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 20 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY 3, 1920 -omitted ; perhaps, also, the bibliography which is not full enough to be of real value, and the meagre list of Lancastrian worthies. In theii place we should have welcomed a convenient list of the more important specimens of domestic architecture, in which the county is by no means poor. Like its predecessors the book is carefully produced. It is just the right size for the pocket and is well printed on good paper, which can be
 * said of very few books in this year of grace. 11

is singularly free from misprints, and is furnishec with a most serviceable map. The railway map which is employed as an end-paper is of less value. This is becoming a common practice with publishers, but it cannot be too strongly con- demned. The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol. xvii., Nos. 1 and 2. (London, The Swarth- more Press. 3s.) THERE are many pleasant pages in these two numbers issued together in one cover. The most generally interesting paper is that put together out of ' The Haigs of Bemersyde ,' by John Bussel" (1881), relating to the two seventeenth century Haigs who joined the Friends. One was the head of the family of his day Anthony Haig who suffered an imprisonment of over four years for his convictions, but on returning to the world, did not further distinguish himself as a Friend. The other was Anthony's younger brother William. He migrated to London ; became the friend and son-in-law of Gawen Lawrie, a well- known Quaker merchant, afterwards deputy governor of East New Jersey ; and followed that good man into the New World, where, " grown very grey," he died, at Burlington, at the age of forty-two. Charles Tylor (1816-1902) wrote for his grand- children, an artless but lively account of his school-days in the " Twenties " which takes the chief place in the first number. The vicissitudes of Prior Park, Bath, are illustrated by a note on John Thomas of Bristol, who owned it for some 16 years, early in the last century. The principal article in No. 2 is the " vision " of Joseph Fry (1728-1787), the founder of the firm of J. S. Fry & Sons a remarkable dream of the type of a " pilgrim's progress." Pickpocket, Turnkey, Wrap-rascal and similar Formations in English : a scmasioloc/ical Study. By Dr. W. Uhrstrom. (Stockholm, iMagn. Bergvall.) THE formations dealt with in this interesting little study consist of an uninflected verb with an object. The compiler warns his readers that no section pretends to be complete : each presents merely numerous examples. We are therefore not entitled to quarrel with him over omissions. The expenditure of a little more time might have added considerably to the value of the work. No systematic distinction is made between terms in common use, dialect terms, obsolete terms and nonce words. Thus, on pp. 12 and 13, ' Cut- throat,' ' fetch-water,' ' spurn-cow ' and ' tame- horse ' might, by a foreigner, be taken as much on a level, so far as usage goes (except that still in literary use, and the others are, for practical purposes, non-existent. Stray translations of Greek compounds ocurring in Chapman were hardly worth including, unless, perhaps, some general essay on these formations was intended to be offered. Such an essay might have been made both entertaining and instructive, in fact, without it the writer's aim" to state which are the chief groups of thought comprised" by the words in question can hardly be said to have been attained. The study falls into two parts, which the author has entitled respectively " Animate Ideas "#and " Inanimate Ideas." For both he has naturally drawn on the sources with which every English student is familiar, above all, on the " N. E. D." He gives numerous illustrative quotations, and is careful to insert dates. Reference is in some degree facilitated by marginal headings ; ^and there is a complete index of words. The general reader will probably derive con- siderable amusement from these pages. The impression left by them is that of rough-and- readiness rather than of wit. The verb stem with its object served for ideas connected with simple actions mostly in some degree violent and damaging. " Heal-all," and " rest-harrow " are almost alone even among plant-names in suggest- ing anything comfortable. Dr. Uhrstrom has included a very odd dialect example of popular etymology which is new to us in " Love-and-tear- it " for Lavatera (arborea) the tree mallow. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' "Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers" at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. ; corrected proofs to the Athenaeum Press, 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings, E.C.4. YVfiEX answering a query, or referring to an article which has already appeared, correspondents are requested to give within parentheses immediately after the exact heading the numbers of the series, volume, and page at which the con- tribution in question is to be found. CORRIGENDA. At 12 S. vi. 335, col. 2, 1. 10, for " AF " read " AT," and 1. 12, for " Kaboretum read Roboretum. 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 * spurn-cow ' is rare) ; whereas ' cut-throat ' is