Derbyshire and Notts left-handed cricketers are Worksop. In the West of Scotland the term used is, I am pretty sure, from distant recollections of schoolboy days, corry-handed, or more frequently corry-fisted. I am not sure of the orthography; it should, perhaps, be cawry or caury, certainly it is not pronounced car or ker. Jamieson, however, gives it :"Car-handit, adj. 1. Left-handed, S. 2. Awkward. Galloway. V. Ker. Car, Ker, adj. 1. Left, applied to the hand. S. 2. Sinister, fatal: You'll go a car gate yet,' given as equivalent to You'll go a gray gate yet,' S. Prov. Both these signify You will come to an ill end' (Kelly)." "Ker, kar, adj. 1. Left, applied to the hand. S. (Skene). Gael. Caer, id. 2. Awkward. Galloway. 3. Wrong, in a moral sense. S. Like Latin, and E. sinister. J. B. FLEMING. Helensburgh. NUGGET (8th S. vii. 186).—Is niggot the same as nugget? Trench, in English Past and Present,' says (p. 145) that the latter word is probably "a popular recasting" of ingot. For the use of niggot he quotes from North's Plutarch's 'Lives, p. 499: "After the fire was quenched, they found in niggots of gold and silver mingled together about a thousand talents." He remarks that this word has not found its way into our dictionaries or glossaries. Niggert is in Nodal and Milner's 'Lancashire Dialect' (E. D. S.) and defined as "a piece of iron placed at the side of a fire grate to contract its width and save coals" (N. Lanc.). In Mr. F. T. Elworthy's excellent 'West Somerset Word-Book' (E. D. S.) nug is given as meaning "a rough mass of any substance-usually qualified by great. A gurt nug o' bread and cheese. A gurt nug o' timber." Nug-head=a blockhead. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. The letters patent for Martin's promotion to the bishopric of Meath bear date March 23, 1624/5, i. e., four days before the death of King James I., but Charles I. confirmed his title, and on May 29 following issued a mandate for his consecration and restitution to the temporalities. He was consecrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, July 25, 1625, Archbishop of Tuam, and William, Bishop of by Lancelot, Archbishop of Dublin, William, Kildare. The rebels having obliged him to relinquish the bishopric, Dr. Martin was, on the petition of the Fellows and Scholars, made temporary Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. By letters (of March 27, 1643) under his signature and privy signet, Charles I. committed the charge of Trinity College to the care of the Bishop of Meath "until such time as his Majesty may appoint and send a Provost to undertake the government of the House and Society." appointment was confirmed by the Lords Justices and Council on April 25 following. Martin was admitted (tenth) Provost in February, 1644/5 (not 1654 as misprinted at the latter reference), and continued to administer the affairs of the College under extreme difficulties. The appointment of the Lord Deputy, James Butler, Marquis of Ormonde (a great benefactor to the College at the worst moment), as Chancellor is dated March 12, 1644. He was chosen to succeed Laud. The appointment of the Chancellor was made by Martin and a majority of the Senior Fellows. The Sir James Ware records that, on the surrender of Ireland, Dr. Martin had the courage to disregard the order (issued in June, 1647) of the Commissioners of the English Parliament, abolishing the Liturgy and substituting the Directory in its stead, and that he preached against the heresies of the times with an apostolic liberty in a crowded congregation. Martin, who appears to have been the best of the early provosts, suffered further persecution from the Parliamentary Commissioners, but through all his adversities maintained the same constancy: "Is est qualis alii plerique videri tantum volunt, et in humaniori literatura, et vitæ integritate: germanissimus certe Nathaneel, sine fraude." ANTHONY MARTIN (8th S. vii. 169, 236).Anthony Martin, a native of Galway, educated partly in France and partly at Cambridge, was sworn and admitted March 7, 1610, into the full right and benefit of a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. On Dec. 12, 1612, he was appointed Senior Dean, with 47. per annum, and Divinity Lecturer, Yet this man of superior learning, of religious to read a lecture on the body of divinity once a and moral qualities, unsurpassed in any age or fortnight in term and out of term, and to have nation, died in poverty, and left his family without for his pains 10l. per annum and his commons, any inheritance but the memory of their father's together with 87. for his mathematical lecture. He great talents and spotless integrity. ('Whole was chosen Nov. 15, 1613, to supply the place of Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland,' ed. catechist, to perform that service once each week Walter Harris, vol. i. (1739), p. 157; Ussher's throughout the year, expounding one week someWorks,' ed. Élrington, xv. 22-23; W. B. S. particulars of the Catechism, and examining the week following his auditors, the Scholars of the House, upon the same as formerly expounded. For this service he was to receive twenty marks per annum. Taylor, 'History of the University of Dublin,' 1845, pp. 236-8; John W. Stubbs, D.D., 'History of the University of Dublin, 1591-1800, Dublin, 1889, pp. 29-30, 70, 73, 84, 88-9, Appendix xxxiii. ; The Book of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1891, Belfast, 1892, p. 31 and note; Wm. Urwick, 'Early History of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1660,' London, 1892, p. 53.) DANIEL HIPWELL. "WAN WATER" (8th S. vii. 249).