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Perchance, . because some of these words ac- 

 quired the same bad odour as has pamphlet : If we 

 may believe the following words from the Fr. 

 Diet by J. Ch. Laveaux, which describes it as " un 

 m6t Anglais : on le prend souvent en mauvaise 

 part" 



Of the Fr. word lampons, from which our lam- 

 poon is derived, the same Diet, adds : 



" Expression populaire. Sorte de chanson h boire, oil 

 I'on r^pfete si la fin de chaque couplet, tampons, pour dire, 

 buvons. Cette chanson n'est plus d'tisage, mcme panni la 

 populace" 



In a short time, I dare say, the word will drop 

 out of future French dictionaries, and should our 

 word lampoon ever be revived in France, it will 

 doubtless figure in new dictionaries as " un m6t 

 Anglais." 



Brochure very probably was the fashionable 

 word in France, and jostled pamphlet out of its 

 place : as it bids fair to do here. 



If pamphlet were an English word, would it 

 have been adopted into the French language with- 

 out a change in spelling, indicative of a French- 

 man's effort to pronounce our word pamphlet as 

 we do ? Is not this the case with biftec, houle- 

 dogue, and roshiff the only three English words 

 naturalised in France which occur to me at the 

 moment. 



But one word more in defence of par un filet. 

 Broehure is derived more probably from the Low 

 Latin broca, a spit, than from the A.-S. breeean, 

 to break. In either case its relation to brochure 

 is the same, and it indicates — by the needle or 

 piercing instrument used in carrying the thread 

 through the pages of a pamphlet — what we sig- 

 nify by the thread itself, par un filet. Does this 

 " tell " against the French derivation of tlie word, 

 as C. argues ? S. Singleton. 



Greenwich. 



Interchange of "a" and "i" (2"* S. i. 236.; il. 

 437. 457.) — Though I believe that E. C. H. is 

 right in saying that long i is but seldom converted 

 into a, allow me to remind h^jn of the following 

 statement In Matthlae's Oreek Grammar : 



" A, or <i, and et are interchanged by the Dorians, e.g- 

 KXai, CLiroKXa^ov, for (c\ets, a.rr6K\ei,(Tov. See Valck. ad Theocr. 

 Id. vi. 22." 



Since the Greek et represents the long i, I con- 

 sider the above as a fair example. Rovillus. 

 Norwich. 



Dream Testimony (2"^ S. li. 458.) — The Red 

 Barn murder occurred in the summer of 1827. I 

 passed through the field where the Red Barn stood, 

 soon after the body of the murdered woman, 

 Maria Martin, had been burled within it ; but of 

 course wholly unconscious of being so near the 

 poor creature's remains. Shortly after the dis- 

 covery of the body, and the execution of William 



Corder for the murder, I visited the Red Barn, 

 and saw the place where the remains were found. 

 It was the bin on the right side of the barn, as 

 you entered by the front doorway. The barn was 

 of wood, and had been painted red, though very 

 little colour then remained. It has since been 

 pulled down. It stood high up in a field, near the 

 few houses which compose the village of Polstead 

 in Suffolk. 



When Corder had murdered his unhappy victim, 

 he dug a shallow grave for her in the Red Barn ; 

 and when the harvest was got in, he took care to 

 have the bin filled with corn, and was present 

 himself to see it carefully stacked. The men 

 complained of a bad smell in the barn, for the 

 corpse of his victim was but thinly covered with 

 earth ; but Corder said it proceeded from dead 

 rats, and no further notice was then taken of the 

 circumstance. He was observed always to leave 

 the barn the last, and to take the keys in his 

 pocket. What led to the discovery of the murder 

 was the circumstance of the father of the poor 

 murdered young woman dreaming for three nights 

 that his daughter had been murdered, and buried 

 in the Red Barn. In consequence of this the corn 

 was removed, and the body discovered a slight 

 depth underground. But the three dreams I 

 never considered so extraordinary or important as 

 they were represented. The father would na- 

 turally be anxious and constantly thinking of his 

 lost child ; and suspicion had already rested on 

 the murderer. Moreover, the Red Barn was the 

 very place to deposit the body, and hints had been 

 frequently dropped as to the probability of her 

 being there. These circumstances I think quite 

 sufficient to cause the father's dreams, and to take 

 away much of the mysterious significancy which 

 was at the time attached to them. F. C. H. 



Precentor of the Province of Canterbury (2""* S. 

 il. 389. 459.) — 



" It may be mentioned here, that, by the regulations 

 of the Province of Canterbury, the Bishops are considered 

 as forming a Cathedral Chapter, of which the Primate is 

 the Bishop, the Bishop of London Dean, the Bishop of Salis- 

 bury Precentor, the Bishop of Lincoln Chancellor, and the 

 Bishop of Winchester Sub-dean." — First Report of Her 

 Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of 

 Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, Sfc, appointed Nov. 10, 

 1852 (Report printed 1854), p. ix. Marg.; Lyndwood's 

 Provincicde ; Wilkins, ii. 115. 



J. Sansoh. 



Organ Tuning (2""^ S. Ii. 457.) — With reference 

 to Mr. Dixon's observations on the above sub- 

 ject, I am most happy in stating, that It is an 

 error to speak of the late Col. Perronet Thompson, 

 for that gentleman is still living, and now holds 

 the rank of Major-General. 



General Perronet Thompson has written several 

 works relative to tuning ; among others, are In- 

 structions to my Daughter for playing on the 



