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224



MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES.



[Fotxviii, No. 7-



unworldliness, together with its frequently amus-
ing consequences, as a correlative almost insepa-
rable from the laudable virtues which the old
gentleman possessed. Thus he writes to Poole :
"The truth is, my father was not a first-rate
genius; he was, however, a first-rate Christian.
.... In learning, good-heartedness, absentness
of mind, and excessive ignorance of the world, he
was a perfect Parson Adams." 2 Again: "He
was an Israelite without guile, simple, generous,
and taking some Scripture texts in their literal
sense, he was conscientiously indifferent to the
good and the evil of this world." s One gathers
from reading Gillman 4 that the son was accus-
tomed to apply such phrases as ' a sort of Parson
Adams ', ' an Israelite without guile ' to his father,
usually laying more emphasis upon the pastor's
real ignorance of the world than upon his self-
accredited knowledge of it.

In this connection the following parallel may
be of interest to lovers of the Coleridge family. It
is in Leigh Hunt's Toiler for May 24, 1831, where
is given a fragmentary report of Coleridge's ninth
lecture in the course of 1818. This report is more
accessible in Dykes Campbell's reprint in the
Athenaeum of May 4, 1889, from which I quote.
Coleridge happens to be discussing the difference
between the humorist and the man of humor :

"The Humourist is one who erroneously sup-
poses himself calculated for certain things which
occupy his mind, and whose deficiencies in the
very particulars on which he prides himself are
obvious to all about him. I knew, said Mr. C, a
man of this description. He was fond of giving
advice as to the best way of addressing the great,
and of escaping the arts of the designing. He was
one of the most simple-hearted men in the world,
one of the most undesigning and disinterested, and
much less fitted to contend with the subtleties of
mankind than to become himself their dupe."

Who can doubt that we have here a new minia-
ture of the Kev. John Coleridge ? I commend the
picture to the attention of those who may be inter-
ested.

L. Cooper.

Cornell University.



^Letters, ed. El H. Coleridge, 1, 7.
"Letters, 1, 18. 'Life, 2.



French son > seon > secundum.
To ihe Editors of Mod. Lang. Notes.

Sirs : — The Dietionaire General says that son
<Cseon is of uncertain origin. In the second
edition of his Lateinisch-Romanisches Worterbuch,
Korting cites under saeta and summum the
four etymologies that have been proposed, to
wit: — summum by Dietz (now recognized as
impossible in view of seonnum in Du Cange
and of the Old French form seon), secundum
by Littrg, *saetonem by the late Gaston
Paris, and seon, verbal substantive of seoner,
sooner, by Tobler of Berlin. Of the last three
etymologies Korting appears to favor that of
Gaston Paris and even makes no mention of son
<seon under the word secundum. Yet Gas-
ton Paris (R. VIII. 628) did not himself feel
quite sure of his etymology and suggested the
possibility that Littre" might be correct.

In support of the filiation son < seon •< se-
cundum {second product of Ihe grinding), there
exists a dialectic word the argument of which is
decisive. In Le patois de Petit-Noir, canton de
Ghemin, Jura, by F. Richenet, Dole, 1896, {page
207), is found the following entry : " sondo, son
moulu." — in other words, the finer variety of bran,
which is popularly called in France "petit son " as
opposed to " gros son." The ending -o in the
patois of Petit-Noir is the usual suffix of mascu-
line diminutives, and corresponds to the French
suffixes -et, -ot. The presence of the d shows
clearly the origin from secundum, and the
preservation of this consonant proves that the
diminutive sondo is of very ancient formation,
that it existed before the d had disappeared from
secundum, and goes back to *secundittum,
which fact differentiates it from the form
sonnet (= son) that is found in the Glossaire du
patois de la Fortt de Ckdrvaux (Mkmoires de kt
SoeiUt Academique de PAube, t. LI. p. 52.)

Under the article "sondo," F. Bichenet refers
to Detir6 Monnier, Vocabulaire de la hngue
rustique et populaire de la Siquanie (Annuaires
du Jura, 1857 et 1859). This work is not access-
ible to me, but if the reference means that the
word appears there in the same form, it is remark-
able that it has never attracted the attention of
any one.

C. A. Mosemili.ee.

Indiana University.




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