e, and doubt if one can be easily
found where the Christian and surnames of a gentleman are alike, and both
reversible.

W. W.

Malta.

_Etymology of Eve_.--Only one instance of a reversible name seems to me at
present among the _propria quae maribus_, and that is Bob. As, however, the
name of our universal mother has been brought forward, you will, perhaps,
allow me to transcribe the following remarkable etymology:

"Omnes nascimur ejulantes, ut nostram miseriam exprimamus. Masculus
enim recenter natus dicit A; foemina vero E; dicentes E vel A quotquot
nascuntur ab Eva. Quid est igitur _Eva_ nisi _heu ha_? Utrumque
dolentis est interjectio doloris exprimens magnitudinem. Hinc enim ante
peccatum virago, post peccatum _Era_ meruit appellari.... Mulier autem
ut naufragus, cum parit tristitiam habet," &c.--_De Contemptu Mundi_,
lib. i. c. 6., a Lothario, diacono cardinali, S.S. Sergii et Bacchi,
editus, qui postea Innocentius Papa III. appellatus est.

BALLIOLENSIS.

_Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas_ (Vol. viii., p. 585.).--Allow me to
correct a gross error into which I have been led, by an imperfect
concordance, in hastily concluding that the words "In te Domine speravi,
non confundar in aeternum," were not in the Psalms, as I have found them in
the Vulgate, Psalms xxxi. 1. and lxxi. 1.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield.

_Binometrical Verse_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 375.).--In answer to these
inquiries, the copyright of this united hexameter and pentameter belongs to
Mr. De la Pryme, of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, who is also the author of
another line which is both an alcaic and sapphic:

"Quando nigrescit sacra latro patrat."

X.

_Gale of Rent_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--Gale [_Gavel_, Sax., a rent or
duty,] a periodical payment of rent. The Latin form of the word is
_gabellum_, and the French _gabelle_. (See Wharton's _Law Lexicon_.)

[Greek: Halieus].

Dublin.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

_The History of Millwall, commonly called the Isle of Dogs, including
Notices of the West India Docks and City Canal, and Notes on Poplar,
Blackwall, Limehouse,_ {656} _and Stepney_, by B. H. Cowper, is
unquestionably one of the most carefully compiled, and judiciously
arranged, little topographical works, which we have ever been called upon
to notice. The intelligent M.P. who is recorded to have asked a witness
before a select committ