from ire, to go. Thus the meaning would be
"coming-near-to." In many languages the Deity
when favourable is said to draw near (prope ire) to
his worshipper, in order to hearken to his prayer
or receive his sacrifice. We may instance the use
of Heb. qarab, as in Psalm lxix. 18. and the Assyrian
kirubu, propitious, favourable, from karabu, to draw
near. Even in the Gothic runes we find sul gi-
niæra " (= nære) as a prayer for the dead, exactly
corresponding to the Latin formula "animæ
propitietur (Deus)." See G. Stephens, Handbook
of Old Northern Runic Monuments,' p. 250.
We would also query why Prof. Skeat alleges
SoApós as the Greek for womb, a rare word only
found, we think, in Hesychius, when the ordinary
word is δελφύς. Who will have imagined that
it is at bottom the same word as our "calf"? The
book is crammed with similar suggestive identifi-
cations, all brought under the head of law, to the
exclusion of mere guesswork. There cannot be
found a more trustworthy introduction to a subject
of fascinating interest.

Who's Who, 1906.-Who's Who Year-Book, 1906.
(A. & C. Black.)

FOR those engaged in literary and journalistic pur-
suits Who's Who' remains the most trustworthy
and important work of personal reference. Its
utility has now stood the test of many years' con-
stant use. Interesting features appear for the first
time in the present issue, which occupies nearly a
hundred pages more than the volume for 1905.
Among these are motor and telephone numbers and
telegraphic addresses, with, in many cases, records

of a man's children of both sexes.

As regards the Year-Book,' containing the tables
originally forming part of Who's Who,' but now,
to the great gain in convenience and portability,
transferred to a separate volume, progress is also
perceptible. It is a misfortune to the present as to
all annuals that the change in Parliament will
follow close upon the appearance of the volumes.
The Literary Year-Book and Bookman's Directory,
1906. (Routledge & Sons.)

To a certain extent 'The Literary Year-Book' and
Who's Who are complementary to each other,
though each has independent features. In the
former the list of writers is hardly extensive, when
it is considered that it includes some foreigners.
What may be regarded as supplementary informa-
tion is ample and useful.

An Almanack for 1906. By Joseph Witaker, F.S.A.
(Whitaker & Sons.)

E. J. Sage. You may like to have a few lines t
mine to his memory. He was an antiquary wel
versed in Essex lore, and formerly resided
Mark's Gate, Dagenham, and was the em
authority in that district on all historical matten
He was a Commissioner of the Public Library
Stoke Newington, where he resided for years,
was formerly one of the municipal body ther
His own library and collections were priceless, and
he was a diligent seeker of all documents, pris
or works of a topographical nature. A lar
circle of friends were privileged to see his librar
if they took an interest in literature. His kn
ledge of Essex pedigrees and heraldry in gene
was at the disposal of those who search into the
intricate subjects, and he had perused hundreds
old wills at Doctors' Commons merely for their as
quarian information. Mr. Sage was also a Va
correspondent of N. & Q.' His father was for
long period the Deputy-Steward of the manor
Barking in the time of Sir Edward Hulse, Bar
when the number of tenants and the amount
unenfranchised land were considerable."

Notices to Correspondents.

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heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to
which they refer. Correspondents who repeat
queries are requested to head the second com
munication "Duplicate."

E. SMITH ("Dates of Eighteenth-Century Per
formances of Shakespeare").-Genest's Account of
the English Stage,' 10 vols., gives all information
accessible.

C. HESKETH (Joseph Capper").-Not suited to
our columns.

J. A. B. ("Gashed with honourable scars").-
From James Montgomery's 'Battle of Alexandria.
GREGORY GRUSELIER ("Greeneville and Tus
culum College")-Tusculum Degrees were discussed
at great length in 8th S. vi., vii., viii.

MEDICULUS ("Bible appointed to be read in
churches "").-Fully discussed at 6th S. iv. 24, 72,
130, 171. See especially the late FRANCIS FRY'S
remarks at p. 131.

LADY RUSSELL, DR. CLIPPINGDALE, and another.

