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 :— 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. in 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. 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. 66 Memo 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.). 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 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. 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.). 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, · Akenside (Mark), his The Pleasures of Imagina- Alcester, pronunciation of the place-name, 257 Alexander the Great, the tomb of, 37, 148, 404 Alice Holt Forest, origin of the name, 258, 306, Allen (Dr.), priest, obit 1579, 74, 362 Allestree (Richard), D.D., 1619-81, and 'Gentle- Alphabet, origin and history of, 238 Alter," in a Latin epitaph, 13 Alternative, "third alternative," use of the word, Ameerchanjants (Abraham), of Tiflis, c. 1883, American oracle of 1803, 216 American underground railway, stations of, 102, Americanisms, likely to come into general use, Amulets worn by German soldiers, 37 Anastatic printing, Edgar Allan Poe and, 359, Angell (John), d. 1764, literary feltmaker, 295 Rights, Privileges, and Laws of Women, 1815, Rose Tree, 1845, by A. H. B., 379 Speculum, in two dialogues, by W. A. B-b, Treatise of Treasons, 1572, 481 saying, 360 a Anzac, a new place-name, 238 Arundines Cami' (comic), medley of English B Babes, observant before they can speak, 439, Bacon (-) Lewis Pitts, c. 1860, 442 Berghes (Corneille de), Bishop of Liége, 1538, 118, Berkshire, earliest map of, showing roads, 139 Betham, artist, c. 1830, his Christian name, 481 Bevis Marks Synagogue, fire at, c. 1805, 100 Bible: Bell," in sixty-three volumes, 37; pre- Bacon (Dr.) and Father John, in Rome, 1644, Bibliographers, Portuguese, dates of, 120 Badge, metal, two battleaxes crossed, 86 Baines (Sir Thomas), 1622-80, his writings, 121 "Balance of power," history of the phrase, 221 Bancroft (Richard), Archbishop of Canterbury, 483 Barbour (Sybella), wife of John Stewart of Edin- Bareacres (Lord), the title in Vanity Fair,' 46 Barnard (F.), Dickens illustrator, his portrait, Barrett (Mrs.), née Tyers, c. 1779, her Christian Barsanti (Miss), Mrs. Richard Daly, actress, Bartolozzi (F.), portrait of Capt. J. King engraved Bassi (Ugo), 1801-49, revolutionist, a letter by, Bibliography :— Bewickiana, 278 Bible, Authorized Version, 183, 266, 362, Blackstone's Commentaries, first edition, 58 Colburn (H.), books published by, 1828, 26 'Henry V.,' publisher of the first quarto Histories of Irish counties and towns, 24, 210, Hood (Robin) romances, 170 Hotten (J. Camden), publisher, 13, 147, 231, 270 Kaye (Sir J. W.), his History of the Sepoy 'Passionate Pilgrim,' 259, 487 Tonson (James), printer, c. 1699, 376 Bird (I. F.), his drawing of A. Caccia, 85, 128 Bissextus, Romans' unlucky day, 281, 326 Blanc (Vincent Le), punishment for desecrating Blindness caused by barley, 380, 429, 488 Boag (John), 1775-1863, his daughters, 159 Boleyn (Queen Anne), knights made at her Bolingbroke (Lord), Wood's pamphlet in answer Bombay gentlemen of 1792 and Capt. R. Bona (Cardinal), epigram on, 358 430; author of verses on, 320; on the Russian Books recently published:- Books attacked by tom-tits, 480 Books recently published:- Archæologia Æliana, Third Series, Vol. XII., Bamff Charters, 1232-1703, ed. by Sir J. Bradley's (H.) A New English Dictionary Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Calendar of the Fine Rolls: Vol. V., Edward Calendar of Suffolk Wills proved in the Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. by Sir A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller: Catalogue, Descriptive, of Ancient Deeds in Common Conditions, ed. by T. Brooke, "Elizabethan Club Reprints," No. 1, 491 Dobson's (A.) Rosalba's Journal, and Other Ficke's (A. D.) Chats on Japanese Prints, Fleetwood Family Records, edited by R. W. Folk-Lore Notes, Vol. I. Gujarat, compiled Gaster's (M.) Roumanian Bird and Beast Genealogist, edited by H. W. F. Harwood, Hayden's (A.) Chats on Old Silver, 151 Ker's (W. P.) Jacob Grimm: an Address, 290 McMurray's (W.) A City Church Chronicle : New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: (Vol. IX.) Standard-Stead, by Plomer's (H. R.) A Short History of English Putnam's (G. H.) Memoirs of a Publisher, Reinach's (S.) Essai sur la Mythologie Rolle (Richard), of Hampole, The Incendium Smith's (G. C. Moore) Henry Tubbe, 111 Tahiti, The Quest and Occupation of, by Tyssen's (A. D.) The Church Bells of Sussex, Wesselitsky's (G. de) Russia and Democracy: Booksellers' Catalogues, 40, 60, 80, 132, 171, 212, Boothby monuments, the whereabouts of, 240 Botany: plant sympathies and antipathies, 88; 278, 327 66 Boteler family, arms of, 33, 110, 267 Boyle (Hon. Mrs. E. Vere) her Ros Rosarum,' Bradley family, 101 Braithwaite (J. B.), c. 1883, his identity, 463, 508 "Bray or Dray," place-name of Somerset, 1605, Brehon Law-old Irish law, notes on, 398 Brewery, Meux's Horseshoe, the removal of, British Institution, Royal, in Cowper Street, British Isles, statues and memorials in, 65, 178, |