of Waterloo by an officer. Under Art we find Audsley's Practical Decorator,' complete in the 15 parts, folio, 30s.; Furnival's Leadless Decorative Tiles,' 38s. 6d.; and Dawe's Life of Morland,' 1807, 388. Under Biography are many items of interest, also under Genealogical, History, and Illustrated Books. Under Topographical are a large number of entries, and under Voyages and Travels are many interesting books, including Hawkes's account of Commodore Perry's expedition to the China Seas and Japan in 1852-4, Washington, 1856, 42s.; and Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages,' 17 vols., 4to, 1808-14, 37. 138. 6d.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s list of books on Philology and Egyptology, to which we made reference on 19 May, contains 770 items, and of these no fewer than 135 are devoted to the philological publications of that indefatigable worker Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte. We well remember him when he was collecting materials for these, and with what earnestness and quiet enthusiasm he laboured. Messrs. Sotheran truly state that these publications are "the fruit of the whole devotion of a fortune and a life to the cause of science.' The general entries include Bell's Visible Speech,' 4to, 1867, 78. (the author was the father of Alex. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone); a large-paper copy of the publications of the Oriental Translation Fund, 22 vols. 4to and 32 vols. 8vo, very scarce, 1832-46, 147. 148.; Layamon's Brut, 3 vols., Soc. Antiq., 1847, 17. 11. 6d.; Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1838, 17. 18.; Bunsen's Egypt's Place in Universal History,' translated by Cottrell and Birch, 1848-67, 41. 10s.; a subscriber's set to 1903 of the Egypt Exploration Fund's Publications, 227. 10s. English Dialect Dictionary,' complete to Part 20, 81. Ss.; English Dialect Society's Publications, 1873-96, 11. 118.; Société des Anciens Textes Français, 24 vols. and 28 parts, 1875-92, 97. 98.; Cleasby's Icelandic-English Dictionary,' completed by Vigfusson, 1874, 17. 18s. 6d. (the only Icelandic-English dictionary in existence); and Littré's 'Dictionnaire,' 1874-81, 37. 10s.

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Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, includes in his Catalogue 141 The Antiquarian Repertory,' 1807-9, 37. 38. Under America is Morgan and O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New York,' Albany, 1849-50, 3 vols., 17. 16s. Among Reports and Society Publications are British Association, 1831-98, 107. Cavendish, 1848-71, 5l.; Chetham, 1840-1904, 168 vols., 24.; Naval Architects, 1860-1900, 44 vols., 28/.; a fine set of the Powys-Land Club, 1868-98, 187. 10s.; and Cumberland and Westmorland, 1877 - 1900, 20. Under Dickens are 'Bleak House,' first edition, in parts, 1852-3, 17. 18.; and Edwin Drood,' original parts, 6s. Fraser's Magazine, complete, 1830-82, half-calf, 106 vols., is 247.; Historical Manuscripts Commission, 72 vols., 127.; a set of Hood's 'Comic Annual,' 1830-39, 10 vols.. 41. 48.; Illustrated London News, 1842-99, 116 vols., 10.; Punch, 1841-1904, 22. Farmer and Henley's 'Slang Dic tionary,' 7 vols., 77. 78. ; Ormerod's Cheshire,' 1882, 61. 6s.; and 'Bibliographica,' 3 vols., 1895-97, 31.

Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading. has Burton's 'Arabian Nights,' original issue, 15.; Coleridge's Poems,' second edition, 1797, 21. 28.; Doran's English Stage, édition de luxe, 1888, 31. 78. 6d. Encyclopædia Britannica' (Times edition), 25 vols., 51. 5s.; Forbes's 'Oriental Memoirs,' 4 vols., 4to,

