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we have it, came purposely to see it ; and it became the fashion to sit on chairs and dine off tables made from the material that had earlier been put aside as lumber. Woolaston, the cabinet-maker, made a fortune.

C. P. HALE.

DEAL AS A PLACE OF CALL (12 S. vi. 12, 52). Readers of the ' Memoirs ' of William Hickey will find that it was no unusual occurrence for outward-bound vessels to be detained so long in the Downs that their passengers were able not only to land at Deal, but even to post to London and back and then not miss their boat.

S. A. GBUNDY-NEWMAN.

Walsall.

AUTHOR OP QUOTATION WANTED.

(12 S. vii. 50).

My heart is like a rusty lock, &c. Certainly not Isaac Watts. It was quoted by Ehoda Broughton as a sample of a Methody or Bevivalist hymn in one of her early novels I think ' Bed as a rose is she.'

W. COUBTHOPE FOBMAN.

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Feudal Cambridgeshire. By William Farfer, D. Lit.

(Cambridge University Press, 2 2s. net.) THE author of this volume has already made some important contributions to county history by his publication of sundry early Charters of Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, and as joint editor of ' The Victoria History of Lancashire,' which stands in the front rank 'of that valuable series.

This Calendar of Feudal Records relating to Cambridgeshire has been compiled as a source of reference to the baronial, honorial and manorial history of the county. Its sources are the Domes- day Survey, Pipe Bolls, Feet of Fines, various official Bolls and Inquisitions, Monastic Chartu- laries, &c. Grouped by Hundreds, there are marshalled under the names of the places the records relating thereto, in chronological order. They consist in most cases, of somewhat abbre- viated summaries of the original entries. Lists are given of the respective Honors and Baronies under which the lands in each Hundred were held. A list is also given of the Domesday Fees and the corresponding Baronies and Honors of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. To the student of local history such a work as this and it is pleasing to learn that it is a precursor of others will be of the utmost value as a convenient and reliable book of reference. It will also supply the genealogist with the necessary data for tracing the early descent of many families, some of them notable ones. Such ready sources of information have hitherto been sadly lacking. The ordinary amateur., whose faith in pedigrees based upon the supposed hereditary descent of surnames and armorial bearings is becoming more and more shaken, is frequently unable to tap the supplies of more precise information, furnished by the passing

of manors and lands, in such ancient records as. have come down to us. Or else he finds the co- ordination of items gathered from various separate sources a formidable task. Here he is provided' with what he needs, sorted out ready to his hand. - If there were but a series of such Calendars com- piled for most of the Englsh counties, it would indeed give a new lease of life and an intensified' interest to the study of genealogy. It would also- greatly increase our knowledge of such things as the ancient royal Serjeanties. Illustrations of: the value of the book from the genealogical stand- point are given in the form of chart pedigrees,., based upon the records cited, some of them supply- ing evidence of descent for as many as nine generations. In this county the lands of the- various tenants in chief of the Domesday Survey descended with a remarkable regularity" to their respective descendants living in the later cen- turies dealt with. Useful footnotes are appended: throughout, and there is a particularly good index of names and places, as also of things. Many will eagerly await Dr. Farrer's further publications of a like nature, and it is to be hoped that his example may be followed by other experts in different parts of the country.

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. New Series, Vol. ix., Parts 1 and 2. (Printed Privately for the Members of the Gypsy Lore Society, Edin- burgh University Press, 5s. each.) SUBSCRIBERS to the Journal of the Gypsy Lore- Society, who have deplored its irregular issue during the war, will appreciate the excellent quality of the parts before us, in which appears a most valuable report of four years' research by an English resident in Varna, writing under the pseudonym of 'Petulengro.' The report deals with the Gypsy Tribes of North East Bulgaria and treats in Part i. of their Tribal Divisions and in Part ii. of their dialects. ' Petulengro ' re- emphasizes the " unreliability of second-hand information " and the general ignorance of persons on the spot, such as officials, Bulgarians, Turks,, and even Gypsies themselves, concerning " any- thing and everything " relating to tribal customs and languages. The tribes and dialects of these gypsies of the Balkans are entirely determined" by the nature of their trades, and indeed these trades seem in some subtle manner to influence voice and accent, morals and habits, and even to affect the sense of beauty. This strange in- fluence of occupation has been already pointed out by M. Paul Bataillard ; and the gypsies themselves recognise that a certain trade implies a certain language and all its concomitants a social factor mostly forgotten by us. The gypsy trades and Tribes in the Balkan Peninsula are those of Sieve- makers, Tinners, Iron-workers, Basket and Bush-carpet makers, Musicians (des- cended from wool-cleaners), Drum and pipe-players Coffee-pot makers, Horse-shoe makers, Comb- makers, makers of gimlets and shepherds' crooks,. Wooden-spoon and Trough-makers. Some rear- buffaloes and some horses, and many are also- horse-stealers.

Some few of the curious idioms to be found in the dialects may be quoted as examples, e.g. 9 .~ " To be caused to be cut up," means " to be dying of hunger " ; "To cause my shirts to cook '" means "to do my washing " ; "I was burnt for