_Alarum_ (Vol. ii., pp. 151. 183.).--There can be no doubt that the word _alarm_ (originally French) comes from the warning war-cry _à l'arme_. So all the French philologists agree; and the modern variance of _aux armes_ does not invalidate so plain an etymology. When CH. admits that there can be no doubt that _alarm_ and _alarum_ are identical, it seems to one that _cadit questio_,--that all his doubts and queries are answered. I will add, however, that it appears that in the words' original sense of an _awakening cry_, Shakspeare generally, if not always, spelled it _alarum_. Thus-- "Ring the _alarum_ bell!"--_Macbeth_. "--Murder "_Alarum'd_ by his sentinel the wolf." _Macbeth_. "When she speaks, is it not an _alarum_ to love?" _Othello_. "But when he saw my _best-alarum'd_ spirits roused to the encounter."--_Lear_. In all these cases _alarum_ means incitement, not _alarm_ in the secondary or metaphorical sense of the word, which has now become the ordinary one. In truth, the meanings, though of identical origin, have become almost contradictions: for instance, in the passage from _Othello_, an "alarum to love"--incitement to love--is nearly the reverse of what an "alarm to love" would be taken to mean. C. _Practice of Scalping among the Scythians, &c_. (Vol. ii., p. 141.).--Your correspondent T.J. will find in Livy, x. 26., that the practice of scalping existed among the Kelts. "Nec ante ad consules ... famam ejus cladis perlatam, quam in conspectu fuere Gallorum equites pectoribus equorurn suspensa gestantes capita, et lanceis infixa ovantesque moris sui carmine." W.B.D. _Gospel Tree_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--In reply to W.H.B., I may mention that there is a "Gospel Tree" near Leamington. I do not know of one so called in Gloucestershire. GRIFFIN. _Martinet_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--There is no doubt the term _martinet_ is derived from the general officer _M. de Martinet_ indicated by MR. C. FORBES, and who was, as Voltaire states, celebrated for having restored and improved the discipline and tactics of the French army; whence very strict officers came to be called _martinets_: but is it also from this restorer of discipline that the name of what we call _cat-o'-nine-tails_ is in French _martinet_? This is rather an interesting Query, considering how severely our neighbours censure our use of that auxiliary to discipline. C. _"Yote" or "Yeot"_ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--You may inform B. that _Yote_ or _Yeot_ is only provincial pronunciation of _Yate_ or _Gate_, a way or road. The channel made to conduct melted metal into the receptacle intended for it, is called a gate. GRIFFIN. _Map of London_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--The map of London, temp. Edw. VI., in the Sutherland collection, has been recently engraved. It is of singular curiosity. I do not know the name of the publisher. R.