o cases? _Monk_ is manifestly a Greek
formative from [Greek: monos], and denotes a _solitaire_.

The proposed derivation of _till_, from _to-while_, is not new; but still
clearly mistaken, inasmuch as the word _till_ is found in Scotch, Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, and others of the family. A word thus compounded would
be of less general use. Besides which, _to-while_ would scarcely produce
such a form as _till_; it would rather change the _t_ into an aspirate,
which would appear as _th_.

B. H. C.

_Forrell_ (Vol. vii., p. 630.).--Your correspondent T. HUGHES derives this
word (applied in Devonshire, as he tells us, to the cover of book) from
_forrell_, "a term still used by the trade to signify an inferior kind of
vellum." Is it not more natural to suppose it to be the same word which the
French have made _fourreau_, a cover or sheath? (See Du Cange, vv.
_Forellus, Forrellus_.)

J. H. T.

Dublin.

_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vii., p. 507.; Vol. viii. _passim_).--There is
a library at Wimborne Minster, in the Collegiate Church, which, on my visit
two years since, appeared to contain some valuable volumes, and was
neglected and in very bad condition.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Dr. Lardner has just published the third and concluding course of his
_Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy_. The subjects treated of in
the present volume are _Meteorology and Astronomy_, and they are
illustrated with thirty-seven lithographic plates, and upwards of two
hundred engravings on wood. The work was undertaken with the very popular
object of supplying the means of acquiring a competent knowledge of the
methods and results of the physical sciences, without any unusual
acquaintance with mathematics; and in the methods of demonstration and
illustration of this series of treatises, that principle has as far as
possible, been adopted so that by means of the present volumes, persons who
have not even a superficial knowledge of geometry and algebra may yet
acquire with great facility a considerable acquaintance with the sciences
of which they treat. The present volume contains a very elaborate index,
which, {528} combined with the analytical tables of contents, give to the
entire series all the usefulness of a compendious encyclopaedia of natural
philosophy and astronomy.

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