the burning is only indirect and secondary, due to the reaction consequent upon the primary cold, whilst the heat produced in the hands by a fire is primary and direct, and not due in the first instance to an increased influx of blood. Sydenham Hill. F. CHANCE. surname; whether the resemblance is only accidental, it is impossible, perhaps, to say; but "blew" was the old English form for the word now known as "blue." H. T. RILEY. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. FUNERAL CUSTOM (4th S. x. 471.)-Killing a Old and New London, Illustrated. A Narrative of its chieftain's horse at his funeral :- "Struem rogi nec vestibus, nec odoribus, cumulant; sua cuique arma, quorumdam igni et equus adjicitur."Tacitus, De Situ, Moribus et Populis Germania, cap. xxvii. According to Herodotus, a similar custom obtained among the Scythians, who are by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Germans:ἐπεάν σφι ἀποθανῃ ὁ βασιλεὺς, ὄρυγμα γῆς μέγα ὀρύσσουσι τετράγμενον· ev de Tŷ λοιπῇ εὐρυχωρίῃ τῆς θήκης, των παλλακέων τε μίαν ἀποπνίξαντες θάπτουσι, καὶ τὸν οἰνοχουν, καὶ μάγειρον, καὶ ἱπποκόμον, καὶ διήκονον, καὶ ἀγγελιηφόρον, καὶ ἱππους, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπάντων ἀπαρχὰς, καὶ φιάλας χρυσέας. - Mel pomene, c. 71. In the sepulchre of King Chilperic was found, together with some arms, a horse's head, with some golden ornaments.-S. Montf. tom. i. p. 10, and following. CCCXI. As the horse was not known in America until it was taken there after the discovery of the New World by Columbus, it is obvious that the practice of the Chippewa tribe of killing the dead chief's favourite horse is not of very great antiquity. Did the Chippewas adopt it from the Europeans, or have they substituted the horse for some other animal slain in earlier times? WM. PENGELLY. Torquay. THE WALLACE SWORD (4th S. x. 371, 421.)MR. MANUEL has studied the Newcastle editor's chapter of Kings somewhat hastily. If "Edward the Fifth" took Chester in his way from Ludlow to London, the only journey which the ill-fated boy-King ever took, except to his grave, it must have been in 1483, not in 1475, when his father, Edward IV., was living. The War-Secretary had sufficient reason, I doubt not, for considering the Dumbarton sword two centuries later in its form than the period of the Scottish chieftain, from whom Major Wallace's unquestioned descent authenticated the actual Wallace Sword, his contribution to the Worthing Exhibition in 1855 or 1856, when I had the opportunity of seeing and handling it. E. L. S. History, its People, and its Places. By Walter Thornbury. (Cassell & Co.) WE can only at present notify the appearance of the first number of this work. It is written in lively style, and is profusely illustrated with woodcuts. We do not yet sufficiently see the plan on which the whole work will be written, but it involves a labour which half-a-dozen men, historians, antiquarians, and scholars, could hardly accomplish, with a still more richly-endowed editor at the head of such a staff. We trust that Mr. Thornbury is thus aided, or he will be overweighted, and, in such case, publishers' economy will prove dearest in the end. Mr. Thornbury's method is thus forshadowed: “ Roman London, Saxon London, Norman London, Elizabethan London, Stuart London, Queen Anne's London, we shall in turn ride to fill our museum, on whose shelves the Roman lamp and the vessel full of tears will stand side by side with Vanessa's fan; the sword-knot of Rochester by the note-book of Goldsmith." Floreat! A List of the Roman Catholics in the County of York in 1604. Transcribed from the original MSS. in the Bodleian Library. Edited, with Genealogical Notes, by Edward Peacock, F.S.A. (Hotten.) THE title so far speaks for itself. The first words of the preface more perfectly describe the book as a list of the Recusants and Nonconformists in Yorkshire in 1604, copied from the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian. We need not speak of the utility of such a work, but we are bound to commend the admirable editing of it. Added to it is a full index, for help in which very important matter, Mr. Peacock says, "I am indebted to my daughters Florence and Edith"-to whom all readers are equally indebted. The list shows, to quote Mr. Peacock's words, that "the inquisitorial proceedings of the Government Commissioners were not confined. . . . to persons who, from their high position, had it in their power factiously to oppose the Government in Church and State, but that men, were, as much as their social superiors, the objects poor farm-labourers, servant-maids, tailors, and fisherof strict scrutiny." Referring to the opposing historians of our religious changes, Mr. Peacock sees no truth or honesty on either side. Nania Cornubia: a Descriptive Essay, illustrative of the Sepulchres