NOTICE.

Editorial communications should be addressed
to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Adver
tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub-
lisher"-at the Offico, Brean's Buildings, Chancery
Lane, E.C.

We beg leave to state that we decline to return
communications which, for any reason, we do not
print; and to this rule we can make no exception.

A. on Swedish royal family, 91

A. (E. H.) on quotations wanted, 168

A. (I. W.) on quotations wanted, 334

A. (J. S.) on 'Military Discipline,' 489

A. (P. S.) on "Parva sed apta," 387

A. (P. W.) on prisoner suckled by his daughter, 353
A. (S.) on Lincoln Imp, 530

Spanish lady's love for an Englishman, 107
Abbeys, Premonstratensian, 169, 231, 298

Abbott (T. K.) on Latin-Eng. -Basque dictionary, 143
Abrahams (A.) on Academy of Muses, 233

• Adventures in Borneo,' 7
Concerts of Antient Music, 393
Copenhagen House, 205, 351
Crown Street, Soho, 326
Dramatic clubs, amateur, 493
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 37

Evans: Symonds: Hering: Garden, 397
"Fountain" tavern, 336
Greyfriars burial-ground, 205
Kingsway and Aldwych, 433

Looping the loop: centrifugal railway, 176
Moore (Tom), of Fleet Street, 230
Morning Star,' 536

Moxhay, Leicester Square showman, 135
Nelson Column, 175

Nelson panoramas, 365

Newlands, Chalfont St. Peter, 148, 457

Pinks's History of Clerkenwell,' 427
Strand Theatre, 385

Albigna, place-name, its Arabic equivalent 489
Alchemy, modern, 167

Aldenham (Lord) on quotations wanted, 237

Tinterero, 396

Aldworth (A. E.) on preaching in New England, 329

Aldwych and Kingsway inaugurated, 361, 410, 433, 451
Ales, love, use of the term, 35

Allanbank on Henry Palmer, 288

Alleyn (John), law reporter, c. 1681, 416
Alliteration: Siege of Belgrade,' 146
Almanac, c. 1744, 486

Almansa in Toledo and Madrid,' 248, 315
Almshouses, interesting old, 87

Almsmen, Westminster Abbey, 168, 236, 314
Alvarez (Henry), S.J., and Henry Alway, 126, 374
Alway (Henry) and Henry Alvarez, S.J., 126, 374
America, Jacobite rebels transported to, 66; early
editions of Gibbon's Decline and Fall' in, 405
American Civil War, official history, 527
American Civil War verses, 229, 296, 354
American place-names, 155

Americus on 66

Bush and grease," 207

Ancient Concert Society, established 1776, 49, 335, 393
Anders (H. R. D.) on John poisoned by a toad, 256
Anderson (P. J.) on George Colman's 'Man of the
People,' 266

Gray (Principal Gilbert), 307
Swedish royal family, 352

Vaus (John), grammarian, 248

Andrews (H. C.) on Premonstratensian Abbeys, 298

Wenham (Jane), witch of Walkern, 318

Andrews (W.) on custom of Thraves, 350
Anerley on Locke: Lockie, 90

Angerstein (John Julius), his biography, 66
Anonymous Works:-

Adventures in Borneo, 7
Battel of the Catts, 228
Complete Drill Sergeant, 530
Creation a Poem, 67, 137

Doomes Day, tract of 1647, 10, 77
Edward and Ellen, 47

Hugh Trevor, 429, 5 3
Les Jumelles, 9

Lovers, The. 16×3, 47

Military Discipline; or, the Young Artillery
Man, 489

Our Native England, 510

from ire, to go. Thus the meaning would be
coming-near-to." In many languages the Deity
when favourable is said to draw near (prope ire) to
his worshipper, in order to hearken to his prayer
or receive his sacrifice. We may instance the use
of Heb. qarab, as in Psalm lxix. 18. and the Assyrian
kirubu, propitious, favourable, from karabu, to draw
near. Even in the Gothic runes we find "sul gi-
niæra " (= nære) as a prayer for the dead, exactly
corresponding to the Latin formula "animæ
propitietur (Deus)." See G. Stephens, Handbook
of Old Northern Runic Monuments,' p. 250.

