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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XL JAN. 3, 1903.

me By Carlings and Gorlings To be sae

sairopprest" (Ramsay, 1721). J. DORMER.

CADAVER (9 th S. ix. 188, 490). The follow- ng will show that the ridiculous derivation of cadaver was invented at least four cen- turies before Coke :

" But he constantly obtrudes upon us his gram- matical acquirements, and they are often very erroneous and very absurd. Thus, in treating of the various forms of vanity in one of the earlier chapters of the third book ' De Naturis Rerum,' he goes out of his way to inform us that the word cadaver con- sists of three syllables, representing three distinct words, which also have their meaning collectively ; thus, ca must be taken as representing caro, da as data, and ver as vermibus." Thomas Wright, pp. xii, xiii of the preface to his edition of Alexander Neckam's 'De Naturis Rerum ' and ' De Laudibus Divinae Sapientiae' (Rolls Series, 1863).

Readers of this volume will look in vain for the " third book " of the 'De Naturis Rerum,' as only two are given, the last three being omitted as virtually forming a distinct work. This point is not mentioned in the article on Neckam in the * D.N.B.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

CASTLE CAREWE (9 th S. ix. 428, 490 ; x. 92, 214, 314, 373, 453). Had COL. PRIDEAUX glanced first at the sketch pedigree he cites (Ancestor, part ii. p. 98) and observed the part of Hamlet left out, and then at Mr. Round's exordium, he might have concluded with me that his author was following in the wake of Sir Bernard Burke as to the Geral- dines ('Vicissitudes of Families,' ed. 1859). Wondering how a frequenter of the Record Office could digest such pabulum, I had, on a closer reading, changed my view before the appearance of COL. PRIDE AUX'S reply, which requires enlargement. Mr. Round, by omit- ting the cardinal name (of William Fitz- Gerald's son) Odo (derived, I imagine, from the founder of the family), is conceding the false claim to seniority of the Duke of Lein- ster's Geraldines. H. H. DRAKE.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The New Volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Vol. VI., being Vol. XXX. of the Complete Work.

(A. & C. Black and the Times.) WITH so much dispatch do volumes of ' The Ency- clopaedia Britannica ' succeed each other, that while striving to the utmost to do justice to one of the most important intellectual labours of the day we find ourselves, in our own despite, falling into arrears. Vols. xxx. and xxxi. of the entire work (vi. and vii. of the additional portion) demand our immediate attention. We now deal only with the earlier volume (KMor)> which begins with a pre f atory essay by Mr. Augustine Birrell on ' Moderi

Conditions of Literary Production.' This admirably ind characteristically lucid paper gives some start- ing but, in a way, satisfactory statistics. When >nce he takes hold on any one of the many publics nto which the book- (or play-) loving public is divided, he producer finds an immense fortune awaiting him. Charley's Aunt ' has thus made " more money than s represented by the united fortunes of Scott, Thackeray, and Dickens." How this computation is arrived at we know not, but we have sufficient light on the subject to be indisposed to doubt. Beginning with 1 July, 1842, when the copyright Act for books came into operation, and when Macaulay said, in a
 * amous speech, that none of us would lay down a

ive-pound note for a whole province in the heart of
 * he Australian continent, the writer shows the

nfluence of the growth of

of education. As regards the former alone, the white population has in the United States in- creased in the sixty years between 1842 and 1902
 * rom fourteen millions to sixty-seven millions. What

s said about the general growth of private libraries n recent years is borne out by our own observation, [n this respect Scotland, it is curious to find, lags Dehind. " England," says Mr. Birrell, " is now full of good editions of good books, and the demand for them increases." Kafiristan, meaning literally the [and of the infidel, is described, virtually for the first time in an encyclopaedia, knowledge concerning it dating from 1885-6, when Sir W. Lockhart ex- amined the passes of the Hindu Kush. It is dealt with by Sir George Scott Robertson, a competent autho- rity on the subject. Kashmir is not only the home for romance, but is also, says Sir T. H. Holdich, "a land of grim, gray catastrophe and horror." ' Military Kites ' are discussed by Major Baden F. S. Baden-Powell, a late president of the Aeronautical Society. The article has striking illustrations. Klondike is, of course, new, and is as yet imper- fectly surveyed ; and much is, naturally, added to our knowledge of Korea. Much space is accorded Mr. J. W. Headlam for his life of Louis Kossuth. A portrait accompanies the life of Paul Kruger. Prince Kropotkin is responsible for the account of Kuen-Lun. Lives of Charles Samuel Keene, artist, and of Kyosai Sho-fu, the Japanese painter and cari- caturist, have both full-page illustrations. L opens with an essay by two authors on ' Labour Legisla- tion,' which is outside our province, and occupies many pages. Under ' Lace the manner in which technical knowledge has increased of late, especially in the competition of machinery with hand labour, is fully exhibited. Lagos, erected in 1886 into a separate colony, is dealt with by the Governor, Sir William Macgregor. After ' Landlord and Tenant ' and ' Land Registration,' in regard to both of which great changes have been made, we come to the general heading ' Law,' which, so far as England is concerned, is in the hands of Lord Davey. It is, naturallv, one of the half-dozen most important articles in the volume, and constitutes an unsur- passable summary of the effects produced by recent enactments. Under 'Lead Poisoning' will be found some saddening assertions and statistics. M. Legouv, the dramatist, is still alive, having almost attained the great age of ninety - six. His birth is assigned to 5 February, 1807 ; we supposed it to be the 14th. A repro- duction of ' L' Amende Honorable ' of Alphonse Legros accompanies the life of that artist. It is, of course, a coincidence that Leighton and Millais, so closely associated in life and in death,