Belmont, Oct. 6. 1851.
Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam" (Vol. iv., p. 272.).
—This work was printed at Venice in 1538, in 4to. Münster republished it in the next following year, with an epitome of its contents in Latin. (G. B. de' Rossi, Dizionario Storico, &c., art. "Levita.").
T. T.
Manchester.
Stonehenge (Vol. iv., p. 57.).
—P. P.'s objection to Sir R. C. Hoare's derivation of Stonehenge seems hardly justifiable. Surely the horizontal stones there may be said to hang, μετέωροι, or μετάρσιοι, sublime: as in the case of "Rocq Pendant" of Alderney, the term "hanging" is loosely applied. That leans forth from the cliff at a considerable angle out of the perpendicular, and is "hanging," in another sense of the word, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and as, in another acceptation, the famous terrace gardens of Babylon are called the Hanging Gardens.
THEOPHYLACT.
Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture (Vol. iv., p. 99.).
—Referring to this subject, allow me to add a Note I have from the will of Robert Birkes, of Doncaster, alderman, proved at York, July 30, 1590, in further illustration. The testator gives to his son Robert all "the seeling work and portalls" in and about the house where he dwelt, "with all doors, glass windows," &c., in full of his child's portion of his goods; and then his house he gave to his wife for her life. If by "seeling work and portalls" are meant what we now understand by those terms, the above extract shows that other essential parts of a house besides glass windows were formerly considered as moveable chattels.