In the Moeso-Gothic Gospels the word sprauto occurs several times and always in the sense of cito, subito; and though we have hitherto, I believe, no other example in Anglo-Saxon of this adverbial use of the word, we are warranted, I think, in concluding, from the analogy of a cognate language, that it did exist.  In regard to the evidently corrupt Latin word salu, I have nothing better to offer than the forlorn conjecture that, in monkish Latin, “saltu’t” may have been contractedly written for saltuatim.”

Dr. Leo, in his Angelsachsiche Sprachproben, has reprinted the Colloquy, but without the Latin, and, among many other capricious deviations from Mr. Thorpe’s text, in the answer of the shoewright has printed hygefata! but does not notice the word in his Glossary.  Herr Leo has entirely omitted the word sprote.

S.W.  SINGER.

Jan. 14. 1850.

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LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING.

[NASO has, in compliance with our request, furnished us with a facsimile of the heading of his early number of The Times, which is as follows:—­“THE (here an engraving of the King’s Arms) TIMES, OR DAILY UNIVERSAL REGISTER, PRINTED LOGOGRAPHICALLY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12. 1788,” and informs us that it was printed “By R. Nutkins, at the Logographic Press, Printing-House Square, near Apothecaries’ Hall, Blackfriars,” and the height to which the Mr. Walter of that day had brought his invention, by the same energy by which his successor has raised THE TIMES to its present position, is shown by the following note from a kind and most able correspondent.]

A much more remarkable specimen of Logographic Printing than the number of the Times newspaper mentioned by NASO, No. 9., p. 136., is an edition of Anderson’s History of Commerce, with a continuation, in 4 vols. 4to., printed by that method in 1787-1789, “at the Logographic Press, by J. Walter, Printing-House Square, Blackfriars.”  The work, which makes in all not much short of 4000 pages, is very well printed in all respects; and the following interesting note on the subject of Logographic Printing is attached to the preface heading the Continuation, or fourth volume.

“Mr. Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the Public a few observations on his improved mode of printing LOGOGRAPHICALLY.  In all projects for the general benefit, the individual who conceives that the trade in which he is engaged diminishes in its emoluments from any improvement which another may produce in it, is too much disposed to become its enemy; and, perhaps, the interest of individuals never exerted itself with more inveteracy than has been experienced by Mr. Walter from many concerned in the trade into which he had entered.