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158 to Anglesey, Carnarvonshire, and Merionethshire folk)—"Moch" (unless connected here with Latin mox), "Lladron," and "cwn duon" respectively. Andrew Lang posthumously refers to the Cornish "mouse" on p. 175 of Folk-Lore for July, 1913. With connect the above pigs, thieves, and black dogs of N. Wales.

(11 S. ix. 87).—On 30 Dec., 1836, a Mr. W. Leigh issued a prospectus of a work based on the papers discovered at Bardon in Somerset in 1834. It is described as

The copy of this prospectus before me is endorsed by Sir Henry Ellis of the B.M.:

"I believe this proposed work was never published."

"Left his corps" (11 S. ix. 225). This reminds me of a funny story I once was told by a parson friend with a keen sense of humour, who said it happened to himself. He was conducting a funeral, and when the melancholy procession was leaving the church for the grave, the sexton evidently one of the old sort came up to him in the porch and told him that "the corpse's brother wished to speak to him"!

(10 S. xii. 365, 416; 11 S. i. 33).—A note of mine on this subject, which was printed at the first reference, did not evoke as much comment and information as I sought, and I have pursued my solitary course of thought without meeting with anything that strongly supports my theory that language is an important tool in the shaping of racial physiognomy. Just recently I have found a passage in Baron E. de Mandat-Grancey's 'Chez John Bull ' which is on my side. He says, with regard to an English-speaking girl in the Salvation Army:—

As one that "filleth the place of the unlearned," I should fancy that the teeth are as likely to be blown out by esses as to be levered forward by th. What do fellow-readers know about facial modifications due to these and other vocables?

(11 S. ix. 506).—Sir James Murray has a note on the intransitive uses of "lay" in the 'N.E.D.' He gives many instances of these from c. 1300 downwards, but says that although the use of "lay" for "lie "was not apparently considered a solecism in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, it is now dialectal only, or a sign of illiteracy. Dr. Hodgson, in his 'Errors in the Use of English,' quotes several passages from authors later than Byron in which it occurs, among them Dasent and Henry Kingsley. I venture to think, however, that it is, generally speaking, a vulgarism merely.

"Wait and see" (11 S. iii. 366, 434; iv. 74, 157; v. 414).—Another and earlier instance of the literary use of the above phrase is quoted in the 'N.E.D.' under 'Remedy,' 2b:—

(11 S. viii. 429).—May I suggest that Hinkstead is perhaps Hickstead, in the parish of Twineham, Sussex? Some ninety years ago Hickstead Place was the home of the Wood family.

11(11 [sic] S. x. 10, 53).—May I suggest the 'Dictionary of Islam,' a facsimile edition of which has appeared lately? I cannot for the moment remember the name of the author.

(11 S. viii. 467, 516; ix. 37).—Is your correspondent certain that the six scenes refer to St. Christopher? Is it not more probable that they depict different saints, such as St. Hubert, St. Edward, St. George, St. Thomas, &c.? At Sulhamstead Abbotts,