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only humorous comparisons such as the common folk like ; they pretend to see in the white rising vapours the products of the hare's or fox's household. In Thuringia the saying is " Es braut," where the vivid notion of a living agent has been toned down to the colourless neuter, just as the old " Jupiter tonat " was replaced by the effete '" tonat," and as by the side of " the clock strikes," "it strikes" has cropped up. About the connexion of the English haze with the above German phrase I venture no opinion. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

A haze being said to be a sign that wind is coming, it occurred to me some years ago that the word might be an Anglicized form of Baskish haize=win.d, in which, however, the vowels have the Italian sound. The word may be connected with similar words meaning, in Armenian motion, in Ainoo breath. If a native Heuskarian etymon must be assigned to it, it would be, I suppose, the infinitive noun of hare, which expresses action. The wind is the air in action. An intervocalic r is often omitted in Baskish. E. S. DODGSON.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 "S. vii. 228).!. " O Charidas " is from Callimachus in the ' Anthologia Palatina,' vii. 524 ; but the translation given by MR. C. WATSON is faulty.

No. 2 is from Walt Whitman, ' To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire,' in ' Autumn Rivulets.' JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

" O Charidas," &c., is an epigram by Callimachus, thus translated by Mackail <(' Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology,' Longmans, 1890, p. 160) : " Does Charidas in truth sleep beneath thee ? " " If

thou meanest the son of Arimmas of Cyrene,

beneath me." "' Charidas, what of the under world ? " " Great

darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" A he. "And Pluto ? " "A fable ; we perish

iitterly." " This my tale to you is true : but if thou wilt have

the pleasant one of the Samian, I am a large ox

in Hades."

The last line refers, of course, to the metem- psychosis theory of Pythagoras.

H. K. ST. J. S.

1. The full reference is Callimachus, 'Epigrams,' xiv. 11. 3, 4, and 'Anthologia Palatina,' vii. 524 (3, 4). "Ai/oSot in 1. 3 is naturally understood to refer to the return of souls to life on this earth. " This other life " is hardly clear.

3. " Quse venit indigno," &c. This need not be regarded as a " variation " from Ovid,

' Heroides,' v. 8. " Indigno " has good MS. authority, and is printed in the best modern texts. EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

[Mr. Francis King, who reads " Quse venit in- dignce pcena" under No. 1332 of his invaluable ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 1904, may be glad to take note of PROF. BENSLY'S comment.]

HORNSEY WOOD HOUSE : HARRINGAY HOUSE (10 S. vii. 106, 157, 216, 253). I am sorry that I did not make myself quite clear. My point was that Harringay would exactly answer to an A.-S. Heringa-e^', or " isle of the Herings." This does not at all conflict with the derivation of Hornsey from Her- inges-eg, or " isle of Hering." If we take Hering (or Haering we cannot tell which) as a personal name, meaning the son of Here, or Hara (or whatever it was), this does not forbid us, but rather the contrary, from taking the plural of the same, viz. Heringas, as the name of a family or tribe. This gets rid of the extreme unlikelihood of having to refer Harringay and Hornsey alike to the same A.-S. form. If they were originally the same, we may well wonder why they are different new.

No doubt the -es of the genitive is some- times (not often) suppressed ; but no one has yet given a clear proof that it was so suppressed in the case of names that now seem to end in -gay.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

I always understood that Hornsey Wood was planted in the early part of the last century, to supply the navy with oak, but, owing to the soil being unsuitable, was a failure ; in fact, when the trees were cut down about forty years ago, few were above thirty feet high. None of these remain ; but there are about half a dozen old elms now flourishing in Finsbury Park, which occupies the site of the former wood. William Howitt in his ' Northern Heights of London ' says that the wood used to be raided every Palm Sunday for palm.

D. D. says (ante, p. 216) that the tavern used to do a flourishing business, but I might mention that my father was at an inquest there, about sixty years ago, on a man who had hanged himself in the wood. The potman in giving evidence identified the man as being the only customer on that particular day ! A. MASSON.

28, Burma Road, Stoke Newington, N.

CHARLES LAMB ON THICKNESSE'S ' FRANCE' (10 S. vii. 205). It would, I think, have added to the interest of MR. ABRAHAMS'S