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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. DEC. 9, 1911.

" May be stood upon his feet " ! Proh dolor ! Time was when I inclined to the belief that this ugly violation was like " there he was sat " ^indigenous to the soil of Lanca- shire, but I have since learnt that it has a more extended growth. May it soon be rootod and routed from the garden of English literature ! Let us " stand it " no longer. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

[The present standard of English is, indeed, deplorable. But as the offenders are incorrigible, we have usually found it waste of time to protest. We hope that some general improvement may take place in writing, grammar, and style, which will force authors to write better if they are to be read.]

OXEN: THEIB NAMES. As a supplement to the lists of ' Horses' Names,' US. ii. 124, 283, 364, it is desirable to add that in ' La Douce Prance,' by Rene Bazin, 1911, there is a chapter on ' Le Nom des Boeufs de France,' pp. 210-14, which is full of interesting folk- matters. W. C. B.

HALLEY'S PEDIGREE. (See 10 S. vii. 263 ; 11 S. ii. 44.) Since the preparation of data given at the references cited, and in addition to other facts presented in The Genealogist, New Series, for July, 1908, an interesting collection of entries extracted from the parish registers of Youlgreave, Derbyshire, has been received from Mr. Arthur Carrington of the Downes, Bideford, N. Devon (under date of 18 July, 1910). The earlier baptismal entries follow :

1557, Oct. 10. Humphrey Hallye, son of Hum- phrey. (This is the earliest entry in register.)

1558, Sept. 20. Elenor Hallye, dau. of John Hallye.

1562, Jan. 10. George Hally, son of Hurnphrav Hallye.

1564, Feb. 25. Rychard Hawly, son of John Hawly.

1565, Sept. 15. Alice Hawly, dau. of Wyllm Hawlye.

1566, Sept. 15. " Alyce Hallye."

1567, Apl. 14. Rychard Hallye, son of Hum- phray Hallye.

1569, Nov. 10. ffrancys hally, son of Humphray

hallye.

1572, Nov. 1. Robt. Halley, son of Wyllm hawly. 1574, Dec. 12. ffrancys hally son of Michaell

hawly.

If it could be demonstrated that the famous astronomer's paternal grandfather, Humphrey Halley, vintner of London, was a son of the "ffrancys hally" baptized 10 Nov., 1569, as has been suggested, the claim of Derbyshire to the origin of the family would be quite fairly established. A further search must be made through Chancery proceedings, Public Record Office,

&c., but some facts already gleaned by Mr. R. J. Beevor seem to lend a little colour to the above hypothesis.

EUGENE F. McPiKE. 135, Park Row, Chicago.

FOREIGN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES. The following table, compiled by Mr. John Cotton Dana of the Public Library, Newark, New Jersey, of the journals in foreign languages published in the United States in 1910, was printed in The Evening Post (New York) on 3 March last. It is not only of interest in itself, but also of value as suggesting the compilation of similar sta- tistics for the United Kingdom :

Languages

Arabic

,

Armenian

.

Bohemian

.

Bulgarian

.

Chinese

,

Croatian

,

Danish

.

Finnish

.

French

.

German

,

Greek. .

t

Hebrew

.

Hollandish

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Lithuanian

Norwegian-

Danish

Polish

,

Portuguese

.

Rumanian

.

Russian

Ruthenian

Servian

,

Slovak

,

Slovenian

Spanish

Swedish

,

Welsh

,

No. of pubs.

Circulation

3

5

6,000

52

369,000

1

4,000

6

10,000

8

8

50,000

15

62,000

34

1,600,000

632

8

32,000

21

300,000

21

79,000

13

56,000

73

283,000

9

20,000

11

32,000

60

415,000

51

210,000

8

17,000

2

4

23,000

1

11,000

1

16

98,000

7

30,000

55

161,000

71

900,000

2

13,000

The German figure is so disproportionate, and the information so incomplete, that on that head there seems some error.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

DE QUINCEY'S 'OPIUM-EATER,' 1853. It has not, I think, been noticed that there are two distinct issues of the 1853 edition of the ' Confessions.' One title-page reads :

" Confessions | of an | English Opium-Eater. | To weep afresh a long since cancelled woe, | And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. | Shake- speare's Sonnets. | New Edition. | London : | Pub- lished for the Proprietor by | Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Stationers' Hall Court | 1853." 8vo, pp. iv, 176.

The name of the printers, Bradbury & Evans, occurs behind the title and on the last page. The other issue differs only in