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understand they drink it without subjecting it to any treatment. The fine mud in suspension soon settles down when the water is at rest, and in doing so carries with it most of the bacteria, if any are present.

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

CHURCHES USED FOR THE ELECTION OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS (11 S. xii. 360, 404, 430, 470). The subjoined cutting taken from The Church Times for 10 Dec. may be of interest to your correspondent :—

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In accordance with time-honoured custom the

Mayor of Brightlingsea, Essex (Dr. Dickin), was re-elected in the church belfry on Monday last. Dr. Dickin, who is a Captain in the R.A.M.C., is at present on active service at the Front."

W. SHARP.

often accounted a fool; the peasant who comes to a kingdom; the princess who sets riddles; the enchanted prince or princess-these all occur, and most of them many times. But the treatment of these old themes is often bound up with matters more or less peculiar to the Slav. Thus the prince who breaks into the forbidden room encounters the terrible magician Koshchéy the Deathless, whose being and history have a definite Russian significance; and Ilya Múromets, the peasant-knight, proves his valour on that strange creation of Russian imagination, the Nightingale Robber.

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The tales, taken as a whole, show a strong feeling for the visible world-" the white world,', as it is called-" the grey earth, and the dreamy forests"; mere length of time and extent of space tend to count for more in the total effect of this lore than they do in most masses of legends. The most interesting stories, to the sophisticated Western mind, are those most directly relating to peasant life-such as The PARISH REGISTERS: H. T. WAKE (11 S. Dream,' where an old wanderer, spending a night xi. 397, 501; xii. 72).-Your correspondent vision to his host, who interprets it, unfortunate as a peasant's cottage, tells his strange homely at the last reference has rather under- much of its presaging is, with the characteristic estimated the time since the Quaker book-Russian acquiescence. Tales of this latter sort seller H. T. Wake left Cockermouth. I have good touches of humour, and include the clearly remember his weekly visits from best of the legends of Christ and His disciples, as well as the grimly comic tales of the dead. Fritchley to Derby in 1891, when he brought Interesting features in some of the legends are into market butter or eggs to sell, and took a short conventional sentence of introduction, home in lieu some old books or relics in the and another by way of epilogue. same basket. W. JAGGARD, Lieut.

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The tales are worthy of a better and fuller Introduction and of better notes than they have here received. Mr. Magnus makes a few statements about the original forms in which they occur as chronicles, ballads or other kinds oi song, folk-tales. It would have been a good thing to have the material selected grouped under those be arranged on any plan. headings; as they stand the stories seem not to The notes, again, are here and there redundant, and, more often, somewhat slight, and are thrown together with but an imperfect attempt at order.

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THE stories in this book-something over seventy in number-have been translated direct from Still, Mr. Magnus makes some good points in the Russian of Afanasev's great collection formed both parts of his work, and, in particular, he is in the mid-nineteenth century. The translation happy in characterizing the curious perfection of is eminently satisfactory. The object was to art in detail which, without intending it, these carry over into English not only the naiveté the story-tellers attained, as being so much ....as a "quaintness," as people like to call it of a series man would remember of an experience." of primitive stories, but also something of theries differ widely, as we all know, yet an attention distinctive temper which conceived them, and to what would stand out in the memory of the the theory of life, and emphasis of popular judg- average man is an excellent method of appraising ment as to right and wrong, which are involved the true consistency of a narrative as a piece of in them. Mr. Magnus had, in one respect, an art-whether or not the limit of detail is designed easy task: the work of compilation with which to coincide with memory. he had to deal-learned and careful and copiousis free from the warping of original poetic faculty on the part of the compiler. It is not merely in diction that the stories are primitive; they have the simplicity characteristic of a child's outlook, and they add incident to incident as notes are added to a tune-having attained to melody and rhythm, but not, we may say, to harmony.

