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Dulwich, though it must be confessed that th< cross-reference given to Wulfwig fails to tell us o: its provenance. Celtan-ham (in the charters Celtan horn) is evidently the old form of Cheltenham. Mr Searle identifies this Celta with Celto, a personal name of the continental Teutons, though Canon Taylor sees in it an ancient river-name, now the Chelt. Students of the 'Beowulf will notice the interesting place-names Grendlesmere and Grindeles pytt.

One thing which strikes us in turning these pages is the singular lack of variety shown by Anglo-Saxon names. They ring the changes on the ever-recur- ring themes Mlf and ^Ethel, Bad, Leof, Os, and Wulf. Submitting them to a rough analysis, we find forty-six columns of M\t names, fifty-seven of -<Ethel, thirty -nine of Ead, twenty of Leof, twenty- two of Os, and thirty-four of Wulf. If in every case the meaning of the names had been given it would have been a condescension which the majority of readers would have appreciated.

Mr. Searle points out that the Anglo - Saxons sometimes endeavoured to compensate for the absence of surnames by giving their children names which contained one of the elements out of which their own appellations had been, formed. Thus some Ed-wara would mark his paternal rights by calling his offspring Ed-gar and Ed-mund and Ed-win and Ed-ith, pretty much as in modern times Mrs. Smith, nde Brown, finds a pleasure in nominat- ing her progeny Brown-Smith.

Mr. Searle has performed his task of collecting and registering very thoroughly, and other workers will not fail to profit by his labours. " Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes." As a matter of taste we do not see any occasion to spell abbot "abbat," as the author does, though his courage fails him in the matter of " abbass " for abbess. Nor can we see the object of including in an Anglo-Saxon name-list Popes Adeodatus, Gregorius, Leo, Marinus, and Zacharias, merely because tnose names occur in Anglo-Saxon charters.

The Bible True from the Beginning. By Edward

Gough, B.A. Vol. VI. (Kegan Paul & Co.) THIS large octavo is the sixth instalment of an elaborate work in which Mr. Gough seeks to defend every passage of Scripture which he conceives to need defence. There can be no doubt of his indus- try, for he is a very helluo librorum, but we cannot say that he hag employed his miscellaneous learning to the best advantage. On the contrary, he heaps up an enormous amount of good material on a foundation which we hold to be radically unsound. Endless citations not always germane to the matter are poured forth with a lavishness that often confuses the patient reader, and with the result that the argument of the author suffers the Tarpeian fate of lying crushed beneath his own accu- mulations. Mr. Gough's position is briefly this : that it is a mere delusion to believe that the founder of Christianity lived in a visible form in Palestine and was born of an actual woman ; that the Gospels, in fact, are not literal history, but moral ; and, generally, that the Scriptures are not true in the letter, but only in the spirit. The strange thing is that, holding these views, Mr. Gough believes him- self to be a champion of orthodoxy and a foe to rationalism. The Bible is true from the beginning, he grants, but only in a Goughian sense. His method of mystical interpretation often recalls the alle- gorical systems of rhilo and Origen, and has much

in common with the metaphysical speculations of some of the early Gnostics. Thus in the miracle of the destruction of the swine the " country " in which they live is only a mystical emblem of the flesh the "swine" represent the unclean animalism of man, the "demons" being the evil principles of hia nature, and the "lake" the wicked Jews. Jairus the ruler of the synagogue, is the Old Testament' and his daughter the Bath-Kol, or the Spirit of Inspiration. And so, with a little ingenuity, any- thing can be made out of anything. For our part, we think that the old and simple literalism is easier of digestion than this, and less in need of defence.

SOME time ago the ' Letters and Journals of Wil- liam Cory,' the author of ' lonica,' were printed at the Oxford University Press for private circulation, Mr. Frowde is now about to publish some of the results of Cory's experience as a schoolmaster, recorded in a MS. journal dated 1862, and described as 'Hints for Eton Masters,' although the little book has a much wider scope than this title would imply.

W. C. B. writes: "The London daily papers between the 14th and 19th of February contained a short biographical notice of Mr. J. Carrick Moore, recently deceased. I believe this to be an old corre- spondent of 'N. & Q.,' but I was away from home at the time, and could not refer. I do not find him earlier than 6 th S. iii. His latest communication is in 8 th S. x. 479. At p. 141 of the same volume he sayg he is in his ninety-second year." Mr. Carrick Moori, of Corsewall, Wigtonshire, had been an occasional contributor for many years. He was a nephew of the famous Sir John Moore, of Coruna, and was a fine scholar. He died in Eaton Square in his ninety-fifth year.

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S. A. D'ARCY ("Dr. Oliver Holmes "). See N. & Q.,' 8* S. viii. 106, 170, 236, 334; ix. 475 j xi. 11, 8.v. f Sheep-stealer hanged by a Sheep.'

ERRATUM.-P. 168, col. 1, 1. 7, for " Portiguerri " read Fortiguerri.

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