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graphy dodaim is not Tylor's, but School- craft's. See his ' Indian Tribes,' 1851, p. 151. (c) The real origin of totem is from " Algonkin " (i.e. Odjibway) otem, which first appeared in European literature in 1612, in the French of Lescarbot (" son daemon appelle aoutem,'' p. 683). It then dropped out of sight, until it was reborrowed from the Odjibway into English in the form totem, the initial t being due to the incorporation of part of a possessive pronoun. Totem is to Lescarbot's aoutem exactly as Shakspere's nuncle is to uncle. This the ' Century ' knows, and tries to explain ; but I doubt if any one fresh to the matter would understand its explanation, which must be my excuse for restating well- known facts in (I hope) simpler language. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be sent to them direct.

HUGH PERCY. At the dispersion of the Ashburnham Library was sold a somewhat remarkable folio MS. in the handwriting of Hugh Percy. Numerous dated entries occur in it, ranging from 1658 to 1662. It contains on ninety-four leaves a large number of examples of the rules of arithmetic, written in a small and beautiful hand, and embellished with very quaint grotesque initials, in red, blue, and green ink. It must have been a work of enormous labour, and of great utility to a student of commercial arithmetic. On a fly-leaf after the title-page is the following note :

"Mary Percy was Borne at Way mouth in Mel- comb Regis the 28 h day of January in the year 1645. Departed this Life at Bursys [?] 13 July between 9 & 10 at night 1704.

Shee was both Vertuos obedjente & a loueing Wife Hath Left this World ; her Followers wee must bee Shee is gon ; Shee is gon to her Eternall Rest Learn to Submit ; God knows what is the best In her Ring Let loue abide till Death Deuide

(1689 in Nouem 1 *)

Loue did abide and Death Did Deuide

(1704 in July)

Wnoe So Eer thou art with Loueing Hart Stand Read & thinke on me for as 1 was Soe Now thou art & as I am Soe Shalt thou bee

My brother William Percy died the 5 $ day of June 1705 on bord the John & Elizabeth in the Latitude of Cape finister."

The allusion to the motto in her wedding or betrothal ring is unusual and pathetic.

There are at the end of the volume notes of the births of Richard, Hugh. Mary, Easset,

and William Percy, children of Richard anc? Tamzine (Thomasine ?) Percy.

I shall be greatly obliged to any corre- spondent who can identify the Hugh Percy (doubtless the husband of Mary, born 1645),. the writer of this curious volume.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

LONDON BRIDGE THEATRE. I should be- much obliged by any information as to the- London Bridge Theatre, which was in Tooley Street. I have two views of it, exterior and interior, and should like to acquire any play- bills or cuttings relative to it ; also to ascer- tain date of its opening and closing.

C. VAN NOORDEN.

5, Essex Court, Temple, B.C.

BESANT. I am told that Sir Walter Besant and Mrs. Annie Besant accented the family name, one on the first and one on the second syllable. I should like to know which accent was used by which owner, and whe- ther in either case the s was given the z sound. D. M.

Union League, Philadelphia.

[Sir Walter called himself Besant, riming with pleasant. J

WARREN HASTINGS AND SIR CHARLES- MALET. I should be glad to verify a tradition in our family to the effect that at the trial of Warren Hastings, and after Sir Charles Malet had given his evidence, Warren Hastings replied, "Sir Charles, you are the soul of honour." HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

REV. THOMAS NEWMAN. Who was Thomas- Newman, a minister who, with many others, had his passage paid out to the Plantations- by the Privy Purse, 1721-5 ? E. E. COPE.

DAVID MORGAN, JACOBITE I am anxious to trace the descendants of David Morgan, of Monmouthshire, executed for high treason, in 1746. His will names only a daughter, Mary Morgan. Is anything known of her subsequent history 1 GEORGE RICKWORD.

"BROACH" OR "BROOCH."

Pull off, pull off the broach of gold. This line, so spelt, occurs in ' Lady Clare ' at p. 230 of the new " Florin Edition " of ' Poems- by Tennyson ' issued by the Oxford Uni- versity Press. Nobody, of course, could be audacious enough to suggest the possibility of a printer's error in such a publication, and so we are driven to inquire whether we shall be expected in future to spell the word " broach" in this way, whatever its meaning. Unfortunately the word does not occur in the short list of 'Alternative or Difficult Spellings ' in Mr. Hart's fascinating Rules