GAMES CITED BY FROISSART (pp. 34, 35).--The passage here rendered (with the omission of two or three obscure names of amusements) is from "L'Espinette Amoureuse," l. 143-338, 35-47. Many of the games mentioned cannot now be recognized from the titles given. Others, however, can be identified; thus, _Queue loo loo_ (keuve leu leu) is No. 106 of the present collection; _Oats_ (avainne), No. 21; _Scorn or Derision_ (risées), perhaps No. 61; _King who does not lie_, perhaps No. 55; _Grasses_ (erbelette), No. 42; _Cligne-musette_ (Cluignette), No. 105; _Pince-merine_, according to Menagier de Paris, lxxvii., the same as _Pince-sans-rire_, No. 77, C. _Playing with nuts_, No. 144; _Throwing pence_, etc., No. 144, B. _Pebbles_ (pierettes), No. 137, or No. 148. _Hook_ (havot), perhaps _Hockey_, No. 136. _Mule_, a kind of leapfrog, still played in Italy, _Salta-muletta_, Gianandrea, No. 30. A species of this game in Philadelphia is now called _Saults_. Replies (réponniaux), a sort of _Hide and seek_, No. 105, in which the concealed person indicates his whereabouts in answer to a call; see same poem, l. 2653. _Astonishment_ (esbahi), a game which consisted in imitating that emotion; thus, when the horses of a party have given out unexpectedly--"I should think we were playing at Astonishment," says one of the cavaliers, looking at the faces of the rest (Dict. of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, art. "Esbahi"). On the whole, the impression which the catalogue gives us, is that the sports of a child in the Middle Ages were very similar to those of to-day, or, perhaps we should rather say, of yesterday. LOVE-GAMES (p. 39).--This is an old name for games representing or offering opportunity for courtship, as "love-songs" is for ballads. We have heard both expressions in New England, from the lips of aged persons, in whose youth they were current. See the Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1738. NOTES TO GAMES. No. 1. English versions are numerous. Halliwell, Nurs. Rh. (6th ed.), Nos. 332, 333. Pop. Rh., pp. 123, 124. Chambers, p. 143; p. 141, "Janet jo." Notes and Queries, 1st ser. VI. 241; 5th ser. IV. 51, 157.--_German_, Meier, p. 107 (cited), 109: Handelmann, p. 62. Vernaleken, p. 55, etc.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii. 175 f.--_Icelandic_, Arwiddson, iii. 182. Lyngbye, Faeröiske Quaeder, p. 37, introd. note.--_Faroese_, Antiq. Tids., 1849-51, p. 310, "Princes riding," compare No. 3.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 43, "L'Imbasciatore." Gianandrea, No. 23, "Il bel Castello."--_Spanish_ (Catalan), Maspons y Labrós, p. 47, "La Conversa del rey Moro."--_French_, Ch. du Cambresis, i. 80.