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mail to have a Celtic origin, whence comes black ? 
Have we here a compound of Saxon and Celtic, 
the former applied as in Black-Monday, &e.? Or 
is black also of Celtic origin? Perhaps it is only 
a corruption of the Gaélic word gluc, to take; or 
(as the Caterans made cattle a main object of the 
foray) of bleagh, to milk, to draw milk, figura- 
tively used ? 
Tt is curious to find the radical in some form or 
other, bearing a similar meaning, throughout the 
family of Indo-European languages : a whole page 
might be filled with examples. 
Mr. Matthews (1* S. xii. 394.) says, “ Both in 
Persian and Armoric mal signifies such wealth as 
is acquired by the strong hand.” Of this kind 
may be the plain called Mal-Amir, somewhere in 
Kurdistan (?), mentioned in the Travels of Baron 
De Bode (vol. ii. p. 29.), which he translates ‘‘ com- 
mander’s wealth.” Query, “estate or property of 
the Amir,” or Emir; for I believe mal in Persian 
means property in general, since there is a com- 
plimentary mode of address, “ Mal-e-mun, mal-e- 
shumah— Mal-e-shumah, mal-e-mun;” translated 
“ My property is yours, yours is mine,” &c, 
Again, in Affghanistan the contribution levied 
on a village is called mallia, (See Masson’s Travels 
in Beloochistan, vol. ii. p. 295.) Pushtut, the lan- 
guage of the Affzhans, is, I think, allowed to be a 
branch of the Indo-European family, and to be 
connected both with the Zend and the modern 
Persian. A. C. M. 
Exeter, 
popsLEy’s “COLLECTION OF POEMS:” COLLINS'S 
“ODE TO EVENING.” 
(2"" S. i. 151.) 
The following particulars relative to this once 
cto collection, may be interesting to H. A. T. 
have a copy of what I presume to be the first 
edition. It is in three volumes. The title runs 
as follows: ‘A Collection of Poems, by Several 
Hands. In Three Volumes. (Here is a circular 
copper-plate of the Three Graces, C. Mosley, 
seult.) London: Printed for R. Dodsley at 
Tully’s Head in Pall Mall. MDCCXLVIII.” 
The words which I have marked in Italics being 
in red ink. 
The following MS. notes, written apparently at 
the time of publication, may be thought worth 
preserving in the columns of “ N. & Q.” 
Vol. I. * Dodsley affirms that the Collection 
was pict out by Mr. Spence, who went abroad 
with Lord Lincoln.” 
“The best poem in this volume is, I think, 
London wrote by Johnson, and equal to any of 
Mr. Pope’s satires. The Author's Honest but 
Poor two words often coupled together.” 
Vol. If. “All the Poems to the end of the 
61st page in this vol. are written by Mr. Lyt- 
telton. 
“ All from the 156 page to the 228, are written 
by Mr. Nugent. 
“ All from 276 to 291 Page, by Mr. Hawkins 
Brown, M. o. P. for Wenlock. 
“Epilogue to Tamerlane by Hon Horace 
Walpole, Jun", M. o. P. for Callington.” 
Vol. III. “ The two first peaces in this vol. by 
Mr. Lowth, Profess" of Poetry in Oxford, and are 
most incomparably good; as are likewise the 
Essay on Satire, and Muszeus and Psyche, all I 
think admirable, together with the Education of 
Achilles. 
“From page 153 to 208, are by Soam Jen- 
nings, M. o. Parl* for the County of Cambridge.” 
“The two Epistles, from page 240., by the late 
Lord Hervey Incomparable. Fashion, a Satire, 
printed by Jo. Warton. Printed when a Boy at 
Oxford, and Put in this Collection without his 
knowledge vexes him much. 
“ From 274 to 309 by Lady M. W. Montagu.” 
It is right to add that the Collection differs 
most materially in its contents from the subse- 
quent editions. 
These three volumes were followed in the suc- 
ceeding year (1749) by a fourth, with title-page, 
which corresponds exactly with those of the other 
three volumes, except that the Collection is stated 
to be in “ four volumes.” In my copy of this volume, 
which had belonged to the same library, viz, that 
of Sir George Shuckburgh, there are no MS. 
notes ; from which it may be inferred, that those 
already quoted were written when the three 
volumes were first published. . 
In this fourth volume are three Poems by Col- 
lins, viz. the Ode to a Lady on the Death of 
Colonel Charles Ross. ere it contains only 
eight stanzas, instead of ten, of which the fourth 
begins: 
“ O’er him, whose doom thy virtues grieve,” 
the stanzas which are wanting being those which 
commence : 
“ Blest youth, regardful of thy doom,” 
for which the one just quoted is substituted: and 
“ But lo, where sunk in deep despair,” &e. 
“ Ne’er shall he leave that lonely ground,” Se. 
The Second Poem is entitled, Ode written in the 
same Year, and is the well known — 
“ How sleep the brave who sink to rest.” 
The Third Poem of Collins, printed in this 
volume, is The Ode to Evening, the subject of 
H. A. T.’s inquiries, and here are contained the 
variations to which H, A. T, refers. 
It begins — 
“ If ought of oaten stop, or pastoral song, - 
May hope, chaste Eve, to sooth thy modest ear, 
Like thine own solemn springs,” &¢, 
