"Where is the pain now?" He said, "In the leg." He chafed there, and asked, "Where now?" The fellow cried, "Oh, in the top of my buttock!" There he chafed also, and asked, "Where now?" Then he said, in his foot. And he chafed it there to his great toe, where it went away. The fellow in my hearing confessed himself well, and I saw him leap and dance, and go away well. 'Tis so strange to me, I know now not what to say to it, and his cure is altogether by touch; the French pox and dry inward ptisicks not excepted.' The story is every day confirmed by more witnesses, and fresh instances. Several that have been with him make report of the advantage they have received, and of the multitudes that flock to him both out of curiosity and for relief. In a letter received from a lady, known to be a prudent and very excellent person, she avers herself to have been an eye-witness in her own house of above three score cured by him in one night, of deafness, blindness, cancers, sciatica, palsies, impostumes, fistulas, and the like, who went away by the blessing of God well recovered." Two works, one entitled Valentine Greatrak's Account of Strange Cures by Stroaking with the Hand, and the other entitled Wonders no Miracles; or, Mr. Greatrak's Gift of Stroaking Examined, were published in London in 1660. I have noted a ludicrous blunder made by the editors of John Ray's works. In Ray's Memorials, published by the Ray Society, he mentions (at p. 17) reading "the business about Great Rakes," between the years 1663 and 1667. On this his annotator, George Scott, tells us, "These great rakes are now [1740] come into general use among the farmers, and are called drag rakes." Dr. Edwin Lankester, who edited the volume for the society, not being better fitted for the task, did not know what the reference was to, and therefore allowed the mistake to pass uncorrected. Unfortunately the society's Memorials of Ray contain several editorial errors. JAMES H. FENNELL. 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. have done this is capable of great exaggeration. We believe that at least one-half the words which Dr. Mackay has commented upon have come to us through a Teutonic channel, though we would not be understood to affirm that sisters to them are not to be found in the Keltic tongues. The author says that as ale means drink, it does not follow that in the church-ales or bride-ales......much or any ale was consumed, but only that some kind of drink was provided for the guests." How this may be as to bride-ales we will not affirm; but that ale was consumed plentifully at church-ales we have positive proof from existing churchwardens' accounts. Dr. Mackay is hard upon dictionary makers. We confess to having a fellow feeling with him in this respect; but he should bear in mind that all are not equally guilty; and, to speak of the dead only, there are some to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. It cannot be too often enforced upon word: derivers that because something of like sound to an English word may be found, either in English or some foreign language, it by no means follows that the two things have any connexion. For example, mendicant might be a jocose word, formed from "mend I can't." Any one who knows even a little Latin will be quite sure that this derivation is preposterous, and yet there are hundreds of equally foolish derivations that have passed current and been received into works of authority. The Book of Psalms. Translated by the Rev. T. K.' Cheyne, M.A. (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) THOUGH designed apparently for a class of readers different from those to which the series as a whole directly appeals, this latest volume of the "Parchment Library of Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. is likely to be version of the Psalms at once poetical and critical. A one of the most popular. It presents for the first time a thorough Hebrew scholar, Mr. Cheyne supplies a text which may be accepted as authoritative. He furnishes, also, disquisitions equally erudite and popular upon the development of psalmody from the Accadian form; upon which can be attributed to David; upon the chronology the authorship of the Psalms, a very small number of of the Psalter; and upon other kindred subjects. Explanations, singularly lucid and acceptable, are supplied at the end of the volume, and some few conjectural emendations of the Hebrew text are attempted. The task set before themselves by the producers of the CRETIN (6th S. ix. 269).-I would direct M.'s attention to the article "Chrétien" in the supple-volume-to enable the "lovers of literature to read the ment to Littré, p. 361, where he will find that in the south-west of France lepers or pariahs are still called chrétiens as formerly they were called chrestiens; or he may consult Folk-Etymology, p. 470. A. SMYTHE PALMER. Woodford, Essex. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. New Light on some Obscure Words and Phrases in the Works of Shakspeare and his Contemporaries. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. (Reeves & Turner.) WE do not think that Dr. Mackay's pamphlet will be much help either to Shakspeare students or philologists. His statements are not very clear; but, if we read him aright, he holds that a much greater part of the present English tongue is of Keltic origin than has been conceded by previous investigators. No one denies that the Keltic tongues have influenced not only our local nomenclature, but also our language; but the amount to which they Psalter intelligently and with pleasure "—has been fully accomplished, and the attractive little volume will enjoy a wide circulation. More, even, may be said. Embody. ing as it does the latest results of scholarship, it is likely to prepare the way for a treatment of the lyrical portion of the Bible different from anything that has yet been attempted. Hints on Catalogue Titles and on Index Entries, with a Rough Vocabulary of Terms and Abbreviations, &c. By Charles F. Blackburn. (Sampson Low & Co.) To a certain extent a trade treatise, intended to assist the professional cataloguer, Mr. Blackburn's volume is likely to commend itself to all lovers of books. There are few of these who have not dreamed of some time of leisure, when the contents of their shelves shall be cata logued, and the task of hunting out a volume not in daily use shall be robbed of some of its