We would also query why Prof. Skeat alleges
SoApós as the Greek for womb, a rare word only
found, we think, in Hesychius, when the ordinary
word is δελφύς. Who will have imagined that
it is at bottom the same word as our "calf"? The
book is crammed with similar suggestive identifi-
cations, all brought under the head of law, to the
exclusion of mere guesswork. There cannot be
found a more trustworthy introduction to a subject
of fascinating interest.

Who's Who, 1906.-Who's Who Year-Book, 1906.
(A. & C. Black.)

FOR those engaged in literary and journalistic pur-
suits Who's Who' remains the most trustworthy
and important work of personal reference. Its
utility has now stood the test of many years' con-
stant use. Interesting features appear for the first
time in the present issue, which occupies nearly a
hundred pages more than the volume for 1905.
Among these are motor and telephone numbers and
telegraphic addresses, with, in many cases, records
of a man's children of both sexes.

As regards the Year-Book, containing the tables
originally forming part of Who's Who,' but now,
to the great gain in convenience and portability,
transferred to a separate volume, progress is also
perceptible. It is a misfortune to the present as to
all annuals that the change in Parliament will
follow close upon the appearance of the volumes.
The Literary Year-Book and Bookman's Directory,
1906. (Routledge & Sons.)

To a certain extent 'The Literary Year-Book' and
"Who's Who' are complementary to each other,
though each has independent features. In the
former the list of writers is hardly extensive, when
it is considered that it includes some foreigners.
What may be regarded as supplementary informa-
tion is ample and useful.

An Almanack for 1906. By Joseph Witaker, F.S.A.
(Whitaker & Sons.)

WHAT claims with justice to be the best annual in
existence appears afresh with new and important
features. An enormous variety of contents is in-
cluded. The arrangement is the same as previously,
and the man of experience knows at a glance where
to look for information he will find nowhere else.
Whitaker's Peerage for the Year 1906. (Whitaker
& Sons.)

THE cheapest and handiest of peerages is again in
our hands. How closely it is up to date is shown
by the appearance of the name of the second Baron
Montagu of Beaulieu, whose accession belongs to
the close of 1905.

MR. W. A. GLENNY writes: "In "N. & Q.' of
the 9th inst. W. C. B. mentions the death of Mr.

E. J. Sage. You may like to have a few lines of
mine to his memory. He was an antiquary well
versed in Essex lore, and formerly resided at
Mark's Gate, Dagenham, and was the chief
authority in that district on all historical matters.
He was a Commissioner of the Public Library of
Stoke Newington, where he resided for years, and
was formerly one of the municipal body there.
His own library and collections were priceless, and
he was a diligent seeker of all documents, prints,
or works of a topographical nature.
A large
circle of friends were privileged to see his library
if they took an interest in literature. His know
ledge of Essex pedigrees and heraldry in general
was at the disposal of those who search into these
intricate subjects, and he had perused hundreds of
old wills at Doctors' Commons merely for their anti-
quarian information. Mr. Sage was also a valued
correspondent of N. & Q.' His father was for a
long period the Deputy-Steward of the manor of
Barking in the time of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart.,
when the number of tenants and the amount of
unenfranchised land were considerable."

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 pub-
lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately.
To secure insertion of communications corre-
spondents must observe the following rules. Let
each note, query, or reply be written on a separate
slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and
such address as he wishes to appear. When answer
ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous
entries in the paper, contributors are requested to
put in parentheses, immediately after the exact
heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to
which they refer. Correspondents who repeat
queries are requested to head the second com.
munication "Duplicate."

E. SMITH ("Dates of Eighteenth-Century Per-
formances of Shakespeare ").-Genest's Account of
the English Stage,' 10 vols., gives all information
accessible.

C. HESKETH ("Joseph Capper ").-Not suited to
our columns.

J. A. B. ("Gashed with honourable scars").-
From James Montgomery's 'Battle of Alexandria.'

GREGORY GRUSELIER ("Greeneville and Tus-
culum College")-Tusculum Degrees were discussed
at great length in 8th S. vi., vii., viii.

