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Brougham's works. But only his own writings were included that was a small part of what 1 had collected, which included pamphlets about him and criticisms, &c., from all quarters. For many years I noted any references to him. As the printing of the bibliography went on, the publishers were quite surprised, and even annoyed, to think they had agreed to print such a long list, which they regarded as so much dead weight. All I stipulated for was that it should be printed according to my ideas, and that I should have one hundred separate copies. It was very nicely done, and as a sample of how a bibliography should be printed it is, notwithstanding the lapse of years, only second to my last publication.

The separate copies bore J. Russell Smith's name. I offered to let him have the whole MS. ; but he said it would not pay, there was no sale for Lord Brougham's publica- tions ; and he added, "I expect the only literary thing Lord Brougham will be recollected for in future years will be your bibliography " ! I observe that nothing by his lordship has been reprinted since 1873.

Mr. Hunt in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' says that in consequence of my list only Brougham's larger and more im- portant books are enumerated. It is also mentioned in 'The Victorian Chancellors,' by J. B. Atlay, 1906, p. 357. I may add that

I have lately destroyed the MS. above referred to, together with piles of other work of former years.

While on the subject of Brougham I should like to add that " I never before heard" of an instance of the British Museum cata- loguers being able to give the full name of any person of title, but this is so with

II An Essay on Female Education by the

Comtesse [query forename 1 ?] de Brunetiere Tallien, translated by Lord Brougham [1840?]." Further, though the name of so celebrated a person as Brougham is on the title, the exact year of publication is not known, but is only a surmise.

RALPH THOMAS.

'EMBLEMES D'ALCIAT' (10 th S. v. 468). The edition of Alciat, Paris, 1574, is of no interest and very little value. Only editions of a much earlier date are valuable.

LUDWIG ROSENTHAL. Hildegardstr, 16, Munich.

MASHAM FAMILY (10 th S. v. 467). Sad to say, in MR. PICKFORD'S note there is one word which needs correction for "is," in the ninth line, read was. Not a vestige of

Otes remains, and only its site can be traced, the mansion having been pulled down many years since.

I. CHALKLEY GOULD.

GREEK AND ROMAN TABLETS (10 th S. v. 228, 350, 473). In my communication at the last reference "ammiano" should be Ammiano. EDWARD BENSLY.

PORTMANTEAU WORDS AND PHRASES (10 th S. v. 110, 170, 235). At the last reference allusion is made to Lewis Carroll's examples in the Jabberwock lines. It is therefore worth noting that he has given birth to a magazine for children bearing the port- manteaued title of The Jabberwock, and in this charming periodical in August last the September the ** ellif rog " cut capers, and in February the " chimpanzebra " was por- trayed. With children it seems instinctive to double or reiterate consonantal sounds. Thus my little boy, aged three, calls the local recreation ground his "Rrec rond." It is popularly known among the board-school children merely as the " reck," with an absolute ignorance of the original term, and often with a vague idea of a *' wreck."
 * hippopython " was seen up to antics, in

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E.

A very useful compound much in vogue (in this district, at any rate) is "f reeling " (free + wheeling) ; and surely every one must have heard the word ** travelogue" a talk on travel. I remember that some years ago an illustrated weekly published some very amusing pictures of weird hybrid animals, such as " lobsterrier " (lobster + terrier), "emule" (emu + mule), "camelephant" (camel + elephant), and others, in which the artist had whimsically drawn supposed combina- tions of the two animals named.

FREDERICK D. READMAN.

Stockton-on-Tees.

Under the heading 'New Portmanteau Word ' the Daily Mail of 22 May, quoted the following sentence from a contribution by Guy Thorne in the current issue of Frys Magazine : " The usual football match (in the north and in Wales) is regarded by thousands as a mere alcoholiday." JOHN T. PAGE.

" Ediswan " lamps are patented and made by Edison & Swan. T. B. WILMSHURST.

One of the best of these words, in my opinion, is one that I often used quite forty years ago, at Haileybury, in my schoolboy days. If we wanted to brand any boy as quite beyond the pale of sanity, we would