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formation as to its being used as a verb. I am sorry he is not satisfied with my authority for it. I note LORD ALDENHAM calls the name "Guillotin" (9 th S. vii. 495). Perhaps this will satisfy MR. LYNN as to its being formed from a proper name.

ANDREW OLIVER.

Pasteurize. It may be worth while record- ing, a propos of the list of verbs derived from proper names, ths new creation "to pasteur- ize " (or to apply Pasteur's ingenious chemical method to the preservation of wine as well as to the medical treatment of infectious diseases), which has been adopted since 1890 in the 'Century Dictionary' and in later compilations, even before the corresponding French verb "pasteuriser" had been intro- duced and generally used. The recent 'Dic- tionnaire General de la Langue Frangaise' of Hatzfeld, Darmesteter, and M. Thomas (in 2 vols. 1895-1900) does not yet contain this may one call it 1 ? "fermentative" verb.

H. KREBS.

Oxford.

Wallop. Derived from a deed performed by one of the Earls of Portsmouth in a battle fought against the French. M. J. D. C.

Solan, Punjaub.

Ballhornize. Verballhornen means to im- pair a book by silly additions, es verbosern instead of verbessern, not " to republish a book or reproduce any work without altera- tion as original." DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

Grimthorpe. The Daily Mail of 14 August is responsible for the following description of Lord Grimthorpe. It would be interesting to know the name of the American dictionary in which the verb " to grirnthorpe " occurs.

11 Lord Grimthorpe is now a rugged-looking old gentleman, who wears a broadcloth frock coat of distinctly clerical cut. He is somewhat militant in manner. After he restored St. Albans Abbey, at a cost of 130,000^., all of which came out of his own purse, he expressed a desire to dp the same for another church in the ancient city. Some one mildly suggested that perhaps a committee ought to be formed to supervise the undertaking. ' 1 will not have a committee,' said his lordship, ' no, not if it is composed of angels.' Lord Grimthorpe is always his own architect. The costly and distinc- tive style which he gave to the restoration of St. Albans Abbey led to the coining by the architects of a new verb ' to grimthorpe.' The word actually found its way into a new edition of a well-known American dictionary, where 'to grimthorpe' was somewhat ungenerously described as ' to spoil an ancient building by lavish expenditure.' Lord Grimthorpe, it is said, did not approve of the creation of a dean and chapter for the cathedral which he had practically rebuilt. When Dean Law- rence was at last appointed, his lordship so the

story goes wrote to him as follows : ' 1 suppose I must waste a penny stamp to congratulate you.' The story, whether true or not, is characteristic of the whole-heartedness with which Lord Grimthorpe enters into any controversial question he is con- cerned in."

JOHN HEBB.

"IN THE DAYS WHEN WE WENT GIPSYING" (9 th S. viii. 15). There ought to be no diffi- culty in recovering the words of the original song, which was very popular in the early forties, and was printed in many song-books. Of the two best parodies 1 give the words complete, from a memory that seldom fails to be correct. Both were known to me from early time. One is quoted editorially, but not the entire first stanza, which I here recall :

Oh, the days that we got tipsy in, a long time ago, Were certainly the jolliest a man could ever know. We drank champagne from glasses long, and hock

from glasses green,

And nothing like a cup of tea was ever to be seen. Tee-totalers we 'd none to preach 'gainst brandy or

Bordeaux

In the days that we got tipsy in, a long time ago. (Repeat last line.)

Ah ! those were days of bumper-toasts, or salt-and-

water fine ; Broiled bones and deyill'd biscuits, three times three

and nine times nine, When underneath the table you your guests were

bound to land, And no man thought of getting up until he couldn't

stand.

We left the ladies to discuss their Hyson or Pekoe In the days that we got tipsy in, a long time ago.

But now, alas ! how changed the scene ! To booze

you've scarce begun When forward comes the coffee-tray, and all the

fuddling 's done, Or John informs the gentlemen he's "taken in the

tea ! " And 'twould be voted vulgar quite if drunk a man

should be. A plague upon such sober days ! I often say " Heigh

ho!"

For the days when we got tipsy in, a long time ago : The days that we got tipsy in, a long time ago.

I think the still earlier parody went thus :

AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.

Oh, the days when we went gipsying, a long time

ago, Though meant to be amusing trips, proved nothing

else but woe : The fireplace would never draw, the wood was

always green, And nought but flies and creeping things were in

the mi Ik jug seen. And thus we passed our time away, in pastime very

slow, In the days when we went gipsying, a long time ago.

The tea was always very bad, the kettle never

boil'd ; We wore the smartest clothes we had, and they

were always spoil'd ;