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stands for mwy, Scot, morgue, a solemn l^e murgeon, to mock by making mouths rTamieson) : from Fr. morgue, a sour face, a ofemn Sntenance, morguer to look sourly; cf Languedoc murga, countenance.

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'RECOMMENDED TO MERCY ' (10 th S .. i .100,

2 o 2 \ _A friend remembers reading in India a book with this title by Mrs. Eilow*. R ^

rW P have failed to find this under Mrs. Eiloart's name in the' English Catalogue.' Mrs. Houstoun's wo?k with the same title is not the one MR. LATHAM requires.]

BATROME (10* S. i. 88, 173, 252).-HELGA is surely mistaken in speaking of Barthram 8 Dirge' as an old Border ballad. That S Walter Scott believed in its antiquity cannot be called in question,- but there can be no doubt that it was composed by Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, the Durham antiquary For evidence of this see George Taylor's 'Memoir of Robert Surtees,' a new edition, with addi- tions by the Rev. James Rame (issued by the Surtees Society, 1852), pp. 85, 2

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THE FIRST EDITION OF HORACE (10 th S. i. 103). As regards the statement that t eight spurious lines at the beginning of the tenth Satire of the first, book "are said t be found in only one printed edition beta 1691, it may be observed that, according to Mr. Alfred Holder (Keller and Holder's 'Horace,' vol. ii., 1869), they are given by several editions before 1515. See the details in his critical note. EDWARD BEN SLY.

The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

KNIGHT TEMPLAR (10 th S. i.,149, 211).- Much information on this subject may be found in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum ' which, with other works, may be consulted at bi, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. P. A. X.

FIRST CATCH YOUR HARE" (9 th S. xii. 125, 518- 10 th S. i. 175, 254). In my copy of Ihe Art of Cookery, by Mrs. Glasse" (a new edition 1803), there are two directions which might easily have led to the above expression. lo Roast a Hare ' (p. 22) begins, " Take your hare when it is cased," Ac.; and 'Florendme Hare 1 (p. 126) begins, "Take a full-grown hare " &c. Mrs. Raffald (1807) also uses the same expression (p. 118): "To Florendme a Hare. Take a grown hare," &c. It is easy to imagine a wilful misunderstanding of the word " take " in these instances, and to treat

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j/rgeicut, jc*w "j_, A"H" Murray. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) A DOUBLE section of the great dictionary, issued under the direct charge of the editor 111 .chief Con- tains a total of 3,803 words, and carries the alpha from P to Pargeted. Few previous parts are more interesting or instructive than tins, and in none is- the editoml comment more edifying and important. In the introduction Dr. Murray explains, how. while as an initial it occupied a small space in the Old Engli sh vocabulary, the letter p has grown to be one of the three gigantic .letters of the modern English dictionarv. He is responsible tor I startling statement that of the 2,4o4 mam words discussed in the double section, one only, ,pan, theculinary vessel, can claim to be a native Old Enghs word From France came the great invasion which followed the few Latin words that preceded the Norman Conquest. Many of these supply, proof of Court or warlike usage-as page, #***.** palfrey, palisade, papal, pardon and the like- though a few were derived direct from the Latin C scholars. While individual words came from Danish Italian, Burmese Chinese, .Malay, Algonquin, Tamil, &c., a third of those given are of Greek derivation. We hope Dr. Murray will no think it trifling if we as/whether it .asonb- able to the growth of words in p to which he refers that we find, in the alphabeted books supplied us as a means of indexing entries, the letter p is that invariably which first proves inadequate and gives out. The numerous words in ph answering to the Greek  have, it is stated, no more relation to the p- words proper than have those in ch to c; that is they constitute alien group, and only for alphabetical con- venience are assigned the place they occupy. Under

St. Thomas, Douglas.

HERYLDIC REFERENCE IN SHAKESPEARE (10 th S i. 290). In 'The Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry,' published by J. H. Parker, of Oxford, in 1847, p. 34, it is stated that the sun behind a cloud is embroidered on Richard II.'s robe on his effigy at West- minster. N. M. & A.

however 10 be said" "of "other significations of the term as well as of innumerable words Padding, in relation to literary articles or -books is firs graced in 1861, which we suppose is about the time of its ntroduction. A singularly interest"* article, that on pad. As applied to the foot of the fox, no earlier Instance is advanced than 1790. To "pad the hoof is used by Washington Irving. The origin of all the senses of paddle seems to be "rare,' "unknown,.