A large proportion of the tales is composed of elements of universal currency: thus the faithful and suffering servant; the witch who devours human flesh; the magic carpet or sword or horse; the forbidden chamber; the brush and comb which, thrown in the path of the pursuer, become mountain chains and impenetrable forests; the third son or daughter, the favourite of fortune

WE have before us the November and December numbers of The Antiquary. Three interesting articles run through both numbers: Dr. Clippingdale's Heraldry and Medicine,' Mr. Serjeantson's 'Churchwardens' Accounts of St. John's, Peterborough,' and Mr. Randolph's Recollections of Belgium.' Mr. E. Wyndham Hulme's Chapters on the History of Glass-Making and -Painting in England' is brought to conclusion in the November number, and we have also the two concluding instalments of Mr. Maynard's account of Saffron Walden Museum. A Journey to Scotland in 1789,' communicated to the November number by Mr. F. W. Bull, and in the December number Mr. W. B. Gerish's paper on The School Library

at Bishop's Stortford,' with the last portion of Some Unrestored Churches in Kent and Sussex,' contributed by the late J. Tavenor-Perry, comprise, with the usual Notes' and reviews, the last examples of curious research and pleasant learning which lovers of what is old will gather from these familiar pages. The Sign of the Owl,' we notice, was hauled down in November. The Editor, in a Note in the last number, takes leave of his readers: The Antiquary is to be given up. We are sincerely sorry to hear it. During an existence of thirty-six years it has attracted to itself the work of many capable and ingenious writers, and the esteem of many appreciative readers, doing its part towards keeping alert and extending that humane and affectionate feeling for our general heritage from the past which has been so grossly outraged by our enemy in France and in Belgium. The Editor reminds us in his farewell paragraph that he has been for seventeen years in charge of the magazine, and while we congratulate him on being able to look back on so long a term of genial service to his fellow-countrymen, we heartily condole with him on having his labours brought to so abrupt an end, and that by an agency so cruel.

We must add one more word. We learn that a leaflet was inserted in some copies of the last number of The Antiquary announcing that the journal would be amalgamated with N. & Q.' No such leaflet appeared in our own copy, and up to the time of going to press we have not been able to obtain a sight of one. We should like our readers to understand that whatever was the statement thus circulated, it was not authorized by us.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS.

A GOOD deal of curious and also-so to put itsome solid interest still attaches to eighteenthcentury work in philology, and those who have a mind for this will be entertained by Messrs. Sotheran's new catalogue (760), which describes books on that subject, and several eighteenthcentury items among them. Thus they have in six 8vo vols. Monboddo's extraordinary dissertation Of the Origin and Progress of Language,' the second edition (1774-92, 17. 18.), and a copy of the work of the early Anglo-Saxon scholar Elizabeth Elstob, An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory....translated into Modern English,' having a portrait of the editress, and bound in old calf (1709, 78. 6d.). Fry's 'Pantographia, containing Accurate Copies of all the known Alphabets in the World' (1799), is not dear for a good copy at 10s. 6d. ; and for the same moderate sum may be obtained the 'Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum' of La Croze-a copy bearing some notes by the late Robert Atkinson. Messrs. Sotheran have, further, one copy each of Cocker's English Dictionary and of Bailey's Supplementary Dictionarium Britannicum,' as well as a sixth edition of Phillips's New World of Words' (1706, 17. 18.).

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In the way of eighteenth-century first editions, we have noted, among others, Swift's Tale of a Tub' (Mr. James Miles of Leeds, 71. 78.); Boswell's Life of Johnson (Messrs. Maggs, two copies, 167. 168. and 147. 148.); Pope's Essay on Man,' two copies, of which the better has the first issues of Parts I. and II. (Messrs. Maggs, 371. 10s. and

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251.); a complete set of Richardson's Novels (Messrs. Maggs, 1107.); and White's Selborne (Mr. Charles Sawyer, 91. 178. 6d.). We may also mention here that Mr. Charles Sawyer offers for 601. the armchair of the poet Gray, part of the furniture of my chambers at Cambridge," which, according to his will, was divided between his two cousins-this chair falling to Mary Antrobus. We have no doubt that a relic of such great interest will attract the attention of some person or society able to give it a suitable resting-place. There are, further, to be had many books of less classic interest than the above, but dear, for different reasons, to the hearts of collectors in this or that subject. Thus Mr. Andrew Baxendine of Edinburgh offers for 21. 28. Roy's Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain publication issued in 1793 by the direction of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Thus also Samuel Foote's Dramatic Works' turn up in the catalogue of Messrs. Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, who offer a nice old set (1778) for 11. 58.; and in that of Mr. Sawyer, who has the 1788 edition with a life of the author (1l. 2s.). Mr. Sawyer has, besides, "Perdita's " poems, with a coloured stipple portrait of the actress and author (178. 6d.); an interesting copy of J. T. Smith's Remarks on Rural Scenery" (1797), to be had for 21. 128.; and three MS. journals of a man named H. White, apparently servant to Capt. Smith, who between August, 1797, and October, 1800, was serving in the West Indies, in command, first of the Hannibal and then of the Carnatic (71. 108.). Mr. Gilbert of Winchester has the 1780 edition of Sterne's Works,' in 10 vols. crown 8vo (1l. 188.). Mr. Miles has Stockdale's edition of Gay's Fables,' with Blake's engravings (17. 158.), and three volumes of 'Works of the most celebrated Minor Pocts,' a collection published in 1749, and including poems by Roscommon, Dorset, Garth, Stepney, Ambrose Phillips, and several others, certainly not dear at 58.

