"Tony Alsop, editor of the _AEsopian Fables_;" a work published by him at Oxford, in 1698, 8 vo., in the preface to which he took part against Dr. Bentley, in the dispute with Mr. Boyle. J.I. Trinity College, Oxford. * * * * * REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. _Origin of the Word "Snob"_.--I think that _Snob_ is not an archaism, and that it cannot be found in any book printed fifty years ago. I am aware that in the north of England shoe-makers are still sometimes called _Snobs_; but the word is not in Brockett's _Glossary of North Country Words_, which is against its being a genuine bit of northern dialect. I fancy that _Snobs_ and _Nobs_, as used in vulgar parlance, are of classic derivation; and, most probably, originated at one of the Universities, where they still flourish. If a _Nob_ be one who is _nobilis_, a _Snob_ must be one who is _s[ine] nob[ilitate]_. Not that I mean to say that the _s_ is literally a contraction of _sine_; but that, as in the word slang, the _s_, which is there prefixed to _language_, at once destroys the better word, and degrades its meaning; and as, in Italian, an _s_ prefixed to a primitive word has a privative effect--e.g. _calzare_, "to put on shoes and stockings;" _scalzare_, "to put them off:" _fornito_, "furnished;" _sfornito_, "unfurnished," &c.; as also the _dis_, in Latin (from which, possibly, the aforesaid _s_ is derived), has the like reversing power, as shown in _continue_ and _discontinue_--so _nob_, which is an abbreviation of _nobilis_, at once receives the most ignoble signification on having an _s_ put before it. The word _Scamp_, meaning literally a fugitive from the field, one _qui ex campo exit_, affords another example of the power of the initial _s_ to reverse the signification of a word. All this, Mr. Editor, is only conjecture, in reply to "ALPHA's" query (No. 12 p. 185.); but perhaps you will receive it, if no better etymology of the word be offered. A.G. Ecclesfield, Jan. 21. 1850. _Derivation(?) of "Snob" and "Cad."_--I am informed by my son, who goeth to a Latin school, that _Snob_ (which is a word he often useth) cometh of two Latin words; to wit, "_sine obolo_"--as who should say, "one that hath not a cross to bless himself." He saith, that the man behind the omnibus is called "_Cad_," "_a non cadendo_." Your humble servant, THE GOVERNOR. * * * * * _Mr. Macaulay and Bishop Burnet_.--The passage in which Mr. Macaulay calls Burnet "a rash and partial writer," alluded to by your correspondent in No. 3. p. 40., occurs towards the end of his Essay on "Sir William Temple," p. 456. of the new edition in one volume. ETONIENSIS. * * * * * _Circulation of the Blood_.--"A.W." (No. 13. p. 202.) is referred to Smith's _Dictionary of Biography_, article NEMESIUS. J.E.B. MAYOR. * * * * *