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perambulation" commenced at the Edmonton side of the parish, and proceeded towards the west end thereof, reference being made therein to the old "Queen's Head." Green Lanes (recently rebuilt), Duckett's Farm, the New River, and the ditch (or rivulet Moselle). The Remarks' then proceed as follows:

"Go on to Parker's fence, leading towards Muswell Hill, then come over and keep along the fence to the end; here is a mark on an oak, and as soon as you go in the field on the right hand is a stone marked for St. James', Clerkenwell, keep down that side as far as the ditch, then cross, as the ditch does, up to the barn of Mr. Mitchel; keep on by the ditch down to Holleck Wood, cross the ditch; here is a mark on an oak in the corner; keep up the ditch on the wood side two fields, then cross over and go on to Bounds Green Lane.'

It is hardly necessary to add that the present Bounds Green Road (named after the before-mentioned lane) is in Wood Green, and consequently in the manor of Tottenham. A copy of the document, which contains a detailed account of the boundaries of the ancient manor from which the above extract is taken, will be found in Dr. Robinson's History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham' (1840), vol. i. pp. 157-60. J. BASIL BIRCH.

15, Brampton Road, South Tottenham. We note the doubt expressed at the last reference with regard to Lysons's rendering of the surname Morton; but it appears probable that he was correct, since we find it so in the Cal. Charter Rolls' (P.R.O. 1903). Another difficulty. however, arises, since this calendar gives William de Morton (not Walter). It may be observed that the manors possessed by James de Alditheley twenty-five years later included, besides Halewyke, co. Middlesex, both Morton and Horton, co. Stafford.

COL. PRIDEAUX's etymology for Hollick is doubtless correct; possibly he may suggest an equally satisfactory elucidation of the neighbouring Pinsenall (9th S. xi. 287). The only variation we have discovered is " Pensnothyll" (Feet of Fines, Eliz. 4 and 5 Mich. D.C.). W. MCB. AND F. MARCHAM. 69, Beechwood Road, Hornsey, N.

THE EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY (10th S. iii. 163, 236, 297, 334, 411, 451). Some confusion as to the exact date of Tom Thumb's advent has evidently arisen from the fact of there being two different show-bills of his exhibition. The first, quoted by COL. PRIDEAUX (10th S. iii. 451), clearly substantiates the date I named, 1844; but there is another in my collection announcing the "Farewell Levees of General Tom Thumb previous to his final departure for America. Positively

for a short time only." Here is the only
indication of date: "He has not increased
one inch in height nor an ounce in weight,
since he was seven months old! He is 14 years
old, 25 inches high, and weighs 15 pounds!"
This is issued from the Egyptian Hall,
and suggests a return visit in 1846. I should
like some confirmation of this. Barnum's
statement to MR. R. MARSHAM-TOWNSHEND,
although of great interest, can hardly be
correct. When the General returned to
London in 1857 and gave his entertainment
at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, 209, Oxford
Street, he is said to have hardly altered. I
is impossible that he was only five years old
when exhibiting in 1844.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

As we seem now to be making a little
divagation from the place to the subjects
well remember, when a boy in July, 1844,
exhibited, allow me to say that I perfectly
seeing Tom Thumb, accompanied by his
showman Barnum, being exhibited at the
Adelaide Gallery. He posed as "Ajax defy-
ing the lightning," and as "Napoleon I.,'
just as we can suppose him appearing through
the wrong end of a telescope. Pamphlets
fictitious memoir of him, on the cover of
were offered for sale at the gallery, giving a
which were represented the Queen and Prince
Albert admiring Tom Thumb. It was said
to ladies only.
on the cover that he gave a stamped receipt

own life, in a limp cover, having a portrait of
About 1854 P. T. Barnum published his
himself on the outside, and giving a descrip-
tion of the impositions he had practised on the
public. Its sale must have been large, though
now it has become a scarce book. It was
copiously illustrated_with_rather common
engravings.
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

-The article on this word by DR. SMYTHE
"BOAST": ITS ETYMOLOGY (10th S. iii. 485).
PALMER is very acceptable, as the word is so
difficult. I will only say now that it may
prove impossible to connect the sb. boste,
when it is a comparatively late and solely
Northern variant of boiste, a flask, with the
sb. boste and verb bosten, as occurring far
earlier in the sense of 66
boast." It is to be feared that the author of
boast
"" and
the 'Catholicon' (1483) confused two words
that were previously quite distinct.

lately imagined a possible source for this By a curious coincidence, I have myself difficult word, which I will here merely indicate. I accept the conclusion in the 'New English Dictionary,' that the phonology

is decisively in favour of derivation from an Anglo-French (Norman) verb boster, which does not happen to have been found as yet, though it may turn up any day. Such a Norman word could, of course, be of real Norman, i.e., Norwegian, origin, and may very well be connected with a large family of words in that language which seem to give the right idea, when we remember that the M.E. bosten included the idea of being noisy or clamorous.

