The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-20 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

The. supplies are moderately extensive, and the trade
is quiet, at our quotations :
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3B Od to 4s 8d I Veal
Mutton ... 3s Od to 48 10d I Pork

KEARNS V. STORKS.—This case having ended in
a compromise, it has been announced by the solicitors of
Mrs. Kearns that they will shortly prosecute Sir J. 011iffe,
physician to the English embassy at Paris, and one of the
medical men who signed the certificate that Mrs. Kearns
was insane. Here is another illustration of the dangers to
which our profession is exposed. If Mrs. Kearns or her
lawyers failed to show that Mr. Storks improperly confined
her in a lunatic asylum, what possible ground can there b
for an action against the physicians who gave their opinion
that she was a fit person forsuchrearaiut ?—Nedica‘ Press
and Circular, Fob, 20.

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OSBORNE, Feb. 19.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Christian and Princess Louise, and attended by the
Duchess of lioxburghe, the lion. Emily Cathcart,
and Lord Charles Fitzroy, drove yesterday by West
Cowes and Yarmouth to Alum Bay, where her
Majesty took luncheon. From thence the Royal
party drove to Froltwater Gate, and returned to
Osborne by Afton Down, Shorwell, and Carisbrook.

ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS
OF WALES.

FEB. 20, 1867 (8.30 a.m.)

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was
safely delivered of a Princess at 6.30 this morning.

The confinement was most favourable, and was
in no way affected by the rheumatism from which
the Princess is suffering.
Her Royal Highness and the infant Princess are
going on quite well.

ARTHUR FANR, M.D.
WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
EDWARD H. SIEVEKING.

His Royal Highness the -Prince of Wales was
present. The Secretary of State for the Home
Department arrived at Marlborough House shortly
after.

This happy event has made known by the firing
of the Park and Tower guns.

LITERATURE.

More of the Periodicals.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LAST CHRONICLE OF
BARSET, week by week, is perfecting into his mas-
terpiece. A dozen numbers have now made their
appearance, and our early impression in regard to
the work, namely, that if it were to be continued in
the way in which it was commenced, it would inevit-
ably prove his masterpiece, has by this time been
securely confirmed. It is his chef d'oeuvres, his
capo d'opera—the book upon which he might con-
fidently rest his reputation. He is on his own
ground, there, in Barsetshire—" his foot is on his
native heath, and his name is Macgregor." Some
among his most brilliant creations reappear, there,
and reappear, too, at their very best : Archdeacon
Grantley, Mrs. Proudie, Lily Dale, the Squire, the
Bishop, Johnny Eames, Mr. Crawley, old Mr. Hard-
ing, and all the rest of them. As Lord Lytton
called his most elaborate masterpiece par excellence
among all his prose fictions "My Novel"—so might
Anthony Trollope have dubbed on his part, and
after his fashion, " My Novel," his final Chronicles
of the good people of Barsetshire.
CHAMBERS'S ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY. Edited
by James Donald.—Under this title there has just
now been commenced what gives fair promise of turn-
ing out to be one of the most remarkable Etymologi-
cal Dictionaries in the English Language. And, like
all the Messrs. Chambers's Standard Publications, it
appears in the form of a wonderfully cheap periodi-
cal—so cheap, indeed, as to place it within the reach
of the artizan population. For sixpence a month
the very cottagers, at any rate the well-to-do and
thrif tier cottagers of England may now take in—and
studying it, as it appears part by part, may absorb into
their own knowledge, the thoroughly readable and
entertaining contents of it—as masterly a catalogue
of the words, making up the grand total of
what i 5 called the English language as ever
yet appeared even as an edition de luxe
for the adornment of the noblest library in the land.
Here, for once, the witticism of.Hierocles need not
debar us from producing a brick, after the fashion
of that ridiculous fellow Skolastikos, as a specimen
of the house that is for sale Take, almost hap-
hazard, any one of the earlier words of this admirable
dictionary as they are therein succinctly laid be-
fore the reader, analysed and explained. Take, for
instance—

APRICOT, literally, the early fruit ; a wall fruit of the plum
kind—formerly spelled apricock, Latia (maluin) procoas
early ripe (apple), from pray, before, and cop°, to ripen.
Or take, again,—
ARTERY, literally, the air-keeper, it being formerly believed
that the arteries contain air. Greek arteria, from aer, airs
and C,reti, to keep.
Take—

BABBLE, to speak like a baby, to talk childishly, kc. French
babiller, Dutch babelen, Greek babarti, from ba ba, repre-
senting the first attempts of a child to speak.
Or take—

BUCCANEER, from French beucanar, to smoke moat, from
French toucan, a gridiron. The French settlers in the
West Indies cooked their meat on a boucan, after the

manner of the natives, and were hence called boucaniers•
Why, in those few words about Apricot, about
Artery, about Babble, and about Buccaneer, all hall
been said that is needed in the way of their lucid
etymological derivation or significance. Then, too,
the accentuation and pronunciation are defined with
the easiest and with an instant precision, ex. gr.',
" abduction, ab-duk'-shun"---the value of the ToWel°

being exemplified at the bottom of every pago in a
single line of nine words, thus :

Jam, fir; me, her; mine; mete; mute; meet;; then.

Then, as to the fullness of the dictionary as a voca-
bulary, it embraces within it every word now in use
iu the language. 'rho Appendix, according to the
prospectus of the work, gives promise of being woo'
derf ally copious and highly interesting, as well AS
valuable, including among its contents—the ihell9A-
tion of the accurate pronunciation of all the names
in Scripture and in Latin and Greek mythology'
together with a table of all the abbreviations 113
ordinary use, as well as an explanation of all
the Latin and foreign words and phrases
so frequently met with in English books ef
almost every description. As for the material parts
of the general getting up of the work, it is ever)"
thing one could reasonably wish, in size, arrang°'
meat, paper, and typography. We long to see thei
work completed, as it is one we would gladly Place
upon the handiest of our bookshelves.