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[2«"> S. X. Dec. 29. '60. 



not spouts but handles^ Allow me to observe 

 that ear is the general <^rm of the handle of a 

 mug, given to it from its resemblance to the out- 

 line of the human ear ; and hence the proverb, 

 " Little pitchers have great ears." E. V. 



Female Mibwives (2"* S. x. 337.) — In the 

 parish register of Alrewas, co. Stafford, is " 1682. 

 Sep. 8, EUena Alput, vidua (obstetrix felicissima), 

 sepulta." W. A. Leighton. 



Shrewsbury. 



Lesley Gbove (2"^ S. x. 471.) — In Walker's 

 Hibei-nian Magazine, 1795, Part i. p. 96. [Jan.], 

 under Deaths, " Leslie Groves, Esq., formerly an 

 eminent banker of London." F. R. S. 



Dublin. 



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Poets' Wit and Humour. Selected by W. H. Wills- 

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One glance at the contents of this beautifully printed 

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 in choosing who should select the flowers to form their 

 wreath, our worthy publishers acted upon Johnson's cele- 

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 fat." Mr. Wills, it will be seen, can not only appreciate 

 the Wit and Humour of other Poets, but supply his own 

 quota to the general fund. Whether to Mr. Wills or to 

 Messrs. Bell & Daldy must be given the credit of having 

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 splendid annual we know not, but we are not the less 

 thankful for this agreeable variation of an old story, and 

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Calendar of State Pnpers, Colonial Series, 1574 — 1660, 

 preserved in the State Paper Department of H. M. Public 

 Record Office. Edited by W. Noel Sainsbury, Esq. 

 (Longman & Co.) 



Our colonies were one of the earliest evidences of our 

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 whom they sprang. The Master of the Rolls has done 

 wisely, in adding g, Calendar of the Colonial Papers at the 

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 progress ; and Mr. Sainsburj' has proved himself, in the 

 volume before us, to be a competent and diligent work- 

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 of his volume. It may be perceived at a glance that the 

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An Essay on the Military Architecture of the Middle 

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The European reputation of M. Viollet-le-Duc's work, 

 in its original language, has induced the spirited Oxford 

 publisher to present the English reader witii a version of 

 it in Ilia own tongue, accompanied bj' impressions from 

 the original French illustrations. The work not only 

 throws great light upon the remains of our ancient castles, 



but furnishes a knowledge of the successive changes in 

 the modes of warfare during the Middle Ages, and thereby 

 explains manj' important passages in the early wars be- 

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 placed on the same shelf with The Domestic Architecture 

 and Ancient Arms and Armour, issued b}' the same pub- 

 lisher ; and will .secure, there can be no doubt, a ready 

 welcome for the promised History of the Castles of Eng- 

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 satisfy such curiosity is the object of the present Peerage 

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