11. Henry Hammond, _Errorum maleus, &c._. (Lloyd's _Memoires_, p. 401.) 12. Dean Comber, "_falsi Malleus_". (Ib. v. 450.) The reader will at once recollect "The hammer of the whole earth," in Jeremiah, L. 23. Grotius, in his note on the "_Malleus_ universæ terræ" of that passage, says,-- "Sic vocat Chaldæos, pari de causâ ut ob quam Francorum quidam dictus est _Martellus_". Compare George Herbert of Lord Bacon,--"Sophismatum _Mastix ... Securis_ que errorum," &c. &c. (_Poems_, p. 253, ed. 1844.) Nor must we forget Attila, "the _scourge_ of God." R.A. _Charles Martel_ (Vol. i. p. 86.)--The following note may perhaps be acceptable in conjunction with that of G.J.K. (p. 86.), on Charles Martel. It is taken from Michelet's _History of France_, an easily accessible work. "Charlemagne is usually considered as the translation of Carolus Magnus. 'Challemaines si vaut autant comme grant challes.' (_Chro. de St. Denis_, 1. i. c. 4.) Charlemagne is merely a corruption of Carloman, Karlmann, the strong man. In the above-cited chronicle itself, the words Challes and Challemaines are used for Charles and Carloman (_maine_, a corruption of _mann_, as _leine_ of _lana_). In the _Chronicle of Theophanes_ a still more conclusive text is found: he calls Carloman [Greek: Karoullomagnos]; _Scr. fr._ v. 187. The two brothers must have borne the same name. In the 10th century, Charles the Bald was dignified, though most undeservedly, with the same title of Great, through the ignorance of the Latin monks.--_Epitaph. ap Scrip. fr_. vii. 322. ... Nomen qui nomine duxit De Magni Magnus, de Caroli Carolus. A similar kind of blunder was made by the Greek writers in the name Elagabal, which they transformed into Heliogabal, from "[Greek: Helios], the sun." With regard to Charles Martel, Michelet does not allude to M. Collin de Plaucy's explanation, and adopts the old version-- "Son surnom païen de Marteau me ferait volontiers douter s'il était chrétien. On sait que le marteau est l'attribut de Thor, le signe de l'association païcune, celui de la propriété de la conquête barbare."--Vide Michelet's _Origines du Droit Français_. Charles was notoriously at variance with the Church. I should consider Michelet a much better authority than M. Collin de Plaucy, who, to judge from his preface to another work, _Le Dictionnaire Infernal_, slavishly submits his critical acuteness to the dicta of his Church. J.B.D. * * * * * "FEAST" AND "FAST." I am not going to take part in the game of _hockey_, started by LORD BRAYBROOKE, and carried on with so much spirit by several of your correspondents in No. 28.; but I have a word to say to one of the hockey-players, C.B., who, _per fas et nefas_, has mixed up "feast and fast" with the game.