(2) Port: note that “port” is the equivalent of hithe or haven; thus we have Hythe in Kent, as a substitute for Portus Lemanis; at Oxford, the Port-meadow adjoins Hythe Bridge, and was evidently the town haven. The conditions are similar at Gloucester, where certain meadows, inundated at floods, are called the Portham; adjoining we find Dockham, and Dockham ditch, which is a reduplicated name. The port-walls of Chepstow are the harbour defences on the land side, it being the port or gate of Wye River. New_port_, Mon., is in succession to Caerleon, the old port of River Usk. It follows, as a dead certainty, that the modern word port as used at London, where Port reeve was the precursor of our Lord Mayor, is in succession to the Latin portus, not introduced as a new English word, but preserved by Celto-Romans from Latin usage. Let Mr. Round study the course of those old English roadways throughout England, known as Portways, and called Roman; can the prefix be of English origin if it means “carry,” _i.e._, the portage of merchandise, from the Latin _portare_, to bear? (3-4) Street and wall speak for themselves, and their plain facts will survive any amount of word-twisting. A. H. _TO CORRESPONDENTS._ THE Editor declines to pledge himself for the safety or return of MSS. voluntarily tendered to him by strangers. Books Received. 1. History of the House of Arundel. By J. P. Yeatman. Mitchell & Hughes. 1883. 2. Nantwich. By James Hall. Privately printed. 1884. 3. New Light on Some Obscure Words in the Works of Shakespeare. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. Reeves & Turner. 1884. 4. Western Antiquary. May, 1884. Plymouth: Latimer & Son. 5. A Booke of Fishing. By L. M. 1599. (Reprinted.) Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1884. 6. John Hopkins’ University Studies. Second Series. iv. Baltimore. April, 1884. 7. English Etchings. Part xxxvii. D. Bogue, 3, St. Martin’s Place, W.C. 8. Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution. Edited by F. Hitchman. Field & Tuer. 1884. 9. Guildford and its Coinage. By G. C. Williamson. Privately printed. 10. Hanley and the House of Lechmere. By the late E. P. Shirley, M.P., F.S.A. Pickering. 1883. 11. The Congo Treaty. By T. Tomlinson, M.A. E. Stanford. 1884. 12. Clergyman’s Magazine. June. Hodder & Stoughton. 13. Charities Register and Digest. Longmans & Co. 1884. 14. Le Livre, No. 54. Paris, 7, Rue St. Benoit. June, 1884. Books, etc., for Sale. _Guardian Newspaper_, from commencement to 1864, bound; and 1865-70, in numbers. Offers to E. Walford, Hyde Park Mansions, Edgeware-road, N.W. Books, etc., Wanted to Purchase. _Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer_, several copies of No. 2 (February, 1882) are wanted, in order to complete sets. Copies of the current number will be given in exchange at the office.