of Leicestershire, vol. iv. part 2. in loco, but he does not mention the collars of SS. THOS. L. WALKER.

Leicester.

Etymology of "Lyn" or "Lin" (Vol. vi., p. 293.). -In answer to A. W.'s inquiry on this point, P. C. S. S. would wish to refer him (and indeed the writer of the Note appended to A. W.'s Query) to Spelman's Glossary, who derives it from the Anglo-Saxon" Blinnan, Ablinnan, Linnan, i. e. cessare." Spelman adds, "Verum autem etymon verbi A.-S. est ab A.-S. Blynan." There is a strong confirmation of this last-mentioned opinion of Spelman in a ballad preserved in Percy's Reiques of Ancient Poetry :

"Strike on, strike on, Glasgèrion,

Of thy striking doe not blinne;

There's never a stroke comes o'er thy harpe,
But it glads my heart withinne."

P. C. S. S. quotes from memory, but he has a perfect recollection of the impression which these verses made on him, when a boy of fourteen.

P. C. S. S.

Burial of Suicides in Scotland (Vol. v., p. 405.). - I recollect many years ago being taken by my nurse to an extremity of my father's property in Fifeshire, where she showed me the grave of a man and his wife who had committed suicide together some years before; she said they were buried there, because at that spot "three lairds' lands met." As I have not seen this custom noticed in "N. & Q.,” I should like to know if it was a general one. Canterbury.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

M. M.

In the year 1823 the Clarendon Press gave to the world an edition of Burnet's Own Times, with notes by William Legge, first Earl of Dartmouth, Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke, Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons, Dean Swift, Henry Legge, Mr. Godwin, and a large proportion, and those too among the most important, by the editor, the Rev. Dr. Routh, the learned editor of the Reliquiæ Sacra. That became, as it deserved, the standard edition. We have now to thank the same press and the same editor for Bishop Burnet's History of the Reign of King James the Second; Notes by the Earl of Dartmouth, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift: Additional Observations now enlarged. The text has been in some instances restored by means of the autograph now in the possession of the University; the motives to this republication being, as we learn from the preface, the praiseworthy desire "to communicate to the public some interesting documents illustrative of the events of this period." As the reign

of James the Second, and the events which flowed from the Revolution, are among the most interesting and important for their effects upon the great cause of civil and religious liberty, every new contribution towards a better knowledge of them is sure to command at

tention; and as it would be difficult to find a man better qualified to furnish information upon these points than the venerable President of Magdalen, so it would be difficult to find such information in a more inviting form than in Bishop Burnet's Narrative, illustrated by Dr. Routh's Notes.

There are doubtless many of our readers who, while gratefully recognising the brilliant military services of the Duke of Wellington, and the genius which enabled him, under Providence, to bring to a successful issue the mighty struggle in which this country was so long engaged, still share his horror of war, and therefore prefer to dwell on the beneficial influence which he exercised for so many years on the councils of this nation. To all such we recommend as an admirable memorial of him whose loss we are all deploring, the very characteristic statuette of The Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, admirably modelled by Mr. George Abbott, from a sketch by Alfred Crowquill, and executed in Parian by Messrs. Alcock of Burslem. A pretty frequent opportunity of seeing the Greatest Man of his Age in that House of which he was the ornament, enables us to speak with confidence of the admirable manner in which the artist has caught the Duke's usual quiet unaffected attitude, as he sat with his legs crossed, and his hands on his knees, the observed of all observers. All who have ever had the opportunity, from the bar or the gallery, of seeing the Hero of a Hundred Fights in that senate where his voice, but rarely heard, was yet all-powerful, will at once recognise the truthfulness of this excellent likeness of him.

When all the world is busily devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin, and publishers are selling off editions by thousands and tens of thousands, it was not to be expected that Mr. Bohn, ever ready to supply the wants of the reading public at a moderate price, would neglect an opportunity of putting forth a cheap and well-printed edition of so popular a book. He has done so, and we may safely pronounce his half-crown edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, to be the most readable edition we have yet seen of a work which, in the course of a few months, has made its writer famous.

Mr. C. H. J. Smith, the author of Parks and Pleasure Grounds, or Practical Notes on Country Residences, Villas, Public Parks and Gardens, must be a worthy disciple of Capability Brown. At all events his book is a practical illustration that any subject may be made interesting in the hands of a man of taste: here is Mr. Smith treating of building country mansions, laying out parks and pleasure grounds, the arboretum and the pinetum, and yet so doing it that his book may be read with interest and amusement by those who have not the slightest prospect of ever being in a position to avail themselves of his excellent advice. This will show its great value to those whose good fortune enables them to turn Mr. Smith's excellent suggestions to good account.

The second series of Welsh Sketches, by the author of Proposals for Christian Union, will probably exceed in popularity its predecessor. The writer may well say that, though confined within narrow limits, it embraces the most eventful period of Welsh history, since it treats, and very ably, of The Lords Marchers, Llewelyn ap Gryffyd, Edward I., and Edward of Caernarvon.

BOOKS RECeived. The Traveller's Library, Nos. 29 & 30. The Leipsic Campaign, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, an attempt, and a very successful attempt, to popularise one of the most important pages in the history of Europe, and a page which may be read with advantage even in these piping times of peace. - The Two Wanderers and other Stories is a further instalment of the well-executed and prettily-illustrated translation of Grimm's Household Tales, publishing by Addey & Co.

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