Dr. Pring’s arguments could similarly be rebutted at every point, but lest I weary the patience of your readers, it will probably be sufficient if I invite them to observe that on the one hand, Dr. Pring, deriving “port” from _porta_, declares the process by which a _town_ came to be called a _gate_, so “easy and obvious” (p. 114), that he need not (_i.e._, cannot) explain it; while, on the other, Mr. Hall, deriving port from _portus_, is equally confident that an inland town would, in the natural course of things, be known as a sea-port (_portus_)! When Dr. Pring has converted Mr. Hall, or Mr. Hall has converted Dr. Pring, it will then, and not before, be time for them to think of uniting their forces in a combined attack on my own theory, which sees in the Anglo-Saxon “port,” as found in “port-reeve,” &c., a word with a denotation different from that either of _portus_ or of _porta_. At present it remains, unimpugned, as the only rational and consistent theory. It will, doubtless, like all original theories, be viewed at first with suspicion and dislike, but I hope, in time, to have it cast at me, _more Pringensi_, by those who do so, that it is “scarcely necessary” to prove it, as it is to all “a well-known fact.” J. H. ROUND. _Colchester._ _TO CORRESPONDENTS._ THE Editor declines to pledge himself for the safety or return of MSS. voluntarily tendered to him by strangers. Books Received. 1. The Old Registers of St. John Baptist, Peterborough. By Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A. Peterborough: G. C. Caster. 1884. 2. The Hull Quarterly. Parts i.--iii. Hull: A. Brown & Sons. 1884. 3. A Guide to the Roman Villa near Brading. By J. E. Price, F.S.A., and F. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A. Tenth Edition. Ventnor: Briddon Brothers. 1884. 4. The Earldom of Mar. By P. H. McKerlie, F.S.A. Scot. Privately printed. 1884. 5. Annus Sanctus. Hymns of the Church for the Ecclesiastical Year. Selected and arranged by Orby Shipley, M.A. Burns & Oates. 1884. 6. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. By J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, F.R.S. Longmans & Co. 1884. 7. Our Parish Books, and What they Tell us. By J. M. Cowper, F.R.H.S. Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. 1884. 8. Buckfast Abbey. By the Rev. S. Hamilton, O.S.B. Ramsgate: _Kent Coast Times_ Office. 1884. 9. Wilton Castle. By the Vicar of the Parish. London: E. Stamford. 1884. 10. Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series: East Indies, China, and Persia (1625-1629). Edited by W. Noel Sainsbury. Longman & Co. 1884. 11. English Scholar’s Library. Capt. John Smith’s Works (1608-1631). By Edward Arber, 1, Montague-road, Birmingham. 1884. 12. Plant Lore and Garden Craft of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Henry N. Ellacombe, M.A. Second edition. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1884. Books, &c., for Sale. Works of Hogarth (set of original Engravings, elephant folio, without text), bound. Apply by letter to W. D., 56, Paragon-road, Hackney, N.E.