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at present. That ever the word should he con-
sidered rare "caps me a good un," as the "rascall
people" say in these parts.
R. R.
Boston, Lincolnshire.

CURE BY TOUCH (6th S. vii. 448; viii. 113, 292). -I am informed of another trait of M. Henrici, the gentleman mentioned at the last reference as claiming to be "de la famille des guerisseurs," as he expresses it. Though a professed disciple of "free thought," he is proud to claim descent from the family of St. Roch, the patron of the plaguestricken, as well as from that of St. Louis, and one of his relations is possessed of a staff believed to be the traditional one used by the saint when he went on his missions of healing the sick, and with which medieval art always depicts him.

R. H. BUSK.

THOMAS BAMBRIDGE (6th S. viii. 187, 316, 375). -With reference to the latter part of G. F. R. B.'s query, Mr. John Nicholls, F.S.A., in his explanations of the subjects of Hogarth's works, states:"This very fine picture, Hogarth himself tells us, was painted in 1729 for Sir Archibald Grant, of Monymusk, Bart., at that time Knight of the Shire for Aberdeen, and one of the Committee represented in the painting." The engraving of this picture which I possess is "by T. Cook from an original picture by W. Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray."

C. A. PYNE.

Aryan people would involve researches covering the
whole field of Aryan philology. If Mr. Ferguson had
been acquainted with the works of Fick, Heintze, and
other recent German writers upon his subject, he would
have been put in possession of principles which would
have enabled him to avoid serious errors.
his book is that habit of guessing which the scientific
The fault of
man abhors. Finding in a recent English directory
names that resemble forms that he encounters in
Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus, or in the Liber Vita of
Durham, or even in the wide-covering Altdeutsches
Namenbuch of Förstemann, he assumes, without suffi-
cient evidence, their identity. He may be right in
many cases, but the number of instances in which he is
wrong will discredit much of what he advances. Take,
for example, such names as Kennaway, Alloway, Gallo-
way, and other similar forms. These he would identify
ignoring the fact that these appellations find a ready
with such ancient names as Kenewi, Alewih, Geilwih,
explanation in the corresponding names of places (in
Scotland). This ignoring of place-names as the probable
explanation of many of our familar surnames is the
vice of the book. An examination of Slater's Directory
of Scotland would have convinced Mr. Ferguson that
such names as Alderdice, Dyce, Full love, Hannah,
Kinnaird, are not to be traced to the out-of-the-way
forms he adduces, but to localities in North Britain,
these names are still to be found. Perhaps, too, he
in the neighbourhood of which the families bearing
would not have said what he does about the termination
-stoff in some English surnames if he had thought of
the localities similarly denominated, and evidently the
source of some, if not of all of them, eg., Bickerstaffe,
Wagstaffe, &c. The same may be said of his Baldridge
and Hardacre, and other compounds containing ridge or
-acre. This very numerous class has too many repre-
sentatives in local nomenclature to warrant the far-

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Surnames as a Science. By Robert Ferguson, M.P. (Routledge & Sons.)

WHEN one thinks of the large literature devoted on the Continent, and especially in Germany, to personal and surnames, one is surprised that the subject has excited so little interest on this side of the Channel, Mr. Lower's and Mr. Bardsley's works are the only recent English publications dealing with the matter, and, valuable as they are in many respects, they lack that thoroughness and scientific method which distinguish the researches in nomenclature of our German neighbours, Mr. Ferguson has availed himself of many continental authorities, and has also gone for information upon AngloSaxon names to the founts furnished by our early charters. For these reasons his work is a great advance upon those of his predecessors. Yet it is too much to claim for his researches the character of a science. Apart from the question whether the word science is applicable to name-investigations in any other sense than that in which it is given to philology generally, we fear his method is far from sanctioning the ambition displayed in his title. His inductions are far too narrow to bear the issues he would force from them. A scientific study of the personal nomenclature of any

This

tendency to ignore the easy explanation of surnames offered by the names of localities often leads Mr. Ferguson to somewhat startling conclusions. From such names as Godsoe and Vergoose he would imply the existence of a High German element among the invaders of England. Godsoe seems to us to be a local name (Gods-hoe), akin to the forms Godsbe and Godscroft, and the name Vergoose is most probably Cornish, and of the same kind as Engoose. Mellangoose, Tregoose, Pencoose, Wild goose, &c., all to be found in Cornwall. in the first instance as names of places, and afterwards frequently as those of families. The termination -goose is the Cornish form of the Welsh cord= wood, and cognate with English heath. If Mr. Ferguson, in another edition of his book, would give full credit to the place-name element, and at the same time furnish from trustworthy sources intermediate links between the early forms he brings forward and those which he attempts to explain, his work would be most valuable. As it is, we fear that its merits will be overshadowed by its defects. Perhaps these defects are the necessary attendants of such a pioneer movement as Mr. Ferguson has inaugurated in this country. At any rate, they will meet with no harsh criticism from any one who knows the nature of the labours undertaken by Mr. Ferguson and the great difficulties by which they are beset.

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J. MANUEL ("All rights reserved ").-The words in question, whether used in Great Britain or the United States, appear to be mere surplusage, and neither confer nor declare any rights. All that you have to see to is that what you propose doing is fairly done. i. e., in moderation. We shall probably have an article on the whole subject shortly, in connexion with recent discussions to which it has given rise.

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