_Reversible Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--Emme might have been added to your correspondent's list, a female name which, when first known in England, was spelt as above written, and not Emma, as at the present time. In an old book I have seen the name and its meaning thus recorded,--in English, _Emme_; in French, _Emme, bonne nourrice_. I must beg to differ in opinion from your correspondent, even with his epicene restriction, who states "that _varium et mutabile semper femina_ only means that whatever reads backwards and forwards, the same is _always feminine_." If M. will take the trouble to look in Boyle's _Court Guide_ for 1845, p. 358., he will find the name of a late very distinguished general officer, Sir Burges Camac. A wealthy branch of this family is now established in the United States, and one of its members bears the name of Camac Camac. I am unable to give M. another instance, and doubt if one can be easily found where the Christian and surnames of a gentleman are alike, and both reversible. W. W. Malta. _Etymology of Eve_.--Only one instance of a reversible name seems to me at present among the _propria quæ maribus_, and that is Bob. As, however, the name of our universal mother has been brought forward, you will, perhaps, allow me to transcribe the following remarkable etymology: "Omnes nascimur ejulantes, ut nostram miseriam exprimamus. Masculus enim recenter natus dicit A; foemina vero E; dicentes E vel A quotquot nascuntur ab Eva. Quid est igitur _Eva_ nisi _heu ha_? Utrumque dolentis est interjectio doloris exprimens magnitudinem. Hinc enim ante peccatum virago, post peccatum _Era_ meruit appellari.... Mulier autem ut naufragus, cum parit tristitiam habet," &c.--_De Contemptu Mundi_, lib. i. c. 6., à Lothario, diacono cardinali, S.S. Sergii et Bacchi, editus, qui postea Innocentius Papa III. appellatus est. BALLIOLENSIS. _Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas_ (Vol. viii., p. 585.).--Allow me to correct a gross error into which I have been led, by an imperfect concordance, in hastily concluding that the words "In te Domine speravi, non confundar in æternum," were not in the Psalms, as I have found them in the Vulgate, Psalms xxxi. 1. and lxxi. 1. T. J. BUCKTON. Lichfield. _Binometrical Verse_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 375.).--In answer to these inquiries, the copyright of this united hexameter and pentameter belongs to Mr. De la Pryme, of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, who is also the author of another line which is both an alcaic and sapphic: "Quando nigrescit sacra latro patrat." X. _Gale of Rent_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--Gale [_Gavel_, Sax., a rent or duty,] a periodical payment of rent. The Latin form of the word is _gabellum_, and the French _gabelle_. (See Wharton's _Law Lexicon_.) [Greek: Halieus]. Dublin. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.