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Messrs. Maggs's latest catalogue is a list of their Engravings, Etchings, and Drawings, and of these a large proportion, especially of portraits, are eighteenth-century work. We have space to mention only Conde's engraving after Cosway's Mrs. Tickell.' printed in colours (1007.); Faber's Peg Woffington as Mrs. Ford,' after Haytley (527. 108.); and a delightful French engraving, The Fine Musitioners,' Bonnet after Boucher (1057.).

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Finally we may draw attention to a list, in the catalogue of Mr. J. Thomson of Edinburgh, of some 180 book-plates, the great majority of which are of the eighteenth century.

Notices to Correspondents.

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 answering 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 communication "Duplicate."

ELEVENTH SERIES-VOL. XII.

SUBJECT

INDEX

[For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED,
EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, MOTTOES, OBITUARY, PLACE-NAMES, PROVERBS
AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, RIMES, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, SURNAMES, TAVERN
SIGNS, and THEATRES.]

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Akenside (Mark), his The Pleasures of Imagina-
tion,' 1744, 116

Alcester, pronunciation of the place-name, 257
Alençon, the first Lords of, c. 1000, 53
Aleppo, English Consuls at, 9

Alexander the Great, the tomb of, 37, 148, 404
Alexandretta (Scanderoon), English Consuls of
the Levant Company, 93, 167

Alice Holt Forest, origin of the name, 258, 306,
346

Allen (Dr.), priest, obit 1579, 74, 362

Allestree (Richard), D.D., 1619-81, and 'Gentle-
man's Calling' and Whole Duty of Man,' 27,
87, 487

Alphabet, origin and history of, 238

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Alter," in a Latin epitaph, 13

Alternative, "third alternative," use of the word,
86, 144

Ameerchanjants (Abraham), of Tiflis, c. 1883,
463

American oracle of 1803, 216

American underground railway, stations of, 102,
148

Americanisms, likely to come into general use,
218, 307

Amulets worn by German soldiers, 37

Anastatic printing, Edgar Allan Poe and, 359,
403, 443

Angell (John), d. 1764, literary feltmaker, 295

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Rights, Privileges, and Laws of Women, 1815,
320

Rose Tree, 1845, by A. H. B., 379
Six Little Princesses, 199, 249

Speculum, in two dialogues, by W. A. B-b,
1806, 302, 442

Treatise of Treasons, 1572, 481
Whole Duty of Man, 27, 87, 487
Anstruther, Fife, history of the town, 78, 109
Antwerp and Constantinople, statesman's

saying, 360

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Anzac, a new place-name, 238
Ap Thomas. See Thomas (Ap).
Aquila (Gilbert de), origin of the style, 49
Arch at head of Constitution Hill, 241, 283, 364
Archbishop and king, Irish, A.D. 901, 299
Arms. See Heraldry.

Arundines Cami' (comic), medley of English
and Latin verses, 502

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Babes, observant before they can speak, 439,
505

Bacon (-) Lewis Pitts, c. 1860, 442

Berghes (Corneille de), Bishop of Liége, 1538, 118,
170, 226

Berkshire, earliest map of, showing roads, 139
Berry (Sir E.), his letter from Nelson, 1801,
418

Betham, artist, c. 1830, his Christian name, 481
Betts family, 44, 110

Bevis Marks Synagogue, fire at, c. 1805, 100
Bewickiana, 278, 302

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Bible: Bell," in sixty-three volumes, 37; pre-
sented to the Queen Consort, 1603, 183, 467;
precise date of Authorized Version, 183, 266,
362, 467
Bible folk-lore, from sermon, 1657, 299

Bacon (Dr.) and Father John, in Rome, 1644, Bibliographers, Portuguese, dates of, 120
401, 445, 507

Badge, metal, two battleaxes crossed, 86
Bagnall (Walter), Etonian, 1760, 118, 186
Bagnall family of Bagenals Town, Carlow, 118,
186

Baines (Sir Thomas), 1622-80, his writings, 121
Baker's Chop-House, London landmark, its his-
tory, 500

