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structor not appearing until January, 1850.
It consisted of thirty-two pages, crown 8vo,
price one penny, and was published at
335, Strand. Mr. Pike, in his life of John
Cassell, gives an extract from the Working
Man's Friend of November 1st, 1851, as to
the sale of the ten daily papers then pub-
lished in London, the total being 64,408. Of
these the Times absorbed 38,382, the Morning
Chronicle 2,915, and the Daily News 3,630, the
united circulation of the seven other papers
being under 20,000. On the 3rd of April,
1852, 'The Popular Educator' was started,
its first editor being Prof. Wallace, of Glasgow
and in July of the same year Cassell removed
from the Strand to La Belle Sauvage Yard,
the home of the present firm. Mr. F. J. Cross
amusingly relates that when John Cassell came
there was a public-house at the end of the
yard, but that gave way to the publishing
house, and "little by little we have mono-
polized the square, and also stretch to Fleet
Lane." Mr. Cross tells me that there are
now eight monthly magazines and nearly
fifty serials published by the firm. John
Cassell was the first editor of the Quiver,
started in 1861. He was succeeded by the
Rev. Henry Wright, followed by John W.
Clark, then by Canon Teignmouth Shaw, who
was followed by the present editor, the Rev.
Dr. H. G. Bonavia Hunt, who has been
editor for the last twenty-five years. Its
Christmas number contains three beautiful
photogravures ' The Good Samaritan,' from
the painting by William Small ; ' The Love-
Letter,' by George A. Storey ; and ' Home,'
by T. B. Kennington.
CasselVs Magazine started on the 9th of March, 1867. Its first editor was W. Moy Thomas. He was among the earty contributors to Chambers^ Journal, a poem of his entitled ' Autumn ' appearing on the 27th of November, 1847, when he was only nineteen. It is a sweet picture of the country in autumn, when
Sometimes, day by day, the hazel tint Grows deeper on the mass of forest trees, And not a single breath from heaven is sent To cool the ruddy fruits, that by degrees Wax ripe and riper in a dreamy ease.
Till the sharp north wind cometh unaware, And half relieves the laden orchard-bough ; And like hoar death, that kills the good and fair, Lays autumn's loveliest bells and blossoms low, And sudden winter falls wherever it doth blow.
Mr. Moy Thomas was followed in the editor- ship by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, John Loyell, G. M. Fenn, and Dr. Hunt. The present editor is Mr. Max Pemberton. With the Christmas number is given a photogravure, beautifully
executed, of ' The Pirate's Prize,' from the
painting by B. F. Gribble. The Saturday
Journal was established on the 6th of October,
1883. Its first editor was Dr. Hunt, followed
by Mr. Laird Clowes. Mr. Ernest Foster has
edited the Journal for the past fifteen years.
It should not be forgotten that Messrs. Casseli
also founded the Echo (see 9 th S. ii. 504)
Of the original partners of the firm in 1859 Mr. Thomas Dixon Galpin alone survives. The number of hands at present employed is about twelve hundred. It is curious that John Cassell, the originator of this large business, had no knowledge of publishing. He died at the early age of forty -eight, on the 2nd of April, 1865, the same day as Richard Cobden, who had shown him much friendship. Cassell took an active part in the repeal of the Paper Duty, and with my father visited Edinburgh and Dublin, where they formed branch asso- ciations in connexion with the one in London to forward repeal. One cannot close this rapid glance at some of the men who have rendered such service to our cheap literature without an expression of gratitude to them for having served their generation so faith- fully and so well. JOHN C. FRANCIS.
" MACAW" AND " MACACO." In his ' Notes
on English Etymology,' 1901, p. 349, Prof.
Skeat appears to confuse these two distinct
terms. He says: "The ' Century Dictionary '
derives macaw from Brazilian macao, which I
fail to find. The 'Hist. Nat. Brasilia* ' has
nothing like it. The modern Spanish form
is macaco" Macaco, however, means a
monkey, not a parrot, and according to the
' Hist. Nat. Brasilise,' 1648, is a Congo word,
like chimpanzee and pongo. The only dis-
sentient from this is Von Martius, ' Beitrage
zur Ethnographie,' 1867, ii. 461, who describes
it as " vox a Brasiliensibus recepta, in
insulis Antillis a primis Eurppseis audita,
Caraibice mecou" ; but here, again, there seems
to be confusion between two distinct terms,
as this should surely rather apply to mico
than to macaco. As to the origin of macaw,
the Brazilian, or rather Portuguese, macao,
according to a statement quoted by Buffon
from Albin, was applied to these birds
because they were supposed to come from
Macao in the East Indies. It is some con-
firmation of this that the older English ex-
plorers used it to designate Oriental parrots.
Thus Dampier, 'Voyages,' 1697, ii. 128,
ascribes " maccaws " and " parakites " to
Acheen. JAS. PLATT, Jun.
'BUDGET OF PARADOXES': DIDEROT. De Morgan, in the 'Budget,' twice relates the
