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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 233. 



the word appears to be " to collect, run over, see, 

 read, choose." In justification of my criticism, 

 and in reply to Mr. Sqtjeers, I shall quote Home 

 Tooke's remark, in speaking of "to Stovra, or 

 things which ought to be done;" Div. Purley, 

 Pt. II. ch. viii. (vol. ii. pp. 499—501., edit. 1849) : 



■ The first of these, Legend, which means That 

 which ought to be read, is, from the early misapplica- 

 tion of the term by impostors, now used by us as if it 

 meant, That which ought to be laughed at. And so it is 

 explained in our Dictionaries." 



At the hazard of being again deemed hypercri- 

 tical, while on this subject, the misapplication of 

 terms, I must question the correctness of the phrase 

 " Under the circMwistance." A thing must be in 

 or amidst its circMjn-stances ; it cannot be under 

 them. I admit the commonness of the expression, 

 but it is not the less a solecism. Can you inform 

 me when it was introduced ? I hope it is not old 

 enough to be considered inveterate. The best 

 authors write "in the circumstances ;" and yet so 

 prevalent is the anomaly, that in a very respect- 

 able periodical, not long since, the French " dans 

 les circonstances presentes," given as a quotation, 

 is rendered " Under the present circumstances." 



J. W. Thomas. 



Dewsbury. 



Hoglandia (Vol. viii., p. 151.). — In reply to 

 an inquiry for the full title of a book from which 

 a quotation is given in Pugna Porcorum, the full 

 title is Xoip6xtopoypacj>la, sive Hoglandice description 

 published anonymously in 1709, in retaliation of 

 Edward Holdsworth's Muscipula. " Hoglandia " 

 is Hampshire, and Holdsworth probably was a 

 Hampshire man, for he was educated at Winches- 

 ter, and we may presume the anonymous author 

 to have been a Cambro-Briton. H. L. 



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