and Funereal Customs of the Early Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall. By Wm. Copeland Borlase, F.S.A. (London, Longmans; Truro, Netherton.) MR. BORLASE's volume belongs altogether to Cornwall, however universal may be the interest connected with its subject. The author bears an honoured Cornish name. but more particularly devoted to research in the antiHe is a young, yet well-advanced antiquarian, generally; quities of Cornwall. The volume, moreover, issues from a Cornish press; and it is only due to the Truro press of J. R. Netherton to say, that no metropolitan press could send forth a volume that could do it more credit. Mr. Borlase shows us the old dwelling-places, the last sleepingplaces, and other memorials of an extinct race, and these are accompanied by well-executed woodcuts. It was time to produce such a book, for the memorials are disappearing. Until lately, even Cornish discoverers did not Thousands of care to preserve what they collected. barrows have been opened out of curiosity, and no record made of them-relics have been placed in museums and lost."Added to all this, the recent reclamation of waste lands, and the ever-fluctuating mineral interests, which literally turn the surface of the county inside out for miles together, have combined to obliterate those traces of the ancient inhabitants which, when duly recorded and fitted together, like a Chinese puzzle, make up the sum-total of all that can ever be known about them.' We cannot too warmly recommend this most useful volume. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. H. M. is referred to Hannay, Oxford Street, on the subject of the old almanack. J. S. H.-According to the Post-Office Directory it is Folkstone. T. R. H. suggests that "Et ego in Arcadia" may be tantamount to "I'se Yorkshire too!" There is a store that George III. discovered the true meaning of the words when he first saw them on the tomb in Poussin's Arcadias Landscape. He said, that "happy as the place is, yet Death is there also." KINGDOM OF KERRY.-What Thady Quirp really said (see Miss Edgworth's Castle Rackrent), was, "Where's the use of telling lies about the things which everybody knows as well as I do." It was Sir Condy Rackrent who made no figure at the bar, "for want of a fee and being unable to Particulars of Price, &c., of the following books to be sent direct to speak in public.” the gentlemen by whom they are required, whose names and addresses are given for that purpose: HISTORY OF EGTON, CO. YORK. By Mr. Cole, of Scarborough. Edit. ante 1828. Wanted by D. C. Elwes, Esq., South Bersted, Bognor, Sussex. Q. S. "Has Dickens turned his hinge A pinch upon the fingers of the great?" -is a query in Aurora Leigh. MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF EGYPT. By Osburn. 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"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may sa us many heavy doctors' bills."-Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in lb., Ih, DEDICATION NAMES OF CHURCHES.-We must again beg our correspondents to confine themselves to merely and 1 lb. tin-lined packets, labelledsupplementing the works already existing on the subject. JAMES EPPS & CO., Homœopathic Chemists, London. Queries, with No. 265, Jan. 25, 1873. S INDEX. FOURTH SERIES.-VOL. X. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK LORE, A A. on miniature portrait of Earl of Rochester, 392 Adam's skull: Tennyson's "In Memoriam," 496 A. (D. D.) on old Scots ballad, 470 Addis (John) on "beak," a magistrate, 137 Carving, terms used in, 401 "Cutting," its meaning, 380 "Dumbfoundered": "dumbfounded," 523 "Entretiens du Comte de Gabalis," 418 Fortune, her spinning-wheel, 16 "John Bon and Mast Person," 359 "Negramansir," a play, 380 "No worse pestilence," &c., 109 "Estel," its meaning, 436 66 'Safeguard," 503 Scott (Sir W.) and Burton, 59 Shakspeariana, 16, 196 "Stage parson" of Sixteenth Century, 454 Addison (Joseph), letters to Worsley, 65, 137, 218 Advertisement, the earliest, 6, 54, 469; in "agony A. (E. H.) on Athanasian creed, 419 Frederick II. of Prussia, 430 Priests, their marriage, 419 Eolian harp referred to by the poets, 127, 199, 261, Esop, "rhyming cobbler of Eton," 106 A. (G. E.) on Gretna Green marriages, 195 Akhurst (C.) on old engravings, 331 Aladdin on American centenarians, 112 Dickens (Charles) and "Kirby's Wonderful Aldridge (Ira), the "African Roscius," 35, 132, 210 "All round the maypole," children's game, 106 Almanack history: "Protestant Almanack," 1668, 493 'Almighty dollar," origin of the phrase, 247 A. (M., jun.) on heraldic query, 313 American centenarians, 112, 246 Ammonius (Andreas), Secretary of Henry VIII., Amphlett (H. J.) on iron shipbuilding, 38 A. (N.) on Christmas masque, 492 André (Major), French verses on his death, 141 Andrews (W.) on Epigram