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as in how). I do not know which form is the older, or how to account for botl in accordance with PROF. SKEAT'S phoneti laws. C. C. B.

NONJURORS (9 th S. ii. 408, 493 ; iii. 56, 178 18). Those who are interested in the French phets will find it worth while to refer to the article on John Lacy in the * Diet. Nat og.,' xxxi. 382-3. W. C. B.

BOOK TERMS (8 th S. ix. 341 ; x. 400 ; 9 th S ii. 322, 521; iii. 53, 172, 217, 432). MR RALPH THOMAS, at the last reference, con tradicts my statement that the wore "ananym had already been condemned by Dr. jVIurray." Let others judge. Here is

the passage : " Ananym. rare [loosely

formed on Gr. dvd back + 6Vv/za, ovo^a name, which properly gives Anonym (preoccupied by another meaning)]." What stronger con- demnation than this may be desired by MR. THOMAS is beyond my power to imagine.

It has been pointed out that the word is incorrectly formed, and is liable to be mistaken for the other word whose sound and form it imitates too closely for practical purposes. MR. THOMAS, however, likes it none the less for these defects. It is his ugly duckling. There are many other loosely- compounded words in the English language, he says, and words to which more than one meaning is attached ; and there can, he argues, be therefore no harm in adding to the number. There his critics join issue with him ; but he appears to think that, if they dislike his word, they are bound to provide him with a better. I do not agree to this view at all. It is no part of their duty to do anything of the sort. He now brings forward, as an alternative, palinym, suggested to him by a friend : " it is," he says, " from palin- drome, or for short, palinonym, but shorter, palinym." A more lovely specimen of etymo- logy, I think, I never saw ; and I beg leave to commend it specially to the attention of all such philologists as may happen to see it.

MR. THOMAS'S courteous invitation (unusual in these cool columns), to settle our differ- ence by ordeal of battle, I must respectfully decline. The proposal needs no comment from me. JULIAN MARSHALL.

PORTRAITS AT OXFORD (9 th S. iii. 67, 192). To attempt to give a catalogue raisonne* of all the portraits in oils in the colleges at Oxford would be indeed, as the Americans say, a "large order," and, primd facie, I should say, could not be accomplished. For instance, the number of portraits in Christ Church is very great, and is the more surprising when it

is considered that they represent only those who have been members of the foundation. Let me add another to the list of illustrated books containing portraits: 'History of the University of Oxford,' 2 vols. 4to. 1814, Rudolph Ackermann, Strand.

Some of the earlier ' Oxford Almanacs' are very interesting and well engraved by George Vertue (1684-1756), who made a great im- provement in this respect in the earlier part of the last century, and introduced into the foreground figures of the founders and benefactors. No doubt many of these are likenesses, and they are much more artistic- ally drawn than are the colleges in the back- ground. A complete set of the almanacs engraved by Vertue must be rare, though I am inclined to suppose that there is one in the Bodleian Library. Occasionally you may drop upon a specimen or two in a portfolio of old engravings and buy them for a trifle. A regular issue of the ' Oxford Almanacs' has continued up to the present time, and must be very valuable, as the more modern ones contain excellent engrav- ings of the buildings and scenery after draw- ings and sketches by eminent artists.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BLUE CASSOCKS (9 th S. iii. 368). For 'Vest- ments of Blue Colour,' see 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. iv. 148, 254. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

"SOONER OR LATER" (9 fch S. iii. 229). Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura et nps in seternum Exilium impositura cumbse.

Horace, Od. ii. c. iii. 25-8.

There was a time when a turn of expression of a classical author might influence our "anguage. C. S. TAYLOR.

Banwell Vicarage.

LAUDER (9 th S. iii. 347). For particulars of the family bearing this name refer to N. & Q.,' 6 th S, x. 149, 212, 315, 418.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"CHAL" : " ROMANY CHAL"(9 th S. iii. 108,373).

Mrs. Mullinger, a lady whose acquaintance I

made at South Shore some years ago, invited

ne to enter the "Romany chil's tan." I

>elieve this is the usual form of the word at

he present day. I may mention that her

an, or tent, was remarkably clean and neat.

Seorge Borrow, though the very turn of his

entences makes the blood course more freely

hrough the veins, is not sufficiently accurate,