Hungarian.-Cravat, hussar, pandour, uhlan.

African Dialects.-Assegai, gorilla, impi, kraal, zebra, canary, quagga, chimpanzee.

History contained in Words.
Yes'r and Yes'm.

Suppose that the philologer of the future, when Macaulay's New Zealander is contemplating the ruins of London Bridge, find, as he may, at Sierra Leone a race, which, though it had no Masculine or Feminine for Nouns, employed, as it does at present, a Masculine (r) and Feminine termination (m) after the affirmitive Particle (yes) :

What would the student of language do?

(1) Finding no corresponding forms in the African dialects, he would investigate more widely, and discover them in the south of North America.

(2) The dialects of the American Aborigines revealing nothing analogous, he would be led to the European languages, and first to the English.

(3) Here he would find Yes only used for negatives until the time of Sir Thomas More, and that Sir and Madam are not Saxon but Norman.

(4) He then, knowing that the Normans were originally Teutonic, would discover that they must have sojourned for a considerable period in France, Madam being the French Madame.

(5) Madame would finally be traced back to Latin Mea domina.

What Historical Facts would be thus disinterred?

(1) That an African race had been located in America.
(2) That an English race had migrated to America.
(3) That a French - speaking people had conquered

England.

(4) That a Teutonic people had occupied a portion of France.

(5) That France had been materially influenced by Rome. -(Condensed from Max Müller's Sixth Lecture on 'The Science of Language.')

Words derived from Names of Persons and Things, real and fictitious.*

Albert, a watch chain, similar to one worn by the Prince Consort Albert.

Amazon, the name of a warlike nation of women in Scythia.

The history of many of these words is curious, and takes us far beyond the domain of grammar proper, inasmuch as they are connected with questions of History, Geography, Philosophy, and Mythology.

From Gr. a, without; mazos, breast. They were reported to cut off their right breasts in order to use the bow more freely.

America, from Amerigo Vespucci, who wrote an account of the New World. There are many other derivatives of this kind too numerous to mention, as Colombia, Europe, Atlantic,

etc.

Ammonite, a fossil, horn-line shell, so called from Jupiter Ammon, who was represented as a man with ram's horns.

Argosy, a merchantman' (ship), from Jason's ship Argo (Greek Mythology).

Assassin, a fanatical Syrian sect of the thirteenth century, which assassinated many of the leading Crusaders.

Atlas, from the demi-god Atlas, who was said to bear the world on his shoulders (Greek Mythology).

August (the month), from Augustus Cæsar.

Bacchanalian, from Bacchus, the Greek god of wine.
Bohea, tea, from Booy, a mountain in China.

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Bohemian irregular, wandering, 'vagabondish,' from the supposition that the gipsies originally came from Bohemia. Biggen, from the Beguines, Pietist women of the Middle Ages.

Bluchers, from the Prussian, Marshal Blücher.

Boycott, to excommunicate socially, from Captain Boycott, an Irish land agent, who was isolated by the Land League in 1880.

Brougham, a kind of carriage, named from Lord Brougham. Buhl, from Boule, a famous French worker in ebony.

Bumbledom, the arrogance of parish officialism, from Bumble, the beadle of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was brought up.-Dickens.

Burke (Verb), from Burke, a notorious murderer.

Camellia, so called by Linnæus in honour of the botanist Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit.

Cannibal, from Carribales, Aborigines of the West Indies. Cartesian, a follower of Descartes, a French philosopher. Cereals kinds of grain, from Ceres, goddess of agriculture. Chauvinism, from Chauvin, the chief character in Scribe's Soldat Laboureur, an infatuated admirer of Bonaparte.

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Chimera, a fancy or delusion, from Chimæra, a fabulous monster of the Greek Mythology.

Chinchona, Peruvian bark, from Countess of Chinchona, wife of a viceroy of Peru.

Cicerone, from Cicero. A guide to a party of sightseers is called a Cicerone, as having generally, like the immortal Cicero, a great flow of speech, or, as it has been humorously expressed, 'a determination of words to the mouth.'

Cravat, from the Croats or Crabats, from whom the fashion of wearing the cravat was derived.

Daguerreotype, from Daguerre, the inventor of what is now called photography.

Dahlia, from Dahl, a Swede, the introducer of the dahlia into Europe.

Dolomites, fossils from the mountains of the Tyrol, etc., called after Dolomieu, the French geologist.

Doyly, from their maker.

Draconian, from Draco, an Athenian legislator, who awarded death to almost every crime.

Dunce, a disciple of Duns Scotus, who died A.D. 1308. The name was used opprobriously by the Thomists, the disciples of Thomas Aquinas, who were the great opponents of the Scotists, so that a Duns's man meant at first a believer in exploded ideas, and afterwards a mere ignoramus.

Epicure, from Epicurus, a Greek philosopher, who propagated the doctrine that pleasure (not necessarily sensual) was the highest good.

Erotic (Greek EpwтIKоs), from Eros, the Greek god of love. Euphuistic (Gr. euphues, well-shaped), from Euphues, and Euphues and his England, two books written by Lyly, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Faun, fauna, from Faunus, a rural deity of the Romans.

Filbert, called after St. Philibert, a Burgundian saint, whose anniversary, 22nd August (old style), falls in the nutting season.- -Skeat.

Flora, from Flora, the goddess of flowers.

Fribble, from a weak-minded character in Garrick's 'Miss in her Teens.'

Friday, from Freya, the Saxon Venus.

Fuchsia, from Fuchs, a German botanist.

Galvanism, from Galvani, an Italian, who made the first discoveries in this science.

Gentian, from Gentius, a king of Illyria, who first discovered its properties.

Gipsy, from Egypt, whence the gipsies were erroneously supposed to have migrated.

Gordian, from Gordius, the Phrygian king, who tied the knot which Alexander the Great cut through.

Gorgonise, to turn into stone, to strike speechless. Medusa, one of the Gorgons, turned into stone any one she looked at. Gothic, a style of architecture, from the Goths.

Grimalkin, from gray Malkin. Malkin is a dim. of Moll (Mary).

Grog, so called after Admiral Vernon (who wore grogram (French grosgrain) breeches, and was familiarly called Old Grog'), because he ordered his sailors to dilute their rum with water.-Skeat.

Guillotine, from the name of the inventor, Dr. Guillotin.

Hansom, from the inventor of 'Hansom's Patent Safety Cabs.' Hector (Verb), from Hector, the bravest of the Trojan chiefs. Herculean, from Hercules, the Grecian Samson.

Hermetic, from Hermes Trismegistos, a famous alchemist. Hermetically was a term in alchemy. A glass bottle from which the air was perfectly excluded was said to be hermetically (perfectly) sealed.

Hippocras, a wine mixed according to the directions of Hippocrates, the most celebrated physician of antiquity.

Jacobins, French democrats, so called from the hall of the Jacobin Friars, where they met.

Jacobite, an adherent of James II. of England (Jacobus, Latin for James).

January, from the god Janus, whom the Romans invoked at the commencement of most undertakings.

Jeremiad, a doleful tale; from Jeremiah, the author of the 'Lamentations.'

Jesuit, a member of the Society of Jesus, founded A.D. 1534. July, from Julius Cæsar.

Kit-Kat, a portrait of about 28 by 36 in. in size is thus