MR. GAY'S FABLES, WITH BEWICK'S WOODCUTS (3rd S. xii. 461.)—I have not the least doubt that the wood-cuts in the small volume of Gay's Fables, printed in 1806, are by Bewick, having been familiar with them at that date, when we used to read Gay's Fables as a school-book. The wood-blocks have, moreover, been wonderfully preserved, and done service in various editions, even so recently as 1834. For I have a small copy printed in that year for Longman and Co., and from early recollections I am sure of the identity of each one of the wood-cuts. I have also an edition of that favourite old book, The Looking-glass of the Mind, taken from Berquin's Ami des Enfans, which has also the original wood-cuts by Bewick. The engravings in both these works are very valuable, not only for their originality and spirited, though rude, execution, but for their exhibiting accurate delineations of the dress and habits of the latter part of the last century. and the words "sola fatetur " are probably those wanting to complete the first line of the inscription. The second line requires such a word as "perit," "death is swallowed up in piety," or perhaps "minor; as, however small our mortal bodies may be, yet death, though subject to none, is yet overcome by, and so becomes less than piety. The writer having quoted one classical author, may have had in his mind another, and the "Victor jacet pietas" of Ovid (M. i. 149), would supply an ending to the epitaph in the word jacet." Adopting Gifford's version of the passage from Juvenal, the whole may be paraphrased thus: "Death, the great teacher, Death alone proclaims W. E. BUCKLEY. THE NAME OF SHEFFIELD (3rd S. ix. 409.) I think W., the friend of your correspondent H. J., is likely to be correct in his assumption hat the name of Sheffield is a corruption of the Danish "Skjev-Fjeld," signifying a "sloping hill or mountain." At Leeds, just on the outskirt of he town, there is, leading down from the locality of Woodhouse to Woodhouse Carr, a piece of round which has been known as "Shay Field," for "time out of mind," as the saying runs. There re buildings there now, which may have given nother name to the place, but they are only of ecent erection, and "Shay Field" is in everypody's mouth yet thereabouts. The field was a very long one, was an easy even slope from top to bottom, and was, in short, a smooth hill-side, needing more breath to get up than old people could well spare. The peculiar character of the ground is continued on both sides, and will be above a quarter of a mile in extent, forming a high knoll at one and another point, for a good deal of it remains grass land. Shay Field" was the only enclosure about that was not strictly private property, as the congregation of pig-sties at the bottom sufficiently evidenced; hence the limited application of the local name. C. C. R. PRAYING FOR HUSBANDS (3rd S. viii. 205.) At least the tradition of this as an old custom may be inferred from the talk in some of the villages of North Yorkshire. The servant-girls will tell you how that once one of their number stipulated with a bargaining mistress at a statutehiring, that she should be allowed ten minutes every day at noon to go pray for a husband in. "Mrs. S-, who had lived as housekeeper with a The following story is current in one quarter :Catholic family near York (names and places being specified) for many years, had engaged one servant who became an object of curiosity to the rest of the maids; for as regularly as noon came, she would leave off work and go to her chamber. By-and-by it was whispered about that their fellow-servant spent the time in praying for a husband. One day one of the men hid himself in a closet adjoining the devotee's room, and waited her arrival. At the usual time she came, and kneeling before her little framed picture of the Virgin and Child, began, and continued for a length of time: A husband! a husband! sweet Mary, a husband! Send him soon, an' he may be owt but a tailor'-ought but a tailor. Nowt [nothing] but a tailor!" the man at last shouted. She responded at once: 'Ho'd thee noise, little Jesus, an' let thee mother speak.' 'Nowt but a tailor!' as sharply replied the man again. owt but a tailor, owt but a tailor, but a tailor rather than nowt, good Lord."" I beg to share responsibility here with somebody-I don't care who. Nay, C. C. R. JEAN ETIENNE LIOTARD (3rd S. ix. 473.)—In reply to J.'s query, I cannot say "whether Liotard painted life-size portraits in oil while in England"; but I saw in his family in Amsterdam, a few years ago, a large room hung round with a considerable number of life-size crayons (pastel) by him, which were full of life: one amongst others in a Turkish costume-a portrait of himself. P. A. L. DORKING, SURREY (3rd S. xii. 461.) I have the second edition of this work, published_1823, by John Timbs. D. D. H. "Candlemas day being Monday. Bee it remembered that his Maty was seis'd with a most violent fit of apoplexy, wch terminated in an intermittent fever, of wch hee dyed about 12 the ffriday following, being ffeb. 6th " J. WILKINS, B.C.L. JOHN DE CRITZ (3rd S. ix. 470.)—I can find nothing in Flemish biographies or others (excepting Horace Walpole's (G. Vertue's) Anecdotes of Painting) about the said John de Critz, who seems, at all events, to have been very well off in the world, as we see he could bear without flinching a royal debt of 2,1581. 13s., "having been due vnto him a long tyme since in his Mate greate wardrobe." P. A. L. COUTHLY (3rd S. x. 129.)-" Couth," in South Yorkshire, is used in the sense of keen. "He's couth eniff at a bargain," is a phrase sometimes heard. C. C. R. of those who have passed away from among us, showing The Bible by Coverdale, MDXXXV. 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Was a halfpenny the 'prentice gentlemen by whom it is required, whose names and address are given toll levied ? Can any archeologist tell? C. A. W. The French expression describing poverty, of "ni sou ni maille," will help to answer the latter LYDIARD. part of A. A.'s query. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, con- That a work of such obvious popular interest should reach a seventh edition, and in due time a seventeenth and a seventieth, may well be expected-more especially since every fresh editor seems to vie with his predecessors in giving it completeness. Mr. G. H. Townsend, to whom the present edition has been entrusted, has introduced into it two entirely new features calculated to enhance its value as a work of general reference. The first is a Key to Assumed Names, which is capable of being yet further extended; and the second, a Biographical Index own. 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