t the figure of a _hook_ and a _crook_, in
memory of the privilege granted by him to the poor of Bodmin, for
gathering for fire-boot and house-boot such boughs and branches of such
trees in his contiguous wood of Dunmere, as they could reach with a
_hook and a crook_ without further damage to the trees. From whence
arose the Cornish proverb, _they will have it by hook or by
crook_."--Hitchins and Drewe, _Hist. Cornwall_, p. 214. vol. ii. edit.
1824.

SELEUCUS.

_Burning dead Bodies._--In his remarks on "ashes to ashes," CINIS says
(Vol. i., p.22.) that "the burning of the dead does not appear to be in
itself an anti-christian ceremony," &c.: he is mistaken, for the early
Christians, like the Jews, never burned their dead, but buried them. The
catacombs of Rome and Naples, besides those in other places, were
especially used for sepulture; and if CINIS wish for proofs, he will find
an abundance in Rock's _Hierurgia_, t. ii. p. 802., &c.

CEPHAS.

_Etymology of "Barbarian," &c._--Passow, in his Lexicon (ed. Liddell and
Scott), s.v. [Greek: barbaros], observes that the word was originally
applied to "all that were not Greeks, or that did not speak Greek. It was
used of all defects which the Greeks thought foreign to themselves and
natural to other nations: but as the Hellenes and Barbarians were most of
all _separated by language_, the word had always especial reference to this
[Greek: glossa barbara], Soph. Aj. 1263, &c." He considers the word as
probably an onomatopoeion, to express the sound of a foreign tongue. (Cf.
Gibbon, c. li.; Roth, _Ueber {79} Sinn u. Gebrauch des Wortes Barbar._
Nuernberg, 1814.) I am disposed to look for the root in the Hebr. [Hebrew:
BARAR] "_bar[=a]r_," _separavit_, in its Pilpel form, [Hebrew: BARBAR]
"_barbar;_" hence, "one who is _separated_," "a foreigner." And even though
Clel. Voc. 126., n., admits that _purus_, "clean," "_separated_ from
dross," originally signifies cleansing by fire, [Greek: pur], yet both it
and _far-farris_, "bread-corn," i. e. _separated_ from the husk, and
_fur-fur_, "bran," which is _separated_ from the flour, may find their
origin possibly from the same source.

E. S. T.

_Royal and distinguished Disinterments._--It is suggested that a volume of
deep and general interest might be very easily formed by collecting and
arranging the various notices that have from time to time appeared, of the
disinterment of royal and distinguished