STYLITES, in his reading of " N. & Q.," has missed the note to which I refer. He will find it in Vol. viii., p. 4. STYLITES will there see rather a long discussion in support of the use of the word secure as a verb, in the sense to make careless. The note is signed F. W. J. J. W. FARRER. Torquay. "Constantinopolitani," &c. (Vol. ix., p. 452.).— In the communications concerning these verses, I see no mention of the following work, from which I make an extract: saurus. "Sacrum Profanumque Phrasium Poeticarum TheOpera Mri Joannis Buchleri, in Wicradt Præfecti. Editio decima-octava, &c. Reformata poesos institutio ex R. P. Jacobi Pontani e societ. Jesu. Opera Joannis Buchleri a Gladbach in Wicradt Præfecti. Londini, Tho. Newcomb. 1679." At pp. 352-3. is the following: "Macroculus versus dicitur, qui vocibus paucissimis, nimisque longis absolvitur; Tardigradum sunt qui vocent: Innumerabilibus Constantinopolitani Conturbabantur sollicitudinibus. 66 "La Princesse de Biron; Milady Hamilton." On the same occasion, the late Emperor Nicholas, at the age of four years, was named a Grand Prior of Russia, and permitted to wear the Grand Cross of the Order. W. W. Malta. Cutty Pipes (Vol. xi., p. 144.). — B. H. C.'s derivation is far too learned. The term is Scotch, cutty being a word which means little or short. Thus, a little girl is called a cutty; there are cutty pipes and cutty spoons; and the readers of Burns need not be reminded of the scantily-draped lady who is styled cutty-sark. J. C. R. Progressive Geography (Vol. xi., p. 146.).— As far as regards Europe, the STUDENT OF HISTORY will find what he wants in the Atlas Historique Universel, traduit de l'Atlas Historique des Etats Européens de Chr. et Fr. Kruse, et complété par MM. Philippe Lebas et Félix Ansart. It is published at Paris, "chez L. Hachette, rue PierreSarrazin, No. 12." My copy is the fourth edition, and bears date 1847. Probably the atlas of MM. Kruse, "Professeurs à Leipzig et à Dorpat," from which the above work is taken, may be preferable; but I am not acquainted with it. The word "complété" would seem to indicate that additions have been made to it by the French translators. I know of no English series of maps of the same description, though ten years ago I made great inquiries for one. A friend of mine at that time suggested to the Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, the publication of such an atlas; and the idea was for a time entertained by that Society, though subsequently abandoned. Two or three years afterwards, I discovered at Paris the work I have mentioned. STYLITES. Spruner's Historisch-geographischer Hand-Atlas, of which a new edition is now publishing in numbers (Gotha, J. Perthes), is a very valuable work. I am not acquainted with Heck's Atlas; but Spruner's is probably fuller, as the whole work is said to fill 118 sheets, of which seventythree (forming a division by themselves) are devoted to Europe since the fall of the Western Empire. In this portion alone, upwards of 130 smaller maps and plans are inserted in the spaces unoccupied by the principal subjects. The Atlas is accompanied by an elaborate descriptive text. A smaller and less expensive work is advertised in a Catalogue just published by Williams & Norgate: Kutscheit's Historico-geographical Atlas, 50 maps, 3rd edit., price 18s. There is also an English historical Atlas by Quin. J. C. R. Military Records (Vol. ix., p. 546.).-G. L. S. speaks of the military records of the 4th Regiment. Where are such records to be seen? Y. S. M. Storbating (Vol. x., p. 385.).—Since writing this Query, I have found that the small boats, early used by the Dutch in their herring fishery, were called Starbaarts: hence, doubtless, the Suffolk expression. F. C. B. Diss. shaw the Seventeenth Century, Part I., Nicholas Ferrar, Two Lives by his Brother John and by John Jebb, now first edited, with Illustrations, by J. E. B. Mayor, M.A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge, tells us that it was among Baker's MSS. that he "met with Ferrar's life; and at once saw in it an artless tale of a period too much neglected, and of a man whom to know is to venerate." Nicholas Ferrar, whose early piety procured him as a child the name of Saint Nicholas - who, as a man, was honoured and esteemed by Laud and by Williams-who was the friend of Herbert and of Crafound a faithful biographer in his brother John Ferrar, and another in Dr. John Jebb- both whose biographies are most carefully edited in the little volume before us; and few will rise from their perusal without being the better, on the one hand, for the pictures they furnish of the earnest piety of Nicholas Ferrar himself, and of the family affection which warmed the hearts of all who dwelt in his Christian household at Little Gidding; and without being wiser, on the other hand, not only for the facts stated in these biographies, but for the care and learning with which Mr. Mayor has illustrated them. 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The English a Composite Language; Gains of the English Language; Diminutions of the English Language; Changes in the Meaning of English Words; The Changed Spelling of English Words; those of our readers who have had the advantage of reading Mr. Trench's Apared to hear that these lectures exhibit the same comformer publication On the Study of Words will be prebination of philological ingenuity and shrewd common sense for which that work and its companion, The Lessons in Proverbs, were equally distinguished. We are, perhaps, somewhat biassed in Mr. Trench's favour by the praise Spanish Reformation (Vol. x., p. 446.). work of Don Adolfo de Castro, translated by Thomas Parker, is recommended. A fresh translation of Don A. de Castro's works would be de sirable. Mr. Parker's erudition may be judged of from the following: "Quoi qu'il en soit, il sera singulier, sire, que tandis que leurs majestés très-chrétienne, très-catholique, destruirent les grenadiers du St. Siege," &c. 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