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hat the docquet of that commission remains among the instruments passed under the great seal of King Charles I. at Oxford." P. C. S. S. is very desirous to know where a list of these instruments can be consulted? P. C. S. S. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _Hogmanay._--This word, applied in Scotland to the last day of the year, is derived by Jamieson (I believe, but have not his _Dictionary_ to refer to) from the Greek [Greek: hagia mene]. Can any of your correspondents north of the Tweed, or elsewhere, give the correct source? W. T. M. Hong Kong. [Our correspondent is probably not aware that Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_, vol. i. pp. 457-461. (Bohn's edit.), has devoted a chapter to this term. Among other conjectural etymologies he adds the following: "We read in the _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_, that it is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go about from door to door on New Year's Eve, crying _Hagmena_, a corrupted word from the Greek [Greek: agia mene] _i. e._ holy month. John Dixon, holding forth against this custom once, in a sermon at Kelso, says: 'Sirs, do you know what hagmane signifies? It is, _the devil be in the house!_ that's the meaning of its _Hebrew_ original,' p. 102. Bourne agrees in the derivation of Hagmena given in the _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_. 'Angli,' says Hospinian, '_Haleg-monath_, quasi sacrum mensem vocant.' _De Origine Ethn._, p. 81." See also an ingenious essay on Hagmena in the _Caledonian Mercury_ for Jan. 2, 1792, from which the most important parts have been extracted by Dr. Jamieson in his art. "Hogmanay."] _Longfellow's "Hyperion."_--Can any of your readers tell me why that magnificent work of Longfellow's, which though in prose contains more real poetry than nine-tenths of the volumes of verse now published, is called _Hyperion_? MORDAN GILLOTT. [Hyperion is an epithet applied to Apollo, and is used by Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.: "Hyperion to a satyr." Warburton says, "This similitude at first sight seems to be a little far-fetched, but it has an exquisite beauty. By the satyr is meant Pan, as by Hyperion _Apollo_. Pan and Apollo were brothers, and the allusion is to the contention between those gods for the preference in music." Steevens, on the other ha
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