2">'» S. VII. Feb. 26. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ing the periodical loaf^ doled out in alms. Others 

 would derive loafer from the German land'liiufer, 

 literally, latid-nmner, i. e. a vagabond. 



Thomas Boys. 

 View of Cannons (2"^ S. vi. 497.) — Cannons 

 Park, Little Stanmore, Middlesex, formerly the 

 seat of the Dukes of Chandos. A view of the 

 present mansion will be found in Britton and 

 Brayley's Beauties of England, not a very good 

 one, but sufficient to give a general idea of the 

 place. E.N. M.S. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



lA)gic in Theology, and other Essays. By Isaac Taylor. 

 (Bell & Daldy.) 



We shall best do our duty to our readers by giving 

 them a short account, criticism apart, of the Essays in- 

 cluded in this volume by their original and gifted author. 

 Logic in Theology is a review of Jonathan Edwards's doc- 

 trine of Fatalism, and a protest against its application to 

 daily life. The 2nd Essay gives a melancholy account of 

 the low state of Unitarianism in England. The 3rd, en- 

 titled "Nilus, or the Christian Courtier in the Desert," 

 is a kindly portrait of a phase of Christian character 

 quite foreign to our times, and guides us to detect and 

 honour real goodness under the most uncouth disguise. 

 The 4th draws a picture of Paula and Eustochium, under 

 the spiritual guidance of Jerome, and finds a parallel in 

 Lady Huntingdon and Whitfield. The 5th and Gth ex- 

 tract principles for our guidance in the government and 

 Evangelisation of India from the history of Theodosius 

 and Julian. While, in the concluding Essay, our author 

 endeavours to point out a resting-place for Faith, apart 

 from controversial system and theory. 



BoswdVs Life of Johnson. Edited by the Rght Hon. 

 John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S. With Illustrations. 

 Part I. (Murray.) 



There is all the difference in the world between a low- 

 priced book and a cheap one. Boswell's matchless bio- 

 graphy of the great moralist, handsomely printed and 

 illustrated, and with all Croker's notes (which are Mur- 

 ray's copyright, and form most valuable additions to the 

 biography), complete in ten monthly Parts at one shilling 

 each, must be pronounced both low-priced and cheap. 

 No book better deserves to be widely circulated ; and cer- 

 tainly no library, however humble, need now be without 

 a complete edition of BosivelVs Johnson upon its shelves. 



Lord Byron's Poetical Works. Parts I. and II. To be 

 completed in Nine Farts. (Murray.) 



What we have just said above of Boswell's Johnson 

 applies with equal force to the new issue of Byron's 

 Poetical Works, which, it must be remembered, is pub- 

 lished by the only publisher who can issue a perfect or 

 complete edition. 



Lost and Found; or Light in the Prison. A Narrative, 

 with original Letters, of a Convict condemned fur Forgery. 

 Edited by Benjamin Bensley. 



Without entering on a critical examination of the doc- 

 trinal matters contained in this work, we can recommend it 

 to those of our readers who are endeavouring to reclaim 

 our criminal population, as a cheering instance of a con- 

 vict nobly redeeming his one false step. There is a mystery 

 in the temptation of the convict that the editor confesses 

 himself unable to clear up, though we find that he illus- 

 trates his remarks by extracts from the communications 



respecting " the Forged Assignats " which have appeared 

 in the course of our last volume. 



Reynardus Vulpes. Poema ante Annum 1280, a quodam 

 Baldwino e Linqua Teutonicn Translatum, Sfc. Rectidi cu- 

 ravit M. F. A. G. Campbell. (Williams & Norgate.) 



The admirers of Reynard the Fox, and the wide cj'cle 

 of romances of which he is the hero, are greatly indebted 

 to Mr. Campbell for this handsome reprint of a short Latin 

 poem on the subject, hitherto unknown, and which has 

 been recently discovered at the end of an edition of the 

 Speculum Stultorum of Nigellus Worecher, printed by 

 Nick Ketelaer and Ger. de Leempt, about 1478. 



A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, including the Prac- 

 tice of the Collodion Process. By T. Frederick Hardwick. 

 Fifth Edition. (Churchill.) 



Each new edition of Mr. Hardwick's useful Manual has 

 been an improvement on its predecessor. In the present, 

 the Fifth, tne most important improvements are in those 

 parts of the book which relate to the Chemistry of Collo- 

 dion, the Printing Processes of Sir John Herschel, and 

 others; while the part of the work devoted to practical 

 photography has been enriched by nearly one hundred 

 pages of additional matter. 



A Manual of the Philosophy of the Voice and ' Speech, 

 especially in relation to the English Language and the Art 

 of Public Speaking, Sec. By James Hunt, Ph. D., &c. 

 (Longman.) 



An elaborate essa}' upon the subject, which, we should 

 think, must be read with advantage by all who labour 

 under those disadvantages in speaking which it is Mr. 

 Hunt's peculiar object to remedy. 



Animal Physiology. By William B. Carpertter, M.D. 

 New Edition, thoroughly revised, and partly rewritten. 

 (Bohn.) 



This attempt on the part of Dr. Carpenter to supply an 

 Educational Treatise on Animal Physiology is a valuable 

 addition to Bohn's Scientific lAbrary, and an admirable 

 companion to the volume on Vegetable Physiology re- 

 cently noticed by us. 



Would not the Society of Antiquaries, which enjoys a 

 r03'al charter for the promotion of sound Archseologj', be 

 acting up to the spirit of that charter hy investigating 

 the vexed questions to which the recent remarkable dis- 

 coveries of leaden reliques, of a character hitherto un- 

 known to Antiquaries, have given rise? The public are 

 now invited to inspect an extraordinary collection of 

 these peculiar objects. Why should not the Society of 

 Antiquaries depute a Committee to examine and report 

 upon them ? The Society might thereby help to secure 

 them for the National Museum, if satisfied of their genu- 

 ineness, or boldly avow their conviction that they are 

 fabrications, if convinced that they are so. 



Our attention has been called to the Prospectus of an 

 Exhibition of Historical Portraits and of Objects of Ar- 

 chaeological interest, and of Art, which It is proposed to 

 hold in Aberdeen, on occasion of the meeting of the 

 British Association, in the autumn of 1859, under the 

 Presidency of the Prince Consort. The promoters of this 

 judicious movement, a number of gentlemen connected 

 with the Northern Counties, propose to talje advantage of 

 the above occasion to assemble and exhibit, arranged in 

 S3'stematic order, such objects as serve to illustrate the 

 histor}', the antiquities, and the progress of arts and man- 

 ners in the North of Scotland. For this purpose the}' 

 hope to bring together, in the first place, a large number 

 of the works of Jamesone, the earliest Scottish painter of" 

 merit, who was himself an Abei-deen artist, and whose 

 pictures are to be found chiefly in Northern houses. 

 Along with these will be collected other old portraits, 

 having relation to Scotland, which possess sufficient in- 