-The exact meaning of the word wan as applied to water has been considered by Prof. Veitch, in his 'History and Poetry of the Scottish Border,' pp. 416 et seqq. After speaking of the brightness of the Border streams when the sky is clear, he says:— "Let any one walk across a Border moorland on one of those days not uncommon in the district, when overhead and all around the sky is shrouded by grey clouds, peaceable and motionless, piled in masses high and imposing; then let him watch the effect of this on pool and stream, and he will feel and understand the force, truthfulness, and beauty of the expression-the wan water. The stream which was formerly bright and sparkling has taken on the tint of the landscape around it, and we feel that it now touches the eye and heart with G. W. TOMLINSON. its wan look.' The word may denote further what is dark and "sullen" (as Scott says memorably of the Till), and in this sense it is happily used in Rossetti's expressive onomatopoeic line in the 'Stream's Secret': Wan water, wandering water weltering. For the sake not only of her complexion but her health, "fair Annie was prudent to partake of dark water, seeing that a similar liquid of a sickly hue is prone to be charged with lead or another deleterious ingredient. In the 'Recollections' of Dean Boyle, p. 138, this striking anecdote occurs : "When at Rome, Sir Walter Scott was taken one day for a drive by a friend of Lady Davy's, who said to tho gentleman who made a third in the carriage, when they reached a wayside pool, This is a wan water.' Sir Walter, who seemed to be dozing, revived, and with great spirit repeated the last verse of the ballad Kinmont Willie': He's either himsell a devil frae hell, Helensburgh, N.B. but the minor poet in search of epithets has a soul above syntax: "it fitteth the spirit of a tapster." E. S. A. I met this expression first as "water wan" in 'Jason.' Wan is white, not black; it is the old British word gwen or gwent. "Water wan" is the same as Dur gwent; the name of many rivers, from Derwent in the north to Darent and Dart in the south. "Wan water" means clear, bright water; though a wan" person is pale. F. J. CANDY. Croydon. So shaken as we are, so wan with care. That by "wan" Shakspere meant pale is proved by this line in 'Titus Andronicus':— Why doth your highness look so pale and wan? See also Nicolas Udall's 'Translation of the Apophthegmes of Erasmus,' 1542, fol. 120, the 119th saying of Diogenes : "One that laboured the study of naturall Philosophie, opposed Diogenes with this question, For what cause golde looked to the eye som what pale and wanne of coloure? Marie, quoth he, because there be so many folkes liyng in awayt for it. "Soche persones as knowe that they haue awayte or watche layde for theim, cannot but be a fearde. And the propertee of any body beyng in great feare is to loke with a pale and wanne colour." Chaucer, in 'Troylus and Cryseyde,' bk. ii. has : Bell does not explain this word in his glossary, probably because he thought there was no necessity. In Lincolnshire we have wankle, which seems to be a kindred word. "How hi ya? Hev ya been badly? Ya look fine an' wankle." That means very pale and sickly. I may be lacking in taste, but to me it seems to be of small account how the maudling drivelling, or the spasmodic gasping sections of modern poets Let them rave. choose to misuse words. Το "What sawe thou there? sayd the kyng. Syr, he sayd, I sawe no thynge but the waters wappe and the wawes notice them only helps to perpetuate the disease. wanne,"The chief evil to be dreaded is that in some future meaning the waters lapping and the waves ebbing; generation these words may be dug up and en SIR THOMAS BOND (8th S. vii. 268).-COL. PRIDEAUX will find full particulars about Sir Thomas Bond in Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.' He was of Cornish extraction, the eldest son of Thomas Bond, M.D., of Hoxton, his mother being an Osbaldeston. Introduced at Court by the Lord St. Albans, he was Controller of the Household to Queen Henrietta Maria, and was created a baronet in 1658. He was in great favour with Charles II., whom he assisted in money matters; married a French lady, sister of one of the Maids of Honour to the queen of Charles II.; and purchased a "considerable estate at Peckham." The exact date of his death is not given by Burke, and his title became extinct by the death of his great-grandson, Sir Charles, fourth baronet, early in the reign of George III. E. WALFORD. Ventnor. I have a note that this gentleman was buried at Camberwell, June 3, 1685. W. D. PINK. Miscellaneous. Part II. