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the conversation between Samuel Johnson and Home Tooke the latter remarks :

" Manage tells us that he did the contrary of what was done by the Academy. ' They fill their dictionary,' says he, ' with words in use. I take greater care, in my etymologies, of those which are no longer so, so that they may not be quite forgotten.'"

" Both did right," Johnson replies (Lander's 'Works,' 1876, iv. 243). This passage was first printed in the second edition of the ' Conversations,' 1826, ii. 264.

A few pages further on :

" Johnson. I do not often read French ; that lan- guage appears to have greatly changed in one century.

Tooke. Ever since Pascal, Menage, and Mad. de Sevigne."

' Conversations,' 1826, ii. 273,

Menage also turns up in the second con- versation between Southey and Landor, originally published, I think, in the 1846 edition, ii. 172 :

"Landor. The 'Scazons' [Milton's] against Sal- masius are a miserable copy of Persius's heavy prologue to his satires ; and moreover a copy at second hand : for Menage had imitated it in his invective against Mommor, whom he calls Gargilius. He [Persius] begins,

Quis expedivit psittaco suum \atpf. But Persius's and Menage's at least are metrical, which Milton's in one instance are not."

Again, in his essay on Catullus, first pub- lished in The Foreign Quarterly Review, July, 1842, Landor, after quoting from Thomas Warton's Latin verses a line that will not scan, writes :

" There is also a strange false quantity in one of the most accurate and profound grammarians, Manage. He wrote an inscription, in one Latin hexameter, for Mazarin's college, then recently erected :

Has Phcebo et Musis Mazarinus consecrat aedes. Every vowel is long before z. He knew it, but it escaped his observation, as things we know often do." Reprinted in ' Last Fruit,' 1853, p. 244.

In his ' Commentary on Memoirs of Mr. Fox ' (p. 166 of my edition) Landor remarks that some French poets, " as we find in Menage," collected the rimes first and filled them up afterwards, which should keep us from wondering, Landor thinks, that nothing grand, simple, or unlaboured is to be found in their graver poetry.

STEPHEN WHEELER.

Oriental Club, Hanover Square.

EBURNE'S ' PLAINE PATHWAY,' 1624 (10 S. viii. 410). Richard Eburne was vicar of Henstridge, a parish in Somerset- shire on the Dorsetshire side of the county (near Blandford). He was instituted to the

living 11 Oct., 1608, and remained vicar of the same place till 1629. While vicar of Henstridge, and between 1609 and 1616, he appears to have published several of his sermons, the titles of which are given in full in Mr. E. Green's ' Bibliography of Somer- setshire,' vol. ii. p. 380.

MR. FYNMORE will probably have noticed that the excellent entry in Messrs. Hodgson's admirable catalogue of their sale on 21 November is supplemented by a facsimile of the title-page of ' A Plaine Path-way,' &c., wherein Richard Eburne may be seen to have referred to himself as " of Hengstridge in the Countie of Somerset " ; but there is no allusion there to his being in holy orders.

Foster's ' Alumni,' First Series, vol. ii. p. 443, makes reference to one or two members of the Eburne family, including one of Richard Eburne's sons. The parish registers of Henstridge go back only to 1653. so no further information can be obtained from them, T fear. May I add with regard to the rarity of this early book relating to Newfoundland that Messrs. Hodgson seem more than justified in all they said of the book ?

Judge Prowse in his ' History of Newfound- land,' 1895, gives the title of the book, but says that he has never seen it ; and though he alludes to a copy in the Carter Brown Library, he does not give any particulars of the author.

I have a reference to a bibliography of ' Early English works on Newfoundland ' printed in the Prince Society publications, 1887, pp. 159-67 (Boston, U.S.A.). This I have not got by me, but I imagine that it may contain some particulars of Eburne's work. It would be well to discover why this country parson became a pioneer writer on English colonization.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

MEDIAEVAL CHURCHYARDS : GRAVESTONES (10 S. viii. 390). Engravings of two small mediaeval headstones which now are (or were thirty years ago) in the churchyard of Blyborough, near Kirton-in-Lindsey, are given in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries for 13 Dec., 1877.

I saw many years ago a stone of this character in the churchyard of Willoughton, which had been utilized to bear a modern inscription. Willoughton is the adjoining parish to Blyborough on the south.

At the east end of the south aisle of the church of Kirton-in-Lindsey a mediaeval