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a client with a timber leg, was advised by him to 

 consult another counsel —one SHANK MORE. 



G.N. 



Sir George Leman Tuthill, M.D., v^as physician 

 to the hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem, not 

 president, as stated by your correspondent G., 

 2'"' S. iv. 294. W. MuNK, M.D. 



Fiusbury Place. 



Guillotine (2"'^ S. iv. 264.)— All interested in the 

 pedigree of the guillotine should turn to Camden, 

 in whose pages they will see a picture of the 

 famous Halifax gibbet, a perfect type of the 

 Doctor's supposed invention, on which all thieves 

 taken hand-hahend or back-berond viere summarily 

 executed, if the property stolen passed the value 

 of thirteen pence. In the case of catch-lifters, 

 the quaint ingenuity of those rough times con- 

 trived that the stolen animal should itself execute 

 the felon by pulling the rope that released the 

 axe ; but in default of a " beast," the bailiff of the 

 manor or his deputy officiated, the time always 

 chosen being market day. The Halifax gibbet is 

 supposed to have suggested to Earl Morton the 

 idea of " the Maiden," grimly famous in the annals 

 of Edinburgh, and alluded to by Scott in The Abbot. 

 Nor was Germany ignorant of such a machine, for 

 in a print by Aldegraft of Westphalia, dated 1553, 

 and mentioned by Gough, Titus Manlius is repre- 

 sented as expiating his disobedience on a similar 

 scatFold. Signet. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The new number of the Quarterly Review, like every 

 other publication of the day, exhibits traces of the great 

 interest which the Indian Question is exciting in the 

 public mind. Its chief political article is of course on the 

 Indian Mutiny, and it has besides one on that important 

 subject, Communication with India, in which the relative 

 merits of the Suez and Euphrates Routes are discussed. 

 An article entitled " The Parish Priest," on the duties, 

 difficulties, and responsibilities of the clergy, will be read 

 with considerable interest by all who desire to see the 

 ministrations of the Church spread j'et more widely, and 

 crowned with greater results. There is a pleasant bio- 

 graphical article on George Stephenson, and an amusing 

 historical one based on Mr. Rawdon Brown's (as yet un- 

 published) translation of the Diaries of the Venetian Em- 

 bassy to the Court of James I. A chatty semi-antiquarian 

 article on Corjiwall, and a pleasant review of Lord Duf- 

 ferin's Yacht Voyage, make the piquant side dishes of 

 this quarterly banquet ; with the addition, by-the-bj'e, of 

 an article on Tom Brown, in which that admirable book 

 is highly praised, and in which too great justice is done 

 to the memory of Dr. Arnold. 



The mention of the last book, Tom Brown's School 

 Days, reminds us of a little volume from another great 

 master of his art, Mr. Charles Reade. The Course of 

 True Love never did run Smooth, one of Bentley's Cheap 

 Series, consists of three tales illustrative of Shakspeare's 

 well-worn proverb. The Bloomer, and Art, a Dramatic 

 Tale, have, we believe, already appeared ; but Clouds and 



Sunshine, the new story, is a perfect little gem — show- 

 ing, in its limited compass and free outline, the hand of 

 the master as plainly as ever Raphael's was seen in any 

 of those wondrous sketches which so delight all true 

 lovers of art. 



Books Received. — Critical and Miscellaneous Essays 

 collected and republished by Thomas Carlyle, Vol. Ill, In 

 this volume we have several of Mr. Carl3'le's admirable 

 expositions of the Life and Writings of Gothe ; his me- 

 morable article on BoswelVs Johnson; his Count Cagli- 

 ostro, and numerous other of his shrewd and most original 

 disquisitions. 



ManteU's Wonders of Geology, Seventh Edition, revised 

 and augmented by T. Rupert Jones, Vol. I., is the new 

 issue of Bohn's Scientific Library. The popularity of the 

 book is shown by its having reached a seventh edition, 

 while the fact that the present edition is most profuselj* 

 illustrated, and the knowledge it communicates is brought 

 down by the editor to the latest time, will go far to in- 

 crease it. 



Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the 

 Stuarts, including the Protectorate, by J. H. Jesse, Vol. III. 

 This new edition of Jesse's chatty volume, with its nu- 

 merous illustrative portraits, is now completed. If Mr. 

 Bohn reproduces in his Historical Library many such 

 works, he will do good service to historical readers : and 

 we have no doubt add another successful Library to those 

 he is already publishing. 



George Herbert's Temple, with the Piiest to the Temple, 

 or Country Parson. This neat little reprint, issued with 

 red edges, and in an antique style, by Washbourne & Co., 

 shows how wide-spread is the love for the writings of 

 this most christian poet. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Particulars of Price, &c., of the foUowing Book to be sent direct to 

 the gentleman by wliom it is required, and wliose name and address 

 are given for that purpose : 



Todd's Sunday School Tbachbr, and Lectuhes to Children. Maid- 

 stone. " W. Syckelmoore's Periodical Library." 



Wanted by J. Cyprian Must, 12. The Crescent, Norwich. 



fiatitei ta Cavrei^antsmtfi, 



We are this week compelled by want of space to omit many articles of 

 great interest which arc in type, as well as some Notices to Cobbespon- 



R. W. Dixon. We shall be glad to receive the Kote from Fordun. 



Bells. We have two m- three curious articles on tliis sulject waiting 

 for insertion. They shall have our early attention. 



Pbofessob Yodno's Cbiticism on Gray's Eleoy. Our attention hat 

 been called by the writer on this subject in " N. & Q." Sept. 5, to a strange 

 typographical error, by which he is made to say at p. 197: "I learned 

 that it ivas tlie veritable production of Professor Con-w^y," whereas, of 

 course, it should be Professor Youno. We must lay some portion of the 

 blame in this case on the handvjriting of our, in all other lespects, excel- 

 lent Correspondent. 



Henri. Ritualists are not agreed as to the response of the congrega- 

 tion in the Lord's Prayer, at the commencement of the service of the Holy 

 Communion. Tlie subgecthas been frequently discussed in Church periodi- 

 cals, but after all that has been said, " the custom of the unrefarmed ser- 

 vice," as Mr. Proctor remarks, "has prevailed over the general rubric 

 (1662) on the first occurrence oftlie Lords Prayer, ordering tltat the people 

 should repeat it with the minister wheresoever else it is used iu Divine 

 Service." See also the British Magazine, xvii. 292. 



Ebratctm. — 2nd S. iv. 320. col. 1. 1. 36., /o7- " respected" recKi"re- 

 feo»r-l." 



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