The Norwegian glossaries by Aasen and Ross contain these words: baus, proud, boastful; bausa, to bounce out, to go blindly forward; bause, a proud man; baust, adv., greatly; bus (Dan. and Swed. bus), bounce! plump! interj.; busa (Dan. buse, Swed. busa), to rush out upon, rush forward headlong, to fling rudely; bus, blunt, downright; busta, to break out, to be violent; busna, to be violent. Cognate words are numerous; as E. Friesic busen, to be noisy or violent; Low G. buusdern, to storm, be violent; buusdert, a violent storm, tempest; buusdrig, boisterous (Berghaus); busen, sb.. a crash (id.); bustern, to scold severely (id.); Norw. bustrig, harsh, severe (Ross). Still more important are the Norw. bausta, to be violent, to be noisy or bausten, boisterous; bauste, a reckless man; adj., audaciously precipitate; for this base baust would exactly give A.-F. bost-er, just as L. cause gives F. chose, and L. encaustum gives Ital. inchiostro.

Many more related words exist, but the above may suffice. MR. MAYHEW kindly tells me that a similar origin may account for the mysterious word boisterous; just as L. claus

trum accounts for cloister.

I think that bustle, verb, may also be allied.
WALTER W. SKEAT.

CHILD EXECUTED FOR WITCHCRAFT (10th S. iii. 468). The charges against Mrs. Mary Hickes, and the execution of the child, have been fully discussed in 'N. & Q.,' and proved to be untrue. See 1st S. v. 395, 514; 2nd S. v. "A slander well hoed grows like the EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

503. devil."

In 1716 Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This was the last execution for witchcraft in England.

JOHN RADCLIFFE. [For the last execution for witchcraft in England see 7th S. viii. 486; ix. 35, 117.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS (10th S. iii. 469).Kingsley's "lame dogs over stiles" is from a letter of invitation to Thomas Hughes to join

him in a tramp in North Wales. The third line of the four quoted should read "if we meet them." The lines were written in the visitors' book at the "Prince Llewellyn" Inn, Beddgelert, and it has been stated that this was their original appearance, and that the epistle was never actually sent to Hughes.

Hadlow, Kent.

H. SNOWDEN Ward.

"Do the work that's nearest," &c., is from 'Invitation to Tom Hughes,' 1. 12 from end, Macmillan's collected edition of the 'Poems" H. K. ST. J. S. (1884), p. 316.

The song commencing "I've no money, so you see," occurs in a vaudeville entitled The Loan of a Lover,' by J. R. Planché, produced 29 Sept., 1834, at the Olympic Theatre, and was sung by Madame Vestris in the character of Gertrude; the principal male part of Peter Spyk, the simple lover of Gertrude, being played by Robert Keeley. In a note to the printed edition of the play it is stated that the song, the air of which is said to be taken from Faut l'Oublier,' is published by Chappell, 50, New Bond Street.

JNO. HEBB.

[MR. W. DOUGLAS, T. G., MR. H. G. HOPE, MR. E. LATHAM, ST. SWITHIN, and MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for replies.]

WACE ON THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS (10th S. iii. 407, 455). PROF. SKEAT refers to Edgar" as author of a prose version of Wace. We should read Edgar Taylor, who sprang from the well-known Norfolk family, including a printer represented by Taylor & Francis, Mrs. Reeve, and Capt. Meadows Taylor-all quite distinct from the Stanford Rivers family, so distinguished by the name A. HALL. of Isaac.

BESANT ON DR. WATTS (10th S. iii. 489).-
I remember when I was at school at Rich-
mond, Surrey, in 1865, having pointed out
to me a spot in Richmond Park, overlooking
the Thames Valley, where, my informant
said, Dr. Watts stood when he wrote his
hymn commencing "There is a land of pure
delight," and containing the lines-

Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand drest in living green.

Although the view of the green fields beyond
the shining river may well have inspired
such a thought, I have since been led to
believe that the information I then received
was quite erroneous.

