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tionecl ' Catalogue of Additional MSS.,' and excepting, of course, ' Calidore.'

a (ff. 67-85). An Essay on Fashionable Litera- ture of considerable length and interest. Holo- graph, but handwriting unfortunately at places not very legible. Unpublished.

b (ff. 86-7). Short note on the number of the Greek tragic chorus. Unpublished.

c (f. 88). Very short fragment on the theology of JEschylus. This is not in Peacock's hand- writing, and possibly does not owe its origin to him. Probably unpublished.

d (ff. 88-93). Translation of JEschylus's 'Pro- metheus Vinctus,' 1-152, in Peacock's handwriting. Partly written in pencil. Unpublished.

e (ff. 94-117). Draft of the romance of ' Cali- dore.' Published by Dr. Garnett in his edition of Peacock's ' Prose Works.'

/ (ff. 118-19). Very small part of the Intro- duction to a novel called ' Satyrane ; or, The Stranger in England.' Unpublished.

g (ff. 120-122). Brief sketch of a story on a classical subject. Unpublished.

h (ff. 123-31). ' Boozabout Abbey ' or ' Pottle- deep Priory.' Written in a similar style to Peacock's ' Maid Marian,' and resembling it some- what as regards material used. Unpublished.

i (ff. 132-51). Two chapters and part of the third of a novel called ' Cotswold Chase.' Very characteristic of Peacock as regards style and subject-matter. Unpublished.

j (ff. 152-5). A note dealing with the marriage of the daughter of Raimond Beringer, fifth Count of Provence probably intended as the beginning of a tale. Unpublished.

k (ff. 156-8). Outline sketch of scene i. of a play entitled ' The Pilgrim of Provence.' Un- published.

I (ff. 159-67). Chap. i. and part of chap. ii. of a tale relating to ancient Rome. Unpublished.

m (ff. 16870). Fragment of a story connected with Bernand de Born. Unpublished.

n (ff. 17182). The commencement of a tale with scene laid at Chertsey, where Peacock lived for many years. Unpublished.

(ff. 183-90). Fragment of a novel called ' St. Catharine,' with scene laid at Newark Abbey the favourite place at which Peacock used to meet a lady to whom he was engaged in 1807. Possibly written then. Unpublished.

p (ff. 191-200). Dialogue on the subject of friendship after marriage. Unpublished.

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1 (ff. 1-45). Fragment of a poem called ' Ah- rimanes.' Canto I. complete (30 stanzas), and 14 stanzas of Canto II., together with a lengthy outline in prose for its completion. Holograph. Briefly mentioned, as well as the three plays that follow, by Cole in his ' Biographical Notes ' (p. 11), but he inaccurately states that the MS. consists of only a fragment of the first canto. He attributes this to the year 1810, but it would be interesting to know on what grounds. A part of ' Ahrimanes ' resembles in subject-matter the poem ' Necessity,' published in Cole's edition of Peacock's works (vol. iii. p. 105), which was written in 1812 or later. ' Ahrimanes ' was pub- lished in The Modern Language Review, vol. iv. (January, 1909), pp. 217-30.

2 (ff. 46-101). 'The Dilettanti,' a complete farce in prose, containing five songs. There is

no evidence to show when written. Cole points out that the paper used was made in 1803, but, to judge from the style and contents, it was put together a considerable time after that date. The scene is laid in Ireland. Unpublished.

3 (ff. 102-27). ' The Circle of Loda,' a poetical drama in two acts, containing eight songs. Printed on paper made in 1801, but written con- siderably later. Scene laid in Scandinavia, Unpublished.

4 (ff. 128-219). ' The Three Doctors.' In prose and verse. Musical farce in two acts, con- taining seven songs. Fair copy and rough draft only the latter being in Peacock's handwriting, and having interspersed a few notes and com- ments on other subjects. Cole ascribes it to a period not long before 1815. Unpublished.

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(Ff. 177-80.) Letter addressed to W. Cabell, dated 12 Nov., 1838, containing correspondence on the cause of the Semiramis making headway against the monsoons, and the two letters written by Peacock (signed "Philatmos") on the same subject, which appeared in The Times of 3 and 7 Nov., 1838, and to which allusion has been made by Dr. Garnett in his introduction to Calidore and ' Miscellanea ' (p. 13) in his edition- of Peacock's ' Prose Works.' Letter addressed to W. Cabell unpublished.

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(Ff. 85-91.) Letter addressed to W. Cabell,. dated 4 Feb., 1839, dealing with steam communica- tion to India ; and a memorandum on Khiva r Bokhara, the Aral Sea, and the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers, together with a list of the steam vessels in India and in preparation for India. Unpub- lished.

A large number of these literary remains are mere fragments, and are not worth publishing ; on the other hand, ' Ahrimanes,' the ' Essay on Fashionable Literature,' and the three plays deserve printing, while the diary and letters contain much biographical material relating to Peacock's life which has, unfortunately, not yet either been utilized or got into print. A. B. YOUNG.

HEBZEGOVINA : ITS PRONUNCIATION. This name is now on everybody's lips, but is generally mispronounced as if it were a rime to " concertina." There can be no- doubt that the stress should really be upon the antepenultimate, Herzegovina. Mr. A. J. Evans marks it thus with the acute accent in his book ' Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina,' 1876. Herzeg is, of course, a Slavonic form of the German word Herzog, " duke," and the termination -ovina implies a district, so Herzegovina means " the Duchy," and is parallel to Banovina, " the Banat," the district ruled by a Ban. I may add that the z should be sounded like tz, It is unfortunate that this, like so many Slavonic names, comes to us in a German, dress. I met with two other instances re-