Jew, if you say
Jehovah_; I was quite sure of it before, and I am so pleased.'"

There is a great error as to custom here, for the Jews never attempt to
pronounce the "four-lettered" Name, and in reading and speaking always use
instead Adonai or Elohim. And even converted Jews retain for the most part
the same habit. The writer of _Charles Auchester_ can only defend himself
by the example of the writer of {619} _Ivanhoe_, who has made the same
oversight; and a still more glaring one besides in making Isaac the Jew
wish his daughter had been called Benoni, _i.e._ the _son_ of sorrow. The
vowel letters of Jehovah are merely those of Adonai, inserted by the
Massorites; but this is another subject.

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_Lachlan Macleane._--This individual, whose claim to the authorship of
Junius has been lately revived, was in Philadelphia ninety-five years ago,
and his name figures there in the accounts of the overseers of the poor,
under date of November 9, 1758:

"By cash received of James Coultass, late sheriff, being a fine paid by
Laughlane McClain for kissing of Osborn's wife (after his commissions
and writing bond were deducted)

L24 : 5 : 0"

This was in Pennsylvania currency; but it was an expensive kiss even in
that, being (besides the commissions and sheriff's charge for writing the
bond) equivalent to sixty-four dollars and fifty cents of our present
currency.

M. E.

Philadelphia.

_German Tree._--The following extract concerning this accessory to
Christmas, which is now so popular, may perhaps be interesting at the
present season. It is taken from the _Loseley Manuscripts_, edited by A. J.
Kempe, F.S.A., 1836, p. 75. note.

"We remember a German of the household of the late Queen Caroline,
making what he termed a _Christmas tree_ for a juvenile party at that
festive season. The tree was a branch of some evergreen fastened on a
board. Its boughs bent under the weight of gilt oranges, almonds, &c.;
and under it was a neat model of a farm-house, surrounded by figures of
animals, &c., and all due accompaniments. The forming Christmas trees
is, we believe, a common custom in Germany: evidently a remain of the
pageants constructed at that season in ancient days."

Is this the first notice of a German tree in England? The adjunct of the
farm-house seems now to be dispensed with in this country.

ZEUS.

_The late Duke._--The following curious