SCHILLER'S "FIESKO" (5th S. xii. 8.)-If, as JAYDEE says, the letter k does not exist in Italian, so must it also be remembered that c does not, strictly speaking, exist in German as an independent letter, but only as an element in the compounds ch, sch, and ck. We often, it is true, find it used in proper names, as Carl, Coeln, Crefeld, Cleve, &c., but all these would be more correctly written with a k. There has always been an inclination among Germans to substitute a k for a hard c, and a z for a soft c, in imported words; thus Elektrizität is orthographically correct. As regards JAYDEE's inquiry, I am afraid it must be admitted that Schiller did violence to the Italian language in thus mutilating a proper name, and of this mutilation JAYDEE will find another striking instance in the same play, Kalkagno being substituted for Calcagno, although in the name of Sacco (another conspirator) the Italian orthography is left unchanged. Probably the alteration to which JAYDEE refers was a mere whim of Schiller's, for in his adaptation of Macbeth he retains the c not only in Macbeth, but also in Macduff and Malcolm. H. F. R. AKIMBO" (5th S. xi. 48, 212; xii. 16.)-The Second Merchant's Tale, falsely attributed to Chaucer, was edited for the Chaucer Society, in 1876, by Mr. F. J. Furnivall, under the title of The Tale of Beryn. The passage to which your correspondent refers will be found at p. 57, 1. 1838, of that edition. S. J. H. "PATCHOCK" (5th S. xii. 47.)-MR. WEDGWOOD, on referring to p. 636 of the Globe edition of Edmund Spenser's Complete Works, 1869, will find the following, viz., "I meane such English... are degenerate and growen to be as very patchockes as the wild Irish." Freegrove Road, N. H. G. H. WELLINGORE (5th S. xi. 148, 492.)-We are entertained, if not instructed, by E. A. B. stating that the simple division of this name into three words shows the derivation: "Well in gore' at once declares the existence of a well and describes its position." Such valuable etymology should be multiplied. Alexander the Great: divide it into words, and it means all eggs under the grate." Antinous similarly means ants in house." Vaceination then means "facts in agitation." Enough of such child's play. Gore is a crux to all your correspondents. Not one approaches the meaning of the word. Besides "Gore Inn," near Taunton, there is "The Old Gore Inn," near Ross. Gower (the same word) is the name of a district in South Wales. Goragh, near Newry; Goragh Wood, name of a railway station; Ballynagore and Logore. Besides these Irish gores, we have Scotch ones-Ardgower, Glengower, Lochgower, Rienagour, near Aberfoyle, and Arienagour, in the island of Coll. All these gores, and many more, your correspondents would teach your readers mean a narrow strip of land or a ridge of land. The word gore is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic gabhar, a goat. The Gaelic Dictionary of the Highland Society gives, "Gabhar, a goatcapra." "Gower and Gowrie often occur in Scottish topography," says the late Colonel Robertson, "and they are all derived from gobhar or gabhar, which means a goat." WILLIAM GIBSON WARD, F.R.H.S. Ross, Herefordshire. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Church Work and Life in English Minsters. By Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, B.D., F.S.A., Præcentor of Chichester. 2 vols. (Chatto & Windus.) THE task which Mr. Mackenzie Walcott has set himself in this work is one of no common difficulty. To condense into two volumes of very moderate dimensions, and, we may add, of very moderate cost, the enormous mass of material which he has garnered during many years of study in this special field of labour would have simply appalled a less earnest worker. The pages are crowded with facts, and, in many places, with references to standard books and even to detached papers in archæological inexperienced students; even practised antiquaries will journals which will be almost invaluable to younger and hail with satisfaction many of the references to manuscripts and other less obvious sources of information. As Mr. Walcott designs his work "to meet the requirements careful to avoid irritating topics; and whilst he has reof persons of all classes and opinions," he has been very peopled desolate sites and has "treated architecture under its highest form of beauty, namely, as expressive of devotional feeling," and has touched with a loving hand all portions of his subject, he has refrained from dealing with doctrinal matters, and has abstained from religious controversy altogether. The first volume is divided into four parts. First, a brief architectural exposition, of which the most valuable portion seems to us to be that which discusses the ground plan, symbolism, furniture, Secondly, a paper on "The Daily Life of Seculars and and arrangement of the earlier and later cathedrals. Conventuals," crowded with the most minute information as to