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James Mead (2 nd S. i. 94.) If R. J. will favour me with his address, I shall be happy to send him a clue whereby to get at James Mead.

E. P. HENSLOW.

Suchet in der Schrffi (2 nd S. i. 76.) The words, " Das Fleisch geliistet wider den Geist, und den Geist wider das Fleisch," are decidedly un- grammatical as they stand ; and the answer given in " N. & Q." merely suggests another mode of expression, which would be indeed grammatical, but which is clearly inadmissible in the German text. There can be little doubt that den is a mis- take which has crept in, and might be unhesitat- ingly corrected by reference to the Danish and Dutch versions. The Danish reads thus : " Thi kidet begierer imod aanden, men aanden imod kidet." The Dutch version is : " Het vleesch begeert tegen den Geest, ende de Geest tegen het vleesch." In both these correlative languages the sentence is similarly constructed, and it is most probable that Luther's German originally stood in the same way. F. C. H.

[We must abide by our former reply, and maintain its grammatical accuracy, in which -we are supported by Adelung, Grimm, Becker, Kehrein, indeed by every Ger- man grammarian of repute. The Danish" and Dutch texts are not in point. The article in Danish is inflected in the genitive only, and begieren in the one language, and begeeren in the other, are active verbs. The cele- brated German grammarian Adelung, in bis well-known Worterbuch, quotes, under the verb gelusten, this very identical text from Luther's version as an illustration of the use of the verb as an impersonal. F. C. H. may have momentarily forgotten the rule applying to impersonal verbs, namely, that they may be used'elliptically, leaving out ex or employing it. Adelung gives the following in- stance : " Es geliistet sie, oder sie geliistet nach selt- samer Speise." Luther's first German edition of 1534 gives the text as F. C. H. quotes it In the first Roman Catholic edition of the German Bible (circa MG2) the passage stands thus: "Wan daz flaisch begeytigt wider de gaist : vff der gaist wider das flaisch." Here, how- ever, begeytigm is an active verb, used in the sense of be- gehren to desire, lust after.]

Vaux Family (2 nd S. iii. 55.) There was pri- vately printed, in 1826, a small 8vo. tract, en- titled, Short Account of the Family of,Le Vaux, Vans, or Vans, of Barro-varroch ; but whether it will be of any service to your correspondent MR. RICHARDS, in the elucidation of" his inquiry or not, I cannot at present say, not having in my possession a copy of the said tract. T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

Passage in Tennyson s " In JMemoriam" (2 nd S. i. 116.) Both the stanzas quoted by MR. BLOOD are in Tennyson's poem. The one occurs at p. 118., where it is the opening stanza of LXXXIV. ; the other is the last stanza of xxvii. We are obliged to anything which sends us back to the

pages of that wonderful book In Memoriam, on which it is almost impossible to bestow too much study and admiration, so profound are the thoughts, and so exquisite the expression of them. It may be interesting to the admirers of Tennyson to compare the stanzas in vi. :

" Oh father, wheresoe'er thou be,

That pledgest now thy gallant son, A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath still'd the life that beat from thee.

" Oh mother, praying God will save

Thy sailor while thy head is bow'd, His heavy-shotted hammock shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave."

with a passage from p. 5. of Jeremy Taylor's Holy Dying. He quotes from Petronius the ac- count of a man who had been shipwrecked, who sees on the shore a corpse floated towards it. How that

" It cast him into some sad thoughts ; that peradven- ture this man's wife in some part of the Continent, safe and warm, looks next month for the good man's return ; or it may be his son knows nothing of the tempest ; or his father thinks of that affectionate kiss which still is warm upon the good old man's cheek ever since he took a kind farewell, and he weeps with joy to think how blessed he shall be when his beloved boy returns into the circle of his father's arms. These are the thoughts of mortals, this is the end and sum of all their designs j a dark night and an ill guide, a boisterous sea and a broken cable, a hard rock and a rough wind, dash'd in pieces the fortune of a whole family, and they that shall weep loudest for the accident, are not yet entered into the storm, and yet have suffered shipwreck."

MARGARET GATTT.

Orchard (2 nd S. i. 65.) Professor Martyn, in his Notes on Virgifs Georgica, states, that this word is derived from opxaros, as used by Homer. Milton writes it orchat, and J. Phillips, in his poem on Cider, calls it orchat. This is also the common expression in Devonshire. Phillips, book i., writes thus :

" Else false hopes

He cherishes, nor will his fruit expect Th' autumnal season, but in summer's pride, When other orchats smile, abortive fail."

W. COIXYNS, M.R.C.S.

Drewsteignton.

My remarks on the derivation of "Name," from Nomen (1 st S. xii. 339.), seem equally applicable to this derivation of "Orchard" from the Greek.

If we turn to Johnson (Todd's) or Webster, we find given as an etymon the Ang.-Sax. word ort- geard. If we turn to Bosworth, we find ort-geard, a garden, a yard for fruit, an orchard.

Now, admitting the gutteral pronunciation of g before e, we have a sound not very dissimilar from that of or-chard. If, however, this be not satisfactory, there is another way of considering the question by which we may obtain an etymon, in another branch of the Indo-European family,