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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. VII. June 18. '59. 



Great was our regret at the publication of Mr. Dyce's 

 Observations ; greater when we found Mr. Collier reply- 

 ing to them in his last edition of Shakspeare — and it is 

 made greater still by this rejoinder on the part of Mr. 

 Dyce. These scholars have reversed the state of things 

 in Verona, for, from their ancient friendship, has sprung 

 their violent hate. Each now feels that he is — 



" Hated by one he loved ; brav'd by his brother ; 

 Check'd like a bondsman ; all his faults observed, 

 Set in a note-book, learn'd and conn'd by rote 

 To cast into his teeth ; " — 



and is chafed and embittered by the feeling. Is there no 

 mutual friend, who, without stopping to inquire into who 

 gave the first offence, can step forward as a mediator and 

 remind them of what Johnson so well says, " that there are 

 higher laws than those of criticism " — and address them 

 as the poet addressed Brutus and Cassius : — • 



« . . , . What do you mean — 

 Love and be friends, as two such men should be." 



The Sonnets of William Shakspeare re-arranged and 



divided into Four Parts, with an Introduction and Ex- 

 planatory Notes. (J. Russell Smith.) 



The time has long since passed when a commentator 

 on Shakspeare could venture to declare that nothing less 

 striiigent than an Act of Parliament would induce the 

 admirers of the poet to read his Sonnets a second time. 

 They are now regarded with a very different spirit — 

 Coleridge, Hallam, Tieck, have all admitted their ex- 

 treme beauty. The object, however, for which they were 

 written remains as mysterious as ever ; and the ingenious 

 author of the present volume who would see in them, 

 among other things, the friendship of Shakspeare for 

 Southampton leading him to warn his noble friend against 

 the influence and ill example of the brilliant, but dissi- 

 pated Marlowe, has produced a work well calculated to 

 draw farther attention to these remarkable productions. 



A Select Glossary of English Words used formerly in 

 Senses different from their present. By Richard Chenevix 

 Trench, D.D. (J. VV. Parker & Son.) 



The Dean of Westminster, who has already done so 

 much to encourage the study of our own language, has 

 in this little volume given a fresh stimulus to that im- 

 portant branch of education. Its object is to trace in a 

 popular manner and for general readers the changes of 

 meaning which so many English words have undergone ; 

 words which are as current with us as they were with our 

 forefathers, yet mean something different on our lips, from 

 what they meant upon theirs. Dean Trench alludes to 

 the increasing pressure upon young men to complete their 

 educational course at the earliest possible date ; and well 

 remarks that as the number who can enjoy the inestim- 

 able advantages, mental and moral, of a classical educa- 

 tion, must be growing smaller, how desirable it is that 

 they should be provided with the best substitute, and 

 which he considers will be found in our language and 

 literature. It is needless here to insist upon the good 

 work which the Dean of Westminster has already accom- 

 plished in his endeavours to popularise a knowledge of 

 that language and that literature by his Study of Words 

 and English Past and Present; but we think we may 

 predict that neither of these works will contribute more 

 directly to that great end than this Select Glossary, which 

 forms as it were the completion of his scheme. 



Books Received. — 



Rita ; an Autobiography. (Bentlej'.) • 



This new volume of Benfley's Standard Novels is a 

 pleasant and well-written tale, well deserving a place in 

 the series. 



What's in d Name? being a Popular Explanation of 

 Ordinary Christian Names of Men and Women. By 

 T. Nickle Nichols. (Routledge.) 



When Heywood presented to Queen Elizabeth his 

 Complete Collection of Proverbs, " Bate me an ace, quoth 

 Bolton," was the Queen's reply, and the very proverb 

 was missing in the volume. " What is the popular mean- 

 ing of ' Nickle ? ' " said we ; but we turned to Mr. Nickle's 

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Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By Rev. J. G. 

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The work preserves its amusing and interesting cha- 

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