LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1888. CONTENTS.-N° 132. NOTES:-Shakspeariana, 1-Honorary Degrees, 3-Curlliana -Railway Tickets, 4-Steele and the Charterhouse-Abbott Family-Three Sovereigns in one Year-Order against Games, 5-Miss Foote-Louvima-Verification of Quotations, 6. QUERIES:-Chaffer-Challis-Chaise-longue-Chad Pennies -Egotism-Macready, 7-Letting the Lightning out—E. J. Conroy - Bishops Jackson and Lloyd - The Sorbonne- Henry IV. and Mary de Bohun-Confucius-Hugo Lloyd- Title of Book of Hymns-Certifago, 8-Rockall-Servants landson-Moon-lore, 10-Sprig of Shillelah'-Booted Mis- sion-Up-Helly-A, 11-Church Bells-Catsup-Reference Wanted, 12-Caradoc-Book by General Outram-Royal Offering-Cathedrals-Berthold's 'Political Handkerchief' -Lapp Folk-Tales, 13-Snead-St. Malan-Scarron-Ver- non-Norfolk Song, 14-Title of Novel-John Hamilton- Sarum Missal-Shakspeare-Hide-Motion of the Sun, 15— Rebecca-Hussar Pelisse, 16-Portraits-Sons of Edward sense here too. Unfortunately, too, neither bank Send out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks. My last note on this subject shall be strictly He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause the word cause has been quite undeservedly, I the Clarendon Press editors do, as comparing There is no question at all of Macbeth's followers, human life to "a narrow strip of land in an but only of the nature of his violence. ocean. Yet examination will, I think, show con- sically-derived words used by Shakespeare it is clusively that the reading and interpretation are always the safe plan to refer to the Latin dic- equally untenable. Presumably the Clarendon tionary. Turning to Lewis and Short's 'Dic- Press editors take bank as "sand-bank," and tionary 'I find under "Causa," "In medic. lang. a at times by shallow water. But if so, what a ease," for which various authorities are cited. Causa sand-bank into the shoaly waters of the sea! Is language is called a case," i. e., the matter at not this an extraordinary way of picturing the leap issue. "Distemper'd cause," then, I take to mean into eternity's gulf? Jump no doubt means his "malady of distemper," and in the same sense tropically to risk," as the Clarendon Press the passage above quoted from 'Hamlet,' where it |