Suggestions of Books worthy of being reprinted.—Fabricius, Bibliotheca Latina Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis, 6 vols. 8vo. (Recommended in The Guardian newspaper.)
J. M.
Epigram all the way from Belgium.—Should you think the following epigram, written in the travellers' book at Hans-sur-Lesse, in Belgium, worth preserving, it is at your service:
"Old Euclid may go to the wall,
For we've solved what he never could guess,
How the fish in the river are small,
But the river they live in is Lesse."
H. A. B.
Derivation of "Canada."—I send you a cutting from an old newspaper, on the derivation of this word:
"The name of Canada, according to Sir John Barrow, originated in the following circumstances. When the Portuguese, under Gasper Cortcreal, in the year 1500, first ascended the great river St. Lawrence, they believed it was the strait of which they were in search, and through which a passage might be discovered into the Indian Sea. But on arriving at the point whence they could clearly ascertain it was not a strait but a river, they, with all the emphasis of disappointed hopes, exclaimed repeatedly 'Canada!'—Here nothing; words which were remembered and repeated by the natives on seeing Europeans arrive in 1534, who naturally conjectured that the word they heard employed so often must denote the name of the country."