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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 135
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History Of Christian Names. By The Autho...
in The which author she has greatl arranged y assists her her subject readers . by She the admirable classifies it mann under er
Latin seven dis Keltic tinct heads Teutonic : the and Hebrew Slavonic , A . These ient Persian ain , are Greek sub- , ag
divided , according , " to national , appropriation and association . No nanies less than arranged 125 pa ges habe axe tica taken llwith up with their meaning a glossary and of deriva proper
tion ; and _, reference p is made y to , the page at which each several classes name is of ex nanies plained are and treated illustrated of . suc In h as the Patriarchal first volume I , sraeli various te
Latin Persian Christian , mytholog names ical ; names The second , from volume animals deals , G , reek in names and ,
. from Followed the by Keltic descri , pt Gaelic ive names , Cymric , closing , Teu with tonic a , curious and Slavonic chapter .
upon As modern might be names expec . ted _^ from Miss Yonge ' s known t predilec h t t
for on which all that she relates expends to romance the greatest , chivalry care , , and legen illustrates d , he c with ap the ers hiest effectare those relating to Keltic and Teutonic
nomenclature app . It must , be "borne in mind that the Keltic splits into two great branches , the Cymric and the Gadhaelic . t The
former dependencies Tenn embraces son has ; the so the latter " raised Ancient , the the Irish T B able ritish and B , the ound the Scottish a Welsh ain . " , and d called heir g
the mythic y Arthur back into substantial day , that , all which rela popular tes . to The him ch and apter to h upon is kni the ghtl Round y companions Table t f how contains , is the deserve l much dly
curious connected inform with at it ion were , espec preserved ially the . accoun How the o Norman trouvere egends listened to the wild chants of the Triadsand carried them to
reproduced France and by Brittany Marie . of Ther Bretagne e they , lingered and , by our long , Geoffrey and were of wrote in the
fifteenth Monmouth century , thoug , h to it preserve remained the for main Mallory line , who of the allegory d Table ,
which still remains the veritable prose epic of the Roun . golden But the age most of convincing chivalry * is argument found in for the the derivation real existence of proper of this
names ; for as Miss Yonge observes : — gen perh " u Among aps ine Lancelot Cym the ric Boun , an else error d Table such of t names ransl modifica at , _there ti and on is s not of mit L one t atin ion that ; n om is the Teutonic rest as ci a t r izenshi , excep either p t
was sure to leave , to the Britons . " not derivation A be few uninteresting _extracts of respecting , he particularl has been some y scrupulous as of showing Tennyson in that preserving ' s heroines even to unity may the
a name in that design . t Enid in Greece is equivalent and Wales to the Psyche soul , and has nowhere it is singular been
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Notices Of Books. 135
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 135
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/63/
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