ing so much
learning and sagacity; but I hope he does not imagine that he has confuted
me. As I only spoke of words which, like [Greek: muthos], had a single
consonant between two vowels, such words as _plinth_, _labyrinth_, &c. have
nothing to do with the question. If _mythe_, differing from the other
examples which are to be found, happens to have _the_ for its termination,
and thus resembles words of Anglo-Saxon origin, I cannot help it, but it
was formed _secundum artem_. As to MR. THERIOLD's _m[=y]th_, unless so
written and printed, it will always be pronounced _m[)y]th_, like the
French _mythe_.

As to the _hybrid_ adjectives, I only wished to avoid increasing the number
of them. The French, I believe, have only one, _musical_; for though, like
ourselves, they have made substantives of the Greek [Greek: mousike] (sc.
[Greek: techne]), [Greek: phusike], &c., in all other cases they retain the
Greek form of the adjective, as in _physique_, substantive and adjective,
while we generally have pairs of adjectives, as _philosophic,
philosophical_; _extatic, extatical_; &c. Some may think this an advantage;
I do not.

THOS. KEIGHTLEY.

_The Gilbert Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 259).--If your correspondent seeking
genealogical information in reference to my ancestors, calls on me, I will
show him a presentation copy of _A Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert
Family in Old and New England_, by J. W. Thornton, LL.B., Boston, U. S.,
1850, 8vo. pp. 24, only fifty printed.

JAMES GILBERT.

_Alexander Clark_ (Vol. vii., p. 580.).--I should feel obliged if J. O.
could find leisure to communicate to "N. & Q." some particulars relative to
Clark. He is supposed to have been the author of a curious poem: _The
Institution and Progress of the Buttery College of Slains, in the Parish of
Cruden, Aberdeenshire; with a Catalogue of the Books and MSS. in the
Library of that University_: Aberdeen, 1700. Mr. Peter Buchan thus mentions
him in his _Gleanings of Scarce Old Ballads_:

"Clark, a drunken dominie at Slains, author of a poetical dialogue
between the gardeners and tailors on the origin of their crafts, and a
most curious Latin and English poem called the 'Buttery College of
Slains,' which resembled much in language and style Drummond of
Hawthornden's 'Polemo Middino.'"

This poem is printed in Watson's _Collection of Scottish Poems_, Edin.
1711; and also noticed in the _Edinburgh Topographical and Antiquarian
Maga