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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. X. July 7. '60. 



Rev. John Walker (2"'' S. ix. 463.)— The Rev. 

 John Walker, a minor canon of Norwich cathe- 

 dral, was vicar of Stoke Holy Cross ; he also held 

 the livings of St. John's Timberhill, St. Peter per 

 Mountergate in Norwich, and the vicarage of 

 Bawdsey in Suffolk. He was born at Oxford, 

 educated at Magdalen College, and dying in Nor- 

 wich, Nov. 12, 1807, aged fifty-three, was buried 

 in the cathedral there. 



Mr. Walker was the author of a volume of 

 poems, published by his son by subscription, de- 

 dicated to Lord Braybrooke, containing the 

 Georgic of Hesiod in his '"Works and Days," 

 "Mirth," a poem. Sonnets, Odes, with various 

 smaller pieces of poetry. Trivet Allcock. 



Tombland, Norwich. 



Gay (2"-' S. viii. 145.) — G. T. Q. asks,— If R. 

 Luck, who was some time master of Barnstaple 

 school, and the author of an 8vo. volume oi Poems, 

 published in 1736, was Gay's " master, his mas- 

 ter's son, or his master's successor " ? 



He was his master ; and one under whom, Dr. 

 Johnson states, Gay '* was likely to form a taste 

 for poetry." — Johnson's Lives, " Gay;" Lysons' 

 Devonshire, p. 38. 



Although your correspondent says there is " no 

 ■ mention of Gay" in Luck's Poems, I fancy he 

 will find, if he will look carefully through the 

 volume again, that Lysons is correct in saying 

 (Devonshire, p. 38.) that in one of the poems 

 Gay is " alluded to as having been the author's 

 pupil." W. George. 



Bristol. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from 

 the Reformation to the Itevohition Settlement. By the late 

 Verj' Rev. John Lee, Principal of the University of Edin- 

 hurgh, with Notes and Appendices from the Author's 

 Papers. Edited by his Son, the Rev. William Lee. 2 

 Vols. 8vo. (Blackwood.) 



A popular and modern Historj' of the Established Kirk 

 of Scotland has long been wanted, and we anticipate 

 therefore a ready welcome for these two readable and 

 tiseful volumes from the members of that communion, if 

 not from tBe English public. The writer is so thorough 

 a Presbyterian as to be hardlj' able to spare one good 

 word for any prelatical opponent ; and even the Sermons 

 of the erudite, imaginative, and saintly Leighton are dis- 

 missed with a line of supercilious criticism. There is a 

 fragmentary and disjointed character about some parts 

 of these volumes which mark them as an unfinished and 

 posthumous work ; while the author's style is altogether 

 devoid of those graces of diction, or that pictorial grouping 

 of persons and incidents, which recent historical works 

 have almost accustomed us to expect. But having pointed 

 out these defects, we ought, in justice to the venerable 

 and much respected author, to state that they were 

 written at a very early period of his life, and without any 

 view to publication. Not the least valuable part of the 

 book is the Appendix, which contains many curious and 

 interesting articles. 



The Luck of Ladysmede. In Two Volumes. (Black- 

 wood.) 



The readers of Blachoood's Magazine, who remember 

 this picturesque story of the times of the Crusaders, will 

 be glad to have the opportunity of reading it in a col- 

 lected form — a form which will probably introduce the 

 author to a new circle of admirers. 



Our English Home; its Early History and Progress, 

 with Notes on the Introduction of Domestic Inventions. 

 (J. H. Parker.) 



This is an admirable little volume — and if, as the 

 author remarks, a closer study of the antiquities of do- 

 mestic life will not lessen, but rather heighten, our in- 

 terest in the grander and more imposing episodes of our 

 national history, this sketch of our social progress is well 

 calculated to furnish us with that knowledge in a very 

 amusing and instructive form. 



The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshii-e, transcribed from 

 Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publi- 

 cations, ivith Notes and a Glossary. By J. Davison Ingle- 

 dew, M.A. (Bell & Daldy.) 



The good people of Yorkshire are indebted to Mr. 

 Ingledew for a volume in which they will find, carefully 

 edited and noted, the best ballads connected with their 

 county. They are of all ages and dates ; and as many of 

 them, besides giving utterance to the popular feeling, do 

 so in the popular dialect, the book has a double claim to 

 the attention of the antiquar}' — being as interesting for 

 its illustration of the Yorkshire Dialect, as it is for the 

 specimens it gives of the Yorkshire Muse. 



The next work to be published by the Cheiham Society 

 is one which will be sure to engage the attention of all 

 English scholars who may be fortunate enough to meet 

 with it. It is a Bibliographical Account of his own 

 Library, by the Rev. Thomas Corser, of Stand. The first 

 volume is, we believe, nearly ready ; and we congratu- 

 late the Members of the Chetham Society on this wide and 

 wise extension of its objects. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 

 wasted to purchase. 



Particulars of Price, &e. of the following Books to be sent direct to 

 the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose name and ad- 

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Alison's Eobopk. Vol. IX. (10 Vol. Edition.) 



Eyke's AnsTnALiA. 2 Vols. Svo. 



Gentleman's Magazine. Supplement, Part I. 1833. 



Nichols' Literaby Illustrations. Vols. I. and II. 



Nichols' Litebauy Anecdotes. Vols. I. to VII. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany. Vol. XVI. Or Nos. 1. to 4., 6. and 12. 



Wanted by TTm. Daioson and Sons, 74. Cannon Street, City, E.C. 



Tlie. lenr/th of the article on the " Scottish Ballad Controversy " 7wM com- 

 pelled us to postpone it to next week ; until which time, oioing to an ac- 

 cident, we are ooliged to defer Mr. Bolton Carney's interesting Specimen 

 of the State of Shaksperian Bibliography. 



The Index to Volcme Ninth, Second Series, will he issued with 

 next Saturday's (.July 14) " N. & Q." 



A. A. D. We should like not only the name of our Correspondent lut 

 also to see the original MS. 



R. Inolis. " The Death of the Black Prince," a MS. tragedy, Uo. was 

 lot 1458 in Dr. Gregory Sharpe's Sale Catalogue, and sold for 6s. The 



author is unknown The Rector of Ilelmdon about 1680—1681 was the 



Rev. William Richards. The name (\f the Rev. F. Newnham does not 



occur in Romilly's Catalogue of Cambridge Graduates. 



"Notes and Queries" is published at noon on Friday, and is also 

 issued in Monthly Parts. The subscription for Stamped Copies for 

 Six Months forwarded direct from the Publishers (including the JIa\f- 

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