difficulties. A perusal of Hints on Catalogue Titles will probably in duce them to abandon the idea of performing the task themselves, and lead them to seek duly qualified assist. ance. In this world there are few things a man can do well by the mere use of common sense and with no preliminary training. There is, in fact, nothing that it is easy to do well. How much study and preparation, with, and fetches on the rare occasions when it occurs what industry and what care, are necessary to the very long prices. The literary value of the work has arrangement and cataloguing of books, Mr. Blackburn received ample recognition from Ranke, Hefele, and shows. Very far from arduous is, however, the task of all writers on ecclesiastical history. The reprint will be reading, and even of studying, his volume. In the por-executed in facsimile. Twenty-eight marks per volume tion in which he describes "A Private Library and the is the subscription price. Society of Books," giving in so doing a catalogue rai sonné of the contents of a few shelves, the author is positively entertaining. We heartily commend the volume to general circulation. There are few bibliophiles who will not be glad to possess it. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following nolices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. Letters of William Cowper. Edited, with Introduction, by the Rev. W. Benham, B.D., F.S.A. (Macmillan & Co.) AN edition of Cowper's letters handier, prettier, and in To secure insertion of communications correspondents every way more desirable than is supplied by Messrs. must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, Macmillan is scarcely to be hoped. A full knowledge or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the of the poet is possessed by Mr. Benham, who is known signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to as editor of the Globe edition of Cowper's Works. appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested This possession has been turned to account in the colla- to head the second communication "Duplicate." tion of the letters and their disposition in chronological order. To the work Mr. Benham has prefaced a sketch of Testril in the passage you quote stands for tester. The EDWARD R. VYVYAN ("Twelfth Night, II. iii.").the poet's life which, while short, is all that is needed, supplying as it does the principal facts in Cowper's life name, derived from the king's head (teste or tele) on it, and a sketch of his correspondents. To praise the letters testril, &c. A teston, the original French coin, was once was variously written teston, tester, testern, testarne, of Cowper is now superfluous. They have won accept worth eighteenpence, but was reduced to sixpence, at ance as among the most delightful compositions in their class, and will assuredly be known as long as the lan- which value it is estimated in the Twelfth Night. "[ guage in which they are written. Next to the letters of communion to get a testorne, but will not come to rethink truely all the town would come and celebrate the Lamb, perhaps, in charm of style, the letters of Cowperceive the body and blood of Christ" (Latimer's Sermons). have sincerity, justness of observation and humour that cannot easily be surpassed. A specially delightful feature in them is their appreciation. How pleasant, for instance, are the passages addressed to Unwin (p. 57) on Vincent Bourne Passages in some letters to women might almost be supposed to have been written by Lamb. The Annual Register for 1883. New Series. (Rivingtons.) THE utility of the Annual Register is now so fully recognized, one no more thinks of praising it than of praising the Post Office Directory. To the student it is serviceable, to the scholar it saves much arduous research, to the ready writer it is indeed indispensable. Its obituary alone is sufficient to establish it in favour with the worker. The latest volume yields in no respects to its predecessors. E. P.-Etienne Pivert de Senancour, a well-known French writer, was born in Paris in November, 1770, died at St. Cloud, January, 1846. Educated as a priest, he refused to take the vows and fled to Switzerland, where he married. He is a voluminous author, bis best known work being Obermann, first published in Paris, 1804, and subsequently reprinted with a preface by Sainte-Beuve, and still later with an introduction by George Sand. See Sainte-Beuve, Portraits Contemporains, tom. i.; Quérard, France Littéraire; and La Nouvelle Biographie Générale. C. G. M. (Orebro).-In the first case cited from Scott, "the" is to be regarded as bearing two aspects: when inserted between the Christian name and surname it is probably a corruption of "de," the charter form of THE Contemporary has a valuable paper on "The the surname; when used, as you will sometimes find it, Historical Assumptions of the Ecclesiastical Courts Com-with the surname alone, it resembles the usage prevailing mission," by Edwin Hatch, D.D., and one by Mr. Bryce, to the chief's name by way of eminence, as, e. g., "The in certain Scottish clans of prefixing the definite article M.P., on "An Ideal University."- "Le Style, c'est l'Homme: a Causerie," by the Earl of Lytton, an essay Chisholm," &c. But the modern form of the surname by Mr. Sendall on Charles Stuart Calverley, and one by may also be used, and then neither of the above uses is The different styles of the other writers Prof. Butcher on Sophocles, attract attention to the applicable. Fortnightly, in which also appear the first three chapters you name, and the different subjects treated, sufficiently of the new novel of Mr. George Meredith.-The Nine- account for your not finding the same class of expressions in their writings. teenth Century has papers by the Hon. Mr. Justice "The more happy that," &c.-the Stephen on "The Unknowable and the Unknown," and more happy for having, or in that he had, done such a deed. on Forgotten Bibles" by Prof. Max Müller-Mr. Mew writes in the Gentleman's on the Seigneur des Accords, as the whimsical author of Les Bigarrures et ་ Touches elected to be called.-Macmillan contains a poem, hitherto unpublished, by Charles Kingsley, called Juventus Mundi.” SOMEWHAT tardily we draw attention to the forthcoming republication by Victor Palmé, of 17, Unter den Linden, Berlin, of the immense Collectio Sacrorum Conciliorum of Joan. Domin. Mansi. 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