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 446 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* a vi. DEO. s, 1900. MB. STEPHENS'S ' Nova Latinos Linguee Gram matica1 (1595) in Mr. Hazlitt's list. For the spelling of Ben Jonson's name see 1N. & Q.,' 1" S. ii. 167, 238; 3rd S. viii. 27 115 : 6th S. x. 156 ; 7th S. v. 36, 193. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX, Library Assistant. Royal College of Physicians. JOHN PEARSON. —In Burnet's 'History o: my Own Time,' part i., 'The Reign o: Charles II.,' edited by Osmund Airy, M.A. Oxford, 1897, vol. i. p. 320, n. 1, we read :— " Baxter himself names Pierce, then Master o: St. John's and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cam- bridge, afterwards President of Magdalen, Oxford, as by far the ablest of his opponents.' There never was a Pierce Master of St. John's College or Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge. Peter Gunning became Master of St. John's and Divinity Professor in 1661, and Thomas Pierse was President of Mag- dalen from 1661 till 1672. Baxter ('Life,' i. 364) says of Dr. Pierspn (as he spells the name) that he " was their true Logician and Disputant" (in the Savoy conference). Pear- son became Master of Jesus in 1660, Margaret Professor in 1661, Master of Trinity and Bishop of Chester in 1662. These blunders have escaped Mr. Airy's corrector. JOHN E. B. MAYOR. Cambridge. FOX-NAMES.—In tho hunting season readers of fox-hunting notes come across the pet names which hunting men give their quarry. These I should say are worth making a note of. Hereabout such names are met with as "Little Red Rover," "Redman," "Brushy," " Sly-boots," while the general name, " Var- mint," seems to be known everywhere where foxes are hunted. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Work»op. ["Pug" is used in Kingsley's 'Yeast,' and re- peatedly in the " Jorrocks novels.] ARNOLD OF RUGBY.—I venture to think that the information contained in the fol- lowing cutting from the Daily Chronicle of 16 November deserves preservation in 'N. &Q.':— "A correspondent writes:—' Apropos of the late death of Mr. Thomas Arnold, the father of Mrs. Humphry Ward, it may interest your readers to know, what does not seem to be generally known, that the Arnold family was of Jewish extraction, and that its Hebrew name in Germany, whence it came to this country, was Aaron. Aaron, in Eng- land, is generally transformed into Arnold, just as Solomon finds easy and natural transition into Sullivan, and Hirsch into Harris, Ac. As for the late Matthew Arnold, no studentof physiognomy and ethnology could doubt for a moment that he pos- sessed in a marked degree the physical peculiarities of hi* race, while the quality of his mind, too, was essentially Semitic—hard, keen, critical, and ana- lytical, more than synthetic.'" HENEY GKEALD HOPE. Clapham, S.W. "FAIRY RINGS." — I remember reading, some little time ago, some interesting con- tributions to ' N. & Q.' on the above subject, but, although I have searched through my volumes, I cannot trace them, so presume they must have appeared under another heading. Now in Miss Seward's ' Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin,' 1804, the following words occur:— " the fairy rings, which the poet [Dr. Darwin] believes to have been imprinted by the flashes of the thunderstorm darting on the grass and cir- cularly blighting it." This definition, coming from the grandfather of the author of 'The Descent of Man,' is perhaps worthy of record in 'N. <fe Q.' CHARLES DRUHY. [See 2»" S. iv. 414, 497; viii. 484.] " FIVE O'CLOCK TEA ": WHEN INTRODUCED. —Fanny Kemble, in her 'Later Records," ii. 187, says :— " My first introduction to ' afternoon tea' took place during this visit to Belvoir [in 1842], when I received on several occasions private and rather mysterious invitations to the Ducheas of Bedford's room—she was staying at the castle—and found her with a 'small and select' circle of female guests, busily employed in brewing and drinking tea, with lier grace's own private tea-kettle. I do not believe that now universally honoured and observed insti- tution of 'five o'clock tea' dates further back in the annals of English civilization than this very private and, I think, rather shamefaced practice of it." R. B. MAX MuLLEB AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 'See ante, p. 360.)—Did Max Miiller's lecture in Westminster Abbey really come off? The Daily Chronicle, 30 October, says not:— "Imagine their ["the learned dons of Oxford") •onsternation when in 1873 Dean Stanley invited he Professor to lecture in Westminster Abbey on The Religions of the World." Furious, indeed, was the rage they did not hesitate to express, anonymously, for the most part, though Dr. Pusey sent his usual protest to the Times. Dean Stanley varmly defended his invitation, but the lecture vas never delivered." The writer of the obituary notice of Max Mjiller in the Chronicle the day previous aid:— " It had fallen to him to deliver an address in iVestminster Abbey on 'The Religions of the Vcii-lil,' this being the only occasion [in 1873] on lii'-li a layman had ever been invited [by Dean tanley] to hold forth in our great national fane."