12 OCTOBER 1912, Page 17

QUAINT NORMAN SURNAMES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Is not Croque-vielle probably " a poor player on the vielle or hurdy-gurdy "F Littre gives Croque-note : "musicien pauvre ou panvre musicien." Of the other names mentioned, only Dieudonne and Lenormand seem to have crossed the Channel—as Dudeney and Norman.—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. R. P.