1813, 31. 15s.; Horne's 'Orion,' fine copy, 21s. (it will be remembered that Horne published this at one farthing, to show his contempt of a public who would not buy poetry); a copy of Laud's Prayer Book, first issue, Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1636, 9. 9s.; Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 1829-36, 30%.; Marmontel's 'Euvres complètes,' Paris, 1818, 18 vols., 31. 108.; Monstrelet's Chronicles,' 5 vols. 4to, 4. 10s.; 'Musgrave's Obituary prior to 1800,' Harleian Society, 1899, 41. 4s.; Stephens's 'Old Northern Runic Monuments,' 4 vols., 6. 6s.; Whitaker's 'Ducatus Leodiensis, rare, 1816, 41. 48. Richards's History of Lynn,' 2 vols., royal 8vo, 1812, 26s.; Vanity Fair, vols, i. to x., 1868-74, 27. 10s. and Rowlandson's Military Adventures of Johnny Newcombe,' original boards, uncut, 1816, 358., and The Pleasures of Life,' 1807, 30s. Among interesting Napoleon items is Fournier's Dictionnaire Portatif This was de Bibliographie,' Paris, 1805, 67. 68. Napoleon's own copy, and has his monogram surmounted with crown and laurel leaf repeated five times on the book, while gold centres on the side contain the eagle, crown, cross of the Legion of Honour, &c. It is bound in fine old French mottled calf.

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Mr. James Tregaskis has a catalogue of original drawings and studies by artists of the English School. We note a few out of the five hundred items: Burne-Jones, King Arthur's Armour, 16gs.; Birket Foster, The Deserted Village,' 25gs.; Gainsborough, A Woodland Scene,' 10gs.; Goodall, a quarter length portrait of Queen Victoria, drawn at Windsor Castle on her late Majesty's eightieth birthday, 15gs.; Hogarth's Harlot's Progress,' &c., twelve pieces. 10gs. ; Landseer, A Dead Woodcock,' 5gs.; MacWhirter, In the Rhone Valley,' 14gs. Millais, A Boy Sleeping,' 6gs.; Orchardson, 'Her Mother's Voice,' 9gs. Rossetti, Girl tying up Miseltoe, 24gs.; Clarkson Stanfield, 'A Windmill, 12gs.; and Tenniel, Punch cartoon on the death of the Duke of Clarence, 10gs.

Mr. W. Ridler's Catalogue 408 contains Burton's Arabian Nights,' Kamashastra Edition, 12 vols. ; some interesting classical books; and some of Buck's large views, including five of London. But the main feature is the collection of Bacon's works, including the first complete edition in Latin (Frankfort, 1665) and the first in English (4 vols., 1730); Spedding's masterly edition of 1861, 7 vols.; a large copy of the 'Essays,' 1632; and first editions of the Advancement of Learning,' a fine copy, 1605; Historie of Henry the Seventh,' 1622; Historia Vitæ et Mortis,' 1623; and Sylva Sylvarum,' 1627. Bacon's Latin works are not now commonly met with, even in modern editions, and this collection is of great interest.

Notices to Correspondents.

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

P. JENNINGS ("Party Names").-For Conservative see 8th S. vi. 61, 181; vii. 356; xi. 494; 9th S. it. 333; viii. 489; ix. 478; xi. 307; for Liberal, 8th S. . 168, 272, 490; for Radical, 7th S. v. 228, 296; vi. 137, 275, 415; vii. 32, 218.

D. M., Philadelphia.-Anticipated ante, p. 316.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 128.

NOTES:-Holyoake Bibliography, 441-Anglo-Saxon Names as Surnames-Robert Greene's Prose Works, 442-Sanatorium at Midhurst - Michel Family, 445- Poem by Fielding-Chepstow Castle and Sir Nicholas Kemeys, 446 -Verify your References-Thiers and the Dosne FamilyAlfonso and Victoria-" Pale Ale" as a Nickname for Englishmen, 447.

QUERIES:-Jean Nicot-Col. Hugh Forbes-"In a huff" Corn-rent Edouard Pingret Mountain FamilyDeployment," 448-"Nuts in May"- Order of the Royal Oak-Authors of Quotations Wanted-St Andrew's, Antwerp-Burney's Theatrical Portraits - Sir William

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Gordon, Banker-Shakspeare for Foreigners-Balasore St. Genius-Direction Post v. Signpost-"Mininin,' a Shell, 449-Miss Meteyard-Banner or Flag-Mary Munday at Mullion Cove-Gild Churches-Ruskin and Taormina, 450.

