320 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"><> S. X. Oct. 20. '60. 



Transfer of Land (2"^ S. x. 190.)— Middle- 

 sex and Yorkshire are the only register counties 

 in England. W. C. 



Old Finger-Post Khyme (2°^ S. ix. 501.) — 

 The name of the Spa which U. O. N. inquires for 

 is " Spurstow." The finger-post no longer exists. 

 U. O. N. will find an account of it in the History^ 

 Gazetteei', and Directory of Cheshire^ by Francis 

 White, 1860. ■ I. K. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Liber Albns : The White Hook of the Citij of London. 

 Compiled, A.d. 1419, by John Carpenter, Common Clerk, 

 Richard Whitlington, Mayor. Translated from the Ori- 

 ginal Latin and Anglo-Norman. By Heniy T. Rilev, 

 'M.A., &c. (Griffin & Co.) 



We pointed out the great historical value of the Liber 

 Albus when noticing the excellent edition of it produced 

 by Mr. Riley, under the authority of the Master of 

 the Rolls, as one of the Government Series of Mediaeval 

 Chronicles; and it was, therefore, with great satisfac- 

 tion that we heard of Mr. Riley's intention to prepare 

 a translation of it. That work is now before us; and 

 we think it would be difficult to produce another vo- 

 lume so well calculated at once to familiarise the citi- 

 zens of London with a knowledge of their rights and 

 privileges as citizens, or to convey to the general reader 

 an accurate picture of the social condition of London 

 " Five Hundred Years Ago : " and the writer of the plea- 

 sant paper so entitled in a recent Number of All the Year 

 Round, may find abundant materials for its continuation 

 in the volume before us, — for well may Mr. Riley de- 

 clare, " that there is scarcely a phase or feature of Eng- 

 lish national life upon which, in a greater or less degree, 

 some light is not reflected from these pages of Liber 

 Albus." We are glad to see that the List of Subscribers 

 is headed by " The Corporation of the City of London ; 

 Copies for every Member of the Court and the Officers." 

 This is as it should be. 



3Ianiiel du Libraire et V Amateur de Livres, contenant, 1° 

 Un nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique ; 2° Une Table 

 en forme de Catalogue Raisonne, etc. Par Jacques Charles 

 Brunet. Cinquieme Edition, Originale entierement Re- 

 fondue et augmentie d'un tiers par FEditeur. Tome I. 

 Liv"^ Premiere. (Paris, Didot ; Williams & Norgate.) 



It is now upwards of half a century since the first edi- 

 tion of this indispensable companion to every library was 

 given to the world. Since then three large editions 

 have been issued; and we have now before us the first 

 portion of the first volume of the fifth edition, so greatly 

 enlarged, and with such vast additions of new materials, 

 that what was said of the last edition of the Grand Dic- 

 tionnaire de Moreri, c'est une ville nouvelle bdtie sur le plan 

 de Vancienne, may be most appropriately applied to the 

 work before us. How largely the work has been in- 

 creased we will show by a short comparison between it 

 and the third edition, published in 1821 in four volumes, 

 the only one to which we can at present refer. This first 

 part extends only to the article Bibliotek, but it occupies 

 927 pages, printed in double columns, whereas in the 

 third edition the same proportion of the whole work was 

 completed in 214 pages ; each page moreover containing 

 only about three-fourths as much matter as a page of the 

 new edition. The work is issued in half volumes — of 

 which there will be twelve — and the Subscription List 

 will close on the 31st December next. 



Salad for the Social. By the Author of Salad for the 

 Solitary, (Bentley.) 



A pleasant gathering from the highways and byewaya 

 of literature, worked up into a series of gossiping essays 

 on such themes as bookcraft, humours of law, pulpit 

 peculiarities, larcenies of literature, &c., well calculated to 

 amuse as well as to instruct the reader. 



The Family and School Geography. By T. B. Staunton. 

 (Bentley.) 



The object of this new book on geography, on which 

 Mr. Staunton appears to have bestowed great pains, is, 

 first, to make it more useful to students than preceding 

 works by the improved arrangement, as well as the in- 

 creased amount of information conveyed in it ; and, se- 

 condly, by means of its copious Index, to give it all the 

 essential features and usefulness of a gazetteer. 



Imtheacht na Tromdhaimbe, or the Proceedings of the 

 Great Bardic Institution. Edited by Professor Connellan, 

 Queen's College, Cork. (Printed for the Ossianic Society.) 



This fifth volume of the Ossianic Society's publications 

 will be found of considerable interest to Irish students. 

 The Proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution, which 

 describes their tour through Erinn, and the power of the 

 bards, portrays most vividly their use and abuse of that 

 power, exhibits in a very striking manner the attribute 

 of the chief bard, and records his songs of praise and his 

 satires. It is taken from a MS. of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury, but is supposed to have been written as early as the 

 seventli century. 



Such of our readers as know the value of the Rawlinson 

 MSS. in the Bodleian will be glad to learn that the Cata- 

 logue of them, prepared by the Rev. W. D. Macray, is 

 very far advanced at press. 



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Tour thbouoh Great Britain. There canbe no doubt this was writ- 

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The Toor or Da. Svntax was written by William Combe, a list of 

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Hebus Prater. Tliesong" When the King enjoys his own again," is 

 printed in Ritson's Ancient Songs, edit. 1792, p. 229; and in Hogg's 

 Jacobite Relics, \st Series, p.\. But the most correct version, with the atr to 

 which it was originally set, is given in Mr. ChappelVs valuable work. Po- 

 pular Music of the Olden Time, ii. 434—439, to which is added some his- 

 torical notices of this ballad. 



Video. The manuscript of " The Age of Riddles " is one of the Sache- 

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 Dr. Sacheverell, the Second Part, p. 36, Svo. 1710. 



Ehratdm. _ 2nd S. x. p. 259. col. 11. 1. 65. /or " No ha il palio chi non 

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