In the Acta Sanctorum, volume II for February, being volume V of the whole work, under date of February 16th, the assigned date of her martyrdom, we find two lives of St. Juliana, both edited by Bolland himself. One of these lives is by an anonymous author, and is edited from eleven mss., collected by Bolland from various libraries duly specified; and the other is by a certain Peter, a sub-deacon, and is edited from mss. at Naples and at Capua. This Life is dedicated by Peter to an “Egregio Patri Domno Petro sanctae Parthenopensis Ecclesiae optimo Pastori,” at whose request it claims to have been written, and who is identified by Bolland with Peter, Archbishop of Naples, 1094-1111. If this identification is correct, the second Life is much later than the first; and it is written in a much more ornate and elaborate style, frequently interspersed with hexameter verses.

Since the publication, in 1879, of Bechtel's Über die Bezeichnungen der sinnliehen Wahrnehmungen little has been done in this field. In fact, the ground there broken seems to have become fallow again. Perhaps this is because the book is based on a now antiquated phonetic system. But, in the main, the principles there advocated are none the less true, even though many of the etymologies are no longer tenable. This paper is intended, therefore, to rehabilitate these principles and supply some deficiencies.

It is true that the poets often allow proper names to disturb the rhythmic character of verse; but there are limits beyond which few versifiers will be found to push any special license that they may be disposed to exercise in the use of names. The famous Shakespearean crux in the line,

“Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius Vllorxa,”

[Timon, III, iv, 112.]

The existence of the Christus Redivivus of Nicholas Grimald was questioned by Herford, Literary Relations, &c., and denied by the writer of the life of Grimald in the National Dictionary of Biography. We now know, from Goedeke, Grundriss, second ed., that a copy is in the Wolfenbüttel Library. See my letter in the London Academy, February 9, 1895. Soon after the appearance of that letter I received, from Herrn Spirgatis, the well-known antiquarian-dealer in Leipsic, a friendly note, in which he called my attention to Bahlmann, Die lateinischen Dramen seit Wimpfeling's Stylpho, in which Bahlmann mentions the existence of a copy in the Berlin Royal Library.