Is not this a good instance of the true difference of meaning in these two words, which are now loosely used as if strictly synonymous? H.G.T. _The Conquest_ (Vol. ii., p 440).--W.L. is informed that I have before me several old parchment documents or title-deeds, in which the words "post conquestum" are used merely to express (as part of their dates) the year after the accession of those kings respectively in whose reigns those documents were made. P.H.F. _Land Holland_ (Vol. ii., p. 267. 345.).--J.B.C. does not say in what part of England he finds this term used. Holland, in Lincolnshire, is by Ingulph called _Hoiland_, a name which has been thought to mean _hedgeland_, in allusion to the sea-walls or hedges by which it was preserved from inundation. Other etymologies have also been proposed. (See Gough's _Camden_, "Lincolnshire.") In Norfolk, however, the term _olland_ is used, Forby tells us, for "arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years, q.d. _old-land_." In a Norfolk paper of few months since, in an advertisement of a ploughing match, I observe a prize is offered "To the ploughman, with good character, who shall plough a certain quantity of _olland_ within the least time, in the best manner." C.W.G. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. The Camden Society have just issued to the members a highly important volume, Walter Mapes _De Nugis Curialium_. The best idea of the interesting character of this work may be formed from the manner in which it is described by its editor, Mr. Thomas Wright, who speaks of it as "the book in which this remarkable man seems to have amused himself with putting down his own sentiments on the passing events of the day, along with the popular gossip of the courtiers with whom he mixed;" and as being "one mass of contemporary anecdote, romance, and popular legend, interesting equally by its curiosity and by its novelty." There can be little doubt that the work will be welcomed, not only by the members of the Camden Society, but by all students of our early history and all lovers of our Folk Lore.