes and dying a penitent in the arms of her forgiving husband. So unprincipled, so selfish, so dissolute a family could bardly have existed had they not risen from the foul corruption of the French Revolution, like the lurid lights that dazzle and betray over some unhealthy marsh. Chronological Notes, containing the Rise, Growth, and Present State of the English Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict. Drawn from the Archives of the Houses of the said Congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulevart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and Lamb' spring in Germany, where are preserved the Authentic Acts and Original Deeds, &c., An. 1709. By Dom Bennet Weldon, O.S. B., a Monk of St. Edmund's, Paris. (Hodges.) IF we understand the editor of this handsome volume, these Chronological Notes are no more than "an abridgment of the two folio volumes of [the author's] Historical Memoirs of the English Benedictines," of which two copies still exist in manuscript, the abridgment being the work of the modern anonymous editor. If this be so, we should very decidedly have preferred to wait for the publication of the original work in its entirety, rather than be put off with such extracts as are presented to us here. In very truth, the editor's preface does not inspire us with much confidence in his judgment or any high opinion of his qualification for the work which he has seen through the press. There is a certain amount of research in the preface, but it is the sort of research which extends over a very narrow field, and it is calculated to impress the general reader, only because the general reader, as a rule, knows little or nothing about the sources of information to which students of modern English Catholicism have ready access. editor has not availed himself of all the materials The which lay within his reach, and the result is a certain measure of disappointment. Still, we may take this book as an instalment, and we may rejoice that, with all its defects and omissions, it has seen the light. The editor tells us that it contains the only full and consecutive account that has yet been published of the restoration and remodelling of the English Benedictine Congregation, a not unimportant element in the English Catholic world of the seventeenth century." As to its being a "full" account, we must demur to the statement. It is a skeleton, and little more. wanted was a mere transcript of the two folio volumesWhat was always supposing them still to exist-or, if these Chronological Notes are an abridgment by the author himself, then a faithful reproduction of them as they stand in the original MS. This should have been prefaced by the "memoirs which have come down to us" of the author himself, Dom Bennet Weldon. The appendix, too, instead of being, as it is, an unsatisfactory collection of extracts, should have contained the full text of the gationis Anglorum," which is still preserved in its en"Liber Graduum Conventus S. Gregorii Duaci, Congretirety at St. Gregory's, Downside. As it is, the book is neither one thing nor the other; it has been undertaken without sufficient consideration, preparation, or consultation, and it is useless to disguise the fact that such work as this will have to be done again. The Great French Revolution, 1785-1793. By Madame Henrici de Bracton de Legibus et Consuetudinibus THE continuation of Bracton's treatise on possessory with him set in the top of his Indian walking cane. In the action for Dower, the dos to which the widow was entitled out of her husband's estate is carefully distinguished from the maritagium, the portion which she brought to her husband on her marriage. Local customs were strictly upheld by the king's justiciaries, and in Kent the widow did not forfeit her dower by reason of her husband's felony, although she lost it by a second marriage, as was also the case with widows in the City of London. The rights of women were imperfectly recognized by the strict feudal law, but they gained ground when the system was relaxed, and Bracton's text shows a marked improvement in the legal condition of women in his time. The English translation is still disfigured by blemishes which offended the readers of the previous volumes. Vice-Comes, the Latin word for sheriff, is still rendered "the viscount," to the bewilderment of the English reader. MR. HENRY GRAY'S Classics for the Million (Griffith & Farran) has, we are glad to find, reached a second edition. It is a most useful volume, with which we have no fault whatever to find except with the title. "The million" is certainly not a well-chosen phrase, though we sincerely hope that a million copies may be sold. We feel sure that many a sound classical scholar, were he to read Mr. Gray's book, would find many things in it that he had never known or had forgotten. Books such as this will not supply the place of the higher culture, but they are of vast use in paving the way towards it. At the end there is a very useful list of the principal translations of the more notable writers of Greece and Rome. Under Plato we find the name of Sydenham, but not of Thomas Taylor. This is a strange omission. Taylor's version is not good, but until that of Prof. Jowett appeared we believe that it was the only complete one in the language. Taylor's name is duly chronicled under Aristotle. WE have received Words of Garfield: Suggestive Passages from the Public and Private Writings of James A. Garfield. Compiled by William Ralston Balch. (Low & Co.)-A few words of memoir accompany this interesting compilation. The greater part of the book is made up of detached passages taken from the writings and speeches of the late President of the United States. It will be read by many, for there is much to stimulate thought of the higher kind. It would, of course, be unfair to judge any man by a series of clippings made from his writings, and this is especially unjust treatment for a man of action to be subjected to. This little book, however, cannot have been intended as a guide to estimating character, but rather as a stimulus to thought and action. There are, as would naturally be expected, here and there opinions given which we regard as one-sided, but there is not a line which takes away from our previous impression, gained from other sources, that Garfield was a man of the highest personal honour, whose ideal of life was a very noble one. The few passages on education have struck us greatly. The idea that it is a "perpetual wonder" that any love of knowledge should survive in children, considering what schools are like, has often occurred to ourselves, but we have never succeeded in putting it so neatly. UNDER the title of Salaminia (Cyprus): its History, ·Treasures, and Antiquities, it is proposed by Alexander Palma di Cesnola, Member of the Society of Biblical Archæology, London, Hon. Member of the Royal Medical Academy, Turin, &c., to publish by subscription a work, in royal 8vo., illustrated with upwards of two hundred woodcuts, extending to upwards of three hundred pages, and containing an account of the principal objects of antiquity derived from ancient sites which were excavated by the author from 1876 to 1879 in the Island of Cyprus. They now form the LawrenceCesnola collection, which is entirely distinct from the New York collection of Cypriote antiquities obtained by General L. P. di Cesnola. The collection amounts to upwards of fourteen thousand specimens, of considerable archæological interest. It contains Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman remains, from Kitium, Paphos, Marium, Kourium, Idalium or Dali, Soli, and, above all, from Salaminia, the ancient Salamis of Teucer, which yielded a large proportion of the recovered treasures-a site which no excavator has ever before examined with success. The author will be assisted in the description of the collection by Dr. Birch, Rev. A. H. Sayce, Dr. Hyde Clarke, M. Clermont Ganneau, &c. Intending subscribers should address A. P. di Cesnola, Palma Villa, West Hampstead, N.W. MESSRS. HOUGHTON & Co. (Birmingham) have in the press a Biography of Cardinal Newman, by Mr. H. J. Jennings. It will contain a new cabinet photo-portrait, also several other portraits, and a fac-simile of the original MS. of" Lead, kindly Light." MR. ELLIOT STOCK announces A New Illustrated Biblical Dictionary, especially suited to the requirements of Sunday-school teachers. THE Annual Meeting of the Royal Archæological Institute will be held in 1882 at Carlisle towards the end of July or the beginning of August, under the presidency of the Bishop of Carlisle. The town council of the great border city, with a view to the visit of the Institute, have elected as their Mayor for the year Mr. R. S. Ferguson, M.A., F.S. 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