hat the
docquet of that commission remains among the instruments passed under the
great seal of King Charles I. at Oxford." P. C. S. S. is very desirous to
know where a list of these instruments can be consulted?

P. C. S. S.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Hogmanay._--This word, applied in Scotland to the last day of the year, is
derived by Jamieson (I believe, but have not his _Dictionary_ to refer to)
from the Greek [Greek: hagia mene].

Can any of your correspondents north of the Tweed, or elsewhere, give the
correct source?

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

[Our correspondent is probably not aware that Brand, in his _Popular
Antiquities_, vol. i. pp. 457-461. (Bohn's edit.), has devoted a
chapter to this term. Among other conjectural etymologies he adds the
following: "We read in the _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_,
that it is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go
about from door to door on New Year's Eve, crying _Hagmena_, a
corrupted word from the Greek [Greek: agia mene] _i. e._ holy month.
John Dixon, holding forth against this custom once, in a sermon at
Kelso, says: 'Sirs, do you know what hagmane signifies? It is, _the
devil be in the house!_ that's the meaning of its _Hebrew_ original,'
p. 102. Bourne agrees in the derivation of Hagmena given in the _Scotch
Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_. 'Angli,' says Hospinian,
'_Haleg-monath_, quasi sacrum mensem vocant.' _De Origine Ethn._, p.
81." See also an ingenious essay on Hagmena in the _Caledonian Mercury_
for Jan. 2, 1792, from which the most important parts have been
extracted by Dr. Jamieson in his art. "Hogmanay."]

_Longfellow's "Hyperion."_--Can any of your readers tell me why that
magnificent work of Longfellow's, which though in prose contains more real
poetry than nine-tenths of the volumes of verse now published, is called
_Hyperion_?

MORDAN GILLOTT.

[Hyperion is an epithet applied to Apollo, and is used by Shakspeare,
_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.:

"Hyperion to a satyr."

Warburton says, "This similitude at first sight seems to be a little
far-fetched, but it has an exquisite beauty. By the satyr is meant Pan,
as by Hyperion _Apollo_. Pan and Apollo were brothers, and the allusion
is to the contention between those gods for the preference in music."
Steevens, on the other ha