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sionally found in the valley of Tavesch, the highest 

 habitable point of the Anterior Rhine." 



R. W. Hackwood. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The new volume, the fourth, of The Letters of Horace 

 Walpnie, Earl of Orford, edited hy Peter Cunningham, 

 now first chronologically arranged, embraces the corre- 

 spondence of this most delightful of letter writers for 

 rather more than four 3'ears, namely, from June 1762, to 

 July 1766 ; and contains portraits of Kitty Clive, Anne 

 Liddell (Duchess of Grafton and Countess of Ossory), 

 Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry, and Gray the 

 poet. Among the new letters are eight or ten to Gros- 

 venor Bedford, which exhibit Walpole in an entirely new 

 and very favourable light, as the unostentatious dis- 

 penser of liberal charity. How full of amusement and 

 interest, how rich in historical illustration, the present 

 volume is, the reader will have no difficult}' in conceiving, 

 when he remembers that in the period which it embraces 

 occurred the celebrated struggles and trials connected 

 with Wilkes and the North Briton, and the Essay on 

 Woman (of which, after the articles in our present vo- 

 lume, he must no longer be called the author) — while 

 the political changes both in this country and in Europe 

 generally were of a most eventful character. Then of a 

 more private character are his accounts of the deaths of 

 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Churchill, Lord Walde- 

 grave, and many other notables ; of the marriages and 

 intrigues of all the rest of the world, which are all mixed 

 up with literary and artistic gossip, and that infinite 

 variety of pleasant small talk which no one could talk so 

 pleasantly on paper as Horace Walpole. 



The lovers of proverbs owe something to Mr. Bohn. 

 His Handbook of English Proverbs, in itself a most curious 

 and amusing volume, has just been doubled in value by a 

 supplemental publication, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs, 

 comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Por- 

 tuguese, and Danish, with English Translations, and a 

 General Index. The title alone is sufficient to recommend 

 the book to all lovers of that folk-wisdom which is en- 

 shrined in the proverbs of a nation — and who does not 

 love such lore ? — while by means of the copious Index 

 which completes the Avork, the reader is enabled to trace, 

 and a very curious task it is to do so, in what varied 

 shapes the same idea is clothed by the natives of different 

 countries. 



The announcement in last week's " K & Q." that a 

 Kentish Archceological Society is in course of formation 

 has brought us a letter from the zealous Secretary of the 

 Surrey Archaological Society, calling our attention to a 

 proposal made by Mr. Howard, and adopted by that 

 Society, that it should be extended so as to include the 

 county of Kent, and form a Surrey and Kent Archceo- 

 logical Society; and claiming from us, on the principle of 

 fair play, that we should give equal publicity to such 

 plan. We can have no possible objection to do so. But 

 looking to the extent, importance, and archseological 

 riches of Kent, and knowing that the movement for the 

 formation of an independent Society has the support of 

 some who have devoted years to the study of Kent and 

 its history — aye, years ev^en before the Surrey Society 

 itself was called into existence — we feel very strongly 

 that such proposal for the formation of a Kentish Archwo- 

 logical Society should be fairly tried ; and that the Surrey 

 Archaeologists would do well to be contented with the 

 credit which they will assuredly have well earned of 



having stimulated the Antiquaries of Kent to follow their 

 good example. 



Books Received. — The Geography of Strabo literally 

 translated, with Notes, by H. C. Hamilton, Esq., and W. 

 Falconer, M.A. Vol. III. This third volume completes 

 the translation of Strabo, in Bohn's Classical Library. 

 It is made most useful by a very complete Index, con- 

 taining every geographical name mentioned by Strabo, 

 and the modern names as far as they can be ascertained, 

 which are printed in Italics. 



A Concise Grammar of the Persian Language, contain- 

 ing Dialogues, Lessons, and a Vocabulary, by A. H. Bleek. 

 Though small in size, this little grammar claims to con- 

 tain a greater varietj' of information on the subject than 

 any work hitherto published in this country. The dia- 

 logues have been revised, while passing through the 

 press, by Professor Eastwick ; and the work received the 

 careful editorial supervision of the late Mr. Napoleon 

 Newton. 



Local Notnenclature ; a Lecture on the Names of Places, 

 chiefly in the West of Efigland, Etymologically and His- 

 torically considered by George R. Puhnan. 



The Vulgar Tongue, comprising Two Glossaries of Slang 

 Cant and Flash Words and Phrases principally used in 

 London at the present Day, by Ducange Anglicus. 



We must content ourselves with giving in full the title 

 of these two small contributions to philological know- 

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