off to try. "Au thowt it looked lawk a gret watter bowl," WE have received the fifth volume of Book-Lore: a he said in after years. "Well, we gate up theer...... Magazine devoted to Old-Time Literature (Stock). It and we wur furder off nor ivver." A record of a sad contains some padding with which we could have disexperience which many another human soul has had pensed without regret, but several of the articles are usewhen endeavouring to make some new short cut to hap-ful and instructive. The Book Trade in the Dark Ages' piness. is a sound production, and the articles on "The Bishops' Bible,' Kemp's "Nine Days' Wonder," and "Some Old Traction Tithes' are worth attention. Mr. Thomas Hallam's treatise on the four words, "Clem," Lake," "Nesh," and "Oss" is valuable not only as a specimen of scientific research, but as giving a handy specimen of the manner in which such inquiries ought to be conducted. It is no exaggeration to affirm that the accounts of almost all words not taken directly from the Latin, as given by our older dictionary makers, are hopelessly wrong. Little modesty seems to possess some of the word-genealogists of our present day. They are many of them as rash as the Elizabethan pedigree makers. It is a comfort to have four words treated in an exhaustive fashion. No dictionary maker could follow such a course, but if we are ever to understand the history of our own tongue there are hundreds of words which must be treated in this exhaustive manner. Mr. A. J. Ellis's 'Second Report on Dialectical Work shows that great progress has been made in the elucidation of the laws which govern dialectic pronunciation. It is a subject so difficult that few persons are able to work on it in a manner that is satisfactory to experts. Admissions to Gonville and Caius College, in the University of Cambridge, March 1558-9 to January 1678-9. Edited by J. Venn and S. C. Venn. (Clay & Sons.) WE cannot easily praise this admirable compilation too highly. To every genealogist it will be a great boon, for, so far as we have been able to test it, the work has been done with much care and accuracy. We believe that the names of persons from almost every shire in England occur in this catalogue, but Norfolk and Suffolk predominate. Next to them come Devonshire and Yorkshire. The editors are unable to tell us why their college was such a favourite with Devonshire men. The reason why Yorkshire folk preferred Caius to other colleges is clear enough. Many of the gentry of Yorkshire were Roman Catholics, and there were others who conformed to the established religion who had kindly feelings towards the old faith, and shrank from inflicting on their sons the irritating puritanism which was rampant in many of the other colleges. Now, as the editors tell us, " Dr. Caius, it is supposed, never became a Protestant; and his successor, Legge, though not a Romanist, had strong sympathies with the old forms, and so had the principal whom he had introduced into the college, Mr. Swale." This Mr. Swale, if we mistake not, was a member of a Yorkshire race who were Roman Catholics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A pedigree of the family may be seen in Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire.' Several of its members served on the royal side in the great Civil War. In 1667 a certain Titus Oates was admitted sizar of the college. He is described as "Son of Samuel Oates, clerk, Rector of Hastings, Sussex," and as born at Oakbam. Is not this the notorious witness, of "Popish plot" celebrity? THE Bookworm, No. 2 (Stock), contains an account of the pest from which it takes its name. To a contributor we were some time ago indebted for a sight of this grub, crushed, as it happens, in transit. 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"It would be difficult to mention any romance so absorbing and there is much novelty in her experiences of the Far "Her sketches of Boston society are bright and interesting, and exciting as is this record of truly Oriental life." Morning Post. West."-Saturday Review. WARD & DOWNEY, 12, York-street, Covent-garden, London. Frinted by JOHN C. FRANCIS, Athenæum Press, Took's-court, Cursitor street, Chancery-lane, E.C.; and Published by the said JOHN C. FRANCIS, at No. 22, Took's-court, Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane, E.C.