costume, religious services, secular work, furniture, diet, and mode of life. No detail, however small, has been thought unworthy of notice, and the minute touches which abound on every side complete a picture of real interest. We suspect that very many who talk freely about the old monastic life have very little idea of its duties or its occupations, or of the activity which prevailed in the great religious houses of England. Mr. Walcott opens the barred doors for us, and allows us to chronicles, illuminating church books, carving in wood see the busy life within. The brethren transcribing and stone, painting glass windows of gorgeous hues, composing treatises, or studying the works of bygone sages, are there in their habit as they lived. The busy chamberlain with his multifarious duties, the active kitchener preparing to feed so many hungry mouths, the stately pitanciar with his dainty dishes, the cellarer with his prior ruling and governing with no feeble hand, the store of provisions, the infirmarer visiting the sick, the almoner giving doles to the poor, the præcentor with his tuneful choir-all these and many others pass before us in long procession through the stately cloister. We would fain linger over this section, for it has a special charm of its own. But we must hasten on to the third section, which treats of the foundation of the cathedrals, secular and conventual, and to the fourth section, which is, in effect, a condensed handbook to all the English and Welsh cathedrals, both of the Old and of the New Foundation. To these Manchester and Ripon are added, and a brief space is found for Truro, the last addition to the goodly list. The second volume opens with two papers, the first on the origin and development of monasteries in England, the second on the relations of monasteries to the outer world, including under this comprehensive phrase the relation to the bishop, to the parish churches, to the cathedrals, to the people at large, to education, to the national taste. This is followed by "The English Student's Monasticon," which purports to contain an alphabetical history of all the monasteries, convents, collegiate churches, friaries, and hospitals in a very condensed form. Here, in about two hundred pages, is presented to us a mass of information which has probably never been offered before in so small a space, for Mr. Walcott gives us the dedication of each religious house, the order to which it belonged, details as to the style of architecture and dimensions, its net income at the Dissolution, the name of its founder and (where that is known) the date of foundation, the number of its inmates at the Suppression, in the case of many of the churches anecdotes connected with their history, and, what is certainly not the least valuable portion, reference to MSS. illustrations, books, and special monographs. Ground plans of several of the cathedrals, and of Newark, Esseborne, Bayham, Lewes, Charter House, Rievaulx, and Byland, add to the interest of the volume. Where the feast is so plentiful the guests may not complain; but yet we cannot but regret the absence of a general index (although the alphabetical arrangement of two large sections of the work renders this omission of somewhat less importance) and the want of an index to the words which are explained in the text. We will take some of the words which occur on only two pages (pp. 33 and 45 of the first volume). It would have been a real benefit to young students to know that here they would find interpreted such words as amicta, pylche, ocrea, staminia, brygerdel, brachile, lumbare lineum, pedules, sotulares, calabre, stragula, strayls, furrit-pane, coopertorium, capitale, pulvinar, excubitores, absconsa, and many others. The list would make a good examination paper for a novice in English ecclesiastical history. Every student has not Ducange at his elbow, and if he had would often turn empty away from that vast book. But our very blame is praise; this criticism does but reveal the large amount of archæological lore profusely scattered throughout the work. We cordially recommend the book to our readers; it evidences at every turn original research and independent study. A Visit to the Court of Morocco. By Dr. Leared. (Sampson Low & Co.) DR. LEARED acted as physician to the Portuguese embassy which was sent in the summer of 1877 to congratulate the Sultan of Morocco on his accession, and therefore had exceptional facilities for acquiring a thorough knowledge of Morocco and the Moors. He has used these advantages well, and his book is singularly free from guide-bookism, being unpretentious, accurate, and observant. But what could have induced him to use an entirely distinct method of orthography in his explanatory map from that which he employs in the text? It makes his map worthless in following his route, and Goethe's Faust. Translated by W. D. Scoones. 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