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_Awkward, Awart, Awalt_ (Vol. viii., p. 310.).--When fat sheep roll over upon their backs, and cannot get up of themselves, they are said to be lying _awkward_, in some places _awalt_, and in others _awart_. Is _awkward_, in this sense, the same word that treated by H. C. K.?

S.

_Morgan Odoherty_ (Vol. viii., p. 11.).--In reference to the remarks of MR. J. S. WARDEN on the Morgan Odoherty of Blackwood's _Magazine_, I had imagined it was very generally known by literary men that that _nom de guerre_ was assumed by the late Captain Hamilton, author of the _Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns_, and other works; and brother of Sir William Hamilton, Professor of Logic in the University of Edinburgh. I had never heard, until mentioned by MR. WARDEN, that Dr. Maginn was ever identified with that name.

S.

_Black Rat_ (Vol. vii., p. 206.).--In reply to the question of MR. SHIRLEY HIBBERD, whether the original rat of this country is still in existence, I may mention, that in the agricultural districts of Forfarshire, the Black Rat (_Mus rattus_) was in existence a few years ago. On pulling down the remains of an old farm-steading in 1823, after the building of a new one, they were there so numerous, that a greyhound I had destroyed no fewer than seventy-seven of them in the course of a couple of hours. Having used precautions against their lodgment in the new steading, under the floors, and on the tops of the party walls, they were effectually banished from the farm.

HENRY STEPHENS.

_Blue Bells of Scotland_ (Vol. viii., p. 388.).--Your correspondent [Old English W]. of Philadelphia is in error in supposing that the beautiful song, "Blue Bells of Scotland," was any reference to bells painted blue. That charming melody refers to a very common pretty flower in Scotland, the _Campanula latifolia_ of Linnæus, the flowers of which are drooping and bell-shaped, and of a blue colour.

HENRY STEPHENS.

_Grammars, &c. for Public Schools_ (Vol. ix., p. 8., &c.).--Pray add to the list a Latin grammar, under the title of _The Common Accidence Improved_, by the Rev. Edward Owen, Rector of Warrington, and for fifty years Master of the Grammar School founded in that town, under the will of Sir Thomas Boteler, on April 27, 1526. I believe it was first published in 1770, but the copy now before me is of an edition printed in 1800; and the Preface contains a promise (I know not whether afterwards fulfilled) of the early publication of the rules, versified on the plan of Busbey and Ruddiman, under the title of _Elementa Latina Metrica_.

J. F. M.

_Warville_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--As regards the letter _W_, there is a distinction to be made between proper names and other words in the French language. The exclusion of that letter from the alphabet is sufficient proof that there are no words of French origin that begin with it; but the proper names in which it figures are common enough in recent times. Of these, the greater number have been imported from the neighbouring countries of Germany, Switzerland, and {210} Belgium: and some too are of local origin or formation.

In the latter category is the name of _Warville_, which is derived from Ouarville, near Chartres, where Brissot was born in 1754. Between the French _ouar_ and our "war," there is a close similarity of sound; and in the spirit of innovation, which characterised the age of Brissot, the transition was a matter of easy accomplishment. Hence the _nom de guerre_ of Warville, by which he was known to his cotemporaries.

HENRY H. BREEN.

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_The Camden Society_ has just issued a volume of domestic letters, which contain much curious illustration of the stirring times to which they refer. The volume is entitled _Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the Bath, with Introduction and Notes_, by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. The writer, Lady Brilliana, was a daughter of Sir Edward Conway, afterwards Baron Conway, and is supposed to have been born whilst her father was Lieut.-Governor of the "Brill." The earlier letters (1625-1633) are addressed to her husband, the remainder (1638-1643) to her son Edward, during his residence at Oxford. The appendix contains several documents of considerable historical interest.

_Elements of Jurisprudence_, by C. J. Foster, M.A., Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London, is an able and well-written endeavour to settle the principles upon which law is to be founded. Believing that law is capable of scientific reduction, Professor Foster has in this little work attempted, and with great ability, to show the principles upon which he thinks it must be so reduced.

Mr. Croker has reprinted from _The Times_ his correspondence with Lord John Russell on some passages of Moore's _Diary_. In the postscript which he has added, explanatory of Mr. Moore's acquaintance and correspondence with him, Mr. Croker convicts Moore, by passages from his own letters, of writing very fulsomely _to_ Mr. Croker, at the same time that he was writing very sneeringly _of_ him.

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