_Derivation of "Trianon"_ (Vol. i., p. 439.; vol. ii., p. 13.).--Your correspondent AREDJID KOOES is certainly right: Trianon was the _name of a village_, which formerly stood on the site of these two chateaux. (See Vatout, and all the histories of Versailles.) I would take this occasion of suggesting, that it is essential to the value of your work that your correspondents should be careful not to _lead_ us astray by mere _guesses_. What authority has your correspondent J. K. R. W. (Vol. ii., p. 13.) for asserting that "_trianon_ is a word meaning a _pavilion_?" And if, as I believe, he has not the slightest, I appeal to him whether it is fair to the public to assert it so confidently.
We recently called attention to Mr. Colburn's new Edition of _The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn_. We have now to announce from the same publisher an inedited work by Evelyn, entitled _The History of Religion_, to be printed from the original MS. in the Library at Wotton. The work, which it is said contains a condensed statement and investigation of the natural and scriptural evidences, is the result of an endeavour on Evelyn's part to satisfy himself amidst the startling manifestations of infidelity, fanaticism, and conflicting opinion by which he found himself surrounded.
Sir Fortunatus Dwarris has just put forth a privately printed Letter to J. Payne Collier, Esq., in which he endeavours to solve the great political Query of George the Third's time. His pamphlet is called _Some new Facts and a Suggested New Theory as to the Authorship of the Letters of Junius_. Sir Fortunatus' theory, which he supports with a good deal of amusing illustration by way of proof, is, that Junius, to use the language of Mark Tapley, was "a Co.," "that the writer was one, but the abettors were many," that Sir Philip Francis was the head of the Firm, but that among the sleeping partners were Lords Temple, Chatham, and George Sackville, the three Burkes, Colonel Barré, Dyer, Loyd, Boyd, and others.
It can scarcely be necessary to remind our Archæological friends that the Annual Meeting of the Institute at Oxford will commence on Tuesday next. The selection of Oxford as the place of meeting was a most happy one, and from the preparations which have been made, both by the Heads of Houses and the Managers of the Institute, there can be little doubt of the great success of this Oxford Congress of Archæologists.