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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 130. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It is always a boon to historical literature when a 

 man of learning and industry devotes himself to a mono- 

 graph of any particular person or period. When we 

 saw, therefore, in the Gentleman's Magazine, the able 

 and interesting papers by Mr. Cunningham, on the his- 

 tory of one who, whatever might have been her life, so 

 died, that Tennison did not hesitate to preach her 

 funeral sermon, we felt sure that those papers could 

 never be allowed to remain the " sole property" of the 

 readers and admirers of our good friend Sylvanus 

 Urban ; and we have proved right in our anticipation. 

 The Story of Nell Gwyn, and the Sayings of Charles II., 

 related and collected by Peter Cunningham, which has 

 just been issued, consists of a reprint of those papers, 

 greatly enlarged and increased in value by the inform- 

 ation which has reached the author since they ap- 

 peared in their original form. We know of no volume 

 of the same extent calculated to give a more graphic or 

 faithful picture of the heartlessness and depravity of 

 the age of profligacy in which his heroine lived, an age 

 which furnishes a striking proof how true it is that in- 

 dividuals, communities, and even whole nations, will 

 after a time seek compensation for a state of gloomy 

 and unchristian fanaticism in one of unbridled licen- 

 tiousness. 



Mr. Cunningham has, in this handsomely illus- 

 trated volume, treated a subject which required very 

 nice handling with great tact ; and his book deserves 

 to be placed on the shelves with Pepys and Evelyn, 

 as a necessary supplement to them. Can we give it 

 higher praise ? Its quaint and characteristic binding 

 is a clever fac-simile of the morocco binding which 

 Charles II. so loved. 



We are indebted to the publishers of the National 

 Illustrated Library for a new memoir of the great 

 founder of American independence. The Life of Ge- 

 neral Washington, First President of the United States, 

 written by himself; comprising his Memoirs and Corre- 

 spondence, as prepared by him for publication, including 

 several Original Letters -now first printed, edited by the 

 Rev. C. W. Upham, forms two volumes, which have 

 been written or compiled on the principle, now we be- 

 lieve first applied to Washington, of making the subject 

 of the memoir, as far as possible, his own biographer. 

 This task Mr. Upham has executed with much ability 

 and excellent judgment; and we know of no work 

 calculated to give the general reader a better or more 

 correct idea of the personal character of one of whom 

 the Americans boast, that he was '• first in war, first in 

 peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 



Some of our readers may be interested to know that 

 the collection of black-letter ballads, formerly in the 

 Heber collection, and described in the Bibliotheca He- 

 heriana, vol. iv. pp. 28 — 33., was sold on Monday last 

 at the auction of Mr. Utterson's library at Messrs. 

 Sotheby's. After a rather brisk bidding, Mr. Halliwell 

 became the purchaser at the sum of 104/. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO rURCHASE. 



Bkougham's Men of Letters. 2nd Series, royal 8vo., boards. 



Original edition. 

 Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare. Royal 8vo. Parts XLII. 



XLIII. XLIV. L. and LI. 

 CoNDKit's Analytical View of all Religions. 8vo. 

 Newman's (J. H.) Present Position of the Catholics in 



England. 

 Halliwell on the Dialects of Somersetshire. 



SCLOPETARIA, Of REMARKS ON RlFLES, HiC. 



Sowerby's English FrNGi. Vol. HI. 



Supplement to Sowerby's English Fungi. 



European Magazine. Vols. XXIII. XXIV. and XXV. 



Poetic Wreath. Small 8vo. Newman. 



Gems from British Poets. 4 Vols. Tyas. 



Calliope, a Selection of Ballads Legendary and Pathetic. 



Suttaby, 1808. 

 The Works of Lord Byron. Vols. VL VII. and VIII. 12mo. 



Murray, 1823. 

 AIallet's Poems. Bell's edition. 

 Mallet's Play op Elvira. 1763. 

 JoANNis Lelandi Collectanea. Vol. V. 1774. 

 Bishop Patrick's Commentary on the Bible. The Volume* 



containing Joshua and Judges. Small 4to. 

 Kent's Anthems. Vol. I. folio. Edited by Joseph Corfe. 

 The Mathematician. Vol. I. No. 1. 1844. 

 Maculloch's Highlands and Islands of Scotland. 

 Back's Voyage of the Teuror, 8vo. 

 Back's Overland Journey in the Arctic Regions, 8vo. 

 L'HisToiRE DE LA Saincte Bible, par Royau.\ionde : a Paris, 



1701. 

 Johnson's (Dr. S.) Works, by Murphy. Trade Edition of 1816, 



in 8vo. Vol. XII. only. 

 Scott's Continuation of Milner's Cbcrch History. Vol. II. 



P;irt II. 8vo. 

 Winkelman's Reflections on the Painting of the Greeks, 



translated by Fuseli. London, 1765. 8vo. 

 Royal Proclamations in England in the Year 1683, extend- 

 ing TO AND INCLUDING THE Year 1707. London, folin. 

 Tyrwitt's Solid Reasons for Philosophizing. Winchester, 



1652. 

 Ben rLEv's Miscellany. The first two Volumes. In Nuraberc 



preferred. 

 Marvell's Works. 3 Vols. 4to. 

 Makvell's (Andrew) Life. 



KiNGsroN-oN- Hull, any work upon. . , , . 



Edwin and Emma. Taylor, 1776. 5*. will be given for a perfect 



J0U°RNAL OF THE RoYAL AGBICOLTURAL SOCIETY. Vol. V. 



_£t!li: . Vols. VIII. and IX. in Numbers. 



Pope's Works, by Warton, 1797. Vol. IV. 

 RoscoE's Novelist's Library.— Tristram Shandy. Vol. II. 

 Lingard's History of England. 4to. edit. Vol. VII. 

 Lebeuf, Traite historique sur le Chant ecclesiastique. 

 **« Letters, stating particulars and lowest ptica, carriage free, 



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