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ecently discovered, and it was before that
t ociety that Luke Howard read his paper on
' The Nomenclature of Clouds.' I had never
heard of this society before I read the ac-
< ount of it in the supplement to the Chemist
< ,nd Druggist, but I find that it is mentioned in Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates,' where it is i-tated to have been ultimately merged into the Geological Society. It may possibly happen that the records of the Askesian Society are still in existence. K. B. P.
"BAILEY." The following is from the Exeter Flying Post for 4 March :
"An elderly woman at Llandaff Police Court said, ' I want a summons for my neighbour beating my pigs. She lathered 'em with a sweeping brush in her "bailey."'
1 ' A Magistrate : What do you mean by ' lathered ' beating?
"Applicant: Yes; with a brush-handle in her bailey.
" The Magistrates' Clerk : What were they doing there ?
" Applicant : Her pigs and the neighbours' come into mine often. Mine went into hers. They was nigh stunned, and two little sows were lame all the evening. She beat 'em with a sweeping brush so that they could hardly walk home.
" The Magistrates' Clerk : Well, you must keep them in your own bailey, and not let them go into your neighbour's. Then they W9n't get beaten. If there is any injury done to the pigs you must go to the County Court to recover damages. Stand down."
I asked an old villager in Littleham (near Exmouth) churchyard recently what a " bailey " was ; and after a little hesitation he replied, " Maybe it 's where pigs feed outside their stye." Is this so 1 HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.
ARLINGTON. Can any reader inform me if the many Arlingtons arid Harlingtons were originally filial colonies of the Harling of Norfolk ; or has the name some other deriva- tion ? H. BELTCHAR.
HOLY TRINITY BROTHERHOOD, ALDERSGATE. The register book of this fraternity was possessed by Mr. Hone, and is noted in his 'Ancient Mysteries.' After his death it was presumably sold with his library. If any reader knows of its whereabouts the inquirer I will feel very grateful for the information. ALLEN S. WALKER.
Adelaide House, John Street, Hampstead, N.W.
I JALAP. The ' H.E.D.' has not yet arrived | at this word. Existing dictionaries, even the ' Century,' treat it in what seems to me a very cavalier manner. They tell us, of course, that it is abbreviated from the (Spanish "'alapa, but none of them mentions
that the latter is itself shortened from
Mexican jalapan surely an essential fact
in the word's history. The reason why the
final consonant was lost has already been
explained by me in these columns (8 th S. xii.
432). Then there are other points. Was the
French jalap, the same spelling as ours,
borrowed from us, or vice versd? Perhaps
Dr. Murray will be able to ascertain this
from his quotations. Why is the French
word masculine, while the original Spanish is
feminine? JAMES PLATT, Jun.
DR. PINCHES'S SCHOOL. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me anything of Dr. Pinches's school, in George Yard, Lombard Street, to which Sir Edward Clarke and Sir Henry Irving went ? Are there any programmes of the performances given by the pupils still in existence? CHARLES HIATT.
HOMER AND JEWISH RITES.
(9 th S. ii. 525.)
I NEED scarcely say that, while Pope's ' Homer,' as Pope's, is always worth reading, as a translation it is far too free for one who, like MR. BRESLAR, wishes to know with accuracy the import of Homer's words. I take the liberty to recommend to him, as most trustworthy and (unlike the cribs) most readable, the prose version of the ' Iliad ' by Messrs. Lang, Leaf, and Myers, and of the ' Odyssey ' by Messrs. Butcher and Lang (Macmillan & Co.).
MR. BRESLAR'S first quotation is Pope's rendering of 'Iliad,' ix. 11. 171-2 :
a Au Kpovt
The lines are thus accurately rendered in the prose version :
" And now bring water for our hands, and bid keep holy silence, that we may pray unto Zeus the son of Kronos, if perchance he will have mercy upon us."
As to this custom of lustration before prayer or sacrifice, common both to the Greeks and the Jews, I think Buckley unfortunate in calling it a "superstition." I should describe it rather as dictated by a natural sense of reverent propriety, in its origin probably as old as worship itself. I need not remind MR. BRESLAR of its spiritual significancy (Psalms xxiv. 3, 4 ; xxvi. 6, 7 ; even in the Ne\v Testament, see James iv. 8).
MR. BRESLAR'S second quotation is Pope's rendering of ' Iliad,' xiii. 11. 59-61 :
