father, when a boy, had to fetch up cows to be milked at a farm in Derbyshire; he asserts that once he saw a hedgehog hanging at the teats of a cow, and the cow kicking and plunging to shake it off; he further asserts that he has many times seen the teats of cows marked with the teeth of the hedgehog, a peculiar mark which, he says, no one can mistake. Now, as my father is "dead set" against all superstition, and as he is not by any means alone in his testimony, I shall continue to believe as a fact the statement that hedgehogs suck the teats of cows until some better explanation of the united testimony of many country people of good sense can be given, and the witnesses shown to be under an illusion. A popular natural history book speaks of the "physical impossibility" of the matter in question, but does not condescend to explain that phrase in this connexion. Let not our scientists be too dogmatic, lest they bring discredit on science. Let them remember the abuse that was heaped upon farmers for believing that the presence of berberry bushes in the fences of cornfields produced rust in wheat, and take warning. That ignorant superstition has been shown to be positive fact, and is now accepted by all botanists as such. JNO. J. OGLE. Free Public Library, Nottingham, PRONUNCIATION OF FORBES (6th S. v. 269, 316, 397, 417, 498; vi. 35, 157, 437, 476; vii. 37, 477). The puzzle, popular in my schooldays,Captain BBBB Led his CCCC Into the De DaDsDtD, Arundel. It is said to be Irish oak, and has been gilt and coloured. It used to lie in a stone Tudor recess, or Easter sepulchre, on the north side of the chancel; but, alas, was cut out by an organ chamber, and is now in the south aisle. There was no inscription or means of identifying who it was. F.S.A. TENNIS (6th S. vii. 214.).—In a column headed "Omnibus Box" in the People of August 4 appears the following explanation of a word the origin of which has often been discussed. I commend it to MR. JULIAN MARSHALL :— "By the way, the derivation of the word tennis seems to have bothered the etymologists, most of whom tell us that it is 'from the French tenez, take, a word which the French, who excel in this game, use when they hit the ball. If this statement were true, which it is not, it would not afford any satisfactory explanation of the word, and the other derivations usually given are even wider of the mark. "Tennis, however, is the old English form of tens, the plural of ten, and as we have another closely related game called Fives, there can, it seems to me, be no doubt about the origin of the word. The game, I apprehend, went out of fashion about the time when the old plural tennis was giving way to the modern plural tens in popular speech, and when the game was revived, some time, say, in the fifteenth century, it still retained the old form, FABLAN. which in other cases had fallen out of use." TAGGE AND RAGGE (2nd S. xii. 110; 3rd S. v. 519).-The proverb "tag rag and bobtail" is common enough, but I have only once seen the alternative "long tail" in connexion with it: "If players can promise in woordes, and performe it in deedes, proclame it in their billes and make it good in theaters; that there is nothing there noysome too the was founded on the dissyllabic rendering of Forbes. body, nor hurtfull to the soule: and that euerye one It reads, Captain For-bes Led his for-ces Into the East In-dies (dees). ST. SWITHIN. which comes to buye their iestes, shall have an honest I am acquainted with the "country of the Forbses" in Aberdeenshire. All Scots pronounce HERALDIC (6th S. viii. 68).—Though unable to the word as a dissyllable; those who affect the assign the arms described by your correspondent English pronunciation, as a monosyllable. H. to any particular family, it may be worth while to FOIN: FOINSTER (6th S. iii. 328; vii. 97). state that all the component parts are made proMistress Tearsheet seems to direct us to look for minent features in the old ballad called The Genfoin in Prof. Skeat's derivation of fond and funtleman of Thracia; the arrows, the heart, and the (q.v.), already referred to by the professor himself in connexion with "Funster" (6th S. ii. 393). Foinster's origin, if thus established, would give additional weight to his dictum at the above reference, and throw a new light on funster (6th S. ii. 204, 356). ALPHONSE ESTOCLET. St. Mary's College, Peckham. WOODEN TOMBS AND EFFIGIES (6th S. vii. 451). -To the various notices of wooden effigies I beg to add one of a fifteenth or sixteenth century knight, in plate armour, in Slindon Church, near tears-those "pendants of the eyes," as Marvell terms them-all are there. Concerning the eye is so rarely met with. It seems to have