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it," or "there is no other truth about it." To exemplify in English : when I say I am "only top thankful," I mean "I have no other feeling than one of greater thankfulness than is quite dignified" or "than is really called for." The "only" in such a phrase strikes me as equivalent to the vulgar phrase " I am not going to do anything else," when it means simply " that is exactly what I am going to do" i.e., "I have no intention or feeling contrary to the doing of it." The story is familiar of the girl who was asked if she intended to wear her engagement ring in public, and replied, '' I ain't going to wear anything else." So when we say, " I am only too grateful," we mean, not, as the terms would imply, that we are nothing else but too grateful, but that there is no other feeling of that sort in the mind except a gratitude beyond what might reasonably be looked for. FORREST MORGAN.

Hartford, Conn.

" UTILITARIAN " (9 th S. vii. 425 ; ix. 197). An example of this word, illustrating the dictionary definition " of or pertaining to utility," occurs in the article on Tennyson's 'Poems, chiefly Lyrical,' in the Westminster Review of 1830. Having stated that the epic form belongs irretrievably to the literary past, the writer continues :

" A large portion always was prose in fact, and necessarily so ; but -literary superstition kept up the old forms after everybody felt them intolerably wearisome and soporific, though few dared to be so heretical as to say so, until the utilitarian spirit showed itself even in poetical criticism, and then the dull farce ended."

This is somewhat earlier than Father Prout, whose use of " utilitarian " and " utilita- rianism " was noted at the second of the above references. It need hardly be added that the employment of the word by these two writers does not necessarily invalidate the assumption of Mill, a generation later, when he writes (in note to ' Utilitarianism, chap, ii.) : " The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the word 'utilitarian into use." Greater precision of statement on Mill's part would have been helpful towards a clear understanding of his position.

THOMAS BAYNE.

BARONETS OF NOVA SCOTIA (9 th S. x. 28 77). The appendix to 'Encyclopaedia Heral dica," by William Berry, fifteen years register ing clerk to the College of Anns, London contains the names of the " Baronets of Scot land, or Nova Scotia Baronets, not Peers.' See i. 243-53. During 1867 a volume was published entitled 'Royal Letters, Charters

,nd Tracts relating to the Colonisation of Sew Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knights Baronets of Nova Scotia,' ivhich may be of assistance to your corre-

pondent. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

"GANGES" (6 th S. viii. 354). At the above

reference I find " Ganges " mentioned as " a

diaphanous fabric " having its origin in the

ast. The word does not appear in the

N.E.D.' or ' Draper's Dictionary.' I shall

'eel obliged for an account of this material.

W. CROOKE.

Langton House, Charlton Kings.

TRINITY MONDAY (6 th S. xii. 167, 234, 523 ; 7 th S. i. 38 ; 9 th S. x. 51). Trinity College, Oxford, was founded in 1554 by Sir Thomas Pope, Knt., and the founder directs that "the scholars should be chosen from his manors ; but if no such candidates propeny qualified appear on the day of election, Trinity Monday, then they shall be supplied from any county in England." This shows it to have been a usual appellation in the sixteenth century. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BISHOP SANDERSON'S DESCENDAKTS (9 th S. ix. 448, 511). I have to thank both the REV. W. D. SWEETING and H. C. for their kind replies to my query relating to the descend- ants of Bishop Sanderson ; I had, however, already seen Bridges and Whalley's ; North- amptonshire' and the Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, and had consulted the references contained in the latter.

I have gone into the matter very carefully, and have come to the conclusion that Mrs. Pare was a great-granddaughter of Anthony Sanderson, of Serlby Hall, who married Jane Mellish, and who oh. 1687/8. In this case Mrs. Pare would be sixth in descent from Dr. Anthony Topham, Dean of Lincoln, and not fifth in descent from Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln. The daughter of Dr. Topham married Robert Sanderson, who would be grandson of William Sanderson, who was brother of the bishop.

Whether I am correct in this surmise I cannot say, but if the issue and descendants of Anthony Sanderson and Jane Mellish could be ascertained, we should then know how far this suggestion stands true.

The pedigree of the Sandersons of Serlby Hall is given in Raine's 'History of Blyth,' and the marriage of Sanderson and Mellish is duly noted ; but their issue, if any, is not recorded. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.