I shall not here pursue further the vicissitudes and the fate of “port” and “chester,” but shall content myself with noticing the instructive fact, that, while these words have come down to us, similarly, in compound forms alone, “chester” is a component in the names of _places_, and “port” in the names of _things_ (including, thereby, offices). Now, if “a walled town” was the meaning of _ceaster_, and “a trading town” the meaning of _port_, why should we find this marked difference in the use of words which, in sense, appear to have differed so slightly? Why does “chester” end words, and “port” begin them? Why is a town called a “chester,” when its governor is a “_port_-reeve,” and its court a “_port_-manmote?” The answer is to be found in this distinction: the _ceaster_ was the town _objectively_, that is, viewed as a natural object, a walled enclosure; the _port_ was the town _subjectively_, that is, relatively to trade, “in its character of a mart or city of merchants.”[48] Thus it was that while _ceaster_ retained its sturdy objectivity, and was merely qualified, as a place-name, by the addition of a distinctive prefix, _port_, on the other hand, referring as it did to the town viewed in a particular aspect, was only strong enough to become itself a prefix, used, for the purpose of distinction, in a quasi-adjectival sense. In _port-mote_ it served to distinguish the moot held in the “port” from the _scir-mote_ and _tun-mote_; in _port-reeve_ it served to distinguish the reeve of the “port,” or trading town, from the _scir-reeve_, the _wic-reeve_, and reeves other innumerable.[49] MESSRS. BURNS & OATES have announced the intended publication of a series of reprints of scarce ascetical books, many of which exist in the possession of private collectors, as heirlooms of old Catholic families, and in the libraries of religious houses. Among them are “Three Ways of Perfection,” (1663); “Sweet Thoughts of Jesus and Mary,” (1658); “Memorial of a Christian Life,” (1688), &c. The works will be edited by Mr. Orby Shipley, M.A. The “Titurel” of Wolfram von Eschenbach. TRANSLATED BY JULIA GODDARD. (_Continued from p. 134._) CONCLUSION OF PART I.--_Siguna and Schionatulander._