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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Society will take some decided steps to put a stop to so 

 degrading an abuse of the elective principle. 



We have omitted to notice the progress of Dr. 

 Smith's admirable Dictionary of Greek and Roman 

 Geography. The second, third, and fourth quarterly 

 parts are now before us, and are characterised by the 

 same careful interweaving of the researches of modern 

 scholars and the discoveries of modern travellers with 

 the records left us in the writings of antiquity, which 

 •were manifested alike in the first part of the present 

 work, and in the other dictionaries issued under Dr. 

 Smith's superintendence, but compiled with the as- 

 sistance of so many accomplished writers. We may 

 point to the article Athens, extending as it does over 

 upwards of fifty pages, for proof of the learning, ability, 

 and sound judgment which have been employed in the 

 preparation of this most useful work. 



Mr. Darling has just issued the second part of his 

 Cyclopedia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theo- 

 logical and General Literature, and Guide for Authors, 

 Preachers, Students, and Literary Men, Analytical, Bib- 

 liographical, and Biographical, The labour which Mr. 

 Darling must have bestowed upon this indispensable 

 companion to the library of every theological student 

 must have been very great, — labour which it would 

 have been impossible for him to have accomplished had 

 he not had the materials for its compilation close at 

 hand in his own extensive and valuable library of sacred 

 literature. We trust Mr. Darling will receive the pa- 

 tronage he so well deserves ; and that not only for his 

 own sake, but because we should look upon the dis- 

 continuance of the Cyclopcedia Bibliographica as a 

 heavy blow and great discouragement to the cause of 

 theological learning. 



Messrs. Reeve and Co. have issued another of their 

 beautifully illustrated popular books on natural history. 

 It is a Popular History of British Zoophytes or Coral- 

 lines, by the Rev, Dr. Lansborough, who is already 

 favourably known by his Popular History of British 

 Seaweeds. The study of the zoophytes or corallines has 

 not yet been so popular as it deserves, even among 

 those who readily confessed their beauty of form and 

 their wondrous construction ; a work like Dr. Lans- 

 borough's, which is calculated to draw attention to them, 

 is therefore likely to promote an increased knowledge 

 of those zoophytes, and other apulmonic creatures, 

 which, according to the theories of some philosophers, 

 " were the only animals that existed in the pre-adamatic 

 seas, when darkness brooded over the face of the deep." 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PaRCHASK. 



Hayward's British Muse. 3 vols. sm. 8vo. 1738. 

 Costerus.Fhanciscus S. J., Meditationes de Passione Christi. 



In Latin 5s., or English 10*. Published in Latin at Antwerp 



about 1590. Date in English unknown. 

 Cases of Conscience, by Rev. John Norman ; with an Account 



of him, by Mr. W. Cooper. 

 Christ's Commission Officer: an Ordination Sermon, by Rev. 



J. Norman. 

 Christ confessed (written in prison), by Kev. J. Korman. 

 Selby's British Forest Trees. 



Ireland's Warwickshire. Avon. Small size. 1795. 

 The Footman's Directory, by Thomas Cosnett. London, 



182.5. Simpkin and Co. 

 Aech£ologia. Vols. IlL, IV., V. 



Chinese Customs. Drawings by W. Alexander. London : 



W. Miller, Old Bond Street. 1803. 

 Dr. Richard Cosin's Ecclesije Anglican* Politeia in 



Tabulas digesta. 

 The Book op Enoch the Prophet. 

 The Book op Jasher. 

 Sully's Memoirs (12mo. in six volumes). Vol. II. Rivington, 



Cumberland and Wbstmoheland, History of, by Nicholson 



and Burn. 1777. 

 Letters of an Old Statesman to a Young Prince. 

 Letter to David Garrick, about 1770 to 1773. 

 Essay on Public Worship, Patriotism, and Projects of 



Reform. 

 A Liturgy on Universal Principles of Religion and 



Morality. 



All the above by David Williams. 

 Clavigero's History op Mexico. Translated by CuUen. 2 vols. 



4to. Lond. 1787. 

 Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VI., London, 1745; or the volume 



of any other edition which contains the " Vocacyon of Johaii 



Ball to the Bishoprick of Osserie." 

 Brown's Anecdotes of Dogs. 

 Brown's Anecdotes of Animals. 

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Sir John Suckling's Works. We are indebted to F. B— w 

 for correcting an oversight in our Repli/ upon this subject last 

 week. It appears an edition was published by Longmans in 183fi, 

 under the title of Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling, 

 edited by the Rev. Alfred Suckling ; which, although called Selec- 

 tions, contains the whole of his works with the exception of the in- 

 decent passages. 



The Maidenhair Fern. We have received a Note from the 

 Vicar of Morwenstow, in which he states that doubts have arisen 

 as to the identity of the Adiantum, referred to by him last week, with 

 the true Maiden-hair Fern, and requesting us therefore so far to 

 qualify his communication. 



J. R. R. Sydney Lady Morgan is the widow of the late Sir 

 Charles Morgan, and the well-known authoress of France, The 

 Wild Irish Girl, SfC. 



WiLDRAKE. Esthetics, from the Greek xlirBriTixes (having the 

 power of perception by means of the senaes), is, in the Fine Arts, 

 that science which derives the first principles in all the arts from 

 the effects which certain combinations have on the mind, as con- 

 nected with nature and right reason. 



T. C. (Liverpool). Scot, accordingto Cowel (Law Dictionary), 

 signifies a certain custom or tallage. The right of voting in 

 boroughs was formerly in those who paid scot and lot. Scot free, 

 therefore, is free from such cztstom or tallage. 



C. T., who desires soyne particulars of Mrs. H. Beecher Stotre, 

 the authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is referred to this month's 

 Number of Frazer's Magazine for a very full and interesting 

 article by an Alabama Man. 



Photography on Glass. C. W. (Preston) is reminded that 

 the darkened chamber, or camera, is as 7nuch required for the 

 developing, as for the earlier stages of the process. He will not, he 

 may be assured, find it possible to do away with a darkened tent, 

 or, what is far better, a camera such as has been described in 

 "N.& Q." 



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