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thanksgiving for all mercies vouclisafed ; and 

 whichever day may be chosen, it is kept through- 

 out the State with much more homeside rejoicing 

 than even Independence Day, July 4. In fact, 

 Thanksgiving Day may be said to correspond — 

 whatever may be the season annually selected for 

 the celebration — with our Christmas Day, being 

 a time of family and friendly meeting, and of 

 general reconciliation in cases of interrupted 

 intercourse from misapprehensions and petty 

 quarrels. Each State may choose a different day, 

 so that it is within the verge of possibility for one 

 and the same person to keep it in all of them, 

 year after year. The custom originated with the 

 early Puritan settlers, and is, undoubtedly, " more 

 honoured in the observance than in the breach ! " 



Delta. 



''As tight as Dick's Hatland'' (2"'^ S. ii. 189.) 

 — May not this be an allusion to Eichard Crom- 

 ■well, who might be said to have found the pressure 

 of his father's hat too heavy for him, and his hat- 

 band too tight? His sobriquet oi "Tumble- 

 down Dick " may be in some way connected with 

 this saying, for at the time of the restoration of 

 Charles II., the signs of Richard Cromwell were 

 in some instances turned upside down ; and per- 

 haps in others a hasty crown was painted encir- 

 cling the brows, so as to give it the appearance of 

 the king. G.M. Z. 



Matthew Gwinne, M.D. (2"'^ S. ii. 189.) — The 

 following particulars, from a source not generally 

 accessible, the records or annals of the Royal 

 College of Physicians, I have much pleasure in 

 placing at Mr. Knowj-es' service : 



" Dr. Gwinne was admitted a Licentiate of the College, 

 Sept. 30, ICOO ; a Candidate, June 25, 1604; and a Fellow, 

 Dec. 22, 1605. He was seven times Cenfor, namelj', in 

 1608-9-10-11-16-17-20 ; was appointed Kegistrar, Dec. 22, 

 1608 ; and again Sept. 30, 1627. He became one of the 

 Elects of the College Jan. 23, 1623-4 ; and died, as Wood 

 correctly states, in 16"J7, not as "Ward would have us be- 

 lieve in or after 1639. The grounds of Ward's statement 

 were examined by Aikin, and shown to be inconclusive." 

 g — Biographical Memoirs of 3Iedicine, p. 222. 



The documents from which I write prove that 

 Dr. Gwinne actually died in October or Novem- 

 ber, 1627 ; for at the annual election of officers 

 for that year (Sept. 30), Dr. Gwinne was ap- 

 pointed Registrar, and on the 20th of November 

 next ensuing, Dr. Fox (son of the Martyrologist) 

 was nominated to that office "in locum defunct! 

 D"' Gwinne." W. Munk, M.D. 



Finsbury Place. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have to call the attention of our readers to a book 

 of very considerable importance, the tirst^volume of which 



has just been published under the title of Cathedra Petri : 

 a Political History of the Great Latin Patriarchate, 

 Books I. and II., from the First to the Close of the Fifth 

 Century, by Thomas Greenwood, M. A., &c., Barrister- 

 at-Law. In the preparation of the work, published 

 by him some years since, on the early History of the 

 Germans, the author was struck with certain charac- 

 teristics in the history of the Eoman Pontificate, which 

 seemed to him to point out the principal sources from 

 which Papal Eome derived the vitality which has sus- 

 tained it to the present time. As his researches proceeded, 

 and he sought to reduce the vast mass of his materials to 

 their natural order, he came to the conclusion that all 

 active living opinion is matter of historical fact, and 

 capable of being treated like all other facts, without in- 

 quiry into the dogmatic propriety of the theological 

 grounds upon which it was based. The work has conse- 

 quently been undertaken in this spirit. The author pro- 

 poses to investigate the facts of which he treats by rules 

 applicable to all matters of fact ; to assign to them their 

 true historical character ; to consider them in their rela- 

 tion to the social and moral state of the world, and espe- 

 cially to submit the political element in the Papal scheme 

 to more particular consideration ; to bring that element 

 into its natural connexion with the religious scheme; 

 and in the end, to leave it to the reader to form his own 

 conclusions as to the validity of the Papal claims, as he 

 may deem them maintainable upon purely historical 

 testimony. Mr. Greenwood's work, of which the volume 

 now issued is a first part, is complete in manuscript 

 down to the close of the great contest of investitures in 

 the thirteenth century. If printed in its present form, it 

 would till at least five volumes of equal bulk with the 

 first ; and if called for by the public, provided health and , 

 life be granted, is proposed to be completed in the same 

 number of years by annual volumes. Such is as con- 

 densed a notice as we can give of a work which assuredly 

 deserves the attentive perusal of all who feel an interest 

 in the important subjects to which it is devoted. What- 

 ever may be the opinion of Mr. Greenwood's readers as to 

 the correctness of his views, all will, we are sure, admit 

 that those views are the result of much laborious inves- 

 tigation, of much learned and patient research. 



Our correspondent, Mr. C. Mansfield Ingleby, M.A., 

 has just published a little volume designed to form the 

 basis of class-instruction in the science of Theoretical 

 Logic. It is entitled Outlines of Tlieoretical Logic, 

 founded on the New Analytic of Sir William Hamilton. 

 And the author expresses a hope that he may be instru- ' 

 mental in giving logic a place in the curriculum of Cam- 

 bridge studies, and removing from her a stigina as dis- 

 graceful as it is peculiar. As we lay no claim to the 

 character which Butler gives his hero, of being — 



" . . in Logic a great critic. 

 Profoundly skilled in Analytic," — 



we must content ourselves with calling the attention of » 

 our readers to Mr. Ingleby's little volume. 



" A literary treasure has turned up," says The Athe- 

 nccum of Saturday last, " no less than a second copy of the 

 first edition of Hamlet — the quarto of 1 603 ! During the 

 week, an Irish bookseller has been mysteriously hawking 

 about London this precious work, which has hitherto pos- 

 sessed the rarity of a manuscript. The only known copy 

 belonged to the Duke of Devonshire, — and was reprinted 

 a few years ago. As most readers know, the Devonshire 

 Hamlet is imperfect, wanting the last leaf. The second 

 copy also wants a leaf, — happily, not the last, but the 

 first — the title-page. We have now, therefore, a com- 

 plete copy of the original text of Hamlet ; and the newly- 



