In other respects the volume before us greatly betters its forerunner. That contained many words which were rather vulgarisms than provincialisms, and more properly English than American. Almost all these Mr. Bartlett has left out in revising his book. Once or twice, however, he has retained as Americanisms phrases which are proverbial, such as "born in the woods to be scared of an owl," "to carry the foot in the hand," and "hallooing before you're out of the woods." But it will be easier to follow the alphabetical order in our short list of _adversaria_ and comments. ALEWIFE. We doubt if Mr. Bartlett is right in deriving this from a supposed Indian word _aloof_. At least, Hakluyt speaks of a fish called "old-wives"; and in some other old book of travels we have seen the name derived from the likeness of the fish, with its good, round belly, to the mistress of an alehouse. BANK-BILL. Is not an Americanism. It is used by Swift, Pope, and Fielding. BOGUS. Mr. Bartlett quotes a derivation of this word from the name of a certain _Borghese_, said to have been a notorious counterfeiter of bank-notes. But is it not more probably a corruption of _bagasse_, which, as applied to the pressed sugarcane, means simply something worthless? The word originally meant a worthless woman, whence our "baggage" in the same sense. [Footnote A: This, perhaps, was to be expected; for he calls Dr. Latham's _English Language_ "unquestionably the most valuable work on English philology and grammar--which has yet appeared," (p. xxx., note,) and refers to the first edition of 1841. If Mr. Bartlett must allude at all to Dr. Latham, (who is reckoned a great blunderer among English philologers,) he should at least have referred to the second edition of his work, in two volumes, 1855.] CHAINED-LIGHTNING. More commonly chain-lightning, and certainly not a Western phrase exclusively. CHEBACCO-BOAT. Mr. Bartlett says, "This word is doubtless a corruption of _Chedabucto_, the name of a bay in Nova Scotia, from which vessels are fitted out for fishing." This is going a great way down East for what could be found nearer. _Chebacco_ is (or was, a century since) the name of a part of Ipswich, Massachusetts. TO FALL a tree Mr. Bartlett considers a corruption of to _fell_. But, as we have commonly heard the words used, to _fell_ means merely to cut down, while to fall means to make it fall in a given direction. TO GO UNDER. "To perish. An expression adopted from the figurative language of the Indians by the Western trappers and residents of the prairies." Not the first time that the Indians have had undue credit for poetry. The phrase is undoubtedly a translation of the German _untergehen_ (fig.), to perish.