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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 43., Oct. 25. '56. 



MiiceVimxeaxii, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have from Messrs. Chapman and Hall a volume 

 entitled Seven Lectures on Shakspeare and Milton, by 

 the late S. T. Coleridge, a List of all the MS. Einenda ■ 

 tions in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632, with an Introductory 

 JPreface, by J. Payne Collier, Esq. Tlie book, we have 

 no doubt, will be received with great satisfaction both bj^ 

 the admirers of the " old man eloquent," and by the 

 lovers of Shakspeare and Milton. It will be received also 

 with great interest by the friends of Mr. Collier, a gen- 

 tleman who numbers many friends, the most attached 

 being those who have known him longest. It is prin- 

 cipally with this, so to speak, personal character of the 

 book that we ai'e interested. An act of friendship to the 

 editor of this journal (one only of many received b}' him 

 from Mr. Collier), namely, the communication made to 

 " N. & Q." of his Notes of Coleridge's Lectures on Shak- 

 speare, was made the ground of an attack upon Mr. Collier, 

 so far beyond the limits of legitimate criticism that he 

 was driven to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench upon 

 the subject. The Lord Chief Justice delivered an opinion 

 highly complimentary to Mr. Collier. He thought further 

 proceedings unnecessary, on the ground that Mr. Collier's 

 character was above suspicion. The pamphlet containing 

 the charges has been withdrawn from circulation. It 

 exists, however, and future bookworms will unearth it ; 

 and it is well, therefore, that there should be in the hands 

 of the literary men of ages to come so satisfactory an 

 answer to it as that contained in the Introduction to the 

 work before us. How glad should we be if the writer of 

 the pamphlet in question would make some amends to 

 Mr. Collier, by withdrawing charges which he must now 

 be satisfied were unfounded, and so prove that he is as 

 ready to acknowledge an error made by himself, as he is 

 sharp and acute in the detection of those committed by 

 others. 



The New Number of The Quarterly Review opens with 

 a very able article on Bacon's Essays, and the last edition 

 of them by Archbishop Whatel}', which is followed b}' 

 others of a varied and generally amusing character : such 

 as those on the JVew Siographies of Montaigne, Ancient 

 Rome, The Nuns of Port Royal. There will be found 

 much interesting matter in that on the Physiognomy of 

 the Human Race, and much common sense in that on 

 Church Building. With the political articles we have 

 nothing to do here. 



We are glad to have the opportunity of directing the 

 attention of our Norfolk and Suffolk friends to a work of no 

 small merit from the pen of Mr. C. J. Palmer of Yarmouth, 

 The History of Great Yarmouth, designed as a Continua- 

 tion of Manship's History of that Town. It is another 

 valuable addition to local archaeology : for while it gives 

 the history of a municipal town eminent for its station, it 

 illustrates the general history of the empire, and shows 

 the influence both of national and provincial laws and cus- 

 toms upon society. It is illustrated with engravings of 

 merchant-marks and tradesmen's tokens; of some very 

 remarkable bosses, and an ancient mural painting in 

 Yarmouth Church, together with a Photographic copy of 

 King John's charter to the borough, to which we have 

 before alluded. 



Books Received. — A Few Hours with Scott, being 

 Sketches in the way of Supplement to the Two Poems of The 

 Lord of the Isles and of Rokeby. Written with much 

 feeling and taste, and a strong sense of Scott's peculia- 

 rities. 



The Churches of Essex architecturally Described and 

 Illustrated, by George Buclder. Six Parts of this new 

 contribution to Essex Topography are now issued. The 



work is so arranged as to interest both the architect and 

 the antiquary. 



Scripture Breviates, arranged for Use by the Bed of 

 Sickness. By the Eev. George Arden. This, and the 

 following works, can only be named by us : — 



31. Tullii Ciceronis Tuscularum Bisputationum Libri 

 Quinqiic, and Short Notes to the Odes, Epodes, Satires, 

 Epistles, and Ars Poetica of Horace; being two new 

 Parts of Parker's Pocket Classics. 



The Farm of Aplonga, a Story for Children of the Times 

 of St. Cyprian, by the Rev. J. M. Neale. 



Marvels of the Globe, Two Lectures on the Structure and 

 Physical Aspects of the Earth, by W. Sidney Gibson. 



Woman's Life, or the Trials of Caprice, a Novel, bv 

 Emilie Carlen. 



The Barber's Shop, by R. W. Procter, with Illustrations 

 by W. Morton. Entirely a Manchester production, even 

 to the woodcuts. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Marryat's (Jos.) History OP Pottery AND Porcelain. 8vo. Murra}'. 

 »** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carrimja free, to be 



sent to Mkssrs. Bell & Daldy, Publishers of " NOTES AND 



QUERIES," 18G. Fleet Street. 



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

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

 dresses are given for that purpose : 



CoRLicisM Displayed. Ijondon. 12mo. 1718. 



The Curliad. 12mo. London, 1729. 



Key to the Dunciad. 12mo. London, 1729. 



Ditto Ditto Second Edition. 1729. 



Ditto Ditto Third Edition. 1729. 



Wanted by William J. Thorns, Esg^.. 25. Holywell Street, Millbank, 

 Westminster. 



Churchill. 3 Vols. Aldine Poets. 

 Thomson. 2 Vols. ditto. 



Shakspeare's Poems. ditto. 



Wanted by W. F. Graham, 32. Richmond Road, Islington, London. 



T-/EIOH Hoivt's Comic Dramatists of the Restoration. 

 Christian Retirement. Fifth Edition. 12mo. 1830. Secley. 



Wanted by Charles F. Blackburn, Bookseller, Leamington. 



Hone's Every Day Book and Table Book. Tegg. 1835. Parts G. 7. 



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OxoNiENsis. The line 



" Fine by degreea and beautifully less " 

 is from Prior's Henry and Emma; and the other quotation inquire^ after 

 is from Hamlet, Act. I. Sc. 4. 



Sir Edmund Andros. We have a letter for our Correspondent C. A., 

 whose article appeared in " N. & Q." far October 4. Wher^ shall we 

 forward it f 



B. N. C. (Oxford.) The S'otes on the Carmina Quadragesimalia will 

 be verj/ acceptable. 



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