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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER U, 1901.

CONTENTS. -No. 207.

NOTES : Baskish Books, 477 "Bucks" and "Good Fel- lows" in 1778, 479 Shakspeariana, 480 "Bore" or " Boar "Tobias Whitaker Merchants of Lukes, 481 Mary Queen of Scots Bible Freaks of Nature London Street Cry, "Any bad shillings ?" " Notarikon "- "Almost quite": "Verbatim as possible " ' Tablettes d'un Spectateur,' 482.

QUERIES : " Odour of sanctity '' " Odium theologicum " Massey, Vicar of Kendal, 1645-50 Lectern in Durham Cathedral Cure by the Hand of a Corpse, 483 The Youthful Year Stowe Missal Source of Quotation Lady Mary Tudor Crolly Family Irish Badges" Nose and nosatame " "Lucky as a calling duck" Barbara Johnston Claymore S. G. Irvine T)enham, Laird of Wishiels Arms Wanted, 484 Commission of Sewers Earliest Auction of Landed Property The Coming Coro- nation President Adams Portraits of Early Lord Mayors, 485.

REPLIES : Whittington and his Cat, 485 " Ycleping" the Church Birthday Cake with Candles, 486" Electro- cute" St. Kilda Architect's Name Wanted, 487 West- Countrymen's Tails Chocolate James the Deacon and Aysgarth Docklow William Noye Sorrow's ' Romany Rye,' 488 Private Printing Press Stone Pulpit " Con- servative," 489 Godmothers of Queen Elizabeth " To- bacco": "Pirogue" A Ladle "When Adam first sate down on grass Dorothy Cecil Bibliography of the Bicycle, 490 -Political Pamphlets and Big Sales St. Bar- nabas's Day Duels, 491 Wesley, Lillo, and Home, 492 " Alright "=A11 right The Mitre, 493 Snow-feathers Demon Repentant Newspaper Errors, 494.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Foster's ' Some Feudal Coats of Arms ' Skeat's ' Works of Chaucer 'Darwin's ' Origin of Species' Ramaswami Raju's 'Indian Fables' 'Eng- lish Catalogue of Books ' ' Library ' ' Photograms.'

Notices to Correspondents.

SOME NOTES ON BASKISH BOOKS.

DR. H. KREBS, the amiable, efficient, pains- taking, and well-remembering librarian of the Taylorian Institution in Oxford (in which one cannot yet say, in the words of G. Crabbe, "Here all the living languages abound"), has called my attention to the following old Heuskarian or Baskish tomes which are there enshelved, but never read. " Preserved they lie, in tombs that open to the curious eye" (the Library). To appreciate their value one must note how they are numbered in the ' Bibliographic Basque' of M. J. Vinson (Paris, 1891 and 1898), a work which, with all its mistakes and incompleteness, is the best of its kind, and no less useful than interesting. The books are these :

49 e. This is the second in date of the printed translations of the 'Imitatio.' The oldest of them that of Pouvreau has never been published. The manuscript exists in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris.

84 b. This copy contains the inscription, "Al serenisimo S r Principe Luis Luciano Bonaparte con todo respeto. Vicente. Isac. Vitoria, Plaza de Bilbao, N 10," but not

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the book-plate of the Heuskara-loving prince. The following corrections must be made in M. Vinson's copy of the title, viz., landuagoa, and on the other side oir. The unnumbered pages at the end are not "iv," but v.

95 c. M. Vinson says he had seen no copy of this book. It has no date, but consists of 126 pages. The title runs: "Aita San Ignacioren egercicioen gafiean, orien lau asteetaco meditacio laburrac, edo Egercicioen lau-garren partea. Jesusen Corapaiiiaco Aita Agustin Cardaberazec animen oneraco einanac. Bear becela : Tolosan : Liburu- guille D. Francisco de la Lama-ren Echean." This helps us to correct the word "arteetaco" (there meaningless) in M. Vinson's copy of the title, of the first edition.

103 c. This copy has lost the pages after

6. In M. Vinson's copy of the title, on p. 583 of his Supplement, " Franciso " should be Francisco.

103 f. This copy has the book-plate of Prince L. L. Bonaparte. In M. Vinson's copy of the title, on p. 583 of his Supplement, the name of the author ought to be in italic. On

&4 the author (A. Cardaberaz, who helped . Larramendi) says that it was (i.e., in 1764) 107 years since the licentiate Capanaga, priest of Manaria, published (in Bilbao, 1656) his translation, in Biscayan Euskera, of the Doctrine or Catechism of the famous Padre Ripalda.

105. The first leaf and the last are missing. At the end there is the memorandum "Donostia. f. 26 Sept: 1856. Jimenez." Donostia is the modern Baskish name of San Sebastian.

126. Read Lendavicic6 and Echean in the title.

192. Instead of "165" in M. Vinson's numbering of the pages, read 186. In the title of the original the words Baita to ere and D. Juan to jaioa are in italic. All these books belong to the eighteenth century except the last, which is of the nineteenth. They are rare and valuable specimens of the language. The Taylorian Library possesses many later and useful books in or about Baskish, including Capt. Duvoisiri's La- bourdin translation of the whole of the Bible from the Latin of the Vulgate edition. This copy was presented by Dr. Joseph Wright, the successor of Dr. F. Max Miiller in the Chair of Comparative Philology.

Some of my own publications concerning the language of the Basks having found their way into various libraries and booksellers' catalogues, I have been asked more than once to compile a list of them. I avail myself of this opportunity of publishing it, hoping