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^Surnames of the United Kingdom : a Concise Etymological Dictionary. By Henry Harrison Vol. II. Part XIV. (Eaton Press.)

THIS new instalment begins with " Taphouse ' .and ends with " Tinckler." It thus includes the relatively large number of forms derived from Thomas and Timothy as well as those which come directly or indirectly from Thor and from Theobald. Surely it is a mistake to translate 'Timothy as " honoured of God " rather than '" god-fearing," " honouring God," as we used to be taught to render it. Among curious and ^interesting names we noted Tenniel, which, Mr. Harrison says, is probably to be assigned to a French village-name, Theniou, itself a dialelatc variety of chene, oak tree ; Terry and its divers forms, which are to be referred to Theodoric ; Tew, a Celtic word meaning fat, plump ; Tearle -== stern ; Timpany, a harper ; and Tatchel, a diminutive of Eustace. Nicknames Threadgold, for an embroiderer ; Thewless, virtueless ; Tassel = tercel, a hawk, for example occur fairly "frequently in this section, which contains, perhaps, rather more than the average of picturesque detail.

SHAKESPEARIANA WITH A FEW ELIZABETHAN BOOKS.

THE copy of the Fourth Folio with the Droes- portrait in eighteenth-century calf which Messrs. Maggs are offering for Q51. is the most -considerable of the Shakespeare items which recent catalogues have brought to our notice ; but there is a fair number of good things of a lesser

-order described by different booksellers. Thus Messrs. Henry Hill & Son (Catalogue No. 124) have an interesting copy of the Valpy edition of

tthe plays in 15 vols. (1832, 21. 18s. 6d.) ; a copy

-of the edition of 1793 by Johnson and Steevens, also in 15 vols., 11. 10s. ; and, for the same price,

'the reprints of the textbooks supposed to have

'been used by Shakespeare which were brought

-out in 1864. Mr. Reginald Atkinson (Catalogue No. 19) has a copy of the facsimile edition of the First Quarto Plays, published 1881-91, under the supervision of the late Dr. Furnivall (131. 13s.) ; and one of the ' Works ' printed from the text of

-the First Folio by the late J. Churton Collins, 11. Mr. C. Richardson of Manchester (Catalogue No. 79) has an interesting item in Edward CapelTs ' Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare '

<(1779-80). This is in three 4to volumes, and contains a curious bibliography of sources whence

Shakespeare may be considered to have derived his stories; the price is 51. 10s. The most im- portant of the Shakespeare items described by Messrs. Dobell (Catalogue No. 252) is the fac- simile of the First Folio for which Sir Sidney Lee is responsible, and which appeared in 1902,

41. 10s. ; and another good copy is that of the Edinburgh edition of 1883, in 8 vols. No. 346 out of an issue of 550 which follows the text of


 * the first edition and is illustrated by etchings.

This is described by Messrs. Myers (Catalogue No. 211), and is offered for 11. 10s.

Messrs. Maggs, in their most recent Catalogue (No. 345), offer two engravings of Edmund Kean


 * in the character of Richard III. The better of

the two is a mezzotint by C. Turner after J. J.

.Halls, J.814, and represents the aetor in Act IV.

sc. iv. It is printed in colours, and costs 211. The other is the caricature in colours by G. Cruikshank which depicts Kean in the character of Richard, standing on a volume lettered " Shake- speare," and supporting on his back a building, " Whitbread's Entire," 121. 12s. Messrs. Maggs have also a pair of stipple engravings by R. Thew and J. P. Simon after Peters, illustrating ' The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1793, 15Z. 15s.) ; and another by P. Simon after Peters's illustra- tion of Act III. sc. i. of * Much Ado about Nothing.'

To these we may add a few books of Eliza- bethan interest. Mr. Richardson has a good copy of the edition of Marlowe brought out by Pickering in 1826, 31. 3s. ; 15 vols. of the Spenser Society Publications (1867-74, 31. 10s.) ; and the ' Declaration of the Demeanour and Carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh as well in his Voyage as in and sithence his Returne,' which we cannot resist mentioning, though its date, 1618, falls just beyond our period. The copy is described as uncut, a bit stained, full polished calf gilt by Tout, and is to be had for 51. 5s. Mr. Reginald Atkinson has an Elizabethan MS. of heraldic interest, showing eleven designs of arms, Queen Elizabeth's and Leicester's among them, about 6 in. square, each of which is described at length in a contemporary hand, 3L 3s. He has also a complete set hi 13 vols. of the Early English Drama Society's Publications, 1905-6, including the extra volume of Lost Tudor Plays, SI. 15s. Messrs. Dobell offer for 51. 5s. a copy, bound by Bedford, of the rare edition of Drayton's poems printed by " W. Stansby for John Smethwicke " ; and there is some Elizabethan interest in a, collection, in 4 vols. of English Prologues and Epilogues from Shakespeare to Garrick, published in 1779, for which they are asking 11. 15s. From Messrs. Hill's Catalogue we may mention a third collected edition of Spenser's ' Works ' (1679, 21. 15s.), and also a copy of Langbaine's ' English Dramatick Poets ' (1691, 21. 2s.).

The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange- ments have been made whereby advertisements of posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to publish weekly, may appear in the intervening weeks in 'N. &Q.'

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FRANCES M. Buss (" Wake ! wake to the hunt- ng," ante, p. 288). MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE writes
 * hat thesa verses are by Bishop Reginald Heber and

to be found in his ' Poetical Works^ (Murray, 1841), i. 362, under the title, ' The Rising of the Sun.'

They have been set to music by Henry Smart

(Novello,