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produced against her at the trial respecting the 

 Babington conspiracy. There can be no doubt, 

 from the legend quoted, that, though the history 

 may be different, the medallion is the same. 

 Mr. Henning must have had it in his hands to 

 electrotype ; and probably Mr. Kenney Meadows 

 or some one of Mr. Henning's family could inform 

 Col. Jacob on the subject. Sholto Macduff. 



Go to Bath (2"'i S. iv. 268.)— The licence by 

 two justices for diseased poor persons to travel to 

 Bath, or to Buxton, was no doubt for the purpose 

 of protecting them from any charge of vagrancy 

 in going or returning. In the Doncaster Town-Ac- 

 counts of Sept. 1626, is a donation of 3c?. " to a 

 poore man that went blynde to the Bayth and had 

 recovered his sight agayne." C J. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Among th5 signs of the coming Christmas are the 

 pretty books, all rich with purple and gold, which are 

 especially got up for that season of gifts and goodwill. 

 Earliest among these in its arrival, richest in its decora- 

 tions, and daintiest in its pictorial illustration, is the 

 volume containing The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan 

 Poe, with Original 3Iemoir, illustrated by Pickersgill, 

 Tenniel, Birket Foster, Darley, Cropsej', Duggan, Skel- 

 ton, and lladot. Edgar Allan Poe was a Poet in the 

 higliest sense of the word ; and we must not suffer our 

 regret at the strange contrast to his writings which his 

 life exhibited to blind us to the depth of his fancy, the 

 richness of his imagination, or the melody of his verse. 

 The present edition of his poetical writings is admirable 

 in every respect. The artists have obviously done their 

 share of the good work in a spirit of thorough love of 

 their subjects, the paper and print are alike beautiful, 

 and every lover of poetry who sees the volume will admit 

 that in this exquisite edition of Poe's Poetical Writings 

 the gems which sparkle in them have been enshrined in 

 an elegant and befitting casket. 



The"^ volume just published by Mr. Murray, entitled 

 Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks, is a collection 

 of verses written by many of the most eminent men of 

 the day on a couple of woodcocks killed by Chantrey at 

 one shot, and afterwards brought to life by his chisel. 

 The book being made up of verslets, its story should be 

 told in the same way : 



Says Coke to Frank Chantrey, 



" To my woods go, and man try. 

 To bring'down for dinner some good cocks." 



With such bidding who'd quarrel 



He went, and one barrel 

 Soon brought down a couple of woodcocks. 



Quoth he, back at Holkham, 



" Pve brought you, oh Coke, home 

 Two birds, where I'm sure that but one you meant. 

 But since thus I did sarve 'em, 

 It's but right I should carve 'em." 

 So he made of those woodcocks a monument. 

 These are far worse than anj- that are in the book ; but 

 as a review in rhyme is a novelty, let us conclude this 

 with another couplet : 



Honoured with verse, steel plates, and choice wood- 

 blocks. 

 Couple so rare was never seen of woodcocks. 



The book is a literary curiosity, and is a very handsome 

 one. 



Lord Campbell's new edition of his Lives of the Chan- 

 cellors is at length brought to a conclusion. The 10th 

 volume gives us the Lord Chief Justice's biography of 

 Lord Eldon, and a very amusing volume it is. The work, 

 we may add, is rendered extremely useful by the very 

 copious Index which is contained in this closing volume. 



We regret that it is our duty to record the death of a 

 kind and accomplished friend, who has often contributed 

 to these columns, the Rev. Philip Bliss, the learned 

 editor of Wood's Athena : he, who was alwaj's ready to 

 communicate to others out of his own vast stores of cu- 

 rious knowledge, died on Nov. 18., in the seventieth 

 j'ear of his age. Dr. Bliss's last literary work was the 

 ReliquicR Hearniance, The Remains of Thomas Hearne, 

 printed about forty years since, but only published at the 

 commencement of the present year. We may perhaps be 

 permitted to record as a matter of literary history, and 

 without being subjected to the imputation of vanity, 

 that Dr. Bliss completed the work at our suggestion. 

 Having been invited to publish in " N. & Q. " a series of 

 extracts from Hearne's Pocket-Books, and knowing that 

 Dr. Bliss had once contemplated such a work, we at once 

 wrote to him on the subject. We then learned that the 

 work, when nearly completed at press, had been aban- 

 doned by him. Ultimatel)', however, he with gi-eat kind- 

 ness yielded to our urgent solicitations that he would 

 resume and complete it. He did so ; and the manner in 

 which the book was received was almost as gratifying to 

 us, as was the friendly letter from the Editor in which he 

 says : " You may consider yourself responsible to the 

 public for the appearance of the book, as it was owing to 

 your letter I summoned courage to complete it; but for 

 that, the whole impression, up to p. 576., would have 

 rotted in the warehouse or have tied up parcels." 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUBCHASE. 

 C. SDETONii'sTRANQUiLitJs cx reccns. Jo. Geo. Grajvii. Amst. 1697. 8vo. 



*»• Lettera, statins particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be 

 sent to Messrs. Uell it. Daldy, Publishers of "JNOXES AND 

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Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent dii-ect to 

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

 dresses are given for that purpose. 



Hackett's Epitaphs. Vol. II. 



Gukst's MABiNoorAN. Complete or odd parts. 



Hogg's Jacobite Relics. 2 Vols. 



Wanted by C. J. Sheet, 10. King William Street, Strand. 



Willmott's PtEAsnRES, Objects, and Advantages of Literature. 

 The edition published by Bosworth, 215. Regent Street, in 1851. 



Wanted by the Eev. John Pickford, Oakley, near Bedford. 



Lord Dover's Lifk op Frederic the Second. Vol. I. Svo. Longman. 

 1832. 

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Tracts por the Times. Complete. 



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fiatitti to <tLavxti)^a\\tit\\ti, 



We liave been compelled to omit from the present number, for want of 

 space. Professor De Morgan's article on Donald Campbell of Barbreck, 

 Mr. Keiahtley's Paper on Enallages, and other interestinn Papers by Mr. 

 Offor, Pr»fesaor Masson, 4rc. 



