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and possibly may be the origin of the name Morphy and Murphy, though on the face of it this is improba ble. As little likely is it that any mortal was ever surnamed " God, ' which afterwards became Goad (p. 208). Similarly the origin of Thurgood, Thoroughgood, is not to be found in " the god Thor," but in the Icelandic Thur-godi, " the priest of Thor." It seems arbitrary to deny any connexion between G-reeves and armour. What about Sir Lancelot Greaves ? The name Pertwee is to be explained, not from pertuis in, the sense of hole, but rather in the sense of spur with which the knight goes pricking o'er the plain, the crest of the family. An interesting identifica- tion is that of Tollfree, another form of Turfery, as a survival of Thurfrith, or Torfrida, the wife of Hereward. On the other hand, there are some curious slips. The French name Potdevin is not from pot-de-vin, a present (p. 273), but obviously, like the English Potwin and Putwain, from Poitevin, a native of Poitou. " Coarse " was never a doublet of " gross " (p. 308). The history of the word is - known to be different. " Wool- ward " (p. 153) meant not merely " clothed in wool," but was used specifically of a penitent wearing the wool next the skin. " Fairly " for 44 fairy " is a misprint (p. 27, 1. l)that may puzzle some readers. " Work " (p. 75 n.) stands for ~" word," and " first " (p. 159 n.) for " fist."

RECENT CATALOGUES.

MB. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue No. 370 i s divided into five sections, headed respectively America., Russia, the West of England, Books with Coloured Plates, and Ballads, Songs, and Music. Under each are many items worth the collector's and the student's attention, and the Russian section, in particular, is furnished more amply and solidly than we have found to be the ca.se, as to this subject, in other catalogues which we have recently inspected. Here are two sets of views of Moscow the one dated 1825 and consisting of ten lithographs by Deroz, Joly, Lemaitre, Fragonard, and others after Cadolle, SI. ; and the other of 1795-7 six line engravings after De la Barthe by Guttenberg, Lorietix, and Laminit, 121. Of Petrograd there are Edward Orme's ' Picture of St. Petersburgh,' illustrated by coloured aquatints (Clark and Dubourgh after Mornay), published in 1815, and offered for ten guineas, and Demartrait's series of ten aquatint engravings (c. 1812), 157. Demartrait's series of seven views in Russia also coloured aquatints is to be had for 207. Tempting items besides are the following : ' Purchas his Pilgrimes,' a fine copy with all the maps 162)5-6), 751. ; l'Abb6 Chappe d'Auteroche's ' Voyage en Sibe>ie,' well illustrated and with an atlas, 4 vols. folio (1768), 11. 10s. ; and Walker and Atkinson's ' Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians ' (1803-4), 111.

' The list of books with coloured plates is very attractive. We can but mention some half-dozen as specimens. For 407. may be had William Combe's ' Oxford ' and ' Cambridge,' each 2 vols., quarto (1814 and 1815) ; and here is Miss Mary Lawrence's ' Collection of Roses from Nature ' (1799) being 91 coloured plates, a rare book 701. Rowlandson is represented by many good items, as, for example, by the rare ' Compendious

' Treatise on Modern Education ' (1802), 601. A

set of first editions of Surtees, with the coloured plates by Leech and " Phiz," bound by Riviere, of which 507. is the price, and John Claude Nattes's views of Versailles, Paris, and St. Denis (1805), 657., may also be mentioned. The ballads and songs include Bickham's ' Musical Enter- tainer,' 2 vols. folio in 1, 181. ; and the American list describes a copy of Simcoe's ' Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers,' printed for the author at Exeter (1787), 561.

Mr. Charles J. Sawyer's Catalogue No. 44 with its interesting cover is devoted to ' Literary Rarities,' many of which are of the sumptuous order. We confess that Burns even though it be that first issue of the first Edinburgh edition which is distinguished by the " Boxburgh " and " stink- ing " misprints strikes us as incongruous in a jewelled and otherwise elaborately adorned binding. However, for those who like the com- bination here it is, to be had for 1107., while a similar book, the first London edition, somewhat more simply treated, costs 267. There are two fine Keats items : a first edition of the ' Poems ' (1817) in its original condition, 1807. ; and three volumes of first editions bound by Zaehnsdorf 1207. The list of ' Coloured Plates ' is good, and there are two or three historical originals of high interest. We think 3757. an extravagant price to ask for a collected set of the " Cheap Edition " of Dickens's works (1847-50) 5 vols., in the con- temporary binding merely because it contains a playful inscription by Dickens to his godson.

We enjoyed Messrs. Rimell's Catalogue No. 244. It describes, among many other good things, the 1773 edition (illustrated) of the ' (Euvres ' of Moliere brought out in Paris, 6 vols., 407. ; the Amsterdam edition (1762, " Edition des Fermiers Generaux ") of La Fontaine, 507. ; and Gravelot and Cochin's ' Iconplogie par Figures, ou Traite complet des- Allegories, Emblemes, &c.' (c. 1770), 217. We noted also a Fourth Folio of the ' Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies ' of Shake- speare (1685), offered for 557. ; and a first edition of White's ' Selborne,' 127.

Messrs. E. Parsons & Sons (Catalogue No. 280) have some good series of Parisian pictures : thus C. Vernet's ' Cris de Paris ' (1825), 65 guineas ; and Horace Vernet's Parisian ' Costume ' (1825), 18 guineas. We noticed ma.ny delightful bind- ings ; an Italian MS. of 288 pp., entitled ' II Palazzo d'Atlnnte,' relating to fortune-telling, particularly by dice and by means of cabalistic circles (c. 1650), 10 guineas ; a set of 100 original Chinese drawings, 25 guineas ; and Du Roveray's edition f(1804-6) of Pope's works, bound in crimson morocco, 18 guineas.

The, Alhe/naium 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.'

S to (Eormptm twits,

MR. BRESLAR and MR. P. WILIJAMS (Bristol). Forwarded.

LUCY M. SALMON (Pougbkeepsie, New York). Forwarded to Mr. J. B. Williams.