on Mr. Gully, 165 A. (N. E. A.) on Chinese vases in Egypt, 67 Cartulary of Cambuskenneth," 142 De Quinci family, 366 Rae's MS. History of Penpont Presbytery, 94 Anonymous Works:- Adagio Scotica, 321, 377 Conversations at Cambridge, 393 Don Francisco Sutorioso, a poem, 147 Female Worthies, 519 Fugitive Pieces, 1810, 30 Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, 472 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1682, 166, 261 John Bon and Mast Person, 294, 359 Life of William III., 47 Paradise of Coquettes, 98 Poems and Fugitive Pieces, 294 Prince of Love, 1660, 64 Revelations of a Dead-alive, 148 Rosina; or, the Virtuous Country Maid, 519 Seven Wise Masters of Rome, 68 The Book, 66 Whole Duty of Woman, 249 Anstruther (Sir John), Bart., biography, 127, 178 Ante Dil on almanack history, 493 Antiquary on Rogers (Capt. Woodes), 107 "Balaam's Ass," MS. extract, 389 Ball-flower in architecture, its origin, 328, 397, 462, Ballot, James Harrington on its expenses, 145 Bankes (S.) on Cowper's "Expostulation," 67 Barebones (of Castle-Bromwich) family, 205 Baring-Gould on Iceland, the Vatna Jökull, 19 Barker (C.) on Admiral Kempenfeldt, hymn by, 46 Mauthe dog, 217 Barley, children's play, 505 Barnacles, an instrument of punishment, 120 Antoinette (Marie) and Madame Elizabeth, their Baronies, Scottish territorial, 329, 397, 439, 481 Ants, how to destroy them, 272, 358, 480 A. (R.) on Christmas under "Lancaster," &c., 492 Armiger on "General Thanksgiving" repeated by Armorial bearings assumed by advertisement, 64, 137, Arms of Christ, ancient poem, 496 Arrow, broad, a royal mark, 332, 476 A. (S.) on "The Three Cups," a sign, 234 Asgill (John), his death, 116 Athanasian Creed, ancient MS. copy, 20; its use among foreign Protestants, 352, 419 Athol pedigree, 161, 235, 303, 363, 462, 525 Atkinson (J. A.), caricaturist, 93 Attainder of lord of a manor, 452 "Austrian Army," alliterative poem, 412, 443, 464, 503 A. (W. E. A.) on "Folk-lore," origin of the word, 206 Axon (Wm. E. A.) on Cagliostro bibliography, 61 B Bacon (Sir Edmund) of Gillingham, 106 Bagg (Sir James), notes on parliament of 1626, 325 Barons' Cave, Reigate, 247 Bar-Point on Cromwell (Oliver), his descendants, 246 "Barthram's Dirge," subject of painting by Maclise, 520 Barton (W.) on source of the Nile, 310 Bates (A. H.) on bible-plates, 147 Frognall Priory, Hampstead, 87 Bates (Wm.) on "billycock" and "wide-awake," 96 De Loutherbourg's "Eidophusikon," 114 Engravings, works on old, 460 "Fair science," &c., 440 "Felis catus," 436 Mauthe Doog, 91 Metallic pen, 309 "Tablette-book of Lady Mary Keyes," 461 Bayles family, co. Kent, 18, 179, 232 B. (C. F.) on "dip of the horizon," 460 B. (C. S.) on Sanders: Sandars, surnames, 148 Beacon Hill and Macaulay's " Armada," 393 Beale (J.) on Aristotle, his christianity, 184 Children's games, 106 = Beale (J.) on Pope quotations, 412 "Twelve hours in a day," 227 Weston family, 114 Beauty, books on its preservation, 154; origin of the word, 470, 530 Beavers in Britain, 273, 319 Beckford (Wm.), his burial place, 138, 301 Bede (C.) on Aldridge (Ira), actor, 461 Harvest home, the last load, 286 Klaes (Mr.), king of smoking, 136 "The Three Fishes," 472 Trebelli, an inverted name, 126 Bede (Venerable), works, 269 Beer, bottled, its discovery, 330 Beever, its meaning and origin, 47, 113, 138, 178 Bell, baptized, 449; inscriptions at Bex, 45, 341; at Bergholt (East), co. Suffolk, church, 225 Bernher (Augustine), rector of Stepney, 116 Bewick (Thomas) and Anderson, 372 B. (F. B.) on Stafford (Robert), 249 B. (F. T.) on mnemonic lines on New Testament, 462 B. (G.) on burial in gardens, 321 Whisker=falsehood, 128 B. (H.) on Mansfield, Ramsay & Co., 332, 441 Dumbfoundered or dumbfounded, 451 Tennyson's "Charge of the Six Hundred," its ible printed by Robert Barker, 1603, 333; Geneva Bikkers (A. V. W.) on Dutch inscription, 503 Ar-nuts, 117 Dengue fever in India, 223 Pope (A.), of Scottish descent, 320 Billion, its meaning, 40 Bingham (C. W.) on autograph of Barillon, 517 Dorset superstition, 408 Rownce, its meaning and derivation, 128 Birch (W. J.) on Blondins, ancient and modern, 181 Birdlip, a Cotswold hill, its etymology, 148 Parker (Theodore), American author, 59 Lancashire scholars, 503 B. (J. H.) on hanging in chains, 525 B. (J. J.) on Clerk of the Hanaper, 519 Blair (D.) on Australian currency, 448 Scaligeriana, 6 Blakeberyed" in Chaucer, its meaning, 222 Bleasdale (R. H.) on Friends' burial-ground, 499 Walton (Izaak), birthplace, 520 Blenkinsopp (E. L.) on centenarian: Mrs. Truswell, 144 Oss or orse, its meaning, 16 Church taxes and Henry's "Commentary," 165 Dryden's broken head, 47, 175 "Fox bites," origin of the custom, 226 "Man proposeth," &c., 323 Toilet articles of seventeenth century, 47, 177 Boddington (R. S.) on Gould, Cooke, and Hartopp Steer family, 303 |