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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 270. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Perhaps one of the most appropriate, as it is certainly 

 one of the most beautiful, of the books which have been 

 published at this present-giving season, is a volume 

 containing twenty photographs from drawings by an 

 " accomplished lady," whose initials we do not attempt to 

 fill up. It is entitled, Illustrations of Scripture, by an 

 Animal Painter, with Notes by a Naturalist. And whether 

 we look at the artistic skill exhibited in the original 

 drawings (a skill which has won the praise of Landseer), 

 in this new application of photography, by which those 

 drawings have been reproduced with a fidelity not to be 

 attained by any other process — or at the well-written and 

 instructive notes by which the pen of the naturalist has 

 illustrated them, and by them many striking passages of 

 the Old Testament — we can have 'little doubt that the 

 work will attain a popularity far beyond the present 

 season. It assuredly deserves to do so. 



The unsettled state of the copyright question, as be- 

 tween this country and the United States, has led to the 

 publication of a long letter in a New York paper, which 

 contains some strong observations on the transactions of 

 certain English publishers. Among others, Mr. Bentley 

 comes in for a share of the abuse. The Athenceum, after 

 remarking that there is an unfairness in the letter, which 

 all honourable minds will at once rebuke, puts the fol- 

 lowing matter-of-fact query : — " Has Mr. Bentley's house 

 paid — or has it not paid — the alleged amounts to Ame- 

 rican authors? That is the question. We have Mr. 

 Bentley's authority for stating that the following sums 

 have been paid by his firm for American copyrights to 

 three American writers: that is, to Mr. Washington 

 Irving, 2450Z. ; to Mr. Prescott, 2495Z. ; and to Mr. Feni- 

 more Cooper, 12,590Z. ; in all, 17,535Z. Can any of these 

 facts be denied ? If not, where is the justice of classing 

 Mr. Bentley with the literary pirates ? " 



We have this week two works to bring under the notice 

 of our philological readers. The first, by Dr. Richardson 

 — so well known for his admirable dictionary, — may be 

 considered as the exposition, by an earnest and able 

 student, of the great principles of his master. It is en- 

 titled On the Study of Language, an Exposition of the 

 EIIEA IITEPOENTA, or the Diversions of Purley, by John 

 Home Tooke, and although but a small book, is filled 

 with much ingenious argument and learned speculation. 

 The same may be said of Mer-cur-ius, or The- Word- 

 Maker. An Analysis of the Structure and Rationality of 

 Speech, including the Deciphering of Divers Truths that are 

 figured through the Veil of Language ; by the Rev. Henry 

 Le Mesurier, M. A., in which the logical and the philo- 

 logical are combined in a most amusing and most in- 

 structive essay. 



Books Received. — Murray's Official Handbook of 

 Church and State. This is a " new and thoroughly revised 

 edition " of a work, which is a most useful companion to 

 aU Court Calendars, Red Books, &c. To official men it is 

 indispensable — to all who have official business a most 

 invaluable guide to the department to which that busi- 

 ness belongs. — Cowper''s Works, with Life by SoutKey, ^c. 

 Vols. VII. and VIII. With these two volumes, which 

 contain Cowper's translations (as originally written by 

 him) of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Mr. Bohn has brought 

 his cheap yet excellent edition of Southey's Cowper to a 

 close. — The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel 

 De Foe. This new volume of Bohn's British Classics 

 contains De Foe's "Moll Flanders" and " History of the 

 Devil." 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Thb Catewa AoBRiL OP St. Thomas Aquinas. Translated. Vol. I. 



St. Matthew. Part 1. 8vo. Oxford, 1811. 

 Archbishop Bramhall's Works. Vol.1. 8vo. Oxford, 1842. 

 Bishop Andrewes's Sermons. Vol. I. 8vo. Oxford, 1841. 



Ditto Ditto. Vol. V. Oxford, 1843. 



Bishop Bevertdok's Sermons. Vol. VI. 8vo. Oxford, 1845. 

 St. Chrvsostom's Homilies on the Statues. Translated. 8vo. Oxford. 



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Annalium ecclesiasticorum post Baronium, auctore Abr. Bzovio. 

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 of which it was desirable should be included in the present Volume, this 

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The Church Hymnal. We were, it appears, in error in ascribing this 

 work to the Rev. W. Denton. That gentleman assisted the editor, but does 

 not claim the credit of having executed the ivork. 



Errata.— Vol. x., p. 348. 1. 15. from bottom; for "Cecilia daughter 

 of John, Sir Jeremy's brother, and the other Elizabeth Bowes, daughter 

 of Sir Martin," read " Elizabeth daughter of John, Sir Jeremy s father, 

 and the other Cecilia Bowes, daughter of Sir Martm ; ' p. 375. col. 1. tn 

 the evitavh copied from Ruthin churchiiard. the name should be 1 orre, 

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 " distinction ; 'f^ p. 419. col. 2.1. 18., /or " Lurgan " read " Laggan j 

 p. 457.C01. \.,for" rup'u>e " (twice) read^'_ rapture ; p.463. col. 1. 1. 10. 

 from brttom./or " Burnham, read "Bimam Wood; p. 473. col. i. 

 1. 14. from bottom, for " Jadies " read " Jadis." 



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