[Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel
passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present
correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem.
Besides, it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from
the poem entitled _Woman_, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see antè, pp.
350. 423.).]
_Satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.).--In a note just received by me from Canton,
an American friend of mine remarks as follows:
"When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_
(Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin,
and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to
imitate the Chinese _sz-tün_, have {18} approximated closely to it, and
to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place
referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c."
I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote,
have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my
Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown
the above extract.