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ST. DOLOUGHS. Article in Proceedings of St. Patrick Society. By

J. S. Sloane. Dublin, 1857. Memoir of Bishop Beeves. Dublin, 1859. History of St. Doloughs. By W. S. Kennedy.

Dublin, 1892.

ST. MUIXINS.

Some Account of the Parishes of Graig-na- Maiiagh, at St. Mullins, co. Carlo w. By Rev. M. Comerford. N.d.

SAL.

Some Account of the Town of Magherafelt and Manor of Sal in Ireland. By the Father of that (Salters') Company. South wark, 1842.

SANTRY.

History of Santry (contains also much matter on North Co. Dublin). By Rev. B. W. Adams. 1883.

SCATTERY.

St. Senan and Scattery. By Judge Carton, M.R.I.A. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.

See Inniscattery.

SHELBURNE.

History of the Town and County of Wexford. Vol. IV. includes Shelburne. By P. H. Hore, M.R.I.A. London, 1900-11.

SLANE.

The Hill of Slane and its Memories. By John B. Cullen. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.

SLIGO. Statistical Survey of co. Sligo. By James

McParlan. Dublin, 1802. Account in Irish of the Tribes and Customs of the

District of Hy-Fiachrach, in the Counties of

Sligo and Mayo. Edited with Translation by

John O'Donovan. Dublin, 1844. Sligo and the Enniskillcucrs. By W. G. Wood-

Martin, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1882. History of the Town and County of Sligo from the

Earliest Age.s to the Present Time. By W. G.

Wood-Martin. Dublin, 1882-92. The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland (co. Sligo

and Island of Achill). By W. G. Wood-Martin,

M.R.I.A. Proceedings Royal Irish Academy,

Dublin, 1888. The Exploration of the Caves of Kesh, co. Sligo.

1903. The History of Sligo, Town and County. By

Archdeacon O'Rorke. Dublin, n.d.

STRABANE.

A List of Books, Pamphlets, and Newspapers printed in Strabane in the Eighteenth Century By E. R. MacC. Dix, M.R.I.A. Dun Emer Press, 1908.

SWORDS. Lecture on Swords. By Bishop Reeves. Dublin.

1860. Articles in Parish Magazine. By Canon Twice.

Dublin, 1861.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79 Talbot Street, Dublin.

(To be continued.)

AMERICANISMS ? I have noted .it different times the use in >Jew England and the Southern States of many words and phrases which were quite common in Devon in the days of my youth ; for instance, " I reckon," " I guess," and also " cricket " for a three- legged stool. Over a shop at Brattleboro', Vermont, I once saw the legend, " John Jackson, Razors honed," though I had never before found the verb " hone " used out of Devon. Then, again, some ten years ago in Cornwall, at the hospitable table of a well- known Professor of English Literature at one of our Universities, I was asked if I liked my beef " rare." On my claiming the phrase as an Americanism, I was assured that in Cornwall it was quite a usual term. Again, to refer to my youth, if any one used the word "autumn" instead of "fall," he was told that it was a newfangled word. Indeed, it is only since a modern poet, Richard Le Gallienne, gave us his beautiful poem ' Autumn,' with its immortal line, Autumn, the faithful widow of the year, that I have become quite reconciled to the word.

A great authority on bridge has just told me that he recently published a book on this game, and his publisher was only able to place an edition of 250 with an American house. The American publisher informed the English publisher that if the Knave had been called the " Jack " he could have disposed of 2,000 copies. In Devon we always called the Knave " Jack."

Those who are familiar with American life will realize that an American seldom carru s a stick, and if he does, it is always a " cane," no matter what the wood. Is this a relic of the sugar cane, or the emblem of slave-owning ? Some years ago I was in Washington Square, New York, when I caught sight of a gentleman cariying a stick. At once I put him down as an Englishman, and as he came nearer I recognized the w r ell-known featur* s of Mr. St. George Lane-Fox-Pitt. Again, an American never carries a purse. It is invariably a pocket-book, this arising natur- ally from the use of a paper currency. Indeed, I have never seen an American gold coin in circulation. There are many cunning devices for holding the notes securely, and some of these are necessarily coming into use in this country.

I have also noticed that Americans habitually use the word " office " in ivtVrrm_ r to a doctor's or dentist's surgery or consulting room. Perhaps those who have an extensi \. > knowledge of Elizabethan English can tell us if "office" was ever used l.erc in the same