"Balance of power," history of the phrase, 221
Balfe (E.), Dutch artist, his paintings, 121
Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. and Spottiswoode & Co.,
union of the printing houses, 419

Bancroft (Richard), Archbishop of Canterbury,

483

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Barbour (Sybella), wife of John Stewart of Edin-
burgh, c. 1760, 288

Bareacres (Lord), the title in Vanity Fair,' 46
Barley, blindness caused by, 380, 429, 488
Barnard (C.), astrologer, c. 1678, 242
Barnard (Edward), English Consul at Aleppo,
1638, 9

Barnard (F.), Dickens illustrator, his portrait,
462

Barrett (Mrs.), née Tyers, c. 1779, her Christian
name, 30

Barsanti (Miss), Mrs. Richard Daly, actress,
c. 1772, 33

Bartolozzi (F.), portrait of Capt. J. King engraved
by, 160, 288, 326

Bassi (Ugo), 1801-49, revolutionist, a letter by,
168, 237, 310, 348

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Bibliography :—

Bewickiana, 278

Bible, Authorized Version, 183, 266, 362,
467

Blackstone's Commentaries, first edition, 58
Browne (Edward), his Travels and Adven-
tures,' 42, 63, 81, 130, 169
Christmas, 498

Colburn (H.), books published by, 1828, 26
Dibdin (Charles), edition of his songs, 47
Duignan (W. H.), his works, 6, 39
'Excerpta Legationum,' 30, 77, 131

'Henry V.,' publisher of the first quarto
edition, 181

Histories of Irish counties and towns, 24, 210,
276, 375

Hood (Robin) romances, 170

Hotten (J. Camden), publisher, 13, 147, 231,

270

Kaye (Sir J. W.), his History of the Sepoy
War,' 200, 247

'Passionate Pilgrim,' 259, 487

Tonson (James), printer, c. 1699, 376
'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' the preface, 9, 58
Bigod (Isabella), b. c. 1205, her identity, 16, 128
Bill of dinner for 124 persons, c. 1450, 180
Billington (Mrs.), her trustee Mr. Savory, 321,
391

Bird (I. F.), his drawing of A. Caccia, 85, 128
Birds, phosphorescent, the belief in, 213, 306
"Bishops, eight Irish," in Thackeray's 'On
Clerical Snobs,' 139

Bissextus, Romans' unlucky day, 281, 326
Blackfriars Theatre, Shakespeare and, 47, 108
Blackstone's Commentaries, first edition, 58
Blakesley family, 461

Blanc (Vincent Le), punishment for desecrating
a Turkish grave, 200, 250

Blindness caused by barley, 380, 429, 488
“Bloody shirt," use of the phrase, 318, 368
Bloomfield (Robert), 1766-1823, eulogized by
Disraeli, 29

Boag (John), 1775-1863, his daughters, 159
"Boches," origin of the word, 330
Bodens (Col. George), celebrated wit, d. c. 1781,
17, 230, 288

Boleyn (Queen Anne), knights made at her
coronation, 1533, 301, 369, 381

Bolingbroke (Lord), Wood's pamphlet in answer
to, c. 1751, 100; on the Hapsburg dynasty,
481

Bombay gentlemen of 1792 and Capt. R.
Williams, 94

Bona (Cardinal), epigram on, 358
Bonaparte (Napoleon), and the Bellerophon,
35, 105, 369; Secret Memoirs,' 1815, 69, 108;
his bequest to Cantillon, 139, 188, 324, 383,

430; author of verses on, 320; on the Russian Books recently published:-
Emperor Alexander, 341; bronze statuettes of,
359

Books attacked by tom-tits, 480

Books recently published:-

Archæologia Æliana, Third Series, Vol. XII.,
331

Bamff Charters, 1232-1703, ed. by Sir J.
Ramsay, 271, 317

Bradley's (H.) A New English Dictionary
on Historical Principles: (Vol. IX.)
Standard-Stead, 331

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers
relating to Great Britain and Ireland :
Papal Letters, Vol. X., 1447-55, prepared
by J. A. Twemlow, 152

Calendar of the Fine Rolls: Vol. V., Edward
III., 1337-1347, 191

Calendar of Suffolk Wills proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-
1604, 19

Cambridge History of English Literature,

ed. by Sir A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller:
Vol. XII. The Nineteenth Century, I.,
451

