"An unanswerable defence of Phonetic Spelling, and one of the earliest schemes of Phonetic Orthography. A considerable portion of the book being printed in the author's Phonetic Alphabet (given in the present edition in Phonetic Longhand), we have thus exhibited the pronunciation of the age of Shakspeare." W. C. TREVELYAN. _Kentish Local Names; Dray_ (Vol. vi., p. 410.).--In the low embanked land in the west of Somersetshire, between Bristol and Taunton, the word _drove_ is used in the same acceptation; and _driftway_, I think, is also a term for ancient British roads in some parts of the kingdom. W. C. TREVELYAN. _Monument at Modstena_ (Vol. vi., p. 388.).--This monument was first published in _Archæologia Æliana_. I believe it is an incised slab; but I have written to a friend in the north to inquire whether I am correct. W. C. TREVELYAN. _Book-plates_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--MR. PARSONS, it appears, limits his inquiries to English book-plates, about which I cannot offer any information. It is certain, however, that book-plates were used on the Continent at a very early period. I remember to have seen one, from a wood-block, which was cut by Albert Dürer for his friend Pirkheimer. As it is sixteen years since I saw it at the Imperial Library at Vienna, I cannot be expected to give a precise description; but (as far as I recollect) the wording of it was as follows: "Bilibaldi Pirckheimeri et Amicorum." A copy which I possess of Vesalius's great anatomical work (Basil, 1555) has the book-plate of a former Duke of Mecklenburg pasted inside the cover. It is a woodcut, ten inches by six and a half, representing the ducal arms, surrounded by an ornamented border. Beneath are the date and inscription: 15 E 75 H. G. V. V. G. VLRICH H. Z. ME- CKELNBVRG. I do not know what the first six letters stand for, nor is it worth inquiring. The latter part of the inscription--"Ulrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg"--identifies the former possessor of the volume. JAYDEE.