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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. DEC. 9, 1911.
" May be stood upon his feet " ! Proh dolor !
Time was when I inclined to the belief that
this ugly violation was like " there he
was sat " ^indigenous to the soil of Lanca-
shire, but I have since learnt that it has a
more extended growth. May it soon be
rootod and routed from the garden of
English literature ! Let us " stand it " no
longer. J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
[The present standard of English is, indeed, deplorable. But as the offenders are incorrigible, we have usually found it waste of time to protest. We hope that some general improvement may take place in writing, grammar, and style, which will force authors to write better if they are to be read.]
OXEN: THEIB NAMES. As a supplement to the lists of ' Horses' Names,' US. ii. 124, 283, 364, it is desirable to add that in ' La Douce Prance,' by Rene Bazin, 1911, there is a chapter on ' Le Nom des Boeufs de France,' pp. 210-14, which is full of interesting folk- matters. W. C. B.
HALLEY'S PEDIGREE. (See 10 S. vii. 263 ; 11 S. ii. 44.) Since the preparation of data given at the references cited, and in addition to other facts presented in The Genealogist, New Series, for July, 1908, an interesting collection of entries extracted from the parish registers of Youlgreave, Derbyshire, has been received from Mr. Arthur Carrington of the Downes, Bideford, N. Devon (under date of 18 July, 1910). The earlier baptismal entries follow :
1557, Oct. 10. Humphrey Hallye, son of Hum- phrey. (This is the earliest entry in register.)
1558, Sept. 20. Elenor Hallye, dau. of John Hallye.
1562, Jan. 10. George Hally, son of Hurnphrav Hallye.
1564, Feb. 25. Rychard Hawly, son of John Hawly.
1565, Sept. 15. Alice Hawly, dau. of Wyllm Hawlye.
1566, Sept. 15. " Alyce Hallye."
1567, Apl. 14. Rychard Hallye, son of Hum- phray Hallye.
1569, Nov. 10. ffrancys hally, son of Humphray
hallye.
1572, Nov. 1. Robt. Halley, son of Wyllm hawly. 1574, Dec. 12. ffrancys hally son of Michaell
hawly.
If it could be demonstrated that the famous astronomer's paternal grandfather, Humphrey Halley, vintner of London, was a son of the "ffrancys hally" baptized 10 Nov., 1569, as has been suggested, the claim of Derbyshire to the origin of the family would be quite fairly established. A further search must be made through Chancery proceedings, Public Record Office,
&c., but some facts already gleaned by Mr.
R. J. Beevor seem to lend a little colour
to the above hypothesis.
EUGENE F. McPiKE. 135, Park Row, Chicago.
FOREIGN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES. The following table, compiled by Mr. John Cotton Dana of the Public Library, Newark, New Jersey, of the journals in foreign languages published in the United States in 1910, was printed in The Evening Post (New York) on 3 March last. It is not only of interest in itself, but also of value as suggesting the compilation of similar sta- tistics for the United Kingdom :
Languages
Arabic
,
Armenian
.
Bohemian
.
Bulgarian
.
Chinese
,
Croatian
,
Danish
.
Finnish
.
French
.
German
,
Greek . .
t
Hebrew
.
Hollandish
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Lithuanian
Norwegian-
Danish
Polish
,
Portuguese
.
Rumanian
.
Russian
Ruthenian
Servian
,
Slovak
,
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
,
Welsh
,
No. of pubs.
Circulation
3
5
6,000
52
369,000
1
4,000
6
10,000
8
8
50,000
15
62,000
34
1,600,000
632
8
32,000
21
300,000
21
79,000
13
56,000
73
283,000
9
20,000
11
32,000
60
415,000
51
210,000
8
17,000
2
4
23,000
1
11,000
1
16
98,000
7
30,000
55
161,000
71
900,000
2
13,000
The German figure is so disproportionate,
and the information so incomplete, that on
that head there seems some error.
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
DE QUINCEY'S 'OPIUM-EATER,' 1853. It has not, I think, been noticed that there are two distinct issues of the 1853 edition of the ' Confessions.' One title-page reads :
" Confessions | of an | English Opium-Eater. | To weep afresh a long since cancelled woe, | And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. | Shake- speare's Sonnets. | New Edition. | London : | Pub- lished for the Proprietor by | Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Stationers' Hall Court | 1853." 8vo, pp. iv, 176.
The name of the printers, Bradbury & Evans, occurs behind the title and on the last page. The other issue differs only in