In Our Hymns: their Authors and Origin,' by Josiah Miller, M.A. (1866), on p. 96, I find the following paragraph :—

"Local tradition connects this hymn ['There is a land of pure delight] with the neighbourhood of

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Works of Horace. The Latin Text with Conington's Translation. (Bell & Sons.) AN enchanting and a scholarly little volume is this, just small enough to be carried in the waistcoat pocket, and exquisite in paper, print, and binding. In a novel of Capt. Marryat, if we rightly recollect, the period of which was that of war with France, those exercising the guns, while passing near an island in French possession, aimed a gun in pure wantonness at a figure on the beach. To their surprise, and somewhat to their dismay, it fell. Sending a boat to the spot, they found on the beach the body of a well-dressed man who had been reading Horace. That fate is hardly likely to befall a man of to-day, who will probably be on a motor-car, and will certainly not be reading a Latin classic. If any scholarly creature capable of such an action is left alive, here is the ideal volume for him. With a few unimportant deviations the text is that of the latest edition of the Corpus Poetarum Latinorum.' Though scarcely inspired, Conington's translation is scholarly and "elegant," to use a word of which the eighteenth century was proud. We hope this spirited effort on the part of the publishers will be successful enough to elicit a companion volume of Virgil. There are those unhappily few in these later days-to whom these works would constitute a library.

The Tragedies of Algernon Charles Swinburne. In Five Volumes.-Vol. 1. The Queen Mother and Rosamond. (Chatto & Windus.)

A COMPLETE edition of Mr. Swinburne's tragedies is an indispensable complement to the collection of his poems, the appearance of which we have noted. The first volume of this is now issued in precisely the same form as the previous collection, and will obtain no less warm a welcome. Those who read in the first edition the two works now reprinted, and prophesied or hailed the arrival of a great poet, were but few. Not until Atalanta' flashed upon the sight was the world fully witched. After the enthusiastic reception of this, and the grudging and not easily comprehensible outburst against Poems and Ballads,' the first edition of The Queen Mother' and 'Rosamond' became one of the scarcest and most coveted of poetical works. What is still the pecuniary value of the original edition we know not. So soon as a work becomes generally accessible, and the thirst of the lover of poetry can be quenched, matters of the kind interest only the collector or the connoisseur. Now that the plays take their regular place in the poet's works it is interesting to see how all the promise of the coming harvest is there. With a marvellous psychological study of Catherine de' Medici, the

Queen Mother, and that, no less admirable, of Charles IX., her verminous issue, and with its picture of the sufferings of Dénise de Maulévrier, The Queen Mother' anticipates the great following dramas dealing with Mary Stuart. Allusions. to the Queen of Scots, indeed, occur in its pages. In Rosamond,' meantime, which is concerned with an altogether different epoch, we find those precise gifts of style which later aroused the enthusiasm of Mr. Swinburne's admirers and the wrath of his maligners. Very tender is the pleading of Rosamond, and the malignancy and scorn of Queen. Eleanor are biting and terrible. Little in thedramatist's subsequent work is more intense than are the closing scenes of Rosamond.' When King: Henry says about Eleanor, For the queen,

See how strong laughter takes her by the throat And plucks her by the lips,

we feel that the poetic and dramatic method is. fully mastered. In the case of a work that has been so long before the public criticism and tion are both out of place. We can but welcomequotathe appearance of so desirable a collection. The Angel in the House. By Coventry Patmore.. (Bell & Sons.) IN a pretty cover, and in a form at once cheap and attractive, we have here Coventry Patmore's most deserves, and express a hope to possess in a similar popular poem. We accord it a welcome such as it form his best poem, The Unknown Eros.' Dainty little volumes such as this are to us an unending delight.

Nights at the Opera. - Bizet's Carmen, Gounod's Faust, Mozart's Don Giovanni. By Francis Burgen, F.S.A.Scot. (De La More Press.) THE object of this series, the later volumes of which are competently edited by Mr. Francis Burgen, is avowedly to supply in an attractive form an analysis of the music and a comment or running commentary on the dramatic element in the great operas. So far as the present instalment is concerned the task is well executed. Musical passages. are given, together with information concerning the composer and the circumstances of the first production, and the whole constitutes a sort of preparation for a Dictionnaire des Opéras' like that of Clément and Larousse.

IN The Burlington Magazine for July the first part appears of Sonie English Architectural Leadwork," by Lawrence Weaver, F.S.A. This is comparatively an untried subject, and both comment and illustra-tions are deeply interesting. An important article, also finely illustrated, is that of Mr. W. R. Lethaby of the Westminster School.' A capital frontispiece on The Painted Chamber and the Early Masters. is supplied in Gainsborough's Portrait of Mr. Vestris.' Some fine views accompany an account by Mr. Robert Dell of Sutton Place, by Guildford. Portraits of Mrs. Irwin by Sir Joshua, and of Augustus. Welby Pugin, and a painting attributed to Françoise. Duparc, are noteworthy features in a capitalı

number.