MEDICULUS("Bible appointed to be read in
churches '").-Fully discussed at 6th S. iv. 24, 72,
130, 171. See especially the late FRANCIS FRY'S
remarks at p. 131.

LADY RUSSELL, DR. CLIPPINGDALE, and another.
-Forwarded.

NOTICE.

Editorial communications should be addressed
to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Adver
tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub
lisher"-at the Offico, Brean's Buildings, Chancery
Lane, E.C.

We beg leave to state that we decline to return
communications which, for any reason, we do not
print; and to this rule we can make no exception.

A. on Swedish royal family, 91

A. (E. H.) on quotations wanted, 168

A. (I. W.) on quotations wanted, 334

A. (J. S.) on 'Military Discipline,' 489

A. (P. S.) on "Parva sed apta," 387

A. (P. W.) on prisoner suckled by his daughter, 353
A. (S.) on Lincoln Imp, 530

Spanish lady's love for an Englishman, 107

Abbeys, Premonstratensian, 169, 231, 298

Abbott (T. K.) on Latin-Eng.-Basque dictionary, 143
Abrahams (A.) on Academy of Muses, 233

'Adventures in Borneo,' 7

Concerts of Antient Music, 393
Copenhagen House, 205, 351
Crown Street, Soho, 326
Dramatic clubs, amateur, 493
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 37

Evans: Symonds: Hering: Garden, 397
"Fountain" tavern, 336
Greyfriars burial-ground, 205
Kingsway and Aldwych, 433

Looping the loop: centrifugal railway, 176
Moore (Tom), of Fleet Street, 230
Morning Star,' 536

Moxhay, Leicester Square showman, 135
Nelson Column, 175

Nelson panoramas, 365

Newlands, Chalfont St. Peter, 148, 457

Pinks's History of Clerkenwell,' 427

Strand Theatre, 385

Tufnel family, 389

Aldworth (A. E.) on preaching in New England, 329

Aldwych and Kingsway inaugurated, 361, 410, 433, 451
Ales, love, use of the term, 35

Allanbank on Henry Palmer, 288

Alleyn (John), law reporter, c. 1681, 416
Alliteration: Siege of Belgrade,' 146
Almanac, c. 1744, 486

Almansa in Toledo and Madrid,' 248, 315
Almshouses, interesting old, 87

Almsmen, Westminster Abbey, 168, 236, 314
Alvarez (Henry), S.J., and Henry Alway, 126, 374
Alway (Henry) and Henry Alvarez, S.J., 126, 374
America, Jacobite rebels transported to, 66; early
editions of Gibbon's Decline and Fall' in, 405
American Civil War, official history, 527
American Civil War verses, 229, 296, 354

American place-name, 155

Americus on "Bush and grease." 207

Ancient Concert Society, established 1776, 49, 335, 393
Anders (H. R. D.) on John poisoned by a toad, 256
Anderson (P. J.) on George Colman's 'Man of the
People,' 266

Gray (Principal Gilbert), 307
Swedish royal family, 352

Vaus (John), grammarian, 248

Andrews (H. C.) on Premonstratensian Abbeys, 298

Wenham (Jane), witch of Walkern, 318

Andrews (W.) on custom of Thraves, 350

Anerley on Locke: Lockie, 90

Angerstein (John Julius), his biography, 66
Anonymous Works:-

Adventures in Borneo, 7
Battel of the Catts, 228
Complete Drill Sergeant, 530
Creation a Poem, 67, 137

Doomes Day, tract of 1647, 10, 77
Edward and Ellen, 47
Hugh Trevor. 429, 5 3
Les Jumelles, 9

