And the writer then proceeds to moralise on the inequality of that code of laws, which could visit with death the author of a burglary committed on another man, who, by the failure of his bank, had recently produced an unexampled scene of distress, in the ruin of many families, and was yet suffered to go scatheless. My next notice, which is also extracted from a Wiltshire paper, is dated 1836. "In a street adjoining Hungerford Market, there is now living, 'to fortune and to fame unknown,' the great-grandson of the author of _Robinson Crusoe_. His trade is that of a carpenter, and he is much respected in the neighbourhood. His father, a namesake of this great progenitor, was for many years a creditable tradesman in the old Hungerford Market." Has it ever been noticed by bibliographers that the _History of Robert Drury_, which came out the year before _Robinson Crusoe_, may have had an equal share with Alexander Selkirk's story in forming the basis of De Foe's narrative? WILTONIENSIS. _English Surnames: Bolingbroke_ (Vol. v., p. 326.).--During a visit to Bolingbroke, a village in Lincolnshire, the birth-place of Henry IV., the rapidity of the little stream, so unusual in a county remarkable for the sluggishness of its waters, suggested to me the probable origin of the name, _bowling brook_; "bowling along," and "running at a bowling pace," being not uncommon expressions. Here then, if we cannot meet with "sermons in stones" amongst the few vestiges of the castle, and in the church with its beautiful decorated windows, the heads of which are so disgracefully blocked up with plaster, we may "find books in the running brooks," and learn that "proud Bolingbroke" owed his appellation to this insignificant babbling rivulet. C. T. _Waistcoats worn by Women._--Now that we hear no more of Bloomerism, a feeble attempt has been made to introduce a spurious scion of the defunct nuisance, almost as masculine, and to the full as ugly. I have but little fear of its gaining ground, having full confidence in the good taste of our countrywomen: but it will be curious to see what our ancestors of the seventeenth century thought of the wearers of the aforesaid garment. Vide the Glossary to Beaumont and Fletcher's _Works_: "WAISTCOATEERS. Strumpets; a kind of waistcoat was peculiar to that class of females." Verbum non amplius addam. W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. Temple. _"Thirty Days hath September," &c. (Antiquity of)._--Professor De Morgan, in his useful List of Works on Arithmetic, published in 1847, enters one, under the date 1596, with the following title: "_The Pathway to Knowledge_, written in Dutch, and translated into English by W. P., 4to." To this he notes: