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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 149. 



of this work are remarkable for the peculiar epithets, 

 &c. attached to particular words, for the purpose, 

 it would seem, of instilling their opinions into the 

 minds of the younger students. The words, for 

 instance, Hceresis, Papa, may show this. The first 

 is described as " Impia, scelerata, exitiosa, hor- 

 rida, detestanda, insana, mendax," &c. Papa, on 

 the other hand, is " Sanctus, venerandus ; cui sum- 

 ma potestas terrarum ceelique data est ; cujus ves- 

 tigia adorat Caesar, et auro vestiti murice Reges ; 

 sceptra vicesque Dei gerens ; qui regna infera 

 Ditis, ccelorumque fores aperit et claudit." 



C. I. R. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Every day furnishes additional proof how a taste for 

 archaeological studies is spreading on every side, and 

 that the example set by the Archajological Societies of 

 London is being zealously and successfully imitated 

 throughout the country. We have now before us two 

 volumes, in which are recorded the Proceedings of the 

 Somersetshire Archceological and Natural History Society, 

 during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 ; and two 

 volumes more creditable to the several parties engaged 

 in their production could hardly be desired. The 

 papers are well considered, and for the most part ap- 

 propriate : that is to say, touching rather on the spe- 

 cialties of Somersetsliiro, than on points of more general 

 interest ; and the illustrations are executed in a way to 

 put to shame many which have been issued to the 

 world by societies having greater means, and putting 

 forth greater claims, than the Somersetshire Archeeo- 

 logical and Natural History Society. 



While on the subject of such societies we may an- 

 nounce that an Archaeological Society for the county 

 of Surrey is in the course of formation, and that gen- 

 tlemen desirous of joining it, or promoting its objects, 

 are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secre- 

 tary, Mr. Webb, 1. St. James' Square, Notting Hill. 



Postulates and Data — of which we have eleven num- 

 bers now before us — is a new weekly periodical which 

 may lay claim to the character of thorough novelty, 

 for each number contains only three or four articles ; 

 and these are as varied as can well be imagined, — an 

 attack on the Admiralty boroughs and on the mis- 

 management of Admiralty contracts being found side 

 by side with a Dissertation O71 the Seventy Weeks 

 of Daniel and Annotationes Criticw in Platonem. It is 

 certainly a literary curiosity ; and though the price at 

 which it is published must prevent its ever attaining a 

 wide circulation. Postulates and Data will probably 

 find a good many admirers among those who share the 

 opinions it advocates, and who are able to appreciate 

 the scholarship displayed in its pages. 



Lord Mahon has just published a Letter to Jared 

 Sparks, Esq., being a Rejoinder to his Reply to the Stric- 

 tures of Lord Mahon and others on the Mode of Editing the 

 Writings of Washington, in which, with the courtesy 

 which distinguishes all his writings, Lord INIahon with- 

 draws the charge he had made against that gentleman of 



having made " additions " to the Letters of Washington ; 

 but clearly establishes that of his having made " omissions 

 and corrections," and these too in a manner prejudicial 

 to the « Truth of History." 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Mahon's (Lono) History of England, Vol. IV., 8vo. 

 The Annual Register, 1s37 to 1849. 

 Archsologia, Vols. VI. and VII. 

 D'lsRAELi's Vivian Grey. 



coningsby. 



. The Young Duke. 



The Revolutionary Epic. 



Henrietta Temple. 



Venetia. 



Alascos, a Play. 



Salt's Gleanings on Poetry. 



Mitford's Greece. Cadell, 181S. 8vo. Vol. I. 



Virgil's Works in Latin and English, translated by Rev. C. 



Pitt. With Notes by Rev. Joseph Wharton. Dodsley, 1753. 



8vo. Vol. 1. 

 Sir Henry Spelman's History of Sacrilege. 

 Milton's Paradise Lost. First Edition. 



Glossary of Architecture, Vols. I. and II. of original edition. 

 Manning and Bray's Surrey, Vol. I. 

 Vestiges of Ancient Manners in Modern Italy and Sicily, 



by Rev. J. J. Blunt. 

 Balatus Ovium. 

 Geddes' Tracts against Popery, &c., \ Vols. 8vo. calf, neat, 



can be had on application to the Publisher. 



The following Treatises by the Rev. Thomas Watson, of St. 



Stephen's, JVallbrook. 

 A Word of Comfort to the Church of God. Sermon, 4to. 

 The Doctrine of Repentance useful for these Times. 

 Religion our True Interest, or Notes on Mai. iii. 16, 17, 18. 

 The Mischief of Sin ; it brings a Person Low. 

 A Plea for the Godly, wherein is shown the Excellency of a 



Righteous Person. 

 The Duty of Self-denial briefly opened and urged. 

 Sermon on Psalm cxxxviii. to end. 

 Sermon on Psalm xlvi. 5. 

 Sermon on Rev. 11. 10. 

 Biographia Americana, by a Gentleman of Philadelphia. 



*),* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be sent to Mil. Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



0atisti ta C0rrcjSp0iilf0nt^. 



Replies Received Fishing by Eltctricity — Virgilian Lots ~ 



The Man in the Moon — Music of the Spheres — Rhymes on Places 



— Monumental Brasses abroad — Differ with, 8jC True Maiden- 

 hair Fern — Two Full Moons in July — Maturin Laurent— Shaston 

 — Nugget — Beef-eaters— Burials in JVoollen — Dress of the Clergy 



— Baxter's Saint's Rest — Duration of the World — Shropshire 

 Ballad — Sleep like a Top — Furye Family — Reverend applied to 

 Clergymen — The Dodo — Passage in the " Merchant of Venice" — 



Somnium Scipionis — Lord discount Dover, S,c Can Bishops 



vacate their Sees — " Sic transit Gloria Mundi" — Curfew Bell.— 



— Remarkable Trees — ' Twas whisper'd in Heaven, S(C. — Phosbe 

 Hassel — Royal Arms in Churches— Mummies of Ecclesiastics — 

 Medical Use of Pigeons — Layovers for Meddlers — Misprints in 

 Prayer Books — Relics of Charles I. — Cowdray Family — Lanca- 

 shire Sayings — Portrait of Sir K. Digby — Reverence to the 

 Altar, S[c. 



Photography We are happy to announce that Dr. Diamond 



has kittdly promised to furnish us with a Reply to A. H. R.'« in- 

 quiries upon this subject; and which will appear in an early 

 Number. 



Junius. We shall next week lay before our readers a highly 

 interesting paper on the subject of 'the Early Piratical Editions of 

 Junius, containing not only tnuch that is new and hitherto unre- 

 corded in the Bibliography of Junius, but also much which we 

 think will be found of service in all future attempts to unearth 

 this " wild boar cf the forest." 



F. S. A. We have not seen the Letter in question. It is pri- 

 vately printed, and we have not shared the good fortune of our 

 Cotemporaries in getting a sight of it. We are sure, however, 

 froyn our knowledge of the writer, that his views will be advocated 

 with the temper q/ a gentleman. 