been left by as a charge in heraldry, it is remarkable that it the College of Arms to poets, painters, and rebus makers. Still, it has not been entirely ignored. Thus Delahay of Ireland is said to bear "Barry of six, az and ar., on a chief of the second three eyes gu." Early in the reign of James I. an Exchequer Commission was held at a house in the Strand known as "The Weeping Eye." Whether this singular sign was adopted in reference to the tears of the penitent Magdalen, or was derived from the old legend of Eos, daily renewing her grief for the loss of her son Memnon; or whether, being neither Scriptural nor classical, it had some other origin, in fact or fable, it is difficult to determine at this distance of time. In one of Ben Jonson's plays, The Poetaster, there is a whimsical allusion to a coat of arms, described by one of the characters named Crispinus (Cri-spinas) as made up of three thorns pungent between a crying face and a bleeding toe. For such a coat, if it existed, “Hinc illæ lachrymæ would be a very suitable motto. WM. UNDERHILL. City Club, Ludgate Circus. THIS interesting pamphlet has been ordered to be printed by the Liverpool Finance Committee. Sir James Picton QUARTERINGS (6th S. vii. 418, 496).-I cannot is well known as a scholarlike antiquary by his Memorials agree with P. P. that a full shield "tells in a great of Liverpool. The present tract is a most useful addimeasure your pedigree." For, first, it omits the tion to that work. Liverpool cannot vie in the magniarms of all ancestresses not heiresses; and ficence of its gold and silver with some of our old cities secondly, when the quarterings brought in by and boroughs, whose history is lost in the night of the heiresses are inserted, a "full shield" will lead Middle Ages, but it has some treasures of much local interest. The Corporation records show that many to the most erroneous conclusions as to descents, valuable things have been lost or exchanged as useless. unless a written pedigree accompany and ex- In 1656, during the mayoralty of Gilbert Formby, it was plain it. No distinction is apparent between the ordered that "whereas dyvers pieces of Plate belonging arms of the heiress who was the wife of a male to the towne are much decayed and bruysed, and some cups are broken and not fashionable," they should ancestor and those brought in by such heiress. be exchanged for new plate. No doubt Mr. Gilbert The system of grand quarters would meet the Formby and his fellows thought they were taking a wise second objection; but there are obvious difficulties step, for which their successors would thank them. We in using it. The system of selection of quarterings apprehend that the present Corporation would be glad when a shield is to be painted on a carriage or to possess the old plate which they parted with, however much it might be "decayed and bruysed." Sir engraved on plate or on a seal is universal; and James Picton's little book is very well compiled and is so far sanctioned by heralds that peerages and excellently printed. the like works are full of instances of it. Occasionally, even, a coat brought in by an heiress is selected for insertion, while the heiress's own coat is omitted. This, I must admit, is rather like, in P. P.'s phrase, "making a mull," as it is likely to lead to false inferences being made. P. P. is wrong in supposing that when I used the word "quarters," I meant quarterings. The difference is not very important; the first word is used by heralds in the sense of areas, the second in that of arms placed in those areas. N. Glossary of Terms and Phrases. Edited by the Rev. "Three Kit's Coty House, there is none of the Wansdyke. In thoroughly comprehensive, it is not only useless for the while Robert Howlett, in his Angler's Sure Guide, assigned it to that "great practitioner, master, and patron of angling," Dr. Donne. In the beginning of the century, however, all doubt as to the real name of the author was set at rest by the discovery of the entry in the books of the Stationers' Company, which describes the book as having been written by John Dennys, Esq. This John Dennys, as Mr. Westwood points out, was probably the great-grandson of Sir Walter Dennys, of Pucklechurch, and not his son, as Sir Harris Nicolas asserts in his edition of Walton, Though the poem passed through four editions, it became so rare that Beloe said of it that "perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English literature a rarer book than this." Indeed, Sir John Hawkins confessed that he could never get a sight of the book. It was reprinted by Sir Egerton Brydges in the second volume of the British Bibliographer, and a hundred copies were separately struck