"We Germans keep carnival (all the time between Epiphany and Ash-Wednesday) St. Bernard's and St. Martin's days, Whitsuntide and Easter, as times, above all other periods of the year, when we should eat, drink, and be merry. St. Burchard's day, on account of the fermentation of the new must. St. Martin's, probably on account of the fermentation of the new wine: then we roast fat geese, and all the world enjoy themselves. At Easter we bake pancakes (_fladen_); at Whitsuntide we make bowers of green boughs, and keep the feast of the tabernacle in Saxony and Thuringia; and we drink, Whitsun-beer for eight days. In Saxony, we also keep the feast of St. Panthalion with drinking and eating sausages and roast legs of mutton stuffed with{11} garlic. To the _kirmse_, or church feast, which happens only once a year, four or five neighbouring villages go together, and it is a praiseworthy custom, as it maintains a neighbourly and kindly feeling among the people." The pleasing account of the English harvest feast in Gage's _Hengrave_, calls it _Hochay_. Pegge, in his Supplement to Grose's _Provincial Words, Hockey_. Dr. Nares notices it in his _Glossary_, and refers to an account of its observance in Suffolk given in the _New Monthly Magazine_ for November, 1820. See also Major Moor's _Suffolk Words_, and Forby's _Vocabulary of East Anglia_, who says that Bloomfield, the rustic poet of Suffolk, calls it the _Horky_; Dr. Nares having said that Bloomfield does not venture on this provincial term for a _Harvest-home_. S.W. SINGER. May 14. 1850. * * * * * CHARLES MARTEL. (Vol. i. pp. 86. 275.) If Charles _Martel_ must no longer be the _Mauler_, he will only be excluded from a very motley band. Here are a few of his repudiated namesakes:-- 1. The _Maccabæi_ from Hebr. _Makkab_, a hammer. 2. Edward I., "_Malleus_ Scotorum." 3. "St. Augustine, that _Maul_ of heretics, was in chief repute with" Josias Shute, among the Latin Fathers. (Lloyd's _Memoires_, p. 294.) "God make you as Augustine, _Malleum Hæreticorum_." (Edward's _Gangraena_, Part II. p. 17. 1646.) 4. "Robertus Grossetest, Episcopus Lincolniensis, _Romanorum Malleus_, ob. 1253." (Fulman, _Notitia Oxon_. p. 103. 2nd ed.) 5. "Petrus de Alliaco, circ. A.D. 1400, _Malleus a veritate aberrantium indefessus_ appellari solebat." (Wharton in _Keble's Hooker_, i. 102.) 6. T. Cromwell, "_Malleus Monachorum_:" "_Mauler_ of Monasteries" [Fuller, if I recollect rightly, quoted by Carlyle]. Also, "_Mawling_ religious houses." (Lloyd's _State Worthies_, i. 72. 8vo. ed.) 7. Bishop Prideaux, "_Malleus Hærese[=o]s_." (Wood, _Ath. Oxon_. iii. 267.) 8. Hooker, "_Schismaticorum Malleus_," Bp. H. King's Letter to Iz. Walton. 9. Peter Gunning, "_Schismaticorum Malleus_." (Barwick's _Life_, p. 22. Latin ed.) 10. Archbishop Usher, "_Errorum malleus_." (Univ. of Oxford. Parr's _Life of Usher_, p. 101.)