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Dated Book-Plates, By Walter Hamilton. (Black.) THE second part now sees the light of the excellent treatise on dated book-plates of the chairman of the ExLibris Society. A third part, which will conclude the work, will, Mr. Hamilton hopes, be ready in six months. The present instalment deals with the eighteenth century, a period of unending interest and attraction for the collector, and describes over two thousand examples. Dated plates of an earlier date are rarely encountered. Those of the sixteenth century are practically inaccessible to the collector, while those of the seventeenth have, until near the end, little that is determinate or national either in character or design. Some decadence in the interest of the book-plate follows the accession of George I. Those, however, of the period of Queen Anne are among the most attractive. After passing through the Chippendale and the allegoric style, the urn, the wreath and ribbons, the festoon, and the oval beaded style, we come, at the close, to the landscapes of Bewick and the exquisite work of Bartolozzi and Cipriani. Through these various distinctions, many of them established by Lord de Tabley, whose work he has freely used, Mr. Hamilton is the best of guides. His reproductions, which constitute a feature in the volume, are, moreover, unlike those in more popular works, full size. Thirty of these illustrations grace the present number. With the engravers, also, Mr. Hamilton deals, though the instances previous to 1740 of book-plates being signed are few. The principal designs reproduced are English; but some few foreign plates are also given. The full list is arranged under years 1700-1799, attention being drawn to the plates which are not noted by Sir A. Wollaston Franks in his English Dated Book-plates.' All interested in the study of book-plates will look with eagerness for the conclusion of Mr. Hamilton's admirably executed and authoritative book. The Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the IN the "multitude of counsellors" there is expedition as Consisting in the main of American philologists, many of them men of European repution, the staff by which this great and important labour has been accomplished includes also many English and some Australian and Canadian philologists and writers. These are either engaged for special departments-Prof. Max Müller taking charge of Buddhistic terms-or form members of the advisory committee on disputed spelling and pronunciation, which numbers, among others of equal status, Profs. Dowden, Lewis Campbell, Earle, Hales, Jebb, RayLankester, Percival, and Sayce, Dr. Goldwin Smith, and others of distinction. The entire list of names is as distinguished as that assigned any co-operative work that can easily be recalled. In the compilation of the work the historical method has been abandoned in favour of a more popular system-that, namely, of giving first the meaning for which the average reader is likely to inquire and to reserve for the close obsolescent and obsolete meanings and etymologies. The definition takes precedence of the etymology. The simpler forms of spelling are preferred to the more elaborate, and those who refer to words such as econome, œconomics, (ceconomy is not mentioned) are sent to econome, &c. Theatre is spelt in the English form, and in the by Englishmen hated form theater. Words such as tumour are defined under tumor, the English spelling following as a separate heading. The encyclopædic character of the information supplied is exemplified under theatre and amphitheatre, where a sufficiently ample account of the theatre in classic times is given. The value of the illustrations may be tested by a reference to Tudor architecture, where a capital view of the Founder's Tower of Magdalen College, Oxford, is given. The use of the dieresis (sic) has been discarded, and the spelling of many words in chemistry has been "simplified"— morphin, quinin, sulfur, oleo margerin are substituted for the words ordinarily employed in England. These changes are national rather than special to the dictionary, those last noted being in conformity with the work of the Chemical Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The principles on which some changes have been made have won, we are but half pleased to say, the approval of the Philological Society of England, Great care has, we are told, been exercised to avoid the recognition of needless new terms. In cases of this kind the judgment of scientific specialists has necessarily been taken, the rule observed being, "Omit no word found in a living book— that is, a book now read by any considerable number of people." We find, accordingly, in the volume not