REPLIES: Blandina, 450 Dover- Winchester Road

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Decuyper's College Alphabet'-West's Picture of the Death of General Wolfe, 451 "Plane -Sycamore Tarot Cards-Mr. Bradley's Highways and Byways in South Wales,' 452-Prisoner suckled by his Daughter, 453 -Pidgin or Pigeon English - Female Violinists-Tom Thumb's First Appearance in London-Polytechnic Institution, 1838-Gallie Surname-" Anon -Chichele's Kin, 454-Heraldic-Coleridge and Newman on Gibbon-Canbury House, Middlesex-Rev. Samuel Marsden, Chaplain of N.S.W.-J. Rampini-Vandecar-The Babington Conspiracy Travelling in England, 1600-1700, 455-Earl's

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1851-Doncaster Weather-Rime-Dogs at Constantinople Eldest Son and Supporters-Century of Persian Ghazels, Hopton, 456-Ropes used at Executions-Abbey or Priory

the Bodleian, the Guildhall, and other libraries.

I have only about sixty pamphlets; among them is a heartfelt tribute by Holyoake to his first wife, Eleanor Williams Holyoake (1819-84).

He wrote on all kinds of subjects: a child's book, biographies, &c.; and two English Cobbett, he was somewhat behind in early grammars, an art in which, like William life-I mean more so than most of us. There are several 66 anonyma" (8th S. ix. 342), as "The Purple lecture used by the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 1846"; and another on "The India and China Teamart,' Glasgow (185-?). The Life of the Celebrated Lord Brougham' is pseudonymous. I happened to dip into this. Holyoake says:

"The English nation has just lost the greatest nobleman it possessed......Lord Brougham published an edition of 'Paley's Natural Theology'more ambitious than successful-and left Paley rather less interesting than he was before." "Brougham,"

he says. "wrote three no politicians were ever made philosophic." volumes of Political Philosophy, by which A little further on, talking of Brougham's capacity to see, when commencing sentence, what the end of it should be," Holyoake says:—

Totes.

HOLYOAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY. MANY years ago, in more energetic days, I began a bibliography of G. J. Holyoake's separate publications; but it had to be abandoned with various similar projects. I shall never do the bibliography now, and therefore write to say that I will lend what I have done and all the works I have to any sympathetic, responsible person who will compile such a catalogue (and pay for its being printed ?).

There are about 113 entries under Holyoake's name in the British Museum Catalogue. One of the first things to be done would be to rearrange the whole of these titles, in order to disentangle them from the confusion they are now in, caused by the titles being placed in what is supposed to be alphabetical order. They would be of greater use if, instead of being alphabetical, they had been in historical or biographical order of date. The alphabetical is almost useless, and fortunately has not been adopted by

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"Most speakers have some difficulty in beginning a sentence, and have no idea whatever what the termination will be, and not infrequently in their hands a sentence never attains to a termination at all."

Holyoake had a great capacity for looking at most things-statements or matters-in a different light from others.

His name first appears in 'Men of the Time' in 1872. Mr. Washington Moon left him out of the thirteenth edition, which he edited in 1891. Mr. V. G. Plarr did not reinstate him in the next edition, 1895. Whether these editors thought he must be dead or did not know him is doubtful. Holyoake reappeared, however, in 'Who's Who' in 1897, and continued to the last edition.

About 1875 he was, says a paper of that date, "in broken health, and a fund is sought to be raised on his behalf." This was subscribed to by persons of all shades of religious and political opinions, and I believe that a small annuity was bought for him.

If I had the call, I should like to name Mr. W. E. A. Axon as the person to undertake such a bibliography; and with his unlimited capacity for work it would be little trouble to him, I imagine.

RALPH THOMAS.

ANGLO-SAXON NAMES AS SURNAMES.