off. Mr. Arber also reproduced the poem in the first volume of his English Garner. The present reprint, unlike the last which we mentioned, is a literal tranEcript of the first edition. Mr. Westwood has done well, we think, in refraining from all interference with the text, and anglers now will be able to read this quaint poem as it was first presented to the world in the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Sonnets of John Milton. Edited by Mark Pattison. (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) MILTON has been fortunate in his commentators. Unlike Shakspeare, Dante, and Petrarch, who lie buried beneath endless tomes of disquisition and controversy, he has been treated with judgment, taste, and forbearance, and the notes and illustrations supplied to his works are, as a rule, an assistance, and not an encumbrance. Warton's edition of the minor poems of Milton is indeed, in its class, one of the most delightful works in the language. In the edition of the sonnets now included in the "Parchment" series of Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co., Mr. Pattison has benefited by the labours of his predecessors, from whom he has made a few satisfactory excerpts. He has, however, furnished some judicious comments and illustrations of his own, the most important of which is a thoughtful essay on the structure of the Bonnet. Mr. Pattison's style is clear and agreeable, though the use in English of such words as "intransigeant" is scarcely to be justified. The Milton is worthy of its place in the Parchment" series, which may claim in elegance of appearance to approach most closely to the Elzevir editions of any works published in England. THE City News Notes and Queries (Manchester, reprinted from the City News) has reached its fifth volume, and clearly deserves the success to which it has attained. We observe many points of contact with ourselves in "Shakespeariana," "Folk-lore," &c., as was naturally to be expected. But the range taken is wide, and the matters treated are often of great general interest. The account (p. 5) by Mr. J. Z. Bell of the frescoes in the Sixtine Chapel-as they can only be seen by a very special mode of inspection, involving the use of a silver key-is an instance in point. Mr. Bell has a strong appreciation of the genius of Michael Angelo, and his remarkable pilgrimage only confirmed his previous views. We wish a long life to our Manchester brother, but should be glad if he did not wind up in the middle of a sentence (p. 93). Oddly enough, in view of the great Hungarian case, the break occurs at a question in court as to whether Lord Beaconsfield was a Jew or a Christian. MR. W. DE GRAY BIRCH, F.S.A., announces his intention of commencing in September the publication, through Messrs. Whiting & Co., Limited, Sardinia Street, W.C., of a Cartularium Saxonicum, or collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history, by way of a new recension of Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus. He proposes, in this important work, to arrange all the documents in a chronological series, prefixing to each a short précis, and accompanying it with collations of the best texts, MS. and printed, and a summary of the sources of the various readings. It is expected that the whole will be completed in about twenty-five parts. MR. FREDERICK POLLOCK has reprinted in Macmillan's Magazine the discourse on "The Forms and Origin of the Sword" he delivered in June last at the Royal Institution. Mr. Walter Copland Perry contributes to the Nineteenth Century a paper on "The Sirens in Ancient Literature and Art." Merry England, No. 3, contains an essay by the Rev. J. F. Cornish, "In a Berkshire Village a Hundred Years Ago." By the death of Mr. James Crossley, which took place on the 1st inst., at his residence, Stocks House, Chetham, England is deprived of an eminent bibliophile and man of letters. His literary career dates back to the appearance of the Retrospective Review, 1820-7, to which he contributed on article on Sidney's Arcadia. He also wrote in Blackwood and other periodicals, became a friend of Talfourd, and was taken, as he was proud to recall, to a réunion of Charles Lamb. He was during sixty years a well-known figure in Manchester, and took an active part in the organization of the Chetham Society and that less robust institution the Spenser Society. A long and appreciative biography of Mr. Crossley occupies between two and three columns of the Manchester Examiner and Times for August 2. He was an old contributor to our columns. We hope next week to furnish a few personal recollections of him. Notices to Correspondents. 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