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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 114. 



iSliSttXlmxeaue. 



NOTES OX BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



When Mr. Wilkin, in the year 1836, gave to the 

 world an edition of the works of his illustrious towns- 

 man, Sir Thomas Browne, the critics were unanimous 

 in their praise both of the undertaking and of the 

 manner in which the editor had executed his task. It 

 was felt that the writings of so great a man — of one 

 on whose style Johnson is supposed to have formed 

 his own — and whose Eeligio Medici he eulogized for 

 " the novelty of the paradoxes, the dignity of sentiment, 

 the quick succession of images, the multitude of ab- 

 struse allusions, the subtlety of disquisition, and the 

 strength of language " to be found in it, ought to be 

 made better known ; and Mr. Wilkin's endeavour to 

 make them so was lauded as it deserved. That 

 attempt, however, was but feeble compared with the 

 one now making by Mr. Bohn, who has undertaken to 

 reproduce Mr. Wilkin's excellent edition of The Works 

 of Sir Thomas Browne in his Antiquarian Library. 

 The first volume, containing Four Books of his En- 

 quiries into Common and Vulgar Errors, has been issued; 

 and, we need scarcely add, forms one which is not 

 surpassed for learning, interest, or instruction, by any 

 other in the very cheap and useful series to which it 

 belongs. 



One of the most popular branches of botanical study 

 at the present day is that of our British Ferns, from 

 the very obvious causes — that they are objects of 

 exquisite elegance — not very numerous, nor difficult 

 to be procured — and, lastly, which may well account 

 for their popularity with the dwellers in towns, who 

 yet love to " babble of green fields" and be reminded 

 of them — they are for the most part easily cultivated, 

 and of all others are perhaps best adapted to parlour 

 or window culture. Who then can doubt that, in pre- 

 paring A Popular History of the British Ferns and the 

 allied Plants, comprising the Club- Mosses, Pepperworts, 

 and Horse Tails (with its fifty admirable coloured 

 representations of the most interesting species), Mr. 

 Moore has done good service to the numerous fern 

 growers already existing, "and much to promote the 

 further study of this highly interesting division of the 

 vegetable world. Messrs. Reeve and Benham deserve 

 great credit for the way in which they have seconded 

 Mr, Moore's efforts, by the admirable manner in which 

 the book has been got up. 



Books Received. — The Traveller's Library, Fart 13., 

 containing two more of Mr.Macaulay's brilliant Essays, 

 namely, those On the Life and Writings of Addison, and on 

 Horace Walpole. — Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China 

 during the Years 1844, '45, and '46, by M. Hue : ""trans- 

 lated from the French, by W. Hazlitt. Vol. I. — Pictures 

 of Travels in the South of France, by Alexandre Dumas. 

 These are two new volumes of the National Illustrated 

 Library, and very interesting ones. The value of 

 M. Hue's Travels in China may be judged of from 

 the fact, that Sir John Davis having received some 

 notes of them, considered them so interesting that he 

 thought it right to embody them in a despatch to Lord 

 Palmerston. — The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne 

 Childe. By Elizabeth Joceline. Reprinted fram the 

 Edition of 1625, with a Biographical and Historical 



Introduction. We may content ourselves with acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of this handsome reprint, by the 

 Messrs. Blackwood, as it forms the subject of a com- 

 munication from the correspondent who first drew at- 

 tention to this interesting volume in N. & Q., 

 which we hope to print next week. — Archceologia 

 Cambrensis for January, 1852. This is an excellent 

 number ; and if this record of the antiquities of Wales 

 and its Marches does not meet with the support not 

 only of the antiquaries, but also of the gentry of the 

 principality, it will be a national reproach to them. 



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Among other interesting communications, which, in spite of our 

 enlarged siz>-, we have been compelled to postpone for want of 

 space, are Mr. Crossley on Cibber and Johnson's Lives of the 



Poets some fresh particulars respecting General Wolfe— Mr. 



Chaowick, " Right of Search of Parish Registers " — Mr. Ross, 

 on the Duke's saying, " There is no mistake" — Dr. Todd, on 

 Wady Mokatteb — Index Expurgatorius — " Boiling to Death" — 

 and many other interesting articles which are in type. 



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