MANY have pointed, with some pride, to the forms of their surnames as proving or suggesting that their families came over with the Conqueror. Surely it is even more interesting to observe that, in other instances, surnames are still in use that were already used as names before the Conqueror came to England at all.

I notice that, in Bardsley's 'Dictionary of Surnames,' many names are said to be of English origin, and yet the true AngloSaxon forms from which they have descended are but obscurely suggested. It is possible

to be more exact.

Ailof and Ailuf in early times; but probably Bardsley is wrong in regarding these as resulting in the modern Ayliffe. The change from u or o to a modern form i can hardly be admitted. Miss Yonge is also mistaken in deriving Ayliffe from Elfgifu. It is easy to see that Bardsley is right as to the prefix, and Miss Yonge is right as to the suffix. As a fact, the form Ethelgifu also appears as Eileva, and could only result in the form Ayliffe. WALTER W. SKEAT.

ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. (See 10th S. iv. 1, 81, 162, 224, 483; v. 84, 202, 343, 424.) GREENE'S indebtedness to Primaudaye is still my theme.

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In exactly the same way the A.-S. Æthelmær became Ægelmær, and finally Aylmer and Ethelweard became Egelweard, and finally Aylward. It is rather sad to find that Miss Yonge, in her History of Christian Names,' connects these forms beginning with Ayl with the Norse Egils. It must suffice to say that her book goes back to the year 1884, when the notion of deriving words in accordance with historical forins and phonetic laws, especially in the case of names, was insufficiently regarded. None of her results can now be accepted without verification, though of course a large number are quite correct.

The A.-S. forms Ethelwine and Elfwine, both common, could either of them have resulted in Alwyne or Elwin or Elvin ; but it is better to prefer Elfwine, as it precludes the form Ayl- above. Here I think Miss Yonge made a wise choice. Similarly A.-S. Alfmær became Elmer; and the A.-S. Elfweard became Allard and Ellard. This is much better than deriving them from Æthelweard, of which the regular representative (as above) is Aylward, and another representative was Adelard, which is the modern Adlard. But it should be understood that there is often some slight doubt as to the precise origin; for example, the fairly common A.-S. Ealhheard might also result in Allard (but hardly in Ellard).

Similarly, the A.-S. Elfgōd gave us Algood and Elgood; and Elfgar gave us Algar and Elgar. The representation of the A.-S. E by both A and E is worthy of notice.

The A.-S. Ethelwulf became, regularly,

nondas with the Thebane army at hand against the Spartanes, readie to force and take their Citie, unclothed himselfe starke naked......and taking a Partisane in one hand and a sworde in the other, he went and

...where he shewed great prowesse and valure. For which behaviour, although he had a crowne given him......yet he was fined, because he hazarded his life so rashly."Greene, Euphues, his Censure to Philautus' (vi. 240-41), 1587: "For I remember that Isadas, a worthy Lacedemonian [here he varies his copy]......the battaile ended, the Senators gave him a Crowne of Laurell for the Victory; but fined him in a some of money for his rashnesse." In the same piece. at p. 243, Greene gives us the example of Sergius, who fought so well with one hand, altered from Primaudaye, chap. xxv., p. 271.

Primaudaye, chap. xxxv., Of Idlenes, Sloth, and Gaming, p. 370: "Amongst the obscure precepts which Pythagoras gave to his Disciples, this was one: Take heede that thou sit not upon a bushell: meaning that Idlenes and Sloth were especially to be eschewed."-Greene, The Royall Exchange (viii. 239), 1590: Pythagoras among his Enigmaes, hath thys: Take heed, &c....... especially to be eschewed." Word for word in omitted passage.

Primaudaye, chap. xxxv., p. 374: "Chilon being sent from Lacedemonia to Corinth, to intreate of a league between those two peoples, & finding the rulers playing at dice, returned back again and would not speake of his commission, saying that he would not staine the glory of the spartanes with so great an ignominie as to joine them in society with dice-plaiers."-Greene, 'Pery