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should be made to The Athenceum, 28 Dec*, 1839, p. 986, where Wade is severely handled for ' ' copying Salmon verbatim, errors and all."

If W. P. D. S. is pleased with ' The British Chronologist,'' I believe he will wish to possess Wade's ' British History,' ed. 1844. A. L. HUMPHREYS,

187, Piccadilly, W.

The first edition of ' The British Chrono- logist l was issued in 1776. The publisher was Kearsley of London. It was in 3 vols., 8vo, price 18s. As Kearsley was author as well as publisher, it is not improbable that he may have compiled the work.

' The Chronological History * by Toone appears in Lowndes as an independent publication issued in 1826. If it incor- porates ' The British Chronologist, l Kears- ley's publication, in whole or in part, one would naturally infer that Kearsley's copy- rights had somehow come into the posses- sion of Toone or his publishers. Toone is designated an attorney-at-law, and was the author of several volumes published between

rith her imperial mistress, and travelled

broad, visiting France, Germany, and the

British Isles. On returning to St. Peters-

nirg slie was appointed Director of the

cademy of Arts and Sciences. The

cademicians were indignant, but were

TiolHfied when, on the day of her installation,

he appeared, leading the blind mathema-

ician Eiiler, and placed him in the seat of

lonour. She was born in 1744, and died

808. The above is from a review of her

ook in The Examiner, 1840. Walter

Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversation,

The Empress Catherine and Princess

DaskkofiV was first published in 1829.

S. W.

See " Memoires de la Princesse Daschkoff ...par Mistress W. Bradfort," 4 vols., 3 aris, 1859. The son mentioned by Horace Walpole (she had two) was born about 1763, and studied at Edinburgh University under

1813 and 1835. Stirling.

W. SCOTT.

I have before me "The Chronological Historian .... relating to English Affairs, From the Invasion of the Romans, to the

Death of King George the First By Mr.

Salmon Second Edition,'* London, 1733,

octavo.

Toone, in his much larger book ' The Chronological Historian,' frequently copies Salmon verbatim. Fortunately, Toone does not himself omit all " prolix narratives," e.g., he devotes more than two pages, or aboul four and a half columns, to what took place on Lord Mayor's day, 9 Nov., 1761, when the King and Queen as well as nine princes and princesses went to St. Paul's, then saw the Lord Mayor's procession from Mr Barclay's house opposite Bow Church, and afterwards dined and attended a ball a Guildhall. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[We have forwarded to W. P. D. S. the long extract sent by MB. PIERPOINT from Toone' preface.]

PRINCESS DASCHKAW AND HER SON (US i. 288). See * Memoirs of Princess Dasch kaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias, ? written herself (Colburn, 1840). This book \ edited by Mrs. Bradford (nee Wilmot), ar Irish lady adopted by the Princess as he daughter. After the Empress Catherine's accession, the Princess fell into disfavour

Robertson the historian.

W. A. H.

The Princess's name is usually written in English and French Dashkoff or Daschkov it ought to be Dashkova). This lady was a celebrated confidante of Catherine II., and your correspondent will learn about her in any good biography of that empress.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

WALSH SURNAME : tc GH " PRONOUNCED AS "SH (10 S. xii. 446; 11 S. i. 53, 96, 193). I am sorry I made any criticism upon the article at the first of these references. I was chiefly concerned with the hope that it would not be necessary to explain the Gk. OKTW as if it were OYTW ; or to explain in a new way anything that has been acceptably explained already. I am ready to accept Brugmann's view that a Sanskrit *dhughitar became *dhujhitar, *dhuhitar ; after which it became duhitar by the simple operation of the law of the dissimilation of aspirates ; see vol. i. in Wright's translation, pp. 331, 343 (note 2), 354.

Let me mention with admiration ' A Manual of Sanskrit Phonetics, ? by Dr. C. Uhlenbeck (English edition, London, 1898). WALTER W. SKEAT.

M. D'HERWART AT BERNE (11 S. i. 267). This gentleman was not an Englishman, but a Dutchman, and was British Envoy Extraordinary to the Protestant Swiss Cantons from 1692 to 1702, his full name being Philibert d'Herwart des Marais, Baron d'Huninguen (see the ' Eidgenossische Abschiede,' vi. 1681-1712, p. 2627). He is