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an implement at work. The bright engraved plates were put into the fire, heated as experi- ence guided ; then a small piece of biscuit paste i.e., paste for making biscuits was put inside, quickly closed by the long handles, and dropped out baked, and so thin that it immediately curled up into a roll, like rolled bread and butter. Sometimes the paste was coloured, and so dishes of thin, sweet, crisp, variously flavoured biscuits were produced. If I remember rightly, the plates were in the first place made red hot. C. G. A.

ORDERS OF FRIARS (9 th S. i. 168, 338, 472). The site of the Bonhommes at Ashridge has no connexion with a hamlet so named in Chesham parish, being partly in the parishes of Pitstone, Bucks, and Little Gaddesden, Herts. It is said that the county boundary passes through Lord Brownlow's seat, built on the site of the original priory.

A. HALL.

13, Paternoster Row, E.G.

SIR WALTER SCOTT ON GRIMM'S 'POPULAR STORIES ' (9 th S. i. 262 ; ii. 33). MR. H. RAY- MENT refers to ' Gammer Grethel ' as contain- ing Sir Walter Scott's letter ; but the note which appeared at the first referencedealt only with Grimm's 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen,' a distinct and earlier book. 'Gammer Grethel,' translated from Grimm and others by Edgar Taylor, was his last published work, and appeared in 1839 with illustrations by George Cruikshank, engraved on wood. The illus- trations to the German ' Popular Stories,' of which Mr. Ruskin said that " they are un- rivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt," were etched.

My justification for the note in question is this sentence from Dr. O. Hart wig's article in Centralblattfiir Bibliothekswesen (Leipzig), January-February, 1898, p. 6 :

" Dass ich in diesem Zusammenhange den Brief Walter Scotts an Edgar Taylor, von dem bisher mo- einige Sdtze veroffentlicht worden, und die Briefe G. Benecke's an denselben mitveroffentliche, wird man hoffentlich nicht iiberflussig finden."

And he adds the following foot-note :

" Einige. Zetten von ihm [the letter] hat Edgar Taylor in seinem 1839 in London erschienenen : Gammer Grethel, from Grimm and others, trans- lated by Taylor, abdrucken lassen. In den 1893 erschienenen Familiar Letters von Walter Scott befindet sich der Brief nicht. Beides nach freund- lichen Mitteilungen von Herrn Arthur Hunt."

The title of Messrs. Bell's edition of Grimm's 'Popular Stories,' as given by them, runs: "Grimm's Tales, with the Notes of the Original. Translated by Mrs. A. Hunt. With Introduction by Andrew Lang, M.A.," 2 vols.,

1884, and is therefore not Edgar Taylor's translation, the subject of Sir Walter's inter- esting letter. J. LORAINE* HEELIS. 9, Morral Terrace, Penzance.

" DEWSIERS " (9 th S. i. 387, 493). This is not a Westmoreland word, as we are told it is by MR. GOLEM AN at the latter reference. Halli- well marks it as used in the " West " (mean- ing the western counties), which your corre- spondent misreads as " Westmoreland."

F. ADAMS.

The " deaf -ears " are not the valves of the heart, but the auricles. See ' H.E.D.'

J. T. F. Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

SLAVONIC NAMES (8 th S. xi. 488 ; xii. 31). Probably by an oversight, MR. PL ATT has left unanswered at the second reference the second query put at the first reference, viz., the meaning of the terminations -evo, -ovo. The following abbreviated extracts from Reiff's 'Russian Grammar' pp. 49, 50, may throw some light on the subject:

"Possessive adjectives which mark the relation of an object to an animate or personified beingare formed by changing the hard mute and o (of the substantive) into o;', or after the lingual or hissing consonants into ev' ; f and the soft mute into ev'; a, ya, and the soft mute into in', &c. To the possessive adjectives belong also several names of towns and villages."

It is evident, therefore, that the termina- tions -ovo and -evo have a possessive or genitive signification, town, village, place, <fec., being understood, as with us in " Hobart " for Hobart Town, and "King's" for King's College. With regard to the stress : in Bohemian it is on the first syllable ; in Polish on the pen- ultimate ; while in Russian, Servian, &c., its position varies. In Polish the v is repre- sented by w, as in " Warsawa " (Warsaw). The Russian form of " Moscow " is " Moskva," the o having been elided between the k and v, owing to the stress falling on the final syllable. These two instances show how widespread the terminations in v are. The final a or o merely denotes the gender.

H. RAYMENT.

Sidcup, Kent.

EPISCOPAL FAMILIES (8 th S. xii. 185, 316; 9 th S. i. 76). On Bishop Carleton's monument in the north transept of Chichester Cathedral appears the following inscription in Latin (translation from ' Daily's Guide,' 1831) :

" Guy Carle ton, S.T.P., descended from the cele- brated Earl of that name, was born in Cumberland, and was Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, as also proctor of that University. He was faithful to Charles II. in his exile, and was his domestic chaplain after his restoration. He was Dean of Carlisle, and