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way, for it seems to me that many so-called Americanisms were handed down from the varying English dialects of the early colonists.

Stranere* to say, in democratic America, where wealth counts for so much, the brewer and distiller are seldom received in the best society ; indeed, only a short time ago the contribution from a well-known Boston distiller to a Church fund was returned to the donor. This is probably a survival of the Puritan spirit. Here things are different, for the brewer and the distiller seem to enjoy an exalted position ; indeed, some wag called our House of Lords the " Beerage " ! I wonder who it was who invented that term.

JOHN LANK.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W. [We should have thought Keats might have anticipated Mr. Le Gallienne in reconciling Mr. Lane's mind to " Autumn." It is true that the word occurs only in the title of the well-known ' Ode ' ; but could the ode as we have it have been addressed to 'The Fall ' ?]

INCUNABULA IN IRISH LIBRARIES. Since

writing the article which appears ante, p. 247, I have been permitted to examine every book on the shelves of the Royal Irish Academy, and have discovered another " incunabu- lum," if I may coin the barbarism. This is :

5. [Hain 3752.] " Salutifera [ic] navis .... per Sebistianum, Trant [lege Brant] .... Impres- sum [Lugduni] per Jacobum Zachoni de Romano 1488 [lege 1498]," 156 ft.

At the foot of fol. la is the stamp of the Biblioteca Colombina of Seville.

M. ESPOSTTO.

CASAUBON ON BASKISH. I am permitted to place on record the following note con- cerning the Baskish language as mentioned by the famous scholar Casaubon :

Bodleian Library, Oxford, August 26, 1916.

DEAR MR. DODGSON, With reference to the Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed in Basque in MS. Casaubon 12, fol. 297, these are given at the end of a copy of Scaliger's ' Diatriba de Hodiernis Francorum Linguis,' but are omitted from that treatise in the printed edition of Scaliger's ' Opuscula,' edited by Casaubon, and published at Paris in 1610. I have compared the text with Leicarraga, and found variations ; but which are linguistic variations, and which are clerical errors, I cannot wholly determine, since there is an element of both. So I make you a present of this information, such as it is.

H. H. E. CRASTER, Sub-Librarian.

It is an interesting contribution to the bibliography of Heuscara, as Leicarraga, in his New Testament and its supplementary documents in 1571, called his language, still struggling for existence.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

" FARE THOU WELL." This, perhap-, i- preferable to " Fare thee well."

Love, fare thou well, live will I now Quiet amongst the greenwood bough.

This is the refrain of a lyric entitled ' De- fiance to Love,'

"From 'Honour's Academy, or the Famous Pastoral of the Fair Shepardess Julietta.' Done into English by R[obert] T[ofte], Gentleman, 1610."

The refrain appears first ; then follows : 111 betide him that love seeks, He shall live but with lean cheeks ; He that fondly falls in love, A slave still to grief shall prove.

Love, fare thou well, &c.

See ' Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, from Romances and Prose-Tracts of the Elizabethan Age/ edited by A. H. Bullen, 1890, p. 79.

On p. 169 is the following note : " ' Honour's Academy.' A translation from the French romance of Ollenix du Mont Sacr6, i.e. Nicolas de Montreux, ' Les Bergeries de Juliette,' 1592."

I suppose that the extended form of " Fare thou well " is " Mayest thou fare well."

Assuming the correctness of the reprint, and of the date, " Fare thou well " appeared over sixty years earlier than " Fare them well " and " Fare him well," and over two hundred years before " Fare thee well," in the quotations given in the ' New English Dictionary.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.

JOSEPH WOLFF (1795-1862) : ONE OF HIS LETTERS. Anything that relates to this eccentric and " multo-scribbling " man is interesting. I have a letter addressed by him to Mr. Hackman from Isle Brewers, Somerset, June 25, 1857 :

" ...The clergy hereabout assist me in my work, and so does Archdeacon Denison. Pray shew to Mr. Venables, and to that Lady to whom [he] introduced me, the Documents, and send me some mite. I do not despise pence, shillings, sixpences], and halfpence and one pound contributions. I am sure that the Bishop or Oxford will do something I am going to-morrow to Taunton, to sign a petition against the ' Divorce Hill,' which ought to be called ' The Adultery and Polygamy legalizing Bill!' Lord Blandford stated in a meeting of the Jeru- salem Mission, patronized chiefly by the London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the JEWS. that the Christians in the East were more degraded than the savages in the Interior of Africa. I think that the noble marquess must have thought, when he made such a false and UNTRUE ASSERTION, that [in] a speech made before a Society [for] promot- ing the conversion of the Jews to the Exeter Hall religion, a ' Credat Judcem' argument will [would! serve the purpose. I send for perusal a letter I received 2 years ago from the Greek Archimandrite at Liverpool. Get it copied and published in