the latter than to the former of these tongues; or perhaps,
speaking more correctly, it formed a connecting link between them, as
Cornwall itself lies about midway between Wales and Brittany.

EDGAR MACCULLOCH.

Guernsey.

_Gentile Names of the Jews_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--The names of
Rothschild, Montefiore, and Davis are family names, and not _noms de
guerre_.

It is possible that the honoured names of Rothschild and Montefiore date
from a purchase by some one of their ancestry of _Gentile castles or
lands_, and with it the purchase right of name.

Davis is legitimately Jewish, but probably the Gentile name of Davis cannot
boast of its pure source, and no doubt where Gentile pedigree loses trace,
Jewish descent commences, either by a left-handed Jew connexion with a
Gentile fair one, or a renegade ancestry.

ISRAEL BEN ISAAC.

Red Lion Square.

_Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--On October 15, Judy, a slave, died on
the plantation of Edmund B. Richardson, in Bladen county, North Carolina,
aged 110 years. She was one of eight slaves who nearly sixty years ago were
the first settlers on the plantation, where she died. Of the seven others,
one died over 90 years of age, another 93, and a third 81; two are living,
one 75 and the other over 60 years of age.

Within five miles of the place where Judy died, William Pridgen lived, who
died about five years ago, aged 122 years.

David Kennison, a soldier of the Revolution, died near Albany (N. Y.) on
the 24th of February, 1852, aged 117 years.

M. E.

Philadelphia.

_Reversible Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--Emme might have been added to
your correspondent's list, a female name which, when first known in
England, was spelt as above written, and not Emma, as at the present time.
In an old book I have seen the name and its meaning thus recorded,--in
English, _Emme_; in French, _Emme, bonne nourrice_.

I must beg to differ in opinion from your correspondent, even with his
epicene restriction, who states "that _varium et mutabile semper femina_
only means that whatever reads backwards and forwards, the same is _always
feminine_."

If M. will take the trouble to look in Boyle's _Court Guide_ for 1845, p.
358., he will find the name of a late very distinguished general officer,
Sir Burges Camac. A wealthy branch of this family is now established in the
United States, and one of its members bears the name of Camac Camac.

I am unable to give M. another instanc