The fascinating volumes above named will afford a reply to an unanswered Query in your second volume (Vol. ii., p. 266.), the meaning of the local word _Hanger_: "The high part to the S.W. consists of a vast hill of chalk, rising 300 feet above the village; and is divided into a sheep down, the high wood, and _a long hanging wood_, called _The Hanger_."--Vol. i. p. 1. W. L. NICHOLS. Lansdown Place, Bath. _Passage in Thomson_ (Vol. vii., p. 67.).--_Steaming_ is clearly the true reading, and means that the exhalations which _steam_ from the waters are sent down again in the showers of spring. This will appear still clearer by reference to a similar passage in Milton's Morning Hymn, which Thomson was evidently copying: "Ye mists and exhalations that now rise From hill or _steaming_ lake, dusky or grey," &c. C. {146} _Passage in Locksley Hall_ (Vol. vii., p. 25.).--If Tennyson really meant his readers to gather from the lines in question, that the curlew's _call gleams_ about the moorland, he used a very bold figure of speech, yet one not uncommon in the vivid language of Greece. For example: "[Greek: Paian de lampei stonoessa te nêrus homaulos.]" And again, "[Greek: Elampse ... artiôs phaneisa phama.]" (Sophocles.) So also, "[Greek: Boa prepei.]" (Pindar and Æschylus.) May it not, however, be just possible that Tennyson did not mean _anything_? A. A. D. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. NEWMAN'S FERNS. Large Edition. ENIGMATICAL ENTERTAINER. Nos. I. and II. 1827 and 1828. Sherwood & Co. NORTHUMBRIAN MIRROR. New Series. 1841, &c. BRITISH DIARY FOR 1794, by COTES and HALL. HEATH'S PALLADIUM. REUBEN BURROW'S DIARIE, 1782-1788. MARRAT'S SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL. New York. MATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENT (American.) LEEDS CORRESPONDENT. Vol. V., Nos. 1, 2, and 3. MATHEMATICAL MISCELLANY. 1735. TURNER'S MATHEMATICAL MISCELLANY. 1750. WHITING'S SELECT EXERCISES, with KEY. WALTON AND COTTON'S ANGLER, by HAWKINS. Part II. 1784. DE LA CROIX'S CONNUBIA FLORUM. Bathoniæ, 1791. 8vo. REID'S HISTORICAL BOTANY. Windsor, 1826. 3 vols. 12mo. ANTHOLOGIA BOREALIS ET AUSTRALIS. FLORILEGIUM SANCTARUM ASPIRATIONUM. LADERCHII ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI, 3 tom. fol. Romæ, 1728-1737. TOWNSEND'S PARISIAN COSTUMES. 3 Vols. 4to. 1831-1839. THE BOOK OF ADAM. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS, THE SONS OF JACOB. MASSINGER'S PLAYS, by GIFFORD. Vol. IV. 8vo. Second Edition. 1813. SPECTATOR. Vols. V. and VII. 12mo. London, 1753. COSTERUS (FRANÇOIS) CINQUANTE MEDITATIONS DE TOUTE L'HISTOIRE DE LA PASSION DE NOSTRE SEIGNEUR. 8vo. Anvers, Christ. Plantin.; Or Any of the works of Costerus in any language. GUARDIAN. 12mo. WHAT THE CHARTISTS ARE. A Letter to English Working Men, by a Fellow-Labourer. 12mo. London, 1848. LETTER OF CHURCH RATES, by RALPH BARNES. 8vo. London, 1837. COLMAN'S TRANSLATION OF HORACE DE ARTE POETICA. 4to. 1783.