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HYMN BY GLADSTONE (11 S. vi. 449 ; vii 34). :! am able, through the courtesy of the RIGHT HON. G. W. E. RUSSELL, to revise and add to my query at the first reference, for in a letter dated 13 Dec. last MB. RUSSELL writes :

" Mrs. Gladstone gave the hymn on the Holy Communion to me, and I sent it, exactly as it was written, to Good Words. You will note that the metre is irregular. In the ' English Hymn-Book,' or Hymnal, some verses are correctly given. The variant which you quote was certainly not made by Mr. Gladstone, but evidently was designed to regularize the rhythm, probably for the music's sake. In addition to the two translated hymns which you cite, I would mention Mr. Gladstone's rhymed Latin version of 'Art thou weary.' Mr. Gladstone often wrote religious verse, though he did not, as a rule, publish it."

And in another communication of 2 Jan. of this year MB. RUSSELL says :

" In addition to the hymns and poems already mentioned, Mr. Gladstone wrote some beautiful verses on the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish, and, I believe, a good many more."

To all the above may be added the pathetic poem on ' An Infant,' published in Good Words with the hymn under dis- cussion, not to mention the juvenile poetic effusions in The Eton Miscellany of 1827, including his admirable sonnet to ' A Re- jected Sonnet.'

But I am still without a clue to the authorship of the variant eighth stanza of the hymn. J. B. McGovEBN.

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

THE T.EBMINAL " AC " (11 S. vi. 430, 512). The following remarks are derived from notes taken at lectures on ' Names, with Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Ger- manic Nomenclature,' delivered by the late Dr. Felix Solmsen in the University of Bonn during the Winter Semester, 1904-5:

" The suffix -dcus, -lacus is of Celtic origin, and describes ownership. It is not confined to France or Italy, but appears frequently on the left bank of the Rhine in Germany. Examples are : Andernach < Antuniacum ; Breisach, Breisig < Brisiacum ; Bacharach < Bacaracum ; Endenich < Antiniacum ; Kentenich < Cantiniacum (cf. the French local names Chanteney, Chantigny, which are derived from exactly the same prototype) ; Jiilich< Juliacum; Kessenich < Castiniacum."

Bibliography : G. Flechia, ' Di alcune forme di nome locali dell' Italia superiore ' ; H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, ' Recherches sur 1'origine de la pro- priele" fonciere et des noms de Jieux habitus en France,' Paris, 1890 ; M. Holscher, ' Die mit dem buffix -acum, -iacwn gebildeten Ortsnamen,' Dissertation, Strassburg, 1890 ; M. Siebourg, Bonner Jahrbucher,' 105, pp. 85 ff.

HEINBICH MUTSCHMANN. University College, Nottingham.

" CHEEV " : " CHEEVEB " (11 S. vi. 446). The words " cheevers " and " cheevs " are used here in place of the more usual " feoffees," and " chiever " for the better- known " reeve " (see pp. 184 and 438 of the late Prof. Skeat's ' Concise Etymological Dictionary,' 1911, under 'Fief' and ' Reeve ' respectively ; and p. 81 of the up to 1865, a charity in this parish was managed by a body originally designated " feoffees," but subsequently " the most principal and chiefest inhabitants of the town." One of their number was appointed " Town Reeve " at the yearly meeting on St. Mark's Day, and received 10s. a year " for his pains " in keeping the accounts. In 1865 the Charity Commissioners (to the great annoyance of some of the inhabitants) issued an order for the future management of the estate, and the appointment of a body of trustees, partly to put an end to the annual jollification, which for more than 120 years had been paid for out of the income of the charity. A. C. C.
 * E.D.D.,' vol. v.). From time immemorial,

Ullenhall.

"APIUM" (11 S. vi. 489; vii. 55). There is nothing very new in the suggestion that " celery " is the true equivalent of this word. It is so explained, for instance, in Andrews's Latin Dictionary (1851). Sir William Temple put the matter plainly in his ' Essay on Gardens ' (1685), when he said : "Apiwn . . . .tho' commonly interpreted Par sly, yet comprehends all Sorts of Smallage, whereof Sellery is one " (quoted in ' N.E.D.,' s.v. ' Smallage '). One must imagine the plant in its wild state, not in its present cultivated form. Its other name, " smallage," seems less unpoetical than " celery " if we are to change the traditional rendering of apium and o-eA.il/oi/. An old name for wild celery or smallage Was " marsh parsley " (see 'N.E.D.,' s.v. 'Parsley'), but the modern associations of garden parsley perhaps make " parsley crown " now sound a little incon- gruous. Yet that is the phrase to which our poets from Herrick to Browning have accustomed us : " Violet and parsley crowns to trample on," says Jules in ' Pippa Passes.'

One means of identifying the Greek o-f Atroi/ was pointed out to me by my learned friend Prof, von Domaszewski in the canting heraldry of the coinage of Selinus, the Greek colony in Sicily. See, for in- stance, the reproductions of coins in "Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Miinzen und Gemmen des klassischen Altertums, von Imhoof- Blumer und Otto Keller," Leipzig, 1889,