"The Whetstone of Reproofe, or a Reproving Censvre of the
misintitled Safe Way: declaring it by Discourie of the Authors
fraudulent Proceeding, and captious Cauilling, to be a miere
By-way, drawing pore Trauellers out of the royalle and common
Streete, and leading them deceitfully into a Path of Perdition.
With a Postscript of Advertisements, especially touching the
Homilie and Epistles attributed to Alfric: and a compendious
Retortiue Discussion of the misapplyed By-way. Avthor T.T.
Sacristan and Catholike Romanist.--Catvapoli, apud viduam Marci
Wyonis. Anno MDCXXXII." Sm. 8vo. pp. xvi. 570. 198.

It is an answer to Sir Humphrey Lynd's _Via Tuta_ and _Via Devia_. In
Wood's _Ath. Oxon._, edit. Bliss, fol. ii. col. 602, two answers to the
_Via Tuta_ are mentioned; but this is not noticed. From the author
stating in the preface, "I confesse, Sir Humfrey, I am Tom Teltruth, who
cannot flatter or dissemble," I suppose the initials T.T. to be
fictitious.

John I. Dredge.


_Morganatic Marriages.--Morganatique._--What is the derivation of this
word, and what its _actual signification_?

In the _Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française_ (ed. 4to., 1835), the word
does not appear. In Boister's _Dictionnaire Universel_ (Bruxelles, 1835)
it is thus given:--

"Morganatique, _adj. 2 g._, nocturne, mystérieux, entrainée par
séduction; (mariage) mariage secret des princes d'Allemagne avec