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Patronymica Cornu-Britannica ; or, the Etymology of Cornish Surnames. By

R. S. Charnock. (Longmans.)—Dr. Charnock has collected from various sources nearly 1,400 surnames used in the county, for which_ he accounts with unfailing ingenuity. Many of these belong, of coarse,. to other counties as well as to Cornwall, but most have the local claa- racteristics ; between four and five hundred of them beginning with Tie, and more than a hundred more with Pen. Surnames constitute a branch of the science of philology which is much neglected ; the book before us is a valuable contribution to it.