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strictly works of reference, are constantly asked for by 

 the readers — and of such works those editions have been 

 selected which are found to be most generally useful. 

 But though styled simply and unpretendingly merely A 

 List of the Books of Reference, §-c., this volume is in fact 

 a great deal more. In the first place we find in it the 

 contents of the greater number of Collections set out at 

 length (and the value and utility of this feature of the 

 List are too obvious to need insisting on) ; secondly, Lista 

 of the various Catalogues and Indexes placed in the room 

 for consultation by the visitors ; and thirdly, which is a 

 most important feature in the volume. An Alphabetical 

 Index of Subjects, so that the student may see at a glance 

 what works he can consult on the particular branch of 

 study which he may be pursuing. When we consider 

 by whom this selection of books for the Reading Room 

 has been made, that it has been the labour of a body of 

 gentlemen whose peculiar business it is to find out what 

 are the best books of reference, it will be seen that this 

 Index makes the present volume as useful to all in- 

 quirers into any of the various branches of human learn- 

 ing, as we believe it to be indispensable to all the habi- 

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 thank Mr. Panizzi, Mr. Winter Jones, and Mr. Rye, for a 

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The Booke of the Pylgremage of the Soule. Translated 



from the French of Guillaume de Guileville, and printed by 



William Caxton, 1483. With Illuminations taken from 



the MS. Copy in the British Museum. Edited by Katharine 



Isabella Gust. (B. M. Pickering.) 



The readers of " N. & Q." will probably remember the 

 notice in our No. for 7th August, 1858, of the valuable 

 collections made by the late Mr. Hill for illustrating the 

 literary historj' of those works which resemble in their 

 character John Bunyan's immortal allegory. The Pil- 

 grim's Progress. The principal feature of that volume 

 was the comparison between Bunyan's work and the old 

 French poem of Guillaume de Guileville, — an author 

 formerly so popular in this country as to have num- 

 bered, as was then shown, both Chaucer and Lydgate 

 among his translators. The present work is a supplement 

 or completion of the former, and consists of the transla- 

 tion of the Pylgremage of the Soule, made from the French, 

 with additions in 1413, and printed by Caxton in 1483. 

 The translator, as the editor shows, was in all probability 

 Lydgate. The volume is curiously illustrated, and is a 

 valuable contribution towards the history of religious 

 allegorical literature. It is to be regretted, however, that 

 any parts of the work should have been omitted, Avhat- 

 ever may be the Editor's views as to the religious doc- 

 trine contained in them. ITiey were characteristic of the 

 age, and should have been reproduced. 



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Bevehlac : A History op Beverley. 



Christopuer Smar r 's Poems. 



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J. R. The report, happily unfounded, of the death of Lord Brougham 

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x\OTES: — The Lion in Italy, by Sir G. C.Lewis -Folk Lore : One 

 Magpie — Warts — Bees — Christmas Eve — Sickening Cake — Rus- 

 tic Superstition — Saints' Days — Custom at Farnborough — English 

 and Foreign Custom of Eating Goose — King John and the Jews in 

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Minor Notes : _ Rosenfeldians and Mormonites — Epigram on Caesar 

 Borgia —Walking Stewart— Bearded Women. 



QUERIES : —Biblical Conjecture-Notes : the right Date of the Epistle 

 to the Hebrews, by Francis Barham — Lady Culross's Dream, by 

 Lady Bulwer Lytton. 



Minor Queries : — " La Th^balde:" Remy's "La Pucelle" — Jasper 

 Runic Ring _ Dr. Thomas Brett — Archiepiscopal Mitre — Baron of 

 Beef at Windsor — Shawl, at Leyboum — The Frog a Symbol — 

 Dyche's English Dictionary, by Wm. Pardon — Cranbrook Grammar 

 School — Battens — Bell Metal — Norton Family, &c. 



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Carter, &c " The Wren Song," by Sir J. Emerson Teunent, &c. — 



Henry Smith, by B. H. Cowper. 



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