which contain, of course, but few names of places. Were Europe divided into five unequal parts, say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British Isles; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, &c.; 4. France and Spain; 5. Italy, Turkey, &c.; and maps of these five parts given, the Northern Countries at three periods, the British Isles at four ditto, and the others at seven periods, as above, we should require twenty-eight maps (not too great a number, as the King's College _Modern Atlas_, of a convenient size, has twenty-five), which if they contained names of places as closely packed as the King's College _Atlas_, and laid down from Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, would soon, it may be said without much foresight, be in the hands of so many readers of history, as to answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking to bring them out. 4. A copy of O'Brien's _Irish-English Dictionary_, _first_ edition, 4to., old, half-calf, margins a little water-stained, otherwise perfect and clean, lately priced at 25_s._, to be exchanged for a clean copy of the edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more portable), and a clean copy of Thady Connellan's elementary _Irish Dictionary_, published by Wall, Temple Bar; Hatchard, and Rivingtons: or the latter will be purchased at a moderate price, without exchange. Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so in "N. & Q." MAC AN BHAIRD. Minor Queries. _The Azores._--In a note in _Our Village_ (vol. v.), Miss Mitford says that this name was given to these islands collectively, on account of the number of hawks and falcons found on them. Is the name Spanish; and does the Natural History of the islands at the present time confirm the assertion? J. O'G. _Johnny Crapaud._--In one of Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe books is the following entry of a trinket, devised at the period of the Duke of Alençon's courting her Majesty: "Item, one little Flower of gold, with a _Frog_ thereon; and therein mounseer his physnomie, and a little Pearl pendant." "'Query,' says Miss Strickland (_Queens_, vol. vi. p. 471., 1st edit.), 'was this whimsical conceit a love-token, from the Duke of Alençon to his royal _belle amie_, and the frog designed, not as a ridiculous, but a sentimental allusion to his country?'" To which Query I would add another: When was the term of _Johnny Crapaud_ first applied to the French people, and on what occasion? I am aware of the notion of its being on account of their said partiality for eating frogs; which, by the bye, having tasted, I can pronounce to be very good: _mais chacun à son goût_. Is the frog introduced in the arms of Anjou or Alençon? PHILIP S. KING.