"As for the Rosy-cross philosophers, To whom they do confess they owe Hampstead, N.W. LOOBELLING (6th S. viii. 228).—Guesses as to the derivation of words should be sternly repressed. I will, however, venture on one. It seems to me not improbable that this word, which has now suffered such degradation as to be used for a loud noise made with pots and pans, has come down to the Marston Priors folk from the days when it was the practice of gentlemen to net partridges at night by the aid of what went by the name of a low-bell. An account of how this was done may be seen in a curious seventeenth century book by Gervase Markham, entitled Hunger's Prevention; or, the whole Arte of Fowling by Water and Land, p. 92. I have given a description of this extinct form of sport in a novel called Ralf Skirlaugh, vol. i. p. 235. My knowledge of the use of the low-bell comes not from books, but from the conversation of those who had known old men to whom this method of taking game had been in youth a common amusement. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA (6th S. viii. 287). I shall be greatly obliged to PENWITH if he will kindly let me know the numbers of the Revue Contemporaine in which the articles mentioned by him appeared, and also the name of the publishers. A letter addressed by me to the "Directeur de la Revue Contemporaine, Paris," has been returned by the Post Office with the intimation "Adresse inconnue." EDITOR OF THE 66 GIORNALE DEGLI ERUDITI E CURIOSI." Padua. DIE SONNE (5th S. x. 513; 6th S. vi. 520; vii. 114; viii. 173).—MR. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY asks whether the moon is masculine in Surrey and Sussex. I think I may safely say that in Surrey the moon is feminine, and not masculine; I always hear the moon called she, although I have often framed insidious questions in the hope of hearing her called he by persons who had already in my hearing called the sun she. As to Sussex I am not so sure; but I think the same practice prevails there. MISS BUSK, in her last note on this subject, states that my supposition about her supposition is "unimportant," and is erroneous. I regret the error; and freely admit that any supposition of mine, about the general scheme of things or about MISS BUSK's part in it, is unimportant. But a man would have thought it hardly courteous to direct the readers' attention gratuitously to this A. J. M. humiliating fact. CONCORDANCE TO MILTON (6th S. viii. 229).Guy Lushington Prendergast's Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton was not published at Calcutta, but at Madras, in 4to., 1857-9, pp. 416. This is the information given by Allibone under "Prendergast," but under "Milton," p. 1300, giving the same date, he says it was published in London, and compiled from Sir Egerton Brydges's ed., 6 vols., 1835. It appears to be a much better and fuller index than that of Prof. Cleveland, 1867, which was based on Todd's blundering Index, in which were found 3,362 errors. Cleveland's, unfortunately, is very ill compiled, and should run to a work of double the size. To be useful, an index should, with each reference given, contain a few words of the context, as in Cowden Clarke's Shakespeare. Under the word doom, for instance, there are thirty-two references. It is so operose to have to turn up each of these cases that, in the hurry of writing, you are apt to throw it aside unverified; had the context been given you could have turned straight to the required passage. Should anybody print a new concordance I trust this will not be C. A. WARD. forgotten. Haverstock Hill, N.W. senting Abraham sacrificing Isaac, and draws a surpass-that of persons like Sussex and the Regent Moray. There are thirty-eight cameos in the volume. The earliest relates to the compact of Bayonne and the last to the follies and misfortunes of the Earl of Essex. It LIST OF ENGLISH LOCALITIES (6th S. viii. 223). to point to any one of them that is specially worthy of is not easy, among so much bright and powerful writing, -This list has already been published, with ex-note, so very much depends on individual prepossession. planations by Mr. Francis Nicholls, in the Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1862, and received further elucidation from other writers, including Mr. T. Wright, in the numbers for February and March. Scarcely more than half a dozen of the places or characteristics remain unexplained, though the explanation is in many cases little more than conjectural. C. B. M. The curious list of English towns and their characteristics which MR. ROGERS has forwarded to you was edited by Mr. Francis Nichols in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1862, vol. i. p. 60. That gentleman added many interesting notes, though some of his identifications are open to question. Correspondence relating to it may be seen in the same volume, pp. 196, 341. EDWARD PEACOCK. SCRIBE'S "VERRE D'EAU" (6th S. viii. 167). Your correspondent will find the information which he seeks for ante, 6th S. v. 293. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. vii. 109). "That violent commotion which o'erthrew," &c., can be found in Wordsworth's Excursion, bk. vii. sub fin. HENRY W. HAYNES. OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. Will correspondents kindly intending to contribute to our Christmas Number be good enough to forward their communications, headed "Christmas," without delay? Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. ·Cameos from English History.-England and Spain. By the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe." Fifth Series. (Macmillan & Co.) MISS YONGE has written many books, and we cannot call to mind one of them that is not interesting, though all are in some degree coloured by the theological views of the writer. There is, however, less of this partisanship -to use too strong a word-in these Tudor cameos than we have before encountered. In her statements of fact Miss Yonge is conspicuously fair; it is only in her estimates of character that we have anything to call in question. With the Puritanism of the sixteenth century we have little sympathy; but it is hardly fair to speak of that form of belief as having "twisted the denunciations of the Old Testament into authorization for every imaginable atrocity in falsehood and murder against the enemies of the faith" without also bringing before the reader's mind the shocking fact that forms of opinion as widely separated from Puritanism as the north is from the south taught the same shocking doctrine, and acted upon it with a fierceness which equals—it could hardly We think the "Siege of Leyden" is, on the whole, as a work "The Percy's crescent set in blood" Before the modern era was ushered in. The crimes of the Duke of Alva and the maddest of the French revolutionary fanatics find a horrible parallel in the doings of the royal agents when the insurrection was over. The vengeance was terrible and complete. In two days "sixty-six persons were hung in Durham alone; gibbets studded the country. In some places every fifth man was put to death, and the numbers were so large that trial by jury could only be allowed to the gentlemen." Miss Yonge does not point it out, but there is no doubt that the reason why trial by jury was allowed to those of gentle blood was to ensure the confiscation of their estates. Had they been put to death by martial law forfeiture would not have followed. Very few of the gentry, except the prime movers, whom it was impossible to spare, were put to death. The Earl of Sussex, writing take place, says, "Ye may not execute eny that hathe to Sir George Bowes as to the executions that were to freholds, or noted welthye, for so is the Quene's Majestics pleiser, by her specyall comandment." We doubt whether the annals of any civilized land contain a more revolting order. The rich were to be spared, the poor, who had followed their leaders with dog-like fidelity, were to suffer without mercy. The letter may be seen in full in the Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569, a book published anonymously by Sir Cuthbert Sharpe in 1840. Miss Yonge's estimate of the character of Mary of Scotland is fair and just. The Genesis of a New England State-Connecticut. By Alexander Johnston, A. M. "Johns Hopkins University Studies." (Baltimore, published by the University.) WE looked out with no little curiosity in perusing this interesting essay for something that we could lay hold of in the shape of "Blue Laws." But they seem, like the snakes in Iceland, conspicuous by their absence; and the nearest approach we can make to this celebrated code (equally celebrated whether actual or imaginary) is the fact, which clearly appears from Mr. Johnston's account, of the strongly Theocractic attitude of New Haven-which was not united with Connecticut till 1664-and that in April, 1644, the "Laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses" were adopted by the General Court of New Haven as the criminal code of the Commonwealth. Has not the "somber tone" (as our Johns Hopkins friends write it) of New Haven ,,.,,, been 2 Carey, bus Ti is been of the Archeoturi Street, T. 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