Lovers, The. 16×3, 47

Military Discipline; or, the Young Artillery
Man, 489

Our Native England, 510

Anonymous Works:-

Pictures of the Old and New Testaments, 57
Poetic Works by a Weird, 489

Primum Mobile, 67, 137
Rhyming Reminiscences, 428
Ring, The, 448

'Steer to the Nor'-Nor'-West,' 132
Whitefriars, 447, 535

Zapata's Questions, 449, 512

Anscombe (A.) on England: English, 73

B. (G. F. R.) on Charles Gough, 449
Ievers (Robert Henry), 107
Impey (Edward Harrington), 127
Izard, 47

Whitchurch (Samuel), poet, 516

B. (G. O.) on Lawrence, 497

B. (H. H.) on 'Les Misérables,' 309

B. (J. A.) on quotations wanted, 529

B. (J. H.) on amateur dramatic clubs, 388
B. (J. T.) on Ulm and Trafalgar, 450

Appleby Magna Grammar School, 288, 392

'Arabian Nights,' edition with vowel points, 409, 513
Archæology, Institute of, at Liverpool University, 308
Archiepiscopal cross in Tennyson's Becket,' 106, 157
Arctic circle, ball-games played on festivals in the, 347
Argument, Darwinian chain of, 169, 237
Arkle (A. H.) on Brougham Castle, 373
Ceremony at Ripon, 357

Dover pier, 451

Incledon Cooke, 92

:

Looping the loop: centrifugal railway, 176, 416
Pig swine: hog, 449

Armada and English poets, 346, 414

Arms, right to, and the College of, 188

Armstrong (Sir Thomas), two of the name, 281
Army, English, in Ireland, 1630-40, 489
Arne (Dr.), his Poculum Elevatum,' 409

Ascham (Roger), pronunciation of his name, 169, 216
Ashburner and Teed families, 90

Ashcroft (T. C.) on cry of Macaria, 28

Assheton (R. O.) on Toby's dog, 508

Astarte on Irish weather rime, 406

Love ales, 35

Vulgate, 17

Astronomy in 'Gulliver's Travels,' 86

'AorρоTéléкuç, its use by Gibbon, 167, 272, 370

Athill-Cruttwell (H.) on Melchior Guydickens, 469, 537
Atkinson (S. B.) on Pilgrim of Eternity, 213
Auden (G. A.) on Civil War earthworks, 394

Axon (W. E. A.) on Beckford and Rabelais, 264
Book, nameless, 376

Foxe the Martyrologist, preface by, 44
Kingsley (C.), poem by, 125
Mezzofanti (Cardinal), 168
Peignot (Gabriel), 521
'Zapata's Questions,' 512

Ayeahr on ceremony at Ripon, 249

B. (A.) on quotations wanted, 249
Siege of Belgrade,' 146

B. (B.) on Black" Bourbons, 206

B. (C.) on Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis,' 168

B. (E. G.) on birthday of George III., 173
B. (E. W.) on Bathilda, 93

Gibbets, 251

B. (G.) on escutcheon of pretence, 429
B. (G. F. R.) on Joseph Anstice, 88

Buck (Timothy), 509

Clerke (Sir P. Jennings), 429
Concerts of Antient Music, 49
Cumberland (Mr.), 489
Dundas (Sir Lawrence), 516
Dyer (John), poet, 530
Gery (Thomas), 469
Giffard, 289

Grosvenor or Gravenor (Joane), 308
Monck Monke: Monk, 449

:

B. (W. G.) on Thomas à Becket, 214
Quotations wanted, 488

Slipper a surname, 212

Bacon (Sir Francis), his cipher, 188

Badges, difficult words connected with, 55
Bagnios, London, 24, 115, 217, 277, 376

Baildon (W. Paley) on Kingsway and Aldwych, 433
Baines (A. A.) on Baines family, 68

Baines family of Layham, Suffolk, 69, 330, 537
Baldock (G. Yarrow) on coop, to trap, 296

Wheel as symbol of religion, 250

Ball (F. Elrington) on Curtis: Hughes: Worth, 331
Tholsels, 453

Ball (H. H.) on Sophony, 148

Ball-games played in Arctic Circle on festivals, 347
Banquet, fifteenth century, bill of fare, 446

Barclay-Allardice (R.) on Scotch burial custom, 76
Barclay (Capt. Robert Heriott), his portrait, 28
Barker (H. J.) on fame, 249