120 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2'>4 S. X Aug. 11. "SO. 



events, this meaning would universally attach to 

 the sign of " Mortar and Pestle." C. T. 



Baptismal Names (2"'* S. ix. 475.) — In refer- 

 ence to Mr. Taylor's remarks on baptismal names, 

 in which he mentions that the names of two at 

 least of Job's three daughters may be occasionally 

 seen, there is an old story in Devon of a clergy- 

 man being sorely puzzled when he demanded the 

 name of the infant about to be baptized by the 

 answer, " Job's third daughter. Sir, please, Sir ; " 

 as the reply was persisted in, he sent for a Bible 

 to discover that Iveren-happuch was the appella- 

 tion intended. It was, I believe, because the 

 daughters of Job are described as the fairest in 

 all the land that the names were selected so fre- 

 quently in the last century. 



In Cobham church, Surrey, is the following : — 



"Here under lies interred the Body of Aminadab 

 Cooper, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, who 

 lefte behind him God-Helpe their (^sic) only Sonne. Hee 

 departed this life the 23 June, 1618." 



W. p. L. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Memoirs of the lAfe and Writings of the Right Rev. 

 Richard Hurd, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester. With 

 a Selection from his Correspondence and other unpublished 

 Papers. By the Rev. Francis Kilvert, M.A., Editor of 

 The Literary Remains of Bishop Warburton. (Bentley.) 



This volume tells in a plain straightforward manner the 

 story of the life of one, who, being the son of a Stafford- 

 shire farmer, rose by his own merits to be Preacher of 

 Lincoln's Inn, Preceptor to the Princes, Bishop of Lich- 

 field and Coventry, and afterwards of Worcester, and who 

 declined to be Archbishop of Canterbury ; — who was the 

 friend of Mason and of Gray, and who acted as second in 

 the numerous controversies of that literary athlete Wil- 

 liam Warburton. Though, as Mr. Kilvert readily ad- 

 mits, the work being the life of a man of letters, contains 

 little of stirring incidents, j'et, as a picture of one who, 

 if he was " cold and cautions," was yet distinguished by 

 the refinement of his taste and the excellence of his judg- 

 ment, and enriched our literature with works which won 

 for their author an European reputation, it will well 

 repaj' perusal, and our thanks are due to Mr. Kilvert for 

 the pains which he has bestowed upon it : while, illus- 

 trated as it is by profuse extracts from the Bishop's 

 private correspondence, it forms a volume which will be 

 read with considerable interest, not only for its own 

 merits, but for the manner in which it carries us back to 

 the old times when George the Third was King. 



The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars : with a Vocabu- 

 lary of their Language. Edited by Martin Luther in the 

 Year 1528. ]\^ow First translated into English, with In- 

 troduction, and Notes, by John Camden Hotten. (Hotten.) 



A book which Luther thought worth editing Mr. 

 Hotten might well deem worth translating and publish- 

 ing. The Liber Vagatorum, written by one who describes 

 himself as "expertus in truflfis," is supposed to have been 

 founded on the trials at Basle, in 1475, of a vast number 

 of mendicants of all descriptions. It was first printed 

 a,bout the year 1612-14, It was then put into v^rse 

 about 1517-18 by Pamphilus Gegenbach, and eventually, 



as we have said, it appeared with a Preface by Luther in 

 1528. From this edition, compared with others, Mr. 

 Hotten has made the present English version ; and with 

 his introductory notice of English books on the same 

 subject, and of the ancient customs of the mendicant fra- 

 ternit}' in this countr}', and the addition of a vocabularj', 

 this little volume, beautifully printed bj' Whittingham, 

 deserves a place among modern curiosities of literature. 



Books Received. — 



Curiosities of Natural History. Second Series. By 

 Francis T. Buckland, M.A. (Bentley.) 



Those who recollect the First Series of these Curiosi- 

 ties, will look with interest to the present continuation. 

 Those who do not, will be prejudiced in favour of this 

 little volume by the author's affectionate dedication of it 

 to the memory of his mother. But the book is so plea- 

 sant and gossiping, and written in so popular a tone, and 

 on so popular a subject, that one may fairlj' anticipate 

 for it as large a share of public favour as that which the 

 First Series so deservedly obtained. 



Easton and its Inhabitants. By the Hon. Eleanor Eden. 

 (Bentley.) 



This new volume of Bentley's Standard Novels is a very 

 fitting companion to that graceful 8tor\', The Semi-De- 

 tached House of Lady Theresa Lewis, lately published in 

 the same series. 



The Cook's Every-Day Book, combining Economy with 

 Excellence. (Bentley.) 



A cheap translation of a popular French Cookery Book 

 found so useful in the familj' of the translator as to lead to 

 its appearance in an English form. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUHCHASE. 



Farticularg of Price, Sjc, of the following Books to be sent direct to 

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Annpal Army List prior to 1783, and also 1?99, 1805, 1806,1815,1816, 

 1844, 1852, 1853, 18.'>4. Hart's would be preferred for the latter years. 



Wanted by 3Ir. G. J. S. Camden, 6. Tontine Street, Folkstpne. 



p. PiiitLirsoN. The Prose sung at the festival of the Ass is printed in 



our 2nd S. v. 3. Il'e have a letter for this correspondent. How can wc 



forward it f 



G. M. G. toill see tliat his explanation has been anticipated. 



T. W. E. uill find the word Crimea squared in " TS. k Q." 2nd S. viU- 

 511. 



Dn. B. (Dublin.) There can be no doubt that the corner of the book for- 

 warded has at some time been wetted; from the appearance it has pro- 

 bably fallen into a cup of coffee. 



3. J. 8. On the derivation of Gradely see our 1st 8. ii. 334. 361. 



B. Inolis. The. Harl. MSS. 6468. and 6478. consist mmtly of miscel- 

 laneous extracts from ancient and modern authors by Obadiah Oddy, of 

 whom, nothing is known. 



G. LtoYD. J. K. i., the politico-polemical writer, circa 1820—5, is " 

 James Doyle, M. C. Bishop ofKildare. 



Iota. There is no Epilogue in Dr. S'ares's Essays ; but two Prologues : 

 1 . Written by d€sire nf a Friend for a Comedy, entitled The Follies of 



St. James's Street. 2. To the Comedy of Every One has his Fault 



No dramatic sketch occurs in the volume of Poems, by Edward WUber- 



force and E. F. Blanchard, 12mo. 1857 J. E. Jackson's Cecil ar.d 



Mary: or Phases of Life and Love, 1858, is not a dramatic pocTn. 



T. Thomas Byrrlry and Joseph Clinton Polertson were the compilers 

 o/Tlie Percy Anecdotes. See " N. & Q." 1st S. vii. 214. 



EnBATUM. — 2nd S. X. p. 63. col. ii. 1. 8./o»'" who" read!" whom." 



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