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Xo. 36 contains only fixed days of saints, <fec., and Ao. 37 new and full moons ; these are preceded by tables, and an explanatory in- troduction. It is intended (among other things) " to enable any one to place before himself the almanac of any year of old style, or any year of new style from A.D. 1582 to A.D. 2000." E. H. BBOMBY.

University of Melbourne.

[A third edition of De Morgan's 'Book of -Almanacs,' revised by E. J. Norman, appeared in 1907 (Cambridge, MacTnillan & Bowes ; London, iVlacmillan & Co.). This retained the oblong form.]

HIEBEMTAS DBEXELITJS : HIS TBANSLA- TOB'S WOBDS. In " The Angel - Guardian's Clock Translated out of latin into English At Rouen of the impression of Nicolas Courant in the streete of the poterne neere to the Pattace," which on p. 21 bears the date in the words : "Monachium, Michelmasday 1621. Yours in Christ lesus. Hier. Drex.," the word-booker observes these sixteen expressions :

Banket-maker, p. 223. . . .these cup-bearers, and as it were Danket-makers of God came to couer a table before their Lord.

- Bounder, 70. The bounders ot his life are appointed.,

Country-smle, -222 let it not be troublesome

to thee, to change thy country-soile for banish- ment.

Ferveniness, 193 and temper the coldnesse

of our prayers, with the fire and feruentnesse of

theirs.

. Hart-feeling, 174.... and beheld it with teares

in his- eies, and a hart-feeling of the case.

Glewie, 182 and retaines, as though it had

glewie hand?.

' Hungerly, 185. And while we greedily harken to a musieall consort, and our eares listen hungerly .after it.

Tmpoure, 264. Behold these heauenly Princes do -after a sort- impoure themselues.

Malice,. 119. .'. .yet with all this if thou malice but euen one creature, thou hast giuen nothing.

May-game, 85. .. .what a play arid May-game js any thing which is said to be in this world !

Oppugner, 275 a disenherited heyre of

heaueh, and an oppugner of the celestiall Spirits .and Saints.

' Overbnthc, 224. For when our LORD at mount Oliuet, euen before his Crosse and whippes. was -all ouerbathed with a sweat of bloud.

Submisse, 264.... they became more submisse after their LORD had humbled himself so low.

Sicag, 270.... his iawes began to drie. . . . his armes to swagg.

Lyndon, 225 they shew his syndon, and the

Hnnen, wherein he had bene wound.

Table-book, 274 who iust as thy Angel- guardian keepes account of thy good deedes, so doth he enter into his table-bookes, what thou dost, in swearing or forswearing.

"Country" is here used in the sense of ''native."

. The ' Oxford Dictionary ' quotes " impoor " only once, arid that from the year 1613.

Drexelius fills so much space in the Cata- logue of the British Museum that it would be interesting to learn who translated his ' Clock ' into English.

EDWABD S. DODGSON.

The Oxford Union Society, Oxford.

" Hie." In the recent hearing of the Ferrars peerage claim on the part of the Council of Privileges,, the learned counsel declared that he was unable to say what the word " Hie " meant placed opposite names of peers in the Parliamentary Roll. It may be worth recording that this word is an abbreviation of " Hiccius," meaning ' here *' or "at this place."

The words " Parliamentary Pawn," used in connexion with records of writs, also came in the same case, I cannot find any instances of this ; would the word " pawn " here mean " pledged " t

ABCHIBALD SPABKE.

CUBBENCY NOTES. As the fortunate possessor of a ten-shilling note may I make a note of it 1 It bears the curious and comforting words, " Ten shilling Currency Notes are Legal Tender for the payment of any amount." One-pound notes are to the same effect ; but why spend a sovereign when ten shillings will do t Is not this a new way to pay old debts t Lucis.

TAVEBN SIGNS : KING JOHN. Amongst the many public-house and hotel signs, I have only once come across King John, and by a coincidence or intention it is situated not far from Denver (Norfolk), and between it and the Wash. The house is reported to be a very old one, and to have borne the name " for centuries." This I can neither confirm nor deny. L. G. R.

Bo urnemo uth.

ALBUM LINES BY JAMES SHEBIDAN KNOWLES. James Sheridan Knowles and his wife spent nine weeks at Trefriw, Carnarvonshire, in the spring of 1 846. Ere leaving, the dramatist was constrained to pen the ^following lines in a lady's album. As I am unaware they have appeared in print, I have pleasure in quoting them :

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.

Love is not a plant that grows in the dull earth 1 Springs by the calendar ! must wait for sun, For rain ! matures by parts must take its time To stem, to leaf, to bud, to blow ! It owns A richer soil, and boasts a quicker seed ! You look for it and see it not, and lo ! E'en while you look the peerless flower is up Consummate in the birth !

ANEUBIN WILLIAMS.