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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. YIII. Dbc. 3. '69. 



and was buried at Middleton, near his father, in 

 the rector's chapel. His will was proved at York 

 and at Chester. R. 



Herhe d'Or (2'"> S. viii. 424.) — There is a He- 

 Hanthemum (H. tuberarium) which grows much 

 in Provence, and might almost be said to bear " a 

 spike of flowers" of a bright gold colour. Can 

 this be the Herbe d' Or inquired after by F. C. B.? 

 Probably the Count Hersart de Villemarque would 

 inform him whether the HeliantTiemum tuberarium 

 is found wild in Brittany ? C. B. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



A Manual of the English Constitution ; with a Review of 

 its Rise, Growth, and Present State. By David Kowland. 

 (Murray.) 



In this well-printed volume of moderate size, Mr. Row- 

 land presents us with a carefully compiled and well-con- 

 sidered Introduction to the history of the Rise and Pro- 

 gress of the English Constitution down to the period of 

 the Revolution, when, as he observes, " our political 

 institutions had acquired all the elements of their present 

 maturit3'." From this Mr. Rowland proceeds to describe 

 and explain the rights, duties, and mutual action of these 

 institutions in the modified form in which they now exist. 

 The book, therefore, it will be seen, is one which may be 

 read with advantage, either as an introduction to Mr. 

 Hallam's learned and more extensive work, or as a sub- 

 stitute for it, by those who have not time to study the 

 great historian's Constitutional History of England, 



Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Jeremiah 

 Horrox, Curate of Hoole, near Preston, to which is ap- 

 pended a Translation of his celebrated Discourse upon the 

 Transit of Venus across the Sun. By the Rev. A.B. What- 

 ton, B.A., LL.B. (Wertheim & Macintosh.) 



We were greallj' interested a short time since by a 

 paper in The Athenceum, in which attention was called 

 to the labours of tiiis comparatively unknown English 

 worthj' — that is, unknown to the generality of his coun- 

 trymen — for " the pride and boast of British astronomy," 

 as Sir John Herschel calls him, is of course well-known 

 to the scientific world. To that world the present Memoir 

 will be very acceptable. It is one in every way credit- 

 able to the writer, both for the manner in which it is 

 executed, and for the feeling which induced him to un- 

 dertake it. ' 



Le Tombeau de Childeric L, Roi des Francs, restitu^ a 

 Vaide de V Archaologie et des Decouvertes ricentes faites 

 en France, en Belgique, en Suisse, en Allemagne, et en An- 

 gleterre. Far M. L'Abbe Cochet, etc. (Williams & 

 Norgate.) 



■ The name of the Abbe Cochet is a security for the great 

 amount of antiquarian learning which will be found in a 

 volume which bears that name upon its title-page. The 

 present, which is devoted to the historical and archseo- 

 logical illustration of that remarkable monument of me- 

 diaeval art, the tomb of Childeric — so strangely brought 

 to light in the city of Tournai on the morning of the 

 27th May, 1653 — is one especially interesting to English 

 students, from the manner in which the Abb^ illustrates 

 from cognate remains in this country the subject of his 

 researches; no less than for the skill with which he 

 makes the interesting relics of the long buried monarch 

 throw light upon the arts and social condition of the age 

 in which he lived. 



Books Received. — 



The Archceology of Berkshire. An Address delivered to 

 the Archceological Association at Neiobury. By the Earl of 

 Carnarvon. (Murraj'.) 



This graceful exposition of the value of archaeology as 

 a study, and of the field of that study laid open in his 

 own county, is* the more valuable as coming from one 

 who is already taking high place among our statesmen. 



The British Almanac for 1860 ; and Companion to the 

 Almanac or Year Book of General Information for l^&Q, 

 {The Thirty-third Year.) (Knight & Co.) 



Full of information alike useful to the man of business 

 and the man of study. 



Chronicles of a City Church, being an Account of the 

 Parish Church of St. Dunstan-in- the-East. By the Rev. 

 T. B. Murra\', M.A., the Rector. (Smith, Elder, & Co.) 



Honour to the Rector of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, for 

 this pleasant little memorial of his spacious church, and 

 the curious monuments within it! The book is pleasant 

 and gossiping, and we hope its success may induce in- 

 cumbents of other Citj' churches to follow the excellent 

 example set them by Mr. Murray. 



De La Rue's Red- Letter Diary and Improved Memo- 

 randum Book for 1860. (De La Kue & Co.) 



When we called attention recently to the handsome 

 Indelible Diaries and Pocket Calendars issued by Messrs. 

 De La Rue, we had not received the above, which, 

 equalling in getting up and in amount of information the 

 Diaries and Calendars, are more particularly adapted for 

 the desk. They are issued in two sizes, and few who 

 have once found their value will ever discontinue their use. 



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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" 

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 TypOGRAPHicAt Antiquities, by Henry Lemoine. 1797. 



Wanted by Henry Jackson, St. James's Row, Sheffield. 



History op Eooware, Stanmore, or Hendox; or the three combined. 

 Wanted by Mr. Joseph Simpson, " Chronicle " Office, Edgware, N.W. 



We are agaiJi compelled to postpone until next week many Papers of 

 considerable interest. 



We propose to publish on Saturday the nth our 

 CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 

 which will contain many Papers appropriate to the season. 



E. D. H. Tennyson's allusion is to Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir 

 T/tomas More. 



E. S. J. Edmund Bolton was the translator ofFlorus's Roman Histo- 

 ries, 1618, 1636. See Kippis's Biog. Britannlca, art. Bolton. 



R. T. The following work speaks for itself : " Memoirs of the Wars of 

 the Cevennes under Col. Cavallier, in defence of the Protestants perse- 

 cuted in that Country ; and of the Peace concluded I'etween him and the 

 Mareschal D. of Villa? s: of his Conference with the King of France, 

 after the conclusion of the Peace." Lond. Bvo. 1726, 2«d edit. 1727. 



Francis Roberts. Most biographical Dictionaries (except Knight's') 

 contain an account of Francis Roberts, the Puritan divine. See also 

 Wood's AthensB Oxon., by Bliss, in. 1054. 



R. Inblis. In Sir C. A. Elton's Tales of Romance is a Monodrama 

 entitled " Chiomara ; " scene, the camp of the Telisthoboii, It makes four 



pages Lenau's Faust's Bream, translated in J, D. Horrocks's Poems, 



is a piece in heroic metre. 



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