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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. VL AUG. 10, 1912.

Information about this German proverb may be found in Max Miiller's ' Lectures on the Science of Language,' Second Series, p. 378, ed. 1864. G. C.

Billesdon.

1. Early to bed and early to rise

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

2. Madruga e veras,

Trabalha e teras. (Portuguese.) Rise early, and you will see ; take pains, and you will grow rich. Translation.

3. Sanat, sanctiflcat et ditat surgere mane.

To rise betimes makes one healthy, virtuous, and rich.

4. Aurora musis arnica est.

Aurora (the morning) is friendly to the Muses. Erasmus, ' De Ratione Studii.'

M. A. C.

Chi dorme non prende pesce. Who sleeps catches no fish.

Ogni mattino se ne alza uno. This means, in a business way. that there arises with every new day an unknown stupid or ingenuous being, fitted to be in- voluntarily some cunning man's fortune.

PERUGIA.

[MR. HERBERT B. CLAYTON and MR. TOM JONES also thanked for replies.]

THE FITZWILLIAM FAMILY (11 S. v. 164, 312, 454; vi. 54). In reply to MR. WHITE'S criticism of my note on Turstin Fitz Rou, I must say that I still adhere to my opinion, and in support of it would refer him to ' The Ancestry of John Whitney,' by H. Melville, A.M., LL.B. There are copies of this work at the British Museum and in the Guildhall (City of London) library.

J. WIGMORE.

" AIRCRAFT " : " TURNOUT "(US. vi. 45). As " turnout " is largely a newspaper word, it seems important to say that it is frequently used with reference to the size of a gathering, and nothing more. Two examples in one journalistic report are ready to hand. The first annual rally of the Mid-Lothian County Scouts took place on Saturday, 20 July, at Polton House, Lasswade, and the boys were addressed by Lord Rosebery. The correspondent of The Glasgow Herald, deli- neating the proceedings on 22 July, writes thus :

" There was a turnout of about 500 Scouts, including, in addition to the Mid-Lothian boys, representatives from Stirlingshire, Clackmannan, Dunblane, Edinburgh, Shetland, and Newcastle. . . . .The weather was ideal, and there was a large turnout of county people from the district."

At agricultural shows prizes are given for " the best turnout,"' which means horse and trap with driver.

THOMAS BAYNE.

REFERENCES WANTED (11 S. vi. 48). 1. G. U.'s quotation from Jeremy Taylor comes from

"A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship, with Rules of conducting it. Written in answer to a Letter from the most ingenious and vertuous M. K. P. [i.e., Mrs. Katherine Philips, " the matchless Orinda "]," by J. T., D.D., 1657. The correct form is :

" And he that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thred that ties their hearts together." Pp. 53, 54 (a little over half- way through the tract).

2. This was evidently suggested by the- saying e'vw, dAA' OVK e'xo/xai, attributed to Aristippus by Diogenes Laertius, ii. 8, 75. EDWARD BENSLY.

4. " Any man may commit," &c. :

" Cujusvis hominis est errare ; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverare ; posteriores enim cos;itationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse."- Cicero, ' Philippica,' XII. ii. 5.

H. GOUDCHAUX.

Versailles.

on Itooks.

A New English Dictionary : Sleep-Sniggle. (Vol. IX.) By W. A. Craigie. (Oxford, Clarendon

Press.)

THE full total of words recorded and discussed in this double section is 3,203. The most important of them are of English origin ; and these likewise are more numerous than any others. A certain number from the Scandinavian, Flemish, Dutch, and Low German, as well as several whose source remains undiscovered, also fall within it. Greek gives but one word of general interest, ' ' smaragd ' ' ; and we have one word from the Gaelic, " slogan," travestied by poets into " slug-horn." The Latin clement is practically unrepresented.

If we turn from the origin of the words to their signification, what strikes us first is the great proportion among them of technical terms. Both kinds occur the semi-literate jargon cha- racteristic of the trade journalist and the ad- vertiser, and the strong, expressive, largely mono- syllabic vocables of the craftsman and with these we have the many technical applications of words in common use. Not a few obsolete terms are included, for some of which " sieve," for example, " slip-shot," and " slowde " the meaning has not been recovered. Under " sleeper " the Dictionary reminds us that railway " sleepers " were at first often laid longitudinally ; " slip- coat " is a kind of soft cream cheese ; " sliver " is a continuous ribbon of loose, untwisted.