WOMAN holds a large, we will not say disproportionate, share in The Fortnightly, and the articles on her position and doings constitute the most readable portion of its contents. Especially entertaining to masculine readers, though, we

Grimthorpe, he gave proof of the eccentricity with
which he is now credited. Canon Ellacombe has a
very interesting paper on' Roses." Under the title
of The Fall of the House of Goodere,' Mr. H. B.
Irving tells afresh the grim story of the famous
fratricide. Part iii. of From a College Window'
deals with college libraries.-Mr. A. R. Bayley
writes in The Gentleman's on Chaucer and the
Universities,' Mr. Ellis Peyton on 'The Wives of
William the Silent,' and Mr. Charles Menmuir on
English Trade under the First of the Stuarts.' Mr.
Holden MacMichael sends Part vii. of his interest-
ing Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbour-
hood.' When he says, "Between Nos. 84 and 90,
St. Martin's Lane, is Wyndham's Theatre," does he
not mean the New Theatre ?- Lord Acton's Hun-
dred Best Books' is first printed in The Pall Mall.
We hold lists of this kind in little estimation. That
of Lord Acton, which is contributed by Mrs. Drew
(Miss Gladstone), is simply inconceivable.
'Studio
Land in Paris' reveals to the general public a world
not generally known. Dwarfs, Giants, and the
Average Man' is interesting. The best part of the
contents is, however, fiction.-In Longman's Mr.
Andrew Lang, in At the Sign of the Ship,' discusses
once more Indian jugglery, then, after an incursion
into cricket. deals at some length with false antiqui-
ties. Mr. W. Heneage Legge writes agreeably on
'The Birds and Beauties of an Old Orchard.'
Midsummer in Ireland,' by Maud E. Sargeant, deals
with remains of primitive superstition.

Notices to Correspondents.

suspect, not wholly grateful to feminine, is Mrs.
John Lane's contribution on 'The Extravagant
Economy of Women.' Mr. Robert S. Rait discusses
Scotland and John Knox,' a subject always inter-
esting to Scotsmen, to which Mr. Lang's recent
writings have added fresh importance. Mr. Francis
Gribble contributes a paper on Francis William
Newman, which supplies curious illustrations of his
subject's intellectual growth. An "honest mind
working in the pietistic medium was, we are told,
"the note of Francis Newman throughout his life."
"The Beginnings of Religion and Totemism among
the Australian Aborigines,' of which the first portion
appears, is extracted from the forthcoming third
edition of Mr. J. G. Frazer's Golden Bough.' Among
these some possibilities of belief in a supreme being
may perhaps be traced, but the accounts given by
matives of their religious beliefs are often deliber-
ately falsified for the benefit of the white man.-In
his A Country Parson of the Eighteenth Century,'
contributed to The Nineteenth Century, Dr. Jessopp
supplies what may in part be reckoned as a critical
analysis of the deeply interesting Memorials of a
Royal Chaplain' of Mr. Albert Hartshorne, a book
with which we hope ere long to concern ourselves.
The work, which it is to be hoped is but a first
instalment, is of a kind to appeal to that fine
scholar and former contributor. Mr. St. Clair
Baddeley, another whilom writer in our columns,
sends an interesting and valuable paper on
'The Sacred Trees of Rome.' Mr. Baddeley's
recent explorations of Rome have yielded much
good fruit, and this may count as part. There is no
mention of the Golden Bough, but what is said
generally concerning sacred groves is well worthy
of study, and some of it is new. Mrs. Corner-
Ohlmütz has a paper, also of deep interest to students
of primitive culture, on 'Heathen Rites and Super-
stitions in Ceylon.' 'Count St. Paul in Paris' casts
light on English and French relations in the pre-lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
revolutionary period in France.-Glimpses into the
Mind of a Child,' by Katharine Tynan, which
appears in The National Review, is wholly sui
generis. Most families can tell of the utterance of
some clever or speculative infant. Never before have
childish investigations into truth or speculation been
fully described. The result is both amusing and edi-
fying. Sometimes the utterances are Blake-like. as,
I always think distances beautiful." The Hon.
W. Pember Reeves writes on The Expansion of
Utopia,' and takes the sanguine view that the
"Western European and Colonial world, which
concerns itself with commonwealths," is bringing
spots in Utopia within ken.
One of the utter-
ances of a paper with which we do not entirely
agree is that, purely as a satire, Butler's
Erewhon' is more ingeniously and convincingly
worked out than 'Gulliver.' There are some
Further Impressions of Eton,' and Dr. William
Barry writes thoughtfully on Freemasons in
France.'-In The Cornhill Miss Helen Zimmern
writes of The Modern Italian Drama.' The greatest
share of this article is allotted to Gabriele d'Annun-
zio, of whose works in one aspect at least the writer
speaks with pardonable reticence. E. A. Butti,
whom we know not, is also dealt with, as is Arrigo
Boito, the author of 'Nero.' This contribution is
valuable, but might with advantage have been
further expanded. Mr. Pember, K.C., supplies
interesting Personal Recollections of Lord Grim-
thorpe,' and tells some readable stories. In early
youth, when we occasionally encountered Lord

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