J.W.H.
_Etymology of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--Surely _to parse_ is to take
by itself each _pars_, or part of speech. The word does not seem to have
been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his _Posing of the Parts: or, a
most plain and easie Way of examining the Accidence and Grammar_. This work
appears to have been very popular, as I have by me the _twelfth_ edition,
London, 1669. In 1612, the same author issued his _Ludus Literarius: or the
Grammar Schoole_. Both these works interest me in him. Can any of your
readers communicate any particulars of his history?
J.W.H.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Admiration of the works of Holbein in Germany, as in this country, seems to
increase with increasing years. We have received from Messrs. Williams and
Norgate a copy of a new edition of his Bible Cuts lately published at
Leipsic, under the title _Hans Holbein's Altes Testament in funfzig
Holzschnitten getreu nach den Originalen copirt. Herausgegeben von Hugo
Burkner, mit einer Einleitung von D.F. Sotymann_, to which we direct the
attention of our readers, no less on account of the beauty and fidelity
with which these admirable specimens of Holbein's genius have been copied,
than of the interesting account of them prefixed by their new editor.
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