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edition of the translation was published in 1727 ; an address to the editor of the twelfth edition says ' 'the ' Orbis Pictus ' of Comenius is now fallen totally into disuse as a school-book, though no other comparable to it has been substituted in its place."

A list of Hoole's writings and translations is given in the ' Athena? Oxonienses ' (1691), ii. 273. DAVID SALMON.

Training College, Swansea.

W. B. H.'s description of the remains of his book tallies with one in my possession entitled

" Job. Amos Commenius's Visible World ; or, a Nomenclature and Pictures of all the chief things that are in the World, and of Men's Employments therein."

This was written originally in Latin and High-Dutch, and was translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A., in 1658. Each subject is illustrated with a curious woodcut. My copy is dated 1705, and bears several autographs of my great-grandfather's, exe- cuted when a boy some 12 years old, with the dates 1756 and 1757. At those dates he was at Eton, so probably the book was in use there. WALTER E. MANNERS.

The book is probably

" The London Vocabulary, English and Latin, . . . .for the use of Schools. By James Green- wood, author of the ' Essay towards a practical English Grammar.' London : Printed and sold by R. Halsey at the Plough and Harrow, 1712 (2nd edit.)."

This book appears to have been in use at a private school at Hindley, near Wigan, kept by an old local family up to about 1860, a copy bearing the name of a pupil, " James Marsh, 1718," being found amongst a number of other old Latin books at the dispersal of the school effects. M. N.

[W. C. B. and MB. C. VAN NOOBDEN are also thanked for replies.]

RHOSCROWTHER : LLANDEGEMAN : RHOS- Y-CRYTHER (11 S. iv. 329). Places do not change their names suddenly. Llandegeman occurs under various forms in the Laws of How ell the Good (' Ancient Laws and In- stitutes of Wales,' 273, 749) ; Rhoscrowther occurs under various forms in Inquisitions of Edward II. and Edward III. (Owen's ' Pembrokeshire,' pt. ii. 304) ; but the second did not supplant the first on some definite date between the twelfth century and the fourteenth. I suppose there can be no doubt that the Welsh name gave way to the English (or rather the Anglicized) name because the Welsh-speaking people in South Pembrokeshire had been forced to give way

to an English-speaking people. Though Crowther comes originally from crwth, a fiddle, it may in Rhoscrowther be a family name. The ' Black Book of St. Davids ' (1326) speaks in a South Pembrokeshire survey of a burgage tenement " formerly belonging to le Crouther " (ed. Willis- Bund, 151). DAVID SALMON. Swansea.

EPICURUS AT HERCULANEUM (11 S. iv, 270). The chief works (since 1866) on the papyri of Herculaneum (these, of course r apart from books on mosaics, mural paint- ings, &c.) are those of Domenico Com- paretti :

Comparetti, Domenico. Papiro ercolanese in- edito. Torino, 1875 (Loescher).

Ditto. Belazione sui papiri ercolanesi. Boma, 1880 (Loescher).

Ditto. La villa dei Pisoni in Ercolano e la- sua biblioteca. Napoli, 1879 (Giannini).

Comparetti, D., e De Petra, G. La Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni, i suoi monument! e la sua biblioteca. Bicerche e notizie. Torino, 1885 (Loescher).

Also an article by Comparetti in Rivista di Filologia ed Istruzione classica, Turin, 1879.

VERUS should consult the heading ' Epi- curus ' in Engelmann's * Biblio. Scriptorum Classicorum ' (Scriptores Graeci), Leipsic, 1880, p. 299 ; Spengel's ' Die Hercul. Rollen ' in ' Philologus,' 1863 (supplementary volume) ; Gompertz, * Hercul. Studien/ Leipsic, 1865-6 ; and Kreibig's ' Epicurus ' (a modern study of the philosopher). The ' Herculanensium Voluminum ' ( Collect io Altera) was continued to 1877, and perhaps later. I append a fairly full list of books, all of which deal with the discoveries of papyri at Herculaneum :

Blanco, Lorenzo. Epitome dei Volumi Erco- lanesi. Napoli, 1841 (Criscuolo).

Ditto. Saggio della semiografia dei Volumi Ercolanesi. Napoli, 1842 (Criscuolo).

Ditto. Varieta nei Volumi Ercolanesi, vol. i. parte 1 e 2. Napoli, 1846 (Criscuolo).

Boot, Dr. Joh. Notices sur les manuscrita trouves a Herculanum. Amsterdam, 1841 (Muller).

Castrucci, G. Tesoro letterario di Ercolano ossia la reale officina dei Papiri ercolanesi indicate, per 1'arciprete Giacomo Castrucci, lettore degli stessi ecc. Napoli, 1852 (Stamp, del Fibreno).

Davy. Bagguaglio degli sperimenti per lo svolgimento dei papiri ercolanesi (Napoli, s.d. stamperia della Biblioteca Analitica).

Fragmenta Herculanensia ; descriptive cata- logue of the Oxford copies of the Herculanean- rolls, together with the texts of several papyri, accompanied by (48) facsimiles. With intro- duction and notes, edited by W. Scott. Oxford, 1885, Clarendon Press ; London, H. Frowde.

Hayter, John. The Herculanean and Pom- peian MSS. A letter to the Prince Begent, 1800 (Privately printed).