-Saturday, December 31, 1887. INDEX. SEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. IV. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, A. (A.) on Hit=it, 234 Passover custom in Algeria, 495 A. (D.) on Scotch kirk session records, 307 A. (M.) on Goethe and English literature, 373 Trelawny (Sir Jonathan), 351 Abraham (C. J.) on Sealed Prayer Book, 487 Actor, his sudden death in a miracle play, 429, 535 Charms, 347 Addy (S. O.) on Celtic occupation, 90, 249 Sitwell: Stoteville, 16, 212 "To go through the chatterhouse," 203 Aitchison (G.) on terms used in architecture, 47 Albé, the sobriquet, 53 Alcock (John), of Marham, 49 Aldis (H. G.) on marginal notes to Bibles, 515 Ale-taster, the last, 4, 77 Farmer (Capt. George), 409 Sailors, female, 486 Shopocracy, a new word, 485 Altar, Roman, 126 Altar flowers, 387, 476 Altarage, its meaning, 49, 172, 292 Alwyne, personal name, 388, 534 America, French emigration to, 1789-1815, 408; Biblical note on, 486, 535 America or Amerigo, its etymology, 247, 313 Anderson (P. J.) on Scotch academic periodicals, 69 Stodart (R. R.), 68 Andrews and Keene families, 249, 375, 495 Andrews (F. N.) on C. F. Bulkley, 229 Anglin and Scarlett families, 18 Anglo-Burman on appeal in cases of pardon, 229 Angus (G.) on religious orders, 11 Surnames of married women, 297 Annas, a woman's Christian name, 507 Anon. on Sir Thomas Browne, 508 Christians in England in Roman times, 449 Eucharist, mistake concerning, 226 Fairs, statute, 28 Gattin, its meaning, 204 Gentleman, his "distinctives," 248 Huguenot, its derivation, 244 "Library of Translations," 228 Lincoln, its mayors and bailiffs, 169 Ring with Scriptural device, 289 St. Elene the virgin, 89 Vestments of blue colour, 148 'Wisdom of Solomon,' 268 'Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works,' omissions Anonymous Works :- Dame Wiggins of Lee, 127, 212 Ecce Homo, 35, 355 Ephemeris Cantabrigiensis, 287 Epithalamium Oxoniense, 269 Hints on Etiquette for University of Oxford, 269 In re Williams versus Garbett, 269 Leaves from a Manager's Note-Book, 249 Manuel des Curez, 528 Supreme Bon Ton, 349 Treatise of the Holy Communion, 428 Anti-Gallican Society, 67, 151, 292 Appeal in cases of pardon, 229, 330 Appenzell, Swiss canton, its Rhodes, 269, 315 Swaddy soldier, 276 Appleby, colting at, 165 Appleby on Cargo, slang word, 178 Arbor Day in Canada, 85, 492 Arbuthnot (Dr. J.), his biography, 522 Architects, great Asiatic, their fate, 141, 304 Architecture, words connected with, 47, 197 Arithmetical books, earliest European, 341, 513 Arlington (Henry Bennett, Earl of), his nose, 288, 432 Armour, its preservation, 367, 413 Arms. See Heraldry. Arnault (A. V.), "De la tige détachée," 52 Arnold (F. H.) on Lady Ann Cecil, 109 Yew, its old spellings, 449 Arnott (S.) on William Chillingworth, 161 Arquebus, its derivation, 96, 233 Art Mac Murrough, his death, 25 Arthington family and arms, 209 Arthur (King) as a raven, 247 'Articles and Injunctions,' black-letter reprint, 389, 494 Ashbee (H. S.) on Great Wall of China, 167 Ashmole (Elias), his Garter collection, 195 Asparagus introduced into England, 388, 493 Athill (C. H.) on Sir Charles Flower, 135 Atkinson (William Brudenell), his pedigree, 369 Attorney and solicitor, their difference, 89, 176 Yew, its old spellings, 533 Avalon, Vale of, 77 Swaddy soldier, 276 Barlow (Sir W. O.), 153 Byron (Lord), his 'Childe Harold,' 512 Children as mediators, 531 Clifford (Martin), 534 Convicts sent to the colonies, 395 Ecce Homo,' 36 Edinburgh, earthen mound at, 152 Fox (Henry), first Baron Holland, 28 Frost (John), the Chartist, 9 Frowyke (Lord), 295 George III., his jubilee, 116 Irish House of Commons, 169 Keene family, 495 Lloyd (Robert), 115 Macklin (Charles), 236 Magazines, school and college, 110 Manningham (Thomas), D.D., 192 'Norah's Treasure,' 434 'Plea for the Midsummer Fairies,' 13 Townshend (George, first Marquis), 147 B. (G.S.) on Goldsmith in Venice, 297 B. (K. C.) on Sir Francis Drake, 367 B. (W. C.) on arithmetical books, 513 Bishops in distress, 493 Chillingworth (W.), his monument, 291 Christmas games, 503 Christmas waits, 504 'Dictionary of National Biography,' 123, 422 |