There are several Fian place-names in the Highlands.

" (Lines suggested by an Australian aboriginal place-name commonly known by its last syllable.)

In 1898 a well-known Slovak editor was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for two articles severely criticising the Magyarisation of place-names in Hungary.

Some three or four miles eastward along its banks, a walk through leafy woods brings us to Whittinghamthe final syllable of which, by the way, one pronounces as "jam," as one does that of nearly all the other place-names ending in "ing-ham" in Northumberland, contrary though it be to etymological considerationsexcepting, curiously enough, Chillingham, situated in the very midst of all the others.

The Celts vanished by the end of that century, leaving a few place-names to mark their passage.

[Illustration: THE BALKAN PENINSULA ETHNOLOGICAL] Place-names are a good index of the extent and strength of the tide of Slav immigration.

Thrace, especially the south-eastern part, and Albania have the fewest Slavonic place-names.

The aboriginal Albanians, who with their back to the Adriatic had kept the Slavs at bay, asserted their vitality and sent out migratory swarms to the south, which entered the service of the warring princelets and by their prowess won broad lands in every part of continental Greece, where Albanian place-names are to this day only less common than Slavonic.

They had consequently but little intercourse with the Daco-Roman population, and the total absence in the Rumanian language and in Rumanian place-names of words of Gothic origin indicates that their stay had no influence upon country or population.

In most of Brazil, as around Para and around Sao Paulo, it has left its traces in place-names, but has been completely superseded as a language by Portuguese.

Galgala, the form found in the Septuagint and Vulgate of the place-name Gilgal.

We have likewise profited by the kindness of several friends and correspondents, amongst whom we desire to mention the late R.P. Brereton, Dr F.H. Allen, Mr F.R. Heath, the Rev. C.W. Whistler, the Rev. E.H. Bates, and the Rev. J.S. Hill, B.D. (the last especially in regard to the origin of certain place-names).

Reminders that the county was once occupied by a Welshspeaking race occur in the constituents of many place-names, such as Pen Selwood, Maes Knoll, and the numerous combes (cp.

The prefix Beer (thought to be a personal name) occurs in several Dorset and Devon place-names.

But instead of printing the original place-names, they put "Moated Grange," or "Clapham Junction," or "Dead Dog Farm," which simplifies matters beyond all possibility of error.

I conceive that Mr. Spencer would find a mid-point between a common ghost and Mtanga, in a ghost of a chief attached to a mountain, the place and place-name preserving the ghost's name and memory.

The South Island colonists mispronounce their beautiful Maori place-names murderously.