_Gentile Names of the Jews._--The Query in Vol. viii., p. 563., as to the
Gentile names of the Jews, leads me to inquire why it is that the Jews are
so fond of names derived from the animal creation. Lyon or Lyons has
probably some allusion to the lion of the tribe of Judah, Hart to the hind
of Naphtali, and Wolf to Benjamin; but the German Jewish names of Adler, an
eagle, and Finke, a finch, cannot be so accounted for. The German Hirsch is
evidently the same name as the English Hart, and the Portuguese names Lopez
and Aguilar are Lupus and Aquila, slightly disguised. Is the origin of
Mark, a very common Jewish name, to be sought in the Celtic _merch_, a
horse?