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'he 'Century Dictionary' describes "index" mi ch better than any other, but it does not sa isfy me. It says it is

"si detailed alphabetic (or rarely classified) list or table of topics, names of persons, places, &c., tn ited or mentioned in a book or series of books, ]>o nting out their exact positions in the volume."

^ow instead of " or rarely classified " I w; nt "it is better not classified," and I am HOD certain that I would not like to add "dther generally or in sub-headings," but I would waive this if I got the former in. Am I wrong in desiring a dictionary not only to give us the various meanings of words, but to define the true and accurate meaning ?

It has been properly said that a book should have a table of contents as well as an index. I once put "Contents" only to a pamphlet, and a critical friend objected to it, as he said there was np'such thing it was slang : I must put, he said, "A Table of Con- tents." However, hoping to help naturalize

Contents," I left the single word, and there it is still.

One of our journals, not satisfied with "Contents," puts "Index of Contents," and the result is neither an index nor a table of contents, but a hotchpot of both, in which one never can find anything.

Other "indexes" (the proper English plural of "index," see Wheatley, ibid., p. 9) are arranged in a number of classified headings, and you have to look under some half-dozen headings without finding what you want. I have already (9 th S. i. 35) illustrated the dis- advantage of imaginary headings in an index. KALPH THOMAS.

JANE SHORE. The following paragraph, identifying the site of the residence and place of business in the City of London of Jane Shore's husband, which I met with some time since in the Morning Post of 10 Nov., 1818, is worthy to be preserved in 'N. & Q.,' and will, I think, interest the readers :

"The house in which the husband of the cele- brated Jane iShore formerly lived, it can be proved by old leases, was No. 43 in Lombard Street. It is supposed the present house of that number is the same dwelling, though, from the extensive repairs it has undergone at various periods, it has now a modern appearance. Shore was a silversmith, and his house has always continued in the occupation of one of that trade till within the last fourteen years, when it came into the hands of Mr. Alger, a bootmaker, who is the present occupant."

I find that this John Algar (sic) carried on the trade of a bootmaker at 43, Lombard Street from 1807 to about 1820 (probably for fourteen years) at least his name as such first appears at that address in the annual

'Post Office London Directory' for 1807, and is so continued yearly down to at least 1819 (inclusive). I have been unable to refer to a copy of the issue for 1820, but according to that for 1821 he had then removed to 38, Poultry. In 1801 he appears to have carried on the like business at 32, Mark Lane. The house in question may therefore have been in the occupation of a silversmith as late as 1806 ; but it could hardly lay claim to being anything more than a re-erection on the same site, shortly after the great fire of 1666, of that actually occupied by Shore who, it may be added, was, as I have always under- stood, a goldsmith. W. I. E. V.

ANCIENT WATER - PIPES. The following appears in the Daily Telegraph of 8 May :

"During the progress of some excavations along Oxford Street, east of Marble Arch, the workmen recently came upon quite a number of the ancient wooden pipes formerly used to convey water through the streets of London. They consist of small elm trees, usually about ten or twelve inches in diameter, cut into six or seven feet lengths, and were laid down in the early days of the New River Water Company, when Sir Hugh My ddel ton's great enterprise was in a less flourishing condition than it is in modern times. Elm was used as it was found to resist the pressure of the water better than any other cheap timber, and was less liable to decay. The pipes were of the rudest construction, being simply the trees denuded of their bark, and bored with a hole six inches in diameter. One end of each length was tapered to fit into the slightly widened bore of the length laid before it, and a few blows of a wooden mallet served to fix it into its place. The pipes were very troublesome. They were liable to burst during frosts, they leaked considerably, and they had to be frequently renewed. Nearly four hundred miles of them were laid in London, and, as it was not worth the trouble to take them up when they were gradually replaced by metal pipes, there must be many scores of miles of them still underground."

London was not the only place where water was conveyed in wooden pipes. They were used in Hull. I am not sure of the exact date, but I think they were taken up in that town, and their place supplied by iron tubes, somewhere about seventy years ago. A Mr. William Hall who had been Mayor of Hull procured some of them for the purpose of using them as drains under the " gatesteads " on his property at Bottesford and Yarldlethorpe near here. They were fashioned like those of London, as above described. I cannot be sure of what kind of wood they were made. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

NAME SYSTEM AMONG THE RED MEN. The names of the North American Indians are sometimes nicknames derived from personal peculiarities, such as Ba-oo-kish, the Closed