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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 192. 



has been made from bones of another individual, 

 many of which are, as I have stated, to be found 

 in the British Museum itself, and others in that of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons. I am not about 

 to defend the propriety of putting the trunk of a 

 palm-tree into the claws of the Megatherium, 

 though I do not suppose that the restorer ever 

 expected, when he did so, that any one would 

 entertain the idea that this gigantic beast was in 

 the habit of climbing trees ; but I would fain ask 

 your correspondent on what grounds he makes the 

 . dogmatic assertion that " Palms there were none, 

 at that period of telluric formation." I will 

 simply remind him of the vast numbers of fossil 

 fruits, and other remains of palms, in the London 

 clay of the Isle of Sheppey. 



W. J. Beenhakd Smith. 

 Temple. 



Pictorial Proverbs (Vol. v., p. 559.). — Perhaps 

 the book here mentioned is one of the old Ger- 

 man Narrenbuchs, or Pook of Fools, which were 

 generally illustrated with pictures, of which I have 

 a curious set in my possession. 



Can any of your correspondents give some 

 account of the nature and merits of these books ? 

 Are any of them worth translating at the present 

 day ? The one from which my pictures were taken 

 has the title Mala Gallina, malum Ovum, and was 

 published at Vienna and Nuremburg. It seems 

 to have been a satire on the femald sex ; but the 

 text, I am sorry to say, is not in my possession. 



H. T. Riley. 



' "Hurrah" and otherWar-cries (Vol.vii., p. 596.). 

 — The following passage (which I find in my notes 

 •with the reference Menagiana, vol. ii. p. 328.) may 

 partially assist your correspondent Cape : 



" Le cri des anciens Comtes d'Anjou etoit Rallie. 

 En void I'origine. Eude II., Comte de Blois, marchant 

 avec une armee considerable contre Foulke Nerra, 

 Comte d'Anjou, ces deux princes se rencontrerent a 

 Pontlevoi sur le Cher, ou ils se livrerent bataille le 

 6 Juillet, 1016. Foulke eut d'abord quelque dcsavan- 

 tage ; mais Herbert, Comte du Maine (dit Eoeillechien), 

 etant venu a son secours, il rallia ses troupes, and defit 

 absolumcnt, &c. Depuis ce temps-la le cri des anciens 

 Comtes d'Anjou etoit Bailie. Et a ce propos je vous 

 rapporterai ce qu'en dit Maitre Vace, surnomme le 

 Clerc de Caen, dans son Roman de Normandie : 



* Francois crie Montjoye, et Normans Dex-aye : 

 Flamands crie Aras, et Angevin Rallie : 

 Et li cuens Thiebaut Chartre et Passavant crie.' " 



*" This last cry is not unlike the Irish " Faugh- 

 . a-Ballagh" in signification. J. H. Leresche. 



Manchester. 



The following extracts from Sir Francis Pal- 

 grave's History of Normandy and England, vol. i. 

 p. 696., explain the origin of the word " Hurrah," 

 respecting which one of your correspondents in- 

 quires : 



" It was a ' wise custom ' in Normandy, established 

 by Rollo's decree, that whoever sustained, or feared to 

 sustain, any damage of goods or chattels, life or limb, 

 was entitled to raise the country by the cry of haro, or 

 haron, upon which cry all the lieges were bound to 

 join in pursuit of the offender, — Haron! Ha Raoul! 

 justice invoked in Duke Rollo's name. Whoever failed 

 to aid, made fine to the sovereign ; whilst a heavier 

 mulct was consistently inflicted upon the mocker who 

 raised the clameur de haro without due and sufficient 

 cause, a disturber of the commonwealth's tranquillity. 



" The clameur de haro is the English system of 'hue 

 and cry.' The old English exclamation Harrow I our 

 national vernacular Hurrah ! being only a variation 

 thereof, is identical with the supposed invocation of 

 the Norman chieftain ; and the usage, suggested by 

 common sense, prevailed under various modifications 

 throughout the greater part of the Pays Coutumier of 

 France." 



A. M, S. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Among the books which we have for some time in- 

 tended to bring under the notice of our readers is ii 

 new and cheaper edition of The Coin Collector^ Manual, 

 or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation 

 of a Cabinet of Coins : comprising an Historical and 

 Critical Account of the Origin and Progress of Coinage, 

 from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman Em- 

 pire ; with some Account of the Coinages of Modern 

 Europe, more especially of Great Britain, by H. Noel 

 Humphreys : and we have been the more anxious to 

 do this, because, except among professed collectors, 

 greater ignorance probably exists on the subject of coins, 

 their date, value, &c., than upon any other subject with 

 which educated people are supposed to possess some 

 acquaintance. Yet there are few numismatic ques- 

 tions likely to occur which ordinary readers would not 

 be "enabled to solve by a reference to these two little 

 volumes, enriched as it is with numerous illustrations; 

 especially if they would place beside them Akerman's 

 most useful Numismatic Manual. 



We are indebted to Mr. Murray for two volumes 

 which will be among the pleasant additions to the 

 cheap books of the month, namely, the new volume, 

 being the fourth of the reprint, of Lord Mahon's His- 

 tory of England to the Peace of Versailles, which com- 

 prises the interval between the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 

 and that of Hubertsburg ; and in the Railway Reading, 

 for half-a-crown ! the fourth edition of Lockhart's 

 spirited translations of Ancient Spanish Ballads, His- 

 torical and Romantic. Thanks, Mr. Murray, thanks I 



That Mr. De la Motte, who is so well known as an 

 accomplished draughtsman, should turn his attention 

 to photography, is no slight testimony to the value of 

 the art. That he has become a master in it, may be 

 seen by one glance at his own works on the walls of his 

 Photographic Gallery. The beginner may therefore 

 receive with confidence the results of that gentleman's 

 experience; and The Practice of Photography, a Manual 

 for Students and Amateurs, just published by him, will 



