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TES-Local Words, 329-An Inedited Letter from Smoltt, 330-The Declaration of Charles I. prefixed to the Thirty ine Articles, 331-Hogarth and Picart-Shakspeariana, 332 -Retzsch's Outlines: Goethe's "Faust": "The Bottle mp," 333-The Altar in the Pyx Chamber, Westminster bbey-Length of Official Life, 334-Dummer Church, asingstoke, 335, ERIES:-Mrs. Siddons's Portraits-Spanish Lady's Love ran Englishman-Right or Left-Staffordshire Election, 47, 335-Mr. Carlyle's "Essay on Burns"-Cascaciruela eraldic-Pentelow Family-S. Dunch, M.P.-An Inscripon Wanted-Effects of Gas on Marble-" Ostades " milton Gardens-The Princess Charlotte-Scrafton and arpe Families-B. Valentine-Bermondsey Spa and the ollo Gardens-Book-plates, 336-Andrea Ferara-Easter onday at Preston-Giants-Corrie-Johnston: Baker= oke=Mainwaring-Authors Wanted, 337. LIES:-Tom Brown, 337-S. 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ES ON BOOKS:-Villiers Stuart's "Nile Gleanings " vards "Heart of Holland "-Garnett's "Poems Selected m Shelley"-Hardy's "Recueil des Chroniques et Anennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne." es to Correspondents, &c. net.-P. 306: "In the water-meadows the bennet pushes up its green staff. Country e always note the appearance of the first t." P. 12: "Mark the distance traversed is ant by the milestone of a tall bennet." Baker, Northants Glossary, says that "Bent ils in most parts of the kingdom, but bennet ictly provincial." In this parish the older euse bennet, but it is being supplanted by The word means "long coarse rushy stems and other grasses running to seed, called bents or hay-bents according to the season er). It is in Halliwell. les.-P. 142: "Messengers come home for of beer, and carry out also to the field wooden Hes'-small barrels holding a gallon or two." Halliwell says "West," but probably general. Used in Northants. Clare's Shep. Cal., p. 72:"And hand the stout hooped bottle round the ring." Clerk's Ale.-P. 140: "In this locality Clerk's Ale, which used to be rather an event, is quite extinct." See Brand's Popular Antiquities, i. 105 (from Archæologia, xii. 12). "Clerk's Ale was the method taken by the clerks of parishes to collect more readily their dues." Also i. 158-9, ed. C. Knight, 1841. Not in Baker nor in Halliwell. Clite.-P. 185: "Last spring I watched a mouse nibbling the tender top leaves of the 'clite' plant; which grows with great rapidity and climbs up into the hedge." Halliwell notes the use of this name in Oxfordshire at the present day. It does lice is the common name. not appear to prevail in Northants. Here beggarSee Britten's English Plant Names (Dialect Society, No. 22), under "Clite" and " Galium," where there are twenty nine English names for it. Flakes.-P. 71: "Ash-poles split up for flakes a flake being a frame of light wood, used afterthe manner of a hurdle to stop a gap, or pitched in "Halliwell, North; a row to part a field in two." but it is used also in the Midlands. In Northants, as in the South, it is distinguished from a hurdle. See Baker, in "Flake," where it is defined as "formed of unpeeled hazel, or other flexible underwood, closely wattled or interwoven together between stakes, like basket-work. A hurdle is composed of bars of split wood, resembling a gate." Harvest-trow.-P. 186: "The nests of the 'har-vest-trow,' a still smaller mouse [than the brown field mouse], seldom seen except in summer, are common in the grass of the orchard, and in almost every meadow before it is mown.' ." Halliwell gives "Harvest-row, the shrew-mouse. Wilts." The writer of Wild Life goes on to state, "As the summer wanes their dead bodies are frequently found in the footpaths; for a kind of epizoic seems to seize them at that time, and they die in numbers." Bewick, in his History of Quadrupeds, relates of the shrew-mouse that "there seems to be an annual mortality of these animals in August, numbers of them being found dead in the fields, highways, &c., about that time"; and Bell, British Quadrupeds, p. 113, confirms this: "A very general mortality prevails among the shrew-mice early in autumn, the cause of which does not appear to be understood." The harvest-trow or harvest-row thus seems to be identical with the common shrew, and not with the harvest-mouse, described by White, in his Selborne (Letter xii.), and by Bell, pp. 299-304. Which is the right form, trow or row? What is the origin and meaning of these words? Are they connected with shrew? Peggles.-P. 223: "Thrushes and pigeons feed on the peggles which cover the great hawthorn bush there so thickly as to give it a reddish hue." P. 379: "Fieldfares and red wings rise in numbers |