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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Stones of Etruria and 3Iarbles of Ancient Rome ; 

 or Remarks on Ancient Roman and Etruscan Architecture 

 and Remains, the Result of recent Studies on the Spot. 

 Partly read at the Institute of British Architects. By 

 George L. Taylor, Architect. (Longman & Co.) 



Mr. Taylor, the author of The Aiitiquities of Rome (of 

 which, by the bye, he announce.s a new edition with the 

 addition of the antiquities discovered since 1820), gives us 

 in this nicely illustrated quarto volume the results of a 

 second visit paid by him to the Eternal City after an 

 interval of nearly forty years — during which period, 

 he remarks, the 'monuments which he saw, drew, and 

 published, have deteriorated much ; but he adds that 

 during the same period much* has been done in the 

 way of excavating and bringing to light objects of 

 the greatest interest and importance. It is impos- 

 sible, in our limited space, to point out how well Mr. 

 Taylor shows us page by page how "parlan le tombe 

 e mura, ove la storia e muta " — but to all who take an 

 interest in the study of Rome and Etruria, to the scho- 

 lar who regards Ancient Eome as the cradle of mo- 

 dern civilisation — to the antiquary who looks upon 

 Eome as the great centre of all knowledge — to those 

 who have visited Rome as a pleasant remembrancer of 

 sunny hours spent among its beautiful ruins — to those 

 to whom fate has denied that pleasure, as some compensa- 

 tion for their loss, Mr. Taylor's volume cannot fail of 

 being very acceptable. 



The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of 

 the Spinni?ig Machine called the Mule ; being the Substance 

 of Two Papers read to the Members of the Bolton Me- 

 chanics^ Institution. By Gilbert T. French, (Simpkia & 

 Marshall.) 



Called upon in his capacity as President of the Bolton 

 Mechanics' Institution to make arrangements for the de- 

 liver^'^ of a series of Lectures to the Members of it, Mr. 

 French set the example of giving gratuitous Lectures, 

 and selected for his subject a native and townsman of 

 Bolton, who by his ingenuity and perseverance had en- 

 riched, not only his birthplace, tut his native country, to 

 an unparalleled extent ; and yet who had been by that 

 town and that country most strangely neglected, most 

 grievously misused. That the life and times of Samuel 

 Crompton, the inventor of the Mule, which has been the 

 means of giving employment to so manj' thousands, and of 

 creating so many princely fortunes, should be favourably 

 received by Mr. French's auditors, can be readilj' be- 

 lieved. For the narrative is one which may be read with 

 pleasure by all who take an interest in the History of 

 English Manufactures, and with profit by all for the use- 

 ful moral which Mr. French draws from the disregard 

 paid by Crompton to the obvious duty of acquiring a 

 knowledge of our fellow men. 



The Friends, .Foes, and Adventures of Lady 3Iorgan. 

 (Kelly, Dublin.) 



Those who took up the Irish Quarterly Review of last 

 July will remember the pleasant, genial, and gossiping 

 paper on that most brilliant of Ireland's daughters, 

 Sydney Lady Morgan, and be well pleased to learn that 

 it has been reprinted in a separate form. The writer, 

 who is understood to be Mr. Fifzpatrick (a gentleman to 

 whom the readers of " N, & Q." have been frequentlj- 

 indebted), tells us that his object has been rather to as- 

 sist the researches of an accomplished English lad^' ^v-ho 

 is understood to be gathering materials for the life of Lady 

 ^[organ, than to put himself forward as the biographer 

 ^r liis gifted countrywoman : he has, be his motives 



what they maj', succeeded in throwing much new and 

 interesting light upon Lady Morgan's early life and la- 

 bours, and produced a book creditable to her memory and 

 to his own talents. Mr. Fitzpatrick's valuable Note on 

 the Cornwallis Papers gave evidence of the store of curious 

 materials for the literarj' and political history of Ireland 

 which he has at his command ; and the present volume 

 encourages us to hope that we may soon be favoured 

 with fresh evidence of his readiness and ability to make 

 use of them. 



Books Received. — 



Surnames metrically arranged and classified, with an 

 introductory Inquiry into their Origin and Use. By 

 Thomas Clark, Esq. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) 



This may be said to be a versification of Mr. Lower's 

 admirable Essay on Family Nomenclature, — an endeavour 

 to tell in homely rhyme 



" Whence do our names originate. 

 And from what era take their date." 



Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev- 

 J. G. Wood, M.A., &c. With New Designs by Wolf, Har- 

 vey, Weir, &c. Part VI. (Routledge, Warne, & Co.) 



This Sixth Part — being in a great measure devoted to 

 the natural history of the Dog, and admirably illustrated 

 with drawings of the various species — will add to the 

 great popularity which this work has already attained. 



The Poetical Worhs of Thomas Moore. People's Edi- 

 tion. Part the Sixth. (Longman & Co.) 



This Part contains some of the best of Moore's satirical 

 writings — The Fudge Family in Paris ; The Fudges in 

 England ; Fables for the Holy Alliance ; and Rhymes on 

 the Road. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



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

 the gentlemen by whom tliey are required, and whose names and ad- 

 dresses are given for that purpose. 



D. Ivcpton's History op Modern Protestant Divines. London. 1637. 

 J. Philipp's Gkoroii Regno Honores. 1724. 

 Diary op Philip Horslowk (Shakspeare Society's Publication.) 

 "Wanted by Jiev. C. J. Jtobinsbn, Sevenoaks, Kent. 



VlEY 



I's PoBTUOUESE DICTIONARY. 2 VolS. 8V0. 



Wanted by Uichardson Brothers, 23. Comhill, London. 



^aiitti t0 Corr0)Sjj0ntfenW. 



Among other articles of intcrestwhich we have been compelled to omit 

 from the present No. are Sir G. C. Lewis on The Lion m Italy ; Mr. 

 Brent on King John and the Jews in Canterbury ; and Mr. CresicelVs 

 List of Books printed at Nottingliam. 



Mr. John Nurse Chadwick, of King's Lynn, is desirous of finding a 

 Correspondent willing to make searches in the Registers of Sheffield. 



C. J. B. Dorothy Selby'a Epitaph is printed in " N. & Q." 2nd 8. ii. 

 p. 248. ; and at pp. 314. 415. of same volume is some interesting Cor- 

 respondence on the subject of lier claim to have " disclosed that plot " — 

 the Gunpowder Plot. 



P. The exhibition and sale of the remaining pictures of the Orleans 

 Gcdlery {not including those purchased bi/ the Duke of Bridgewater') took 

 place the latter end of March, \79S. Gent. Mag., Mar. 1799, p. 183.; 

 and Jameson's Private Picture Galleries, pp. xxx. 82. 



W. T. Pelcr Paragraph, dramatised by Footc, was George Paulkner, 

 the Dublin printer. 



J. A. P— N. Most biographical dictionaries (except Knight's) contain 

 an account ofBisliop John Cosin, especially Kiripis's. See also a Memoir 

 of him by the Rev. J. S. Brewer, prefixed to The History of Transub- 

 stantiation, l2mo. 1840. The bishop's sealis Frelty in a bordure. Ash- 

 mole MS, 8585. gives Az., a fret Or; but Surtees's Durliam, Arg., a fret 

 Az, 



J. H. Van Lennep. The MS. has been sent to the gentleman named by 

 you. 



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