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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



: [2°'i S. X. Aug, 25. '60. 



settled in various parts of Ireland. An interesting 

 account of these lately appeared in the Ulster 

 Journal of Archceology, as already noticed at 

 p. 54. of the current volume of " N. & Q." 



I should like to know -whether Mr. Verner 

 can assign any reason to account for the " tradi- 

 tion" which he mentions. John Eibtox Garstin. 



Dublin. 



A family named L'Amie resides on Cork Hill, in 

 the city of Dublin, a member of which informed 

 me it was of Huguenot extraction. In a roll (about 

 1685) now before me, containing the names of 

 tenants of the Huguenot family of Robillard, 

 Seigneurs de Champagne, the name of Jean Lamy 

 occurs, who appears to have been resident in the 

 seigneury of Bernere, parish of St. Sauvinien, 

 near St. Jean D'Angely. E. D. B. 



CiEVEB (2"* S. X. 67.) — I am unable to answer 

 the Query whether this word was ever used in the 

 time of the Stuarts, in the American sense of 

 good-natured, jovial, good-tempered, amiable ; but 

 m the dialect of East Anglia it is pronounced 

 claver, and used in the sense of respectable, well- 

 i7-ed, bearing a good charade}', &c., but without 

 any approach to its proper English meaning of 

 dexte7'0us, sMlful, or ingenious, A person was 

 speaking to me once of a certain gentleman in the 

 law, and observed that he was a very claver gen- 

 tleman ; but she said this without any reference 

 to his professional ability, and simply meant that 

 he was a respectable man, and well to do in the 

 world. F. C. H. 



Keithock (2°*J S. ix. 373.) — Keithock lies a 

 short distance west from Coupar-Angus, in the 

 Perthshire division of that parish. The estate at 

 one period belonged to the Abbey of Coupar ; and 

 it is said that Donald Campbell, the last of the 

 abbots, having five sons, liberally provided for 

 them out of the abbey property — gifting to one 

 the estate of Keithock. 



There was formerly a village with a considerable 

 population, but it is now entirely extinct (^Stat. 

 Ace.'). 



There was recently pointed out to me an old 

 road to the Mills of Keithock, part of which, in 

 spite of repeated efforts, it has been found impos- 

 sible to shut up ; the monks having possessed a 

 prescriptive right to have the corn of the sur- 

 rounding districts ground at their mill. 



William Galloway. 



Edinburgh. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Handbook of Painting. Tlie German, Flemish, and 

 Dutch Schooh. Based on the Handbook of Kugler. En- 

 larged, and for the most part Re-written by Dr. Waagen, 



Director of the Royal Gallery of Pictures, Berlin. With 

 Illustrations. In Two Parts. (Murray.) 



This is a fresh aud valuable contribution on the part of 

 Mr. Murray towards the History of Art. It is a re- 

 modelling, with an immense addition of new materials, 

 of Kugler's excellent Handbook of German, Flemish, and 

 Dutch Painting: such remodelling and such additions 

 being the work of one who has earned for himself an 

 European reputation for his knowledge of Art generally, 

 but more especially of those masters whose productions 

 form the subject of the present book. Like Sir Charles 

 Eastlake's enlarged edition of Kugler's Handbook of the 

 Italian Schools, the present work is profusely illustrated 

 with woodcuts ; and the two books together form what 

 may well be considered essential travelling companions 

 for all who are about to cross the Channel for the purpose 

 of studying the master-pieces of painting preserved in 

 the Galleries of the Continent. 



Jcdirbuch fur Romanische und Englische Literatur unter 

 besojiderer Ilitwerkung von Ferdinand Wolf. Herausgegeben 

 von Dr. Adolf Ebert. II. Band ; III. Heft. 



We may content ourselves with enumerating, for the 

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 Number of this interesting journal. They are, — On the 

 History of the Literature of Catalonia by Dr. Ebert ; On 

 the Catalonian Cartfoner d'Amor, in the Paris Library, by 

 Karl Bartsch ; On the inedited Works of Guicciardini, by 

 Comet; On the Sources of Barlaam and Josaphah, by 

 Professor Diebrecht ; Inedita from the Breviari d'Amor, 

 by Dr. Sachs ; a Jleview of Hippeau's edition of Gar- 

 nier's Vie de Saint Thomas, and a Note by Ludwig Hol- 

 land on the Roman de la Poire. 



Introduction to the History of English Literature, by 

 Robert Demaus. (A. & C. Black.) 



We had some time since occasion to speak in very 

 favourable terms of a Class Book of English Pi-ose by 

 Mr. Demaus. The present little volume shows equal tact 

 and judgment, for, though a brief, it contains a clear and 

 intelligent sketch of the Progress of our Literature. 



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