"And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."
It is not difficult, therefore, to understand how this notion prevailing among the Greeks, might lead them to frame a new word from á¼ and δέλÏÏ Ï, to express the uterine relation of brothers, which would soon in common use supplant the older Indo-German term ÏÏαÏá½´Ï. For further reasons which may have influenced the dropping of the word ÏÏαÏá½´Ï, I would refer to a learned article on "Comparative Philology" in the last number of the _Edinburgh Review_, by Dr. Max Müller.
With regard to the derivations suggested by MR. BROWN from the Hebrew, Arabic, &c., I think I am justified in laying down as a rule that no apparent similarity between words in the Semitic and Asian families can be used to establish a real identity, the two classes of language being radically and fundamentally distinct.
_Finger Pillories_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--Meeting recently with a person who, although illiterate, is somewhat rich in oral tradition and local folk lore, I inquired if he had ever seen such a thing as that described by MR. LAWRENCE. He replied that he had not, but that he had frequently heard of these "stocks," as he called them, and that he believed they were used in "earlier days" for the purpose of inflicting _penance_ upon those parishioners who absented themselves from mass for any lengthened period. My informant illustrated his explanation with a "traditionary" anecdote (too fabulous to trouble you with), which had been the means of imparting the above to him. Whether correct or not, however, I must leave others to determine.
[Will our correspondent favour us with the tradition to which he refers?]
_Blackloana Heresis_ (Vol. iv., p. 239.).--The accounts given of Blacklow and his religious heresy merely excite curiosity. Will no one furnish some brief particulars of him and his proceedings? For what was Peter Talbot famous, and where may his history be read?
_Quaker Expurgated Bible._--A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Vol. iv., p. 412.) has answered my Query respecting this Bible in a manner not very satisfactory. He says "no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends" to publish such a Bible, and that the Society adopt the English authorised version only. The authority from which I quoted did not say that the committee had been appointed by the Society of Friends, or that the object of the proposed publication was to supersede the version authorised by the Church, which (as is well known) is adopted, as your correspondent states, by the Society. What she states is this:--That about four years ago a Committee of Friends intended to publish such an edition of the Bible, for daily perusal in Friends' families; and that a prospectus was printed, in which it was promised that every passage of the Bible would be carefully expunged which was unfit for reading aloud, and also those which might be called dangerous, which the unlearned and unstable might wrest to their own destruction.