in our best public seminaries, and of which I have seen many
glaring instances in the works of Archbishop Potter, Dr. John
Taylor, Mr. Toup, and several eminent scholars now living, who
were brought up in private schools."

But could Parr mean to rank Shrewsbury School among the "private
schools?" I am not old enough to recollect what it was in the times
of Taylor, J., the civilian, and the editor of Demosthenes. Its
celebrity, however, in our own day, and through a long term of
preceding years, is confessed. Dr. Parr's judgement in this case might
be somewhat influenced by his prepossessions as an _Harrovian_.

N.

April, 1850.

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PROVINCIAL WORDS.


In _Twelfth Night_, Act ii. Scene 3., occur the words "Sneck up," in
C. Knight's edition, or "Snick up," Mr. Collier's edition. These words
appear most unaccountably to have puzzled the commentators. Sir Toby
Belch uses them in reply to Malvolio, as,--

_Enter_ MALVOLIO.

"_Mal._ My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have you no