Catalogue, Descriptive, of Ancient Deeds in
the Public Record Office, Vol. VI., 191
Cathay and the Way Thither, Vols. II. and III.,
471

Common Conditions, ed. by T. Brooke,

"Elizabethan Club Reprints," No. 1, 491
Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages. Index
to Vols. I.-VI., compiled by A. T. Satter-
ford, 412

Dobson's (A.) Rosalba's Journal, and Other
Papers, 371

Ficke's (A. D.) Chats on Japanese Prints,
171

Fleetwood Family Records, edited by R. W.
Buss, 371

Folk-Lore Notes, Vol. I. Gujarat, compiled
from Materials collected by the late A. M.T.
Jackson, 19; Vol. II. Konkan, 210
Fry's (E. A.) Almanacks for Students of
English History, 312

Gaster's (M.) Roumanian Bird and Beast
Stories, 231

Genealogist, edited by H. W. F. Harwood,
New Series, Vol. XXXI., 471
Gross's (C.) Sources and Literature of English
History to about 1485, 91
Hardy's (Sir R.) Ipra Opulenta, 251
Harrison's (H.) The Vernacular Form of
Abjuration and of Confession of Faith, 40;
Surnames of the United Kingdom, Vol. II.,
471

Hayden's (A.) Chats on Old Silver, 151
Horne's (H. P.) The Binding of Books, 492
Johnson (C.) and H. Jenkinson's English
Court Hand, A.D. 1066 to 1500, 131
Johnson's (S. C.) Chats on Military Curios,
312

Ker's (W. P.) Jacob Grimm: an Address, 290
Manchester Cathedral, A Short Guide-Book
to, 290

McMurray's (W.) A City Church Chronicle :
History of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Alders-
gate, and of St. John Zachary, 59
Merritt's (P.) Account of Descriptive Cata-
logues of Strawberry Hill, 412
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Fifth
Series, Vol. I. Part VI., 60

New English Dictionary on

Historical

Principles: (Vol. IX.) Standard-Stead, by
H. Bradley, 331

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Plomer's (H. R.) A Short History of English
Printing, 1476-1900, 492

Putnam's (G. H.) Memoirs of a Publisher,
1865-1915, 431

Reinach's (S.) Essai sur la Mythologie
Figurée et l'Histoire Profane dans la
Peinture Italienne de la Renaissance,
252

Rolle (Richard), of Hampole, The Incendium
Amoris of, ed. by M. Deanesly, 39
Russian Folk-Tales, translated from the
Russian by L. A. Magnus, 511
Sedgefield's (W. J.) The Place Names of
Cumberland and Westmorland, 151

Smith's (G. C. Moore) Henry Tubbe, 111
Sunderland's (S.) Old London's Spas, Baths,
and Wells, 411

Tahiti, The Quest and Occupation of, by
Emissaries of Spain, 1772-1776, compiled
by B. G. Corney, 410

Tyssen's (A. D.) The Church Bells of Sussex,
with the Inscriptions, 311
Walton (I.) and C. Cotton's The Compleat
Angler,' 191

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Wesselitsky's (G. de) Russia and Democracy:
the German Canker in Russia, 59
Worley's (G.) Essex, 412

Booksellers' Catalogues, 40, 60, 80, 132, 171, 212,
291, 332, 392, 432, 472, 512
Bookworms, remedies against, 138, 185, 208, 268,
308, 330, 370

Boothby monuments, the whereabouts of, 240
Borrows (W.), drawing of monument of, 35,
78

Botany: plant sympathies and antipathies, 88;
Chinese plant-name, humanity's saviour,'

278, 327

66

Boteler family, arms of, 33, 110, 267
Bough (Sam), whereabouts of landscapes by, 10
Bowles (J.) and Mr. Jennings, c. 1800, 260
Bows and arrows in the Crimean War, 342, 406,
466

Boyle (Hon. Mrs. E. Vere) her Ros Rosarum,'
1885, 379, 426, 487

Bradley family, 101

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Braithwaite (J. B.), c. 1883, his identity, 463, 508
Bravache Écossais," origin of the term, 441,
488

"Bray or Dray," place-name of Somerset, 1605,
302, 351

Brehon Law-old Irish law, notes on, 398
Brewer (J. Sherren and E. Cobham), dates of their
birth, 502

Brewery, Meux's Horseshoe, the removal of,
47, 88

British Institution, Royal, in Cowper Street,
1856, 86

British Isles, statues and memorials in, 65, 178,
231, 298, 336, 370, 388, 406, 416

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