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 10 s. VIL JAN. 19, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Spanish Academy has ordered. Any printer daring to disobey is put under the ban of the Inquisition.

German scholars have told me the spelling authority orders a word to be spelt one way, and six months after changes its mind and directs it to be spelt in another way.

RALPH THOMAS.

FOLK-LORE ORIGINS (10 S. vi. 509). Perhaps some of the following works not, I think, published in connexion with the Folk-lore Society, will be found useful :

R. Hunt's 'Popular Romances of the West of England,' 1881.

' Guernsey Folk-lore,' from MSS. by the late Sir Edgar MacCulloch, Knt., F.S.A., ed. by Edith F. Carey.

'Legends and Traditions of Huntingdonshire,' by H. B, Saunders, 1888.

G. L. Gomme's ' Folk-lore Relics of Early Village Life,' 1883.

W. C. Hazlitt's ' Tales and Legends of a National Origin or Widely Current in England from Early Times,' with introduction by W. C. Hazlitt, 1892.

Lang's ' Myth, Ritual, and Religion ' ; and 'Custom and Myth.'

Wm. Bottrell's 'Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall,' 1870.

Rev. F. G. Lee's 'Glimpses in the Twilight.'

Brand's ' Popular Antiquities ' (Ellis).

W. A. Craigie's ' Scandinavian Fork-lore : Illus- trations of the Traditional Beliefs of the Northern Peoples,' 1896.

W. Wood's 'Tales and Traditions of the High Peak, Derbyshire.'

S. 0. Addy's 'Household Tales.'

J. Roby's ' Traditions of Lancashire.'

R. J. King's ' Folk-lore of Devonshire.'

H. Swainson Cowper's 'Hawkshead.'

Rev. J. C. Atkinson's ' Forty Years in a Moor- land Parish,' 1891.

Miss M. A. Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore.'

C. J. Billson's ' County Folk-lore : Leicestershire and Rutland.'

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer's ' English Folk-lore.'

R. J. King's ' Sketches, Studies, Descriptive and Historical ' (sacred trees, flowers, and dogs of folk- lore : great shrines of England), 1874.

Frazer's ' Golden Bough.'

J. Scoffern's ' Stray Leaves of Science and Folk-lore.'

Journal of the Folk -Song Society.

'Spectral Dogs' ("turnover" in The Globe,

27 May, 1904).


 * Little Whitsun Tales,' Daily Mail, 1 June, 1903.

' English Fairy Tales,' collected by Joseph Jacobs.

'Spriggans' ("turnover" in The Globe. 24 June, 1903)'

'The Origins of Fairy Myth,' by Arthur J. Salmon, in The Bristol Times and Mirror, 16 Jan., 1904.

Palmer Cox's ' The Brownies Abroad,' 1899.

'Folk-lore of the West,' Pall Mall Gazette

28 Dec., 1905.

' Folk-lore of Shakespeare,' Leisure Hour, March 1884. Benjamin Taylor's ' Storyology.'

W. A. Clouston's 'Popular Tales and Fictions::

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their Migrations and Transformations,' 1887. J. Crawhall's ' Old Tayles Newlye Related.' 'Popular Superstitions,' " Gent" OTna "' fl Mn.m

Library," eel. by G. L. Gomme, F Wirt Sykes's 'British Goblins.'

Gentleman's Magazine

Charles Gould's ' Mythical Monsters ' (with illus- trations).

S. Baring-Gould's ' Origin of Religious Beliets and ' Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.'

F. E. Hulme's ' Mythland,' 1886.

Benjamin Thorpe's ' Northern Mythology.'

Keightley's ' Fairy Mythology.'

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

The following two works of T. F. Thiselton- Dyer, which I found in ' The English Cata- ogue,' may be serviceable among others : Church-Lore Gleanings' (1891); 'Ghost- World ' (1893). H. KREBS.

THE DOROTHY VERNON LEGEND (10 S. vi. 321, 382, 432, 513). In 1845 a book was written by the Baroness de la Calabrella, entitled ' Evenings at Haddon Hall,' with vignette illustrations by George Cattermole. These vignettes have been transferred to ' Tales of the Genii ' in " Bohn's Illustrated Library." The frontispiece in the original work depicted the garden front of Haddon. Hall. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory.

" SET TJP MY (HIS) REST " (10 S. vi. 509),

Fully explained in Nares's ' Glossary.*

From the game of primero, meaning to stand upon the cards you have in your hand, in the hope that they may win. In playing vingt-un a player is similarly said " to stand." It means then to be satisfied with, to rely upon as sufficient, to be content. Prior- uses it in a double sense, as a kind of pun. Nares gives fifteen examples.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

The meaning of the phrase " to set up one's rest " now obsolete, but fairly com- mon in the seventeenth century -is (1) to make up one's mind, to commit oneself unreservedly to a course ; (2) to pause for rest, to halt.

In the first quotation from Pepys the diarist would appear to mean that he had made up his mind to be " somewhat scanter of his presence " at the plays he loved so well until Easter, or, as he adds in a praise- worthily self-denying mood, " if not Whit- suntide."

In the second Pepys's meaning, when read with the context, seems to be that the accom- modating host, Mr. Povey, had committed himself unreservedly to the course of pro- viding his guests with whatever they might choose to ask for.