Leaves From A Word Hunters Notebook Author:Abram Smythe Palmer PREFACE. is In a few instances, where the evidence for two conflicting etymologies seemed almost equally balanced, I have stated both sides of the question without prejudice, and left the decision to others. I should perhaps apologise for printing here the rather long chapter which treats of the superstitious beliefs connected with the West and ... more »North as regions of darkness. That discussion, though it belongs rather to the province of folklore, was suggested by the precediug chapter on the word Night, and arose naturally out of it. The interesting nature of the subject may perhaps render its appearance excusable. Every page of the volume, it will be seen, bears witness to the title that these are truly Leaves from a Note-Book. If, however, they are found to be at all interesting, and not devoid of information, the candid reader will not be so unjust as to condemn them for not being other than they pretend to be..............« less