"Is 't hoera? Is 't hoera? Wat drommel kan 't u schelen? Brul, smeek ik, geen Kozakken na! Als Fredrik's batterijen spelen-- Als Willem's trommen slaan Blijv' Neerland's oorlogskreet: 'Val aan!' Waar jong en oud de vreugd der overwinning deelen, Bij Quatre-Bras' trofee, Blijve ons gejuich _Hoezee_!" Accept or reject this doggerel translation: "Is it hurrah? Is it hurrah? What does that concern you, pray? Howl not like Cossacks of the Don! But, when Frederic's batteries pour-- When William's drums do roar-- Holland's war-cry still be 'Fall on!' When old and young Raise the victor's song, At Quatre-Bras' trophy, Let _Huzzah_ our joy-cry be!" _Hoera_ (hurrah) and _hoezee_ (huzza), then, in the opinion of Staring, and indeed of many others, have not the same origin. Some have derived _hoezee_ from _hausse_, a French word of applause at the hoisting (Fr. _hausser_) of the admiral's flag. Bilderdijk derives it from Hussein, a famous Turkish warrior, whose memory is still celebrated. Dr. Brill says, "_hoezee_ seems to be only another mode of pronouncing the German _juchhe_." Van Iperen thinks it taken from the Jewish shout, "Hosanna!" Siegenbeek finds "the origin of _hoezee_ in the shout of encouragement, 'Hou zee!' (hold sea)." Dr. Jager cites a Flemish author, who says "that this cry ('hou zee,' in French, _tiens mer_) seems especially to belong to us; since it was formerly the custom of our seamen always 'zee te houden' (to keep the sea), and never to seek shelter from storms." Dr. Jager, however, thinks it rather doubtful "that our _hoezee_ should come from 'hou zee,' especially since we find a like cry in other languages." In old French _huz_ signified a cry, a shout; and the verb _huzzer_, or _hucher_, to cry, to shout; and in Dutch _husschen_ had the same meaning.--From the _Navorscher_. _Major Andre_ (Vol. viii., p. 174).--The sisters of Major Andre lived until a comparatively very recent date in the Circus at Bath, and this fact may point SERVIENS to inquiries in that city. T. F. In reply to SERVIENS'S Query about Major Andre, I beg to inform him that there is a good picture of the Major by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the house of Mrs. Fenning, at Tonbridge Wells, who, I have no doubt, would be enabled to give him some particulars respecting his life. W. H. P. _Early Edition of the New Testament_ (Vol. viii., p. 219.).--The book, about which your correspondent A. BOARDMAN inquires, is an imperfect copy of Tyndale's _Version of the New Testament_: probably it is one of the _first edition_; if so, it was printed at Antwerp in 1526; but if it be one of the second edition, it was printed, I believe, at the same place in 1534. Those excellent and indefatigable publishers, Messrs. Bagster & Sons, have within the last few years reprinted both these editions; and if your correspondent would apply to them, I have no doubt but they will be able to resolve him on all the points of his inquiry.