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 io- s. iv. AUG. 5.1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 105 of the times, on the margin of a number (706) of The Evening Post, 13-16 February, 1714. The letter contains some items of general news not included in the printed portion, e.g.: " Feb. y* 17. Yesterday the Queen came to and Lay at Hampton Court and that day about two came to and Dined at St. James's And I hope will meet her Parliam' to morrow but be that as ii will. God be thanked She is alive and Well to y" Shame and dissapointm' of thousands of her Enemies At home if not abroad who designedly reported w"1 Joy in theire faces that she was dead; but concealed till some body came over. But tis thought it was chiefly intended to affect Kostad, if ao it has answered effectually." The Eveniny Post notes under date Windsor, 15 February : "This Afternoon Her Majesty (who continues in good Health) Touch'd fqr the Evil, and intends to go to-morrow to Hampton Court." The relations existing between Charles Young and Bartholomew Beale are not very easy to understand, but it would appear that Bartholomew was consulted as a physician by Young, who had derived benefit from his treatment. Young goes on to say :— " I waited upon Mr. Beale and paid him 12. 02. 00, and he desires to present his humble Service and thanks. And I believe 1 shall have two Pictures home in a few days as good as ever he or any Eng- lishman ever Drew. As to my ffriends, tis an exact Counterp' Life excepted, And for mine. I must say by leaving out all Sourness, Wrinkles and Age he has worked me up to a Beau of 40: And yet Setting som flattery aside, which is soon forgiven by one of 60: tis Something exceeding like, which he modestly says is oweing to my Sitting again so Soon, but I must charge it on a Juster ace1. To the greatness of his Skill, and peculiar Care," £c. Although it might have been expected that in writing to Bartholomew, Young would have alluded to the painter as " your brother," it is difficult to believe that this courtly artist was any other than the Charles Beale whose career was supposed, by the writer of the article in the ' D.N.B.,' to have been cut short some twenty-three years earlier. J. ELIOT HODGKIN. "BUST" FOR "BURST."—It is interesting to find that the familiar use of hist for burst is by no means confined to England and English-speaking countries. Koolman's 'E. Fries. Diet.' has busten, i.e., bursten, to burst, spring, &c.; and the same usage is recorded in the Low G. glossary by Berghaus. The Bremen ' Worterbuch ' notes that in the Bremen dialect the verb barsten, to burst, has for its past tense not only burst, but bust. WALTER W. SKEAT. 'OMAR KHAYYAM': FITZGERALD'S FIRST EDITION", 1859.—It should be mentioned, in connexion with the record price of 46?. recently paid at auction for this edition, that the principal reason of its great rarity has only recently been explained in ' William Boaham Donne and his Friends' (London, 1905). At p. 274 FitzGerald says, in a letter to Donne, under date 1868 :— "The former Edition was as much loxt as sold, when B. Quarritch [sic] changed houses; he has told Cowell these 2 years that a few more would sell: a French Version has revived my old flame : and now Mr. Childs will soon send some 200 copies to B. Quarritch [sic]." The French version referred to is that of M. J. B. Nicolas. Mr. Childs was the printer (John Childs & Son) of the second edition (of 1868). It is most significant that in the volume I am quoting, though FitzGerald is mentioned in almost every letter, and his lightest doings recorded, we reach p. 274 and the year 1868 before ' Omar Khayyam ' is as much as mentioned. The change of houses by B. Quaritch was, of course, his migration from Castle Street (near Charing Cross Road) to Piccadilly. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN. " PHOOREA " : A GHOST - WORD. — ' Th& Standard Dictionary' has an entry: "Phoorea. (Bengal), the kuppur." This has always seemed to me a good example of irjnotum per ignotius, since not every reader can be expected to remember that kuppur is the Sindhi name of a common and dangerous viper. It is also a good example of what is called a ghost-word. There is no such word as phoyrea. It is a misprint for phoorsa, which is the Marathi synonym for kuppur. Some write it phursa, and in Whitworth's ' Anglo-Indian DictionaryJ it is given as fursn, which does not look much like phooreat and yet is the same. This may interest Dr. Murray, who is now dealing with Ph-. JAMES 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 answers may be sent to them direct. BRISSON'S ' ORNITHOLOGIE.' — Dr. Louis Bureau, the distinguished director of the museum at Nantes, has lately done me the favour of submitting to me a copy of the copperplates executed by Martinet for Brisson's ' Ornithologie ' (Paris, 1760, 6 vols. 4to), which differ in two remarkable respects from any at present known. In the first place all the figures are coloured, and next the lettering has been altered throughout—