r, as shown in _continue_ and
_discontinue_--so _nob_, which is an abbreviation of _nobilis_, at once
receives the most ignoble signification on having an _s_ put before it.

The word _Scamp_, meaning literally a fugitive from the field, one _qui
ex campo exit_, affords another example of the power of the initial _s_
to reverse the signification of a word.

All this, Mr. Editor, is only conjecture, in reply to "ALPHA's" query
(No. 12 p. 185.); but perhaps you will receive it, if no better
etymology of the word be offered.

A.G.

Ecclesfield, Jan. 21. 1850.

_Derivation(?) of "Snob" and "Cad."_--I am informed by my son, who goeth
to a Latin school, that _Snob_ (which is a word he often useth) cometh
of two Latin words; to wit, "_sine obolo_"--as who should say, "one that
hath not a cross to bless himself." He saith, that the man behind the
omnibus is called "_Cad_," "_a non cadendo_." Your humble servant,

THE GOVERNOR.

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_Mr. Macaulay and Bishop Burnet_.--The passage in which Mr. Macaulay
calls Burnet "a rash and partial writer," alluded to by your
correspondent in No. 3. p. 40., occurs towards the end of his Essay on
"Sir William Temple," p. 456. of the new edition in one volume.

ETONIENSIS.

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_Circulation of the Blood_.--"A.W." (No. 13. p. 202.) is referred to
Smith's _Dictionary of Biography_, article NEMESIUS.

J.E.B. MAYOR.

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_Genealogy of European Sovereigns_.--I send the full title of a book
which I would recommend to your correspondent "Q.X.Z.," (No. 6. p.
92.):--

GENEALOGIE ASCENDANTE,

JUSQU'AU QUATRIEME DEGRE INCLUSIVEMENTS, De tous les Rois et
Princes de Maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans;
reduite en CXIV. Tables de XVI. Quartiers, composees selon les
Principes du Blazon; avec une Table Generale.

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"La noblesse, Daugaux, n'est point une chimere, Quand sous
l'etroite loi d'une vertu severe, Un homme, issu d'un sang fecond
en demi-dieux, Suit, comme toi, la trace ou marchaient ses ayeux."
Boileau, S.v.

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A BERLIN:

Au Depens de l'Autheur: se vend chez Etienne de Bourdeaux, Libraire;
imprime chez Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel.

MDCCLXVIII.

I presume that it is of some rarity, never having met with any other
copy