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

WIIITEGIIAPEL.

• The supplies are moderately extensive, and the trade
is quiet, at our quotations :
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 33 Od to 4s 8d Veal
Mutton 3s Od to 4s 10d 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. 011iffo,
physician to the English embassy at Paris, and ono of the
medical mon who signed the certificate that Mrs. Kearns
was insane. Hero 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 for such restraint ?-31edical Press
and Circular, Feb. 20.

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HER MAJESTY, Sze.

OSBORNE, Feb. 19.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Christian and Princess Louise, and attended by the
Duchess of Roxburghe, the Hon. 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 Fre hwater Gate, and returned to
Osborne by Afton Down, Shotwell, and Carisbrook.

ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS
OF WALES.

FEB. 20, 18G7 (8.30 a.m.)

Tier Royal Highness the Princess of \Vales was
safely delivered of a Princess at G. 30 this morning.

The confinement was most favourable, and was
:n 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 FANE, M.D.
WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
EDWARD 11. 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, Airs. 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.
CHA3IBERS'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
s tudying it, as it appearspart 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 is 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 ofHierocles 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, Latin (=turn) pravx
early ripe (apple), from prat, before, and coquo, to ripen.
Or take, again,—
ARTERY, literally, the air-keeper, it being formerly believed
that the arteries contain air. Greek artJria, from aer, air,
and tereo, to keep.

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

BUCCANEER, from French boucaner, to smoke meat, from
French boucan, 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 has
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 vowels

being exemplified at the bottom of every page in 3
single line of nine words, thus :

fate, far; her; mine; mote; mate; moon; then.

Then, as to the fullness of the dictionary as a voca-
bulary, it embraces within it every word now in use
in the language. The Appendix, according to the
prospectus of the work, gives promise of being won-
derfully copious and highly interesting, as well as
valuable, including among its contents—the indica-
tion of the accurate pronunciation of all the names
in Scripture and in Latin and Greek mythologff
together with a table of all 'the abbreviations is
ordinary use, as well as an explanation of all
the Latin and foreign words and phrases
so frequently met with in English books of
almost every description. As for the material part
of the general getting up of the work, it is evert'
thing one could reasonably wish, in size, arrange-
ment, paper, and typography. We long to see the
work completed, as it is one we would gladly place
upon the handiest of our bookshelves.