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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. X. July 14, '60. 



Number in wliicli they put their Query, that 

 Cotgrave was Secretary to William Cecil, Lord 

 Burleigh. R. F. Sketchlet. 



Akmy and Nayt (2"* S. ix. 345.) — Up to a 

 recent period the toasts were usually " Navy and 

 Army," and in the announcement of intelligence 

 by the press it was invariably " Navy and Army " 

 until the Times altered it. Whether it was done 

 for the sake of euphony, or from respect to " the 

 Duke," " deponent sayeth not ; " nor is it likely 

 that our able contemporary will take the trouble 

 to enlighten us ; but this I know, it was, and is 

 considered by the Navy as a " slap," and I have 

 frequently heard Navy officers speak of it with 

 bitterness. Being away from " polite circles," I 

 am unable to refer to " files " for dates. 



Gkorge Lloyd. 



Vermilion (2"" S. ix. 477— 9.)— This very 

 interesting paper deserves immediate notice. F«r, 

 colour, coating (varnish). Mylia, flame, red, in 

 one or more languages of India or Ceylon, — I 

 canoot say exactly at the moment — seems the de- 

 rivation. Contracted, it is, " colour of a chief," 

 general, or Chaldean. 



Is not Kinna-har, also, flame-colour, in the 

 same ? Nemo. 



Mi^ttXUixtauS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



A Second Series of Vicissitudes of Families. By Sir 

 Bernard Burke, Ulster. (Longman.) 



Finding the curious subject of the Decline and Fall of 

 Families, whicli he had undertaken to illustrate, far from 

 exhausted by his first publication, and encouraged by 

 the favour with which his Vicissitudes of Families had 

 been received, Sir Bernard Burke has here produced a 

 Second Series as full of varied and curious matter as the 

 preceding. Speculating on the decadence of noble and 

 wealthy families, Sir Bernard regards the law of attain- 

 der as having in England, more than in -any other coun- 

 try of Europe, undermined and overthrown the landed 

 aristocracy ; and he states that so fatal has been the 

 operation of this act, "that, of the twenty-five barons 

 who were appointed to enforce the observance of Magna 

 Charta, there is not now in the House of Peers a •single 

 male descendant." This is the more startling when we 

 find, as we may do, many instances where property is 

 now held by the direct representatives of those who held 

 it when Domesday was compiled. We cannot, with our 

 space, enter into particulars of the volume, which ex- 

 hibits that strange combination of romance and reality 

 which is sure to please the public. As critics must find 

 fault, let us say we should like to have seen more fre- 

 quent references and an Index. 



Hunting in the Himalaya, with Notices of Customs and 

 Countries from the Elephant Haunts of the Dehra Doon to 

 the Bunchour Traces in Eternal Snow. By R. H. \V. 

 Dunlop, C.B. &c. Illustrated by J. Wolf . (Bentley.) 



Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Bentley have much to answer for 

 in sending forth to the public, at such a moment as the 

 present, a volume calculated to allure our Riflemen — such 

 of them at least as can afford it — to the novel and tempt- 

 ing field opened for the exercise of their skill in a country 



so rich in sport as that described by the author. The 

 volume is not entirely filled with sporting matters, al- 

 though of course they form the staple of it, but contains 

 much personal observation and anecdote, and the short 

 time occupied in its perusal will be well employed. 



Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay; a hitherto unknown 

 Old English Epic of the Eighth Century belonging to the 

 Saga Cyclus King Theodric and his Men. Now first pub- 

 lished from the Origitials in the Ninth Century. With 

 Translation, Comments, Word Roll, and Four Fhotogra- 

 phic Facsimiles. By George Stephens, Esq. 



Students of what our accomplished friend Professor 

 Stephens calls " our noble olden mother-tongue " owe 

 many obligations to him for his labours on the subject, 

 and by such students the present volume, which is ap- 

 propriately dedicated to Dr. Bosworth, will be highly 

 prized. It contains not only some Anglo-Saxon frag- 

 ments of the highest interest in a philological and lite- 

 rary point of view, but these are illustrated bj' the editor 

 in his quaint and peculiar style with an amount of learn- 

 ing and intelligence calculated not only to do him the 

 highest credit, but so to promote far more general atten- 

 tion to the study of our early language and literature. 

 The work is in short a most important contribution to 

 our stores of Anglo-Saxon remains, and one to justify to 

 the fullest the enthusiasm of its editor. 



We have received a number of specimens of the reprint 

 of the First Folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's 

 Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, which the publisher, 

 Mr. Booth, announces as proceeding with " safest haste." 

 They are highly satisfactory ; and with such evidence of 

 care in their execution, that we cannot doubt that those 

 who share Home Tooke's opinion, that the "famous 

 Folio " of 1623 is the only edition of the great Dramatist 

 worth regarding, will hereafter be enabled for a few shil- 

 lings to peruse his works in what will be the equal of 

 that edition, in every respect except its rarity and con- 

 sequent costliness. 



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