only words such as kodak and linotype, but votograph, q.v., hecastotheism, conuption, and electrocution. Torup, mentioned as in the dictionary, we fail to find. Not the least important part of the work is the appendix, which, among other matters, gives the principles and explanations of the scientific alphabet used for purposes of conveying the pronunciation, proper names in biography, fiction, geography, &c., abbreviations and contractions, arbitrary signs and symbols used in science, &c., and many other matters of importance and interest. It is in these matters that the mistakes, easily rectifiable, but inseparable from all human effort, slip in. Such a mistake, for instance, is "Alva, Duke of, 1502-1282." Here, too, absolute invulnerability is not to be expected. Celestina, the hero of the longest, and in some respects the most representative, of Spanish plays, translated into most European languages, does not appear. To dwell in the case of a work of this kind upon minor slips and unimportant omissions would be at once unjust and ungracious. It is pleasanter as well as more loyal to say that the work is all that it pretends to be, and is a splendid bequest to the English-speaking races. That it is final who shall say? Science is continually enriching or burdening our language with a terminology detestable but, as it seems, indispensable, and while the work is going through the press additions are constantly being made. In substance, however, the book will last as authoritative and unsurpassed for many years to come, and such additions as may be necessary can be added in supplements. Handsome as are the volumes in their substantial bindings, there are enthusiastic philologists who will strip them, interleave them, and bind them in volumes as the Grangerite exercised his unlovely occupation. For ourselves we are willing to bear testimony, and to own that the book is the most valuable and the most convenient work in its class extant, a book which reflects equal credit upon American scholarship and enterprise. Books Fatal to their Authors. By P. H. Ditchfield, M.A. F.S.A. (Stock.) THIS is the latest volume of "The Book-Lover's Library," and is not the least interesting of the series. In so few of the cases mentioned by Mr. Ditchfield is the use of the word "fatal" justified, that we feel ourselves disposed to wish that he had substituted for "fatal" some word such as "injurious" or "deleterious." A good many books have been absolutely fatal to their authors. How slight a matter would, in the days of the Inquisition or the Sorbonne, serve to send a man to the stake may be seen in the case of Etienne Dolet. If Bussy-Rabutin, whom Mr. Ditchfield calls "Count Roger Rabutin de Bussy," wrote books which were fatal to him, so did Calvin. The title is, in fact, a misnomer. It is impossible to speak of Defoe, Keats, and Cotgrave among men whose books have been fatal to them. Those who can get over this difficulty will find much information concerning the calamities of authors. An Ethiopian History written in Greek by Heliodorus. Englished by Thomas Underdowne. With an Introtion by Charles Whibley. (Nutt.) WE will accept all that Mr. Whibley has to say concerning the inaccuracies of Underdowne's version of the : Ethiopian history of Heliodorus. Its shortcomings are avowed by the translator in his address to "the gentle reader," and they do, in fact, sauter aux yeux. We are none the less disposed to rank this foremost among the reprints of Tudor translations which, under Mr. Henley's editing, have as yet seen the light. It is admirably picturesque, and it converts, says Mr. Whibley, with par donable enthusiasm, "the faded experiment of a studious pedant into a fresh and open-aired romance." A pas sage in which Caricles describes the end of the "unhappy wench" his daughter, might have suggested to Milton ideas-they were, of course, common propertyfor his ode on the Marchioness of Winchester: "And thus the marriage song not yet ended was turned to mourning and she was carried oute of her Bride-bedde into her grave and the Tapors that gave her light at her wedding did now serve to Kindle her funerall fire." Chariclea, moreover, though she allows Theagenes certain privities, and is at no pains to hide her passion for him or her mistrust that were he too pressing she should be unable to resist him, is as strongly fortified in her belief in the power of chastity as is the lady in Comus.' The Ethiopian history is a quarry of folklore and of superstitious belief. Nowhere else, so far as we know, in the writings of antiquity is the belief in the evil eye or the explanation of the manner in which it works so strongly and clearly put. We have read through again in this version the account of the loves of Theagenes and Chariclea, and never before have they appealed to us with equal directness. To the philologist and the student of Tudor literature the translation is equally to be commended. 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