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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>«i S. VIII. Dbc. 24. '69. 



formation. The following posies are from rings 

 in the possession of James Mills, Esq., Norwich, 

 and may be of interest to Glwysig, and other 

 readers : — 



" My Joyh consisteth in Hope." 



" Quies servis nulla." 



" I desire to disarne (disarm)." 



" Knit in one by Christ alone." 



(Love undervalued maj' greater be.)" 

 This last is on an enamelled gold ring found in the 

 river Wensum at Norwich. G. W. W. M. 



Male and Female Swons (2"^ S. viii. 416.) — J. 

 F. may like to know that the swans on the Thames, 

 at Windsor, were, early in the sixteenth century 

 (Hen. VII.), distinguished as " cocks " and 

 " hens ; " and later in the same century (Eliza- 

 beth), as "cobbs" and "hens." See Annals of 

 Windsor, vol. i. pp. 452, 453. J. E. Davis. 



Temple. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



A Dictionary of English Etymology. By Hensleigh 

 Wedgwood, M.A., late Fellow of Chr. Col. Camb. Vol. I. 

 A—D. (Triibner & Co.) 



Perhaps there are no Queries so frequently started by 

 men of education, none whieh they are more fond of 

 hunting out, than those ■which relate to the steps by 

 which " such and such a word conies to have the meaning 

 in which it is actually found, what is the earliest source 

 to which it can be traced, and what are the cognate forms 

 either in our own or in related languages." The author 

 of the present work sees the solution of this inquiry in 

 the principle of imitation — that is, when a word is made 

 to imitate or represent a sound characteristic of the ob- 

 ject it is intended to designate ; and he goes on to show 

 that the expression of ideas like endurance or continu- 

 ance, and even of silence itself, may be traced to an imi- 

 tative root ; and thence he argues the possibility of ex- 

 pressing any other idea on the same principle. Such is 

 the theory on which the present Dictionary is based, and 

 which is worked out in the etymologies of the various 

 words with considerable learning and ingenuity, and we 

 cannot doubt that the work will take an important place 

 among books illustrative of English Etymology. 



A Manual for Rifle Volunteers : their Duties, Privileges, 

 Exemptions; The General Volunteer Act; Instructions 

 for the Formation of Volunteer Rifle Corps, and Model 

 Rules and Regidations. By A Clerk of Lieutenancy. 



Though lovers of peace, or rather we should say be- 

 cause we are lovers of peace, and rejoice therefore in the 

 Volunteer Movement as a means to that great end, we 

 welcome a little volume which will be found especially 

 useful at this time ; for we have reason to believe that the 

 author has had peculiar facilities for making his work 

 complete. 



Extensive as was our notice of the various Christmas 

 Books, or books suited to the season, in our last Number, 

 there are several to which we have still to direct atten- 

 tion; among others, Ulf the Minstrel, or the Princess 

 Diamonduchzy, hy Mr. Brough (Houlston & Wright), 

 will be a rare favourite with young bo^s. — Longfel- 



low's Prose Works, illustrated by Birket Foster (Dean & 

 Sons), deserves a good word. — To Mr. Bentley we 

 are indebted for a Second Volume of Tales from Bentley, 

 and a new edition of the quaint Notes on Noses. — Of 

 serial works we have to notice Messrs. Longman's 

 People's Edition of the Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, 

 Part IX. (7%e Epicurean') ; and from Messrs. Routledge, 

 Parts VIII. & IX. of Routledge's Illustrated Natural 

 History, by the Rev. J. J. Wood, which keeps up its cha- 

 racter as a highly popular and beautifully illustrated 

 Natural History for all classes. Nor must we omit to 

 mention Mr. Murray's Shilling and Sixpenny editions of 

 Childe Harold, as among the marvels of cheap and beau- 

 tiful books. 



We are glad to announce that the curious collection 

 sold by Puttick & Simpson on Thursday week, entitled 

 " Bibliographical Recreations, in a Series of Notes relat- 

 ing to rare and curious Books and Manuscripts extracted 

 from the Catalogues of Robert Hardipg Evans, Thomas 

 Evans, and Charles Evans, embodying the experience of 

 those eminent Auctioneers of Literary Property during 

 Thirty-five Years devoted to the Study of Bibliography, 

 collected and arranged by Charles Evans," — and which is 

 a comprehensive record, in a form most easy for reference, 

 of the various Literary Treasures which have passed 

 through the hands of the Messrs. Evans, giving the prices 

 produced at the auction, and the names of the purchasers, 

 — was purchased by the British Museum. 



In accordance with a wish expressed by the Prince 

 Consort, when viewing the Archaaological Exhibition 

 at Aberdeen, and which has been generally concurred in 

 by the public, the Committee of Management have now 

 published a Series of Photographs from some of the most 

 interesting of the Portraits there exhibited. These are 

 executed by Mr. G. W. Wilson of Aberdeen, and are of 

 a high class as works of art, while they give an excellent 

 idea of the originals from which they are taken. We 

 cannot of course enumerate the subjects of this collection, 

 which includes three of Mary Queen of Scots ; but when 

 we consider the number (48), vanet3% and interest of 

 the Portraits, and the security which Photography gives 

 for the fidelity with which they are copied, we cannot 

 doubt that this" patriotic scheme will be attended with 

 the success it deserves. 



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G. R. The term Milesians as applied to Irishmen has been discussed in 

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