in his learned work, Surnames as a Science, London, 1883, p. 17, we have an illustration of the way in which a name may be retained in familiar use, though the word from which it is derived has perished out of the language, though the language itself has passed out of use for more than a thousand years, and though the word itself is only used in a sort of poetical or sentimental sense. Who has not heard in verse or in prose of the "poor dog Tray"? And yet who ever heard, excepting in books, of a dog being called Tray, a word which conveys no meaning to an English ear? It is, I think, the ancient British name for a dog, which is not to be found in any living dialect of the Celtic, and which is only revealed. to us in a casual line of a Roman poet-Martial. 'The British vertrag must have been something of the nature of a greyhound, though, from his bringing back the game unmangled to his master, perhaps capable of a higher training than the greyhound generally attains to.' With regard to the exploit of the dog whose fame lies in Martial's verse, a large farmer whom I knew, a tenant of Queen's College, Oxford, had among his greyhounds one which performed the same feat of bringing the hare it had run down 'untouched by the tooth' to his master's feet. When some one rashly asked whether the faithful animal, before it belonged to our worthy friend, had received its early education from a poacher, the good man vouchsafed no reply, and smiled the smile of the just. Mr. Ferguson continues: 'the ver in vertrag is in the Celtic tongues intensitive, and as prefixed to a word gives the sense of pre-eminence.' It is, Mr. Ferguson shows, connected with the Irish traig, a foot, and the Gothic, Greek, and Sanskrit verbs to run.' The ancient British name then for a dog, 'trag,' signified the 'runner,' and with the intensitive prefix ver, as in vertrag, the 'swift runner.' And trag, is I take it, the word from which s as usual in English becoming y, is formed our word 'Tray. The Latin word is also found in Gratius Faliscus, the author of a poem on the chase, which has been transmitted to modern times in a single MS. The word survives in the Italian veltro,' a greyhound, as well as in our English word 'Tray,' the name of a dog-with this difference, that in · Italian the intensitive prefix is retained, while in the English word it is dropped. Coursing, as practised among the ancients, would form a good subject for a paper by a competent scholar who had that taste for sport which the ordinary run of scholars have not the inclination or the means to pursue. Xenophon, a soldier and a gentleman, a man humane, at least for his age, and of deep religious feelings, was a genuine sportsman, who loved the exercise and excitement of the chase. He wrote a treatise on the training and breeding of dogs, the various kinds of game, and the mode of hunting as practised among the Greeks. I never even looked into this treatise, but an Oxford friend, who was fond of coursing, told me that he had read it with pleasure. Shakespeare, who had an eye for most things, has described the coursing of the hare in his poem of Venus and Adonis, as Mr. Charles Knight has shown in his 'Introductory notice to the poems,' so accurately, that it corresponds in every feature to a paper written on hunting, and especially hare-hunting, in a little volume full of ability published in 1825-Essays and Sketches of Character, by the late Richard Ayton, Esq. January 31, 1891. Abbot, Abp., ii. 131. INDEX. Aberdeen, King's College, ii. 104. Addison, Joseph, verses to Dryden, ii. 415. 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