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show that this last rule is still observed by some lawyers.

Indenting is still kept up, but it has no practical value, and its meaning is unknown to the average scribe. In 1869 I visited Gray's Inn and saw tin candlesticks, and sand for blotting-paper, still in use. These may be matters of common knowledge to many persons, but they will be new to general readers, and deserve to be recorded.

W. C. B.

" HONOBIFICABILITTJDINITATIBTJS": EARLY

USE. Mr. Salisbury, of the Record Office, tells me that he has found this word on the cover of Subsidy Rolls of the time of Ed- ward I., which have been used again as a cover for a rental of 45 Ed. III. The handwriting of the word would be of about the end of the fifteenth century, and it was evidently intended only as an exercise in penmanship.

It is strange how the Baconians build so much on this long word, since Shakespeare puts it into the mouth of the clown Costard, -as if very common property.

C. C. STOPES.

"SUBWAY." Visitors between the Mother-Country and the States must have been puzzled by this word on first noticing it posted up in a strange city, the truth being that its current use differs materially in the two countries. In the crowded thorough- fares of London, as at the Mansion House, leading under one or more streets, by which they can cross safely from one side of the road to the other. In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, on the contrary, though the term may be applied to an under- ground way constructed to relieve the traffic of pedestrians and vehicles in a con- gested centre, it is mostly confined to a subterraneous electric railroad built, not, like the " tubes" in London, at a consider- able depth, but close to the surface, and easily accessible by a short flight of steps, as in the London Underground Railway. The New York Subway, with a,n extent of some 25 miles, including the tracks for local and express trains, has been so designated since it was opened in 1905.
 * sub way" denotes a passage for pedestrians

Both in England and America, however, the underground passages that contain the telegraph wires, gas pipes, and water mains -are still known by the same name.

N. W. HILL. New York.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, >n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. Being engaged in the preparation of a critical edition of the poetical works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, I should be grateful for information which would enable me to locate a copy of the original editions of the following works :

(1) The first edition of 'Teares on the Death of Meliades ' (Edinburgh, 1613). I have not succeeded in finding the where- abouts of Corser's copy, or of the copy that was once in the library of the University of Edinburgh.

(2) The second edition of ' Teares on the Death of Meliades,' of which no copy so far has been traced.

(3) ' The Entertainment of the high and mighty Monarch Charles. . . . ' (Edinburgh, 1633).

(4) ' To the Exequies of the Honovrable Sr. Antonye Alexander, Knight. . . . ' (Edin- burgh, 1638).

More than one of Drummond' s works are still registered in the catalogues of various Scottish libraries, from the shelves of which they have long since mysteriously disappeared. L. E. KASTNER.

University of Manchester.

' THE DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS ' OF 1822-7. Being engaged, with the assist- ance of Mr. Louis A. Klemantaski and other collaborators, on a ' Dictionary of Writers on Music,' which will contain consider- ably more than 5,000 entries, I am most anxious to include notices of the editor and compilers of ' The Dictionary of Musicians ' (London, Sainsbury, 1822-7). In the article on ' Dictionaries of Music ' in Grove's book it is stated : " As regards biography, 'The Dictionary of Musicians ' (2 vols., 8vo, 1822-7), though good in intention, is imperfectly carried out." There is no indi- cation as to the names of the old compilers ; but the late Sir George Grove and Mr. J. A. Fuller Maitland's contributors in several instances incorporate in their own articles acknowledged quotations from the older work. The ' Dictionary,' published by Sainsbury, with the exception of notices of contemporary English musicians, is mainly based on French and German works and Burney's and Hawkins's histories. It was