ETYMOLOCIES. - I3elief in the influence of the heavens, the air, and. the flight of birds upon human affairs has left traces in all languages. The Greek _cri-po,BoAci•cu, and the Latin siderari, sideratio, templum, have been already referred to. In French, hear, rnalhcar, heurcax, malheureux, are all derived from the Latin augurium; the expression ne S011.4 WIC mauvaise Mile, born under an evil star, corresponds (with the change of elate into astre) to the word malolne, in Provencal malastrue ; and son etoile pdlit, his star grows pale, belongs to the same class of illusions. The Latin ex augurio appears in the Italian seiagura, sciagurato, softened into sciaura, sciaraato, wretchedness, wretched. The influence of a particular planet has also left traces in various languages ; but these must rather be explained by chiromancy than by astrology. The French and English jovial and the English saturnine correspond rather to the gods who served as types in chiromancy than to the planets which bear the same names. But this is not the case with the expressions bien or mal lune, well or ill-mooned, aroir an gnarlier de lune dans in tete, to have the quarter of the moon in one's head, nor with the German mondsiicktig and the English moonstruck; the fundamental idea of such expressions lies in the extraordinary opinions formerly held about the moon. The belief in good or evil influence by the mere medium of a look has also left its mark on language ; as in the Italian it lwn, it cattle' occhio, the good, or evil, eve jeNatura, bewitching by a look, &c. (J. A.)