com FATHER PROUT (6th S. viii. 175).-John Sheehan (the Irish Whiskey Drinker), who knew Prout well, says, in his preface to the Bentley Ballads, third edition, p. xii, that Francis Mahony (Prout) 66 received the rudiments of his classical education in his native city of Cork," and that he " pleted it in more than one of the colleges of the Jesuits abroad." G. B. PILL GARLICK (6th S. viii. 168).—This is a very old term, and I think I have met with it in Gayton's Festivous Notes to Don Quixote, or some other book of that period. It seems to have been a nickname for a bald head : “ Ye loste hyr fauyr quyt; Your pyllyd garleke hed Skelton's Poems against Garnesche, Dyce, vol. i. p. 122. Chaucer, in his Reeve's Prologue, compares an old man to a leek, with his "hoor head," &c. R. R. What is the date of the novel of this name? In Foote's play, The Lame Lover, acted in 1770, Sir Luke says," So, then, it seems poor Pil Garlick here is discarded at once.' A. H. CHRISTIE. DANCING THE HAY (6th S. vi. 288, 451, 523; vii. 478).—I have seen the account of the pavane in the glossary to the new edition of Sir T. Elyot's Gouernour, and my belief, pace your correspondent C., that the word is not derived from L. pavo, is not shaken by what I read there. Littré justly remarks that such a derivation would give pavone rather than pavane, and I prefer his authority to that of Voltaire, Arbeau, &c., on a matter of this kind. That there was a Spanish pavane no one denies; but it is confidently asserted, not by me but by better authorities, that the dance came originally from Italy-indeed, from Padua. There are Ostend oysters, but all oysters do not come from Ostend. JULIAN MARSHALL. JOHN FORBES SARAH ROBERTSON (6th S. vi. 46, 95).-Sarah Robertson, wife of John Forbes (a cadet of the family of Craigievar), buried at Kilmodan, or Glendaruel, was an Irish lady. The said John Forbes was a Writer in Edinburgh, and became factor on the extensive estates of Campbell of Ardkinglass, in Argyleshire. He was succeeded in that office by his son and grandson. His good descent, and this connexion with the Ardkinglass family, account for the marriage of his son James Lancashire and Cheshire Records preserved in the Public Record Office, London. Part I. Edited by Walford D. Selby. (Record Society.) THE Record Society was established a few years ago for the purpose of printing documents relating to the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire. It has already done some good work. This, the seventh volume of its publications, will prove one of the most useful of the number. It is a calendar only, but every student who has worked in the Record Office knows that to calendars he is indebted for the power of consulting the vast series of documents that are there preserved. We wonder how many Englishmen who walk down Fetter Lane have any notion of the uses to which the large and ugly building known as the Record Office is applied. The few who do know something about it are, for the most part, singularly confused in their ideas of what is contained there. No one, it may be safely affirmed, except a few of the officials, has anything like an exhaustive knowledge of the treasures of history which this kingdom has been accumulating during the eight hundred years that have passed since the Domesday Survey was made. Mr. Selby's laborious compilation is a key to some portion of these documents relating to two of our shires only. It does not profess itself to be an exhaustive catalogue or index even so far as it goes. We can well imagine that some persons will object to this. There will be a show of reason in the complaint, but it will be a show only. What is wanted by the student is a handbook which shall instruct him where to search on the subjects in which he is interested, not such a book as will spare him the drudgery of consulting the originals for himself, Works of the latter kind are useful, but their compilation is, so far as our national records are concerned, impossible within any reasonable period of time. What is wanted by the student is prompt aid, not the hope of something very exhaustive and costly, which cannot be completed for many years to come. Mr. Selby's calendar in many parts, and have found it excellent in plan and execution. In many instances it not only gives lists of the documents, but explains their purport and use, or gives references to other sources from which such knowledge may be gained. We trust this is not the last handbook of the kind which Mr. Selby will prepare. We would not wish to depreciate Lancashire and Cheshire, but would remind him that there are other counties in England whose treasures are as rich and as unexplored as those with which his volume deals. Will he not give help to the workers in the north, south, and east as well as the west? We have consulted A Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature. By Robert Charles Hope. Second Edition. (Simpkin & Mar shall.) WE welcome most gladly a new edition of Mr. Hope's useful glossary. The only important fault in the first edition was that it contained far too few names. The present book is much enlarged, but still, if we are not much mistaken, there are hundreds of villages that do not appear here which are called by names differing more or less in sound from that which the spelling suggests. For example, we do not find Coningsborough, near Doncaster, memorable for the part its castle plays in Ivanhoe. A Yorkshire peasant would hardly understand any one who pronounced this name as spelt. 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