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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 117. 



Perhaps some of your correspondents may be 

 able to throw more light on the transaction, and 

 assist in deciding which is the correct version. 



R.S.V.P. 



Abigail (Vol. iv., p. 424. ; Vol. v., p. 38.).— We 

 are told in No. 115. that Abigail was a handmaid. 

 The Bible, however, tells us, that she was the wife 

 of Nabal, a rich man, as I pointed out in a letter 

 which has not been printed. Speaking to David, 

 no doubt, she repeatedly uses the common phrase 

 in the Bible, " thine handmaid," which would 

 equally prove that the Virgin Mary was a servant. 



C. B. 



Moravian Hymns (Vol. iv., p. 502. ; Vol. v., 

 pp. 30. 63.). — With regard to Moravian hymns, it 

 would be very valuable to know whether the little 

 book by Rimius, London, 1753, is really honest, 

 which contains such shocking and inconceivable 

 extracts from them. It is a translation from a 

 Dutch book by Stinstra. C. B. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



When we consider the popularity attached to the 

 illustrious name of Humboldt, and the great interest 

 excited by the publication of his travels, we scarcely 

 think Mr. Bohn is doing himself justice by including 

 the Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial 

 Regions of America during the Years 1799 — 1804, hy 

 Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland ,- written 

 in French hy Alexander von Humboldt : translated and 

 edited by Thomasijia Ross, of which the first volume is 

 now before us, in his Scientific Library. His doing so 

 will have a tendency to discourage its perusal by many 

 readers who, having no claim to be considered scien- 

 tific, will be deterred from opening the pages of a 

 book which, had they met with it in the Standard 

 Library, they would have read and re-read with all the 

 interest which Humboldt's power of contemplating 

 nature in all her grandeur and variety, and of record- 

 ing the impressions produced by such contemplations, 

 can never fail to excite. We hope this brief notice 

 may be the means of recommending this valuable work 

 to the general reader ; to the scientific one it has been 

 so long known, as to render any such recommendation 

 not at all necessary. 



We spoke so favourably of The Woman's Journey 

 round the World, when noticing the translation of it 

 issued by Messrs. Longman in their Traveller's Library, 

 that we have now only to record the appearance of 

 another translation in the Illustrated National Libraryt 

 which differs from the former in being given in an 

 unabridged form; and accompanied by some dozen 

 clever illustrations. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Gibbon's Decline and Fall. Vol. II. Dublin. Luke White. 



1789. 

 Elslby on the Gospbl and Acts. London, 1833. Vol. I. 



Aristophanes, Bekker. London, 1829. In 2 vols. Vol. IL 

 Spenser's Works. Pickering's edition, 1839. Sm. 8vo. Vol.V. 

 Wharton's Anglia Sacra. Fol. Vol. II. ' ' 



Lydgate's Boke OP Troge. 4to. 1555. (Any fragment.) > 

 Coleridge's Table Talk. Vol. I. Murray. 18.35. 

 The Barbers (a poem), by W. Button. 8vo. 1793. (Original 



edition, not the fac-siraile.) 

 The Doctrine and Practice of the Church op Rome trulit 



Represented, by Edw. Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, edited 



by William Cunningham, Win. Edinburgh. 

 A Catechism truly Representing the Doctrines and Prac- 

 tices OF THE Church of Rome, with an Answer to them, by 



John Williams, M.A. 

 The Sale Catalogue of J. T. Brockett's Library of British and 



Foreign History, &c. 1823. 

 DoDD's Certamen utriusque Ecclesi* ; or a List of all the 



Eminent Writers, Catholics and Protestants, since the Refor- 

 mation. 1724. 

 DoDD's Apology for the Church History of England. 1748. 



12mo. 

 Specimens for Amendments for Dodd's Church History, 



1741. 12mo. 

 Journal op the Geological Society of Dublin. Vol. I. Parti. 



(Several Copies are wanting, and it is believed that many are 



lying in London or Dublin.) 

 Ch. Thillon (de Halle) Nouvelle Collection des Apo- 



CRYPHE3. Leipsic, 1832. 

 Theobald's Shakspearb Restored, etc. 4to. 1726. 

 A Sermon preached at Fulham in 1810 by the Rev. John Owen 



of Paglesham, on the death of Mrs. Prowse, Wicken Park, 



Northamptonshire (Hatchard). 

 FtJssLEiN, JoH. Conrad, Beytrage zur Erlauterttng der 



Kirchen-Reformations-geschichte des Schweitzerlandes. 



6 Vols. Zurich, 1741. 



%* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be sent to Mn. Bell, Publisher of " NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



C. & J. S., who inquire respecting the phrase " At Sixes and 

 Sevens," are referred to our 3rd Vol. pp. 118. 425. 



J. E. S. willfind the line : 

 " When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war," 

 in Nat. Lee's Alexander the Great. 



W. S. S. We are obliged by our correspondent's offer respecting 

 the Liber Festivalis, which we are only deterred from acceptittg 

 from the fear that want qfroom may prevent our using his notis. 



The title of the Rev. J. Robertson's book, referred to in our 

 answer to G. S. M. in our last week's Number, is, " How shall we 

 conform to the Liturgy '? " not " Litany," as was inadvertent^ 

 printed. 



Replies Received Clerical Members of Parliament — Lords 



Marchers — Hexameter Verses in the Scriptures — Learned Men 

 named Bacon — Derivation of Era — Collar of SS. — Meaning qf 

 Delighted — Sleckstone — Serjeants' Rings — Son of the Morning- 

 Voltaire — The Golden Bowl — Olivarius — Moravian Hymns -^ 

 Tripos — Age of Trees — Parish Registers — Quarter Waggoner 



— Valentine's Day — Inveni Portum — Epigram on Burnet — 

 Crosses and Crucifixes — Monody on Death of Sir John Moore — 

 MSS. of Sir H. St. George— Preached from a Pulpit — Coverdale't 

 Bible — Allen of Rossull — Slavery in Scotland — Boiling to Death 



— Execution cf Charles L — Reichenbach's Ghost Stories. 



Volume the Fourth of Notes and Queries, with very co» 

 pious Index, is now ready, price ds. Gd. cloth boards. 



Neat Cases for holding the Ntimbers q/" " N. & Q." until the 

 completion of each Volume are now ready, price Is. 6d., and may 

 be had by order qfall booksellers and newsmen. 



" Notes and Queries " is published at noon on Friday, so that 

 the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, 

 and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday. 



Errata. — In Mr. Russell Smith's advertisement last week, the 

 address should have been "36. Soho Square;" the words "36. 

 Soho Square removed from" having been accidentally omitted. 

 Page 29. col. 1. 1. 1. for "Alius" read "Abbas," 1.25. for 

 "Nicholas" read "Nicolas;" p. 30. col. 1. 1. 1. for "Bimell" 

 read " Burrell ;" p. 35. col. 1. 1.21. for "TwctwIow" read 

 " Twewilow." 



