In a note on this passage, Mr. Wright reprints one of the testimonials from Rymer (_Foedera_, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 174.), in which is the following passage: "Nobilis vir _Malatesta Ungarus de Arminio_ miles." In the original deed, the text must have been _de Arimino_ (of Rimini); for the person here referred to was a natural son of Malatesta de' Malatesti, Lord of Rimini and of Pesaro, and took the name of _L'Ungaro_ in consequence of his having been knighted by Louis, King of Hungary, when the latter passed through the Malatesta territory, when he was going to Naples for the purpose of avenging his brother Andrew's death. In the Italian account of the family (Clementini, _Raccolto Istorico della Fondazione di Rimino_. Rimino, 1617-27. 2 vols. 4to.), L'Ungario is said have been a great traveller, _to have visited England_, and to have died in 1372, at the age of 45. (See also Sansovino, _Origine e Fatti delle Famiglie Illustri d'Italia_. Venetia, 1670. 4to. p. 356.) F.C.B. * * * * * DIRECT AND INDIRECT ETYMOLOGY. I have just been exceedingly interested in reading a lecture on the _Origin and Progress of the English Language_, delivered at the Athenæum, Durham, before the Teachers' Society of the North of England, by W. Finley, Graduate of the University of France. The following passage well expresses a caution that should be always kept in mind by the literary archæologist: "In the orthography of English words derived from the Latin, _one great and leading principle_ must be kept in view. If the word is of new adoption, it is certain that its spelling will be like that which appears in the original word; or if it has come to us through the French, the spelling will be conformable to the word in that language; thus, persecution from _persequor_, pursue from _poursuivre_. Again, flourish from _fleurir_, efforescent, florid, &c., from _floreo_. And to establish our orthography on certain grounds, it ought to be the business of the lexicographer to determine the date of the first appearance of an adopted word, and thus satisfactorily determine its spelling." (_Lecture_, p. 20. footnote.) D.V.S. Home, March 2. * * * * * ERRORS IN POPE'S HOMER'S ODYSSEY. In all the editions I have seen of this translation, the following very palpable errors exist, which I do not remember to have seen noticed. The first of these errors is contained in book ix. lines 325, 326, 463, and 533, "Fools that ye are! (the savage thus replies, His inward fury blazing at his _eyes_.)" "Sing'd are his _brows_: the scorching _lids_ grow black." "Seest thou these _lids_ that now unfold in vain?" and consists in Mr. Pope having bestowed two organs of sight on the giant Polypheme. The second occurs in line 405 of the same book; "Brain'd on the rock: his _second_ dire repast;"