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the same word as "story," a narrative or history. The form " historia " (A.D. 1200) points to this, though it is itself obscure, and may, it is suggested, mean " a tier of painted windows." " Store," verb and noun, is ultimately from the Latin instaurare. In the sense of " shop " it was recently current in this country only in the plural, " the Stores " being the most familiar example, but American enterprise has made it now familiar over here. The quotations given are chiefly American. The word figures, however, In Stevenson's ' The Beach of Falesa,' a story in the ' Island Nights' Entertainments ': " The store was to the front, with a counter, scales, and the poorest possible display of trade " (chap. i.).

Going through the Dictionary with admiration for its breadth of knowledge and perpetual interest to the student of English, we offer one or two extra quotations. Under " stipendiary " Bradley Headstone is duly noted as a " stipen- diary schoolmaster " in ' Our Mutual Friend,' but we miss Mrs. Wilfer's solemn remark in chap. viii. of that delightful book, " We have at present no stipendiary girl," a comment which may appeal to an increasing class of citizens to-day. To the long article on " stir " we might add in section 12 Matthew Arnold's

Powers stir in us, stir and disappear,

from his ' Self-Deception.' It is a passage characteristic of his mind, as are the lines in the same poem :

Then, as now, this tremulous, eager being Strain'd and long'd and grasp'd each gift it saw.

" Strain " in the sense of a tune recalls at once to us Shakespeare's

That strain again ! it had a dying fall, in the opening of ' Twelfth Night.' The sense -of " a passage of song or poetry " follows from this, and is well illustrated by a line of Tennyson. That poet has in ' The Talking Oak ' a reference to

others, passing praise. Strait-laced, but all-too-full in bud

For puritanic stays,

which might have appeared under " strait-laced," section d. We fancy that a good many lesser bards, not to mention W. S. Gilbert, have rimed

" stocking " with " shocking."

The quotations for " Stoicism " ignore the famous line in Addison's ' Cato,'

I think the Romans call it Stoicism, and might easily be improved for modern times.

" Stomach " is a good example of the ability of the Dictionary in analysis and illustration. It is amusing to see that, besides the senses of appetite, emotion, valour, and irritation, " stomach " has also been used in connexion with Cupid, corresponding to the Latin jecur. " Stone " with its numerous derivatives is another fine instance of the untiring erudition of " stony-broke " is included with three quotations. " Stop," verb and noun, is also a word of wide significance. " Storm-troops " is a novelty of the present war which has occurred to us, but which hardly perhaps deserves recognition as yet. For " stormily " we find excellent prose quota- tions from De Quincey, Charlotte Bronte, and Froude, but we should add a poetical quotation,
 * he Dictionary. Even the slang " stony " =

again from Matthew Arnold, ' A Picture at New- stead ' :

'Twas not the thought of Byron, of his cry Stormily sweet, his Titan-agony. 4

"Stoup" is familiar Scotch fora drinking vessel, but we do not know under what exact meaning Allan Ramsay's

Dalhousie of an old descent, My chief, my stoup, my ornament, would come. It seems to be something like presidium in the parallel passage of Horace. The last pages of the section introduce us to several words, all ultimately formed from the Greek ffTparbs, an army. Gladstone alone has ventured on " stratarchy," and Carlyle has had one follower in " strategying."

We congratulate Dr. Bradley on his completion of an admirable and important section, full of words both of a familiar and a learned sort.

Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaioloyical Society. Vol. VIII. Part I. Edited by John Hautenville Cope. (Southampton, Gilbert & Son, 5s. to Non- Members.)

THIS part contains several papers of antiquarian interest, the longest and most important being Mr. Theodore Craib's continuation of his tran- script, from the original MS. in the Public Record Office, of ' Church Goods in Hampshire, A.D. 1552.' This includes the inventory of what remained in Winchester Cathedral after it had been partially despoiled by Henry VIII.'s Commissioners in 1539. The inventories of various churches in Winchester, besides recording the goods then remaining, supply lists of articles that had been recently sold, the prices obtained, and in some cases the names of the purchasers. That of St. Mary Kalendar is notable as comprising "as maney bokys as weye jc. xxjZi.," but, though " solde unto a freynchman " along with " a table of alabaster and an imayg of ower lady," they realized together only xvs. xjd. The docu- ment also notes the sums paid for " byldeng uppe ye weste wall " and " a new buttres in the north syde of ower churche." The paper finishes with an account of the goods in the churches of South- ampton at the same period.

Mr. Gordon P. G. Hills contributes ' Notes on some Blacksmiths' Legends and the Observance of St. Clement's Day,' and prints two songs, ' Old Clem, the Jolly Blacksmith,' and ' Tubal Cain,' besides an account of the " Clem Supper " celebrated at Twyford, and the legend connecting King Solomon with the blacksmith's craft. Of a more serious nature is Dr. Williams-Freeman's account of a ' Roman Building at Grateley,' which, though short, is accompanied by a beauti- ful coloured reproduction of a painting by Mr. Hey wood iSumner showing the pavement in one of the rooms, and forming the frontispiece of the volume. Mr. Christopher Burne discusses the existence of an old trackway from Walbury Camp to Tidbury Ring, and Mr. F. H. Baring that of the site of the battle between the Saxons and Danes at Aclea in 851. As there are also scientific and modern historical articles, it is apparent that members of the Field Club are well catered {or, whatever may be their individual tastes.