Oct. 9. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



353 



of Leicestershire^ vol. iv. part 2. in loco, but he 

 does not mention the collars of SS. 



Thos. L. Walker. 

 Leicester. 



Etymology of-'Lyn'' or "-Lin" (Vol. vi., p. 293.). 



— In answer to A. W.'s inquiry on this point, 

 P. C. S. S. would wish to refer him (and indeed 

 the writer of the Note appended to A. W.'s Query) 

 to Spehnan's Glossary, who derives it from the 

 Anglo-Saxon " Blinnan, Ablinnan, Linnan, i. e. 

 cessare." Spelnian adds, " Verum autem etymon 

 verbi A.-S. est ab A.-S. Blynan." There is a 

 strong confirmation of this last-mentioned opinion 

 of Spelman in a bnllad preserved in Percy's Re- 



iques of Ancient Poetry : 



" Strike on, strike on, Glasgerion, 

 Of thy striking doe not blinne ; 

 Tliere's never a stroke comes o'er thy harpe, 

 But it glads my heart withinne." 



P. C. S. S. quotes from memory, but he has a 

 perfect recollection of the impression which these 

 verses made on him, when a boy of fourteen. 



P. c. s. s. 



Burial of Suicides in Scotland (Vol. v., p. 405.). 



— I recollect many years ago being taken by my 

 nurse to an extremity of my father's property in 

 Fifeshire, where she showed me the grave of a 

 man and his wife who had committed suicide 

 together some years before ; she said they were 

 buried there, because at that spot " three lairds' 

 lands met." As I have not seen this custom no- 

 ticed in " N. & Q.," I should like to know if it 

 was a general one. M. M. 



Canterbury. 



^TtsccTTanroiuJ. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



In the year 1823 the Clarendon Press gave to the 

 •world an edition of Burnet's Own Times, with notes by 

 William Legge, first Earl of Dartmouth, Philip 

 Yorke, second Eavl of Hardwicke, Arthur Onslow, 

 Speaker of the House of Commons, Dean Swift, Henry 

 Leggc, Mr. Godwin, and a large proportion, and those 

 too among the most important, by the editor, the Rev. 

 Dr. Routh, the learned editor of the Reliquia Sacras. 

 That became, as it deserved, the standard edition. We 

 have now to thank the same press and the same editor 

 for Bishop Burnet'' s History of the Reign of King James 

 the Second ; Notes hy the Earl of Dartmouth, Speaker 

 Onslow, and Dean Swift : Additional Observations now 

 enlarged. The text has been in some instances restored 

 by means of the autograph now in the possession of the 

 University ; the motives to this republication being, as 

 we learn from the preface, the praiseworthy desire " to 

 communicate to the public some interesting documents 

 illustrative of the events of this period." As the reign 



of James the Second, and the events which flowed from 

 the Revolution, are among the most interesting and 

 important for their eft'ects upon the great cause of civil 

 and religious liberty, every new contribution towards 

 a better knowledge of them is sure to command at- 

 tention ; and as it would be difficult to find a man 

 better qualified to furnish information upon these- 

 points tlian the venerable President of Magdalen, so it 

 would be difficult to find such information in a more 

 inviting form than in Bishop Burnet's Narrative, illus- 

 trated by Dr. Routh's Notes. 



There are doubtless many of our readers who, while 

 gratefully recognising the brilliant military services of 

 the Duke of Wellington, and the genius which enabled 

 him, under Providence, to bring to a successful issue 

 the mighty struggle in which this country was so long 

 engaged, still share his horror of war, and therefore 

 prefer to dwell on the beneficial influence which he 

 exercised for so many years on the councils of this 

 nation. To all such we recommend as an admirable 

 memorial of him whose loss we are all deploring, the 

 very characteristic statuette of The Duke of IFellington 

 in the House of Lords, admirably modelled by Mr. 

 George Abbott, from a sketch by Alfred Crowquill, and 

 executed in Parian by Messrs. Alcock of Burslem. 

 A pretty frequent opportunity of seeing the Greatest 

 Man of his Age in that House of which he was the 

 ornament, enables us to speak with confidence of the 

 admirable manner in which the artist has caught the 

 Duke's usual quiet unaffefited attitude, as he sat with 

 his legs crossed, and his hands on his knees, the ob- 

 served of all observers. All who have ever had the 

 opportunity, from the bar or the gallery, of seeing the 

 Hero of a Ilundred Fights in that senate where his 

 voice, but rarely heard, was yet all-powerful, will at 

 once recognise the truthfulness of this excellent likeness 

 of him. 



When all the world is busily devouring Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin, and publishers are selling off editions by thou- 

 sands and tens of thousands, it was not to be expected 

 that Mr. Bolin, ever ready to supply the wants of the 

 reading public at a moderate price, would neglect an 

 opportunity of putting forth a cheap and well-printed 

 edition of so popular a book. He has done so, and we 

 may safely pronounce his half-crown edition of Uncle 

 Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly, by Harriet 

 Beecher Stowe, to be the most readable edition we 

 have yet seen of a work which, in the course of a few 

 months, has made its writer famous. 



Mr. C. H. J. Smith, the author of Parks and Plea- 

 sure Grounds, or Practical Notes on Country Residences, 

 Villas, Public Parks and Gardens, must be a worthy 

 disciple of Capability Brown. At all events his book 

 is a practical illustration that any subject may be made 

 interesting in the hands of a man of taste : here is Mr. 

 Smith treating of building country mansions, laying 

 out parks and pleasure grounds, the arboretum and the 

 pinetum, and yet so doing it that his book may be read 

 with interest and amusement by those who have not 

 the slightest prospect of ever being in a position to 

 avail themselves of his excellent advice. This will 

 show its great value to those whose good fortune 

 enables them to turn Mr.. Smith's excellent suggestions 

 to good account. 



