_Materials for a History of Druidism.--_ "It would be a commendable, useful, and easy task to collect what the ancients have left us on the subject of Druidism. Such a collection would form a very small but interesting volume. It would supersede, in every library, the idle and tedious dreams and conjectures of the Stukeleys, the Borlases, the Rowlands, the Vallanceys, the Davies's, the Jones's, and the Whitakers. Toland's work on the Druids, though far from unexceptionable, has more solid intelligence than any other modern composition of its kind. It is a pity that he or some other person has not given as faithful translations of the Irish Christian MSS. which he mentions, as these have, no doubt, preserved much respecting Druidical manners and superstitions, of which many vestiges are still existing, though not of the kind usually referred to." "The Roman history of Britain can only be collected from the Roman writers; and what they have left is very short indeed. It might be disposed of in the way recommended for the History of the Druids."--Douce's notes on Whitaker's _History of Manchester_, vol. i. p. 136. of Corrections in Book i., ibid. p. 148. ANON. _Domestic Chapels._--There is an interesting example of a domestic chapel, with an upper chamber over it for the chaplain's residence, and a ground floor underneath it for some undiscoverable purpose, to be seen contiguous to an ancient farm-house at Ilsam, in the parish of St. Mary Church, in the county of Devon. The structure is quite ecclesiastical in its character, and appears to have been originally, as now, detached from the family house, or only connected with it by a short passage leading to the floor on which the chapel itself stood. JOHN JAMES. _Ordinary._--The following is a new meaning for the word _ordinary_:--"Do ye come in and see my poor man, for he is _piteous ordinary_ to-day." This speech was addressed to me by a poor woman who wished me to go and see her husband. He was ordinary enough, although she had adorned his head with a _red_ night-cap; but her meaning was evidently that he was far from well; and Johnson's _Dictionary_ does not give this signification to the word. A cottage child once told me that the dog opened his mouth "a power wide." [Old English W. N.] _Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for 1854._--In the advertisement prefixed to this valuable compilation, which, according to the _Quarterly Review_, "contains more information about Ireland than has been collected in one volume in any country," we may find the following words: