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fairy-land, with whose ideal queen the authoress 

 afFected sportively to identify herself, and hence 

 signed the little poem, produced rather as a jeu 

 (Tesprit than anything else, " Mab." In its sub- 

 sequently corrected form, as admitted in the 

 editions of her works, it is here subjoined : 



Water Lilies : A Fairy Song. 



" Come away, Elves ! while the dew is sweet, 

 Come to the dingles where fairies meet ; 

 Know that the lilies have spread their bells 

 O'er all the pools in our forest dells ; 

 Stilly and lightly their vases rest 

 On the quivering sleep of the water's breast. 

 Catching the sunshine through the leaves that throw 

 To their scented bosoms an emerald glow ; 

 And a star from the depths of each pearly cup, 

 A golden star, unto heav'n looks up, 

 As if seeking its kindred where bright they lie, 

 Set in the blue of the summer sky. 

 Come away, imder arching boughs we'll float. 

 Making those urns each a fairy boat ; 

 We'll row them witli reeds o'er the fountains free, 

 And a tall flag-leaf shall our streamer be. 

 And we'll send out wild music so sweet and low. 

 It shall seem from the bright flower's heart to flow ; 

 As if 'twere a breeze with a flute's low sigh. 

 Or water-drops train'd into melody. 

 Come away ! for the midsummer sun grows strong, 

 And the life of the lily may not be long." 



Anon. 



Derivation of Britain (Vol. viii., p. 344.). — 

 Since my last reference to this matter (Vol. viii., 

 p. 445.) I find that the derivation of the name of 

 Britain from Barat-anach or Bixit-anach, a land 

 of tin, originated in conjecture with Bochart, an 

 oriental scholar and French protestant divine in 

 the first half of the seventeenth century. It cer- 

 tainly is a very remarkable circumstance that the 

 conjecture of a Frenchman as to the origin of the 

 name of Britain should have been so curiously 

 confirmed, as has been shown by Dr. Hincks, 

 through an Assyrian medium. " G. W. 



Stansted, Montfichet. 



Derivation of the Word Celt (Vol. viii., p. 271.). 

 — If C. R. M. has access to a copy of the Latin 

 Vulgate, he will find the word which our transla- 

 tors have rendered " an iron pen," in the book of 

 Job, chap. xix. v. 24., there translated Celte. Not 

 having the book in my possession, I will not pre- 

 tend to give the verse as a quotation.'*' 



T. B. B. H. 



" Karninagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira " 

 (Vol. viii., p. 539.). — I happen to have by me 

 a transcript of the record in which tliis word oc- 

 curs ; and it is followed immediately by another 

 almost equally astounding, which F. J. G. should, 



[* 24. Stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel celte 

 sculpantur in silice?] 



I think, have asked one of your correspondents 

 to translate while about the other. The follow- 

 ing is the word : A rademaravasadeloovaradooyou. 

 They both appear to be names of estates. H. M. 

 Peckham. 



Cash (Vol. viii., pp. 386. 524.). — In The Ad- 

 ventures of the Gooroo Pararnartan, a tale in the 

 Tamul language, accompanied by a translation 

 and a vocabulary, &c., by Benjamin Babington, 

 London, 1822, is the following : " Fanam or casoo 

 is unnecessary, I give it to you gratis." To which 

 the translator subjoins : " The latter word is 

 usually pronounced cash by Europeans, but the 

 Tamul orthography is used in the text, that the 

 reader may not mistake it for an English word." 



" Christmas-boxes are said to be an ancient custom 

 here, and I would almost fancy that our name of box 

 for this particular kind of present, the derivation of 

 which is not very easy to trace in the European lan- 

 guages, is a corruption oi huchshish, a gift or gratuity, 

 in Turkish, Persian, and Hindoostanee. There have 

 been undoubtedly more words brought into our lan- 

 guage from the East than I used to suspect. Cash, 

 which here means small money, is one of these ; but of 

 the process of such transplantation I can form no con- 

 jecture." — Heber's Narrative of a Journey through the 

 Upper Provinces of India, vol. i. p. 52. 



Angelo, In his Gazophylaceum Linguce Fersarum, 

 gives a Persian woi^d of the same signification and 

 sound, as Italice cassa, Latine capsa, Gallice caisse. 



BiBLIOTHECAK. ChETHAM. 



'■'■ Antiquitas Seeculi Juventus MundV (Vol. viii., 

 p. 502., &c.).— The authority of Fuller ought, I 

 think, to be sufficient to establish that this saying 

 was Bacon's own, and not a quotation. 



Fuller thus introduces it : " As one excellently 

 observes, 'Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi,'" &c., 

 giving the remainder of the paragraph from the 

 Adoancement of Learning ; and refers in a note to 

 Sir Frances Bacon's Advancement of Learning 

 {Holy and Profane State, ch. vi.). E. S. T. T. 



Caves at Settle, Yorkshire (Vol. viii., p. 412.). — 

 Brigantia will find a very circumstantial and 

 Interesting account of these caves, and their 

 Romano-British contents, in vol. i. of Mr. Roach 

 Smith's Collectanea. G. J. De Wilde. 



Character of the Song of the Nightingale 

 (Vol. vii., p. 397. ; Vol. viii., pp. 112. 475.).— One 

 poet, not so well known as he deserves, has escaped 

 the observation of those who have contributed to 

 your valuable pages the one hundred and seventy-' 

 five epithets which others of his craft have ap- 

 plied to the "Midnight Minstrel." I allude to 

 the Rev. F. W. Faber, in his poem of the Cherwell 

 Water Lily. This poem has now become scarce, 

 so I send you the lines to which I refer, as the 

 "summary of epithets" which they contain, as 



