_Shrew_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--The word, I apprehend, means sharp. The mouse, which is not the field-mouse, as Halliwell states, but an animal of a different order of quadrupeds, has a very sharp snout. Shrewd means sharp generally. Its bad sense is only incidental. They seem connected with scratch; screw; shrags, the end of sticks or furze (Halliwell); to shred (A.-S., screadan, but which must be a secondary form of the verb). That the shrew-mouse is called in Latin _sorex_, seems to be an accidental coincidence. That is said to be derived from [Greek: urax]. The French have confounded the two, and give the name _souris_ to the common mouse, but _not_ to the shrew-mouse. I protest, for one, against admitting that Broc is derived from _broc_, persecution, which of course is participle from break. We say "to badger" for to annoy, to teaze. I suppose two centuries hence will think the name of the animal is derived from that verb, and not the verb from it. It means also, in A.-S., _equus vilis_, a horse that is worn out or "broken down." C.B. _Zenobia_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Zenobia is said to be "gente Judaea," in Hoffman's _Lexicon Universale_, and Facciolati, ed. Bailey, Appendix, voc. _Zenobia_. M. Oxford. _Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 24. p. 389.).--There is Woolaston, in Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now to the Duke of Beaufort. C.B. _Vox et præterea Nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247., and No. 24. p. 387.).--This saying is to be found in Plutarch's _Laconic Apophthegms_ ([Greek: Apophthegmata Lakonika]), Plutarchi _Opera Moralia_, ed. Dan. Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649. Philemon Holland has "turned it into English" thus:-- "Another [Laconian] having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale, and seeing what a little body it had: 'Surely,' quoth he, 'thou art all voice, and nothing else.'"--_Plutarch's Morals_, fol. 1603. p. 470. W.B.R. _Law of Horses._--The following is from Oliphant's _Law of Horses, &c._, p. 75. Will any of your readers kindly tell me whether the view is correct? "It is said in _Southerene_ v. _Howe_ (2 Rol. Rep. 5.), _Si home vend chivall que est lame, null action gist peur ceo, mes_ caveat emptor: _lou jeo vend chivall que ad null oculus la null action gist; autrement lou il ad un conterfeit faux et_ bright eye." "If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_ eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit, false, and _bright eye_."