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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 158. 



We know no book which we should so readily put into 

 the hands of an intelligent youth whom we wanted to 

 engage in a course of scientific study. 



Mr. Russell Smith has at length undertaken to 

 supply the want so deeply felt by all lovers of old 

 books since the discontinuance of the Retrospective lie- 

 view ; and arguing very fairly, that if the current pub- 

 lications will supply materials for so many reviews, the 

 rich stores of the literature of past ages may well 

 furnish forth valuable and interesting matter for one 

 quarterly periodical, he has issued the first number of 

 a new Retrospective Review, which is as varied and 

 amusing as any number of its able predecessor. The 

 best idea we can give of its nature is to tell our readers 

 that it contains critical and analytical notices on such 

 varied subjects as the Dramatic Writings of Mrs. 

 Behn ; Bishop Berkeley on Tar Water ; French Pic- 

 tures of the English in the last century ; Population 

 and Emigration at the beginning of the Seventeenth 

 Century ; Remarkable Providences of the earlier days 

 of American Colonisation ; the Travels of Boullaye-le- 

 Gouz ; and tlie First Edition of Shakspeare. There 

 can be little doubt of the success of this fresh appeal to 

 all lovers of books and book-men. 



Books Received. — The Australian Colonies, their 

 Origin and present Condition, by William Hughes, 

 F.R. G.S., the new volume of Longman's Traveller'' s 

 Library, is a very successful attempt to supply, in a 

 popular and not unattractive form, an account not only 

 of the objects of more immediate interest from their 

 connexion with the passing events of the day, but also 

 of the climate, productions, and general resources of the 

 Australian Settlements, and of their extensive capabi- 

 lities for the profitable employment of British labour, 

 capital, and skill. — Nineveh, its Rise and Ruin, as il- 

 lustrated iy Ancient Scriptures and Modern Discoveries, 

 by the Rev. John Blackburn, is dedicated to Mr. 

 Layard, and has been recommended by him to the 

 ♦' Working Man's Educational Union " as the book best 

 suited to connect the discoveries at Nineveh with the 

 history and predictions of the sacred Scriptures. No 

 better testimony could be borne to the merits of this 

 unpretending little volume. — Old Roads and New 

 Roads is the title of a brochure, the first of a new 

 series of railway literature, which has been commenced 

 by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, under the title of 

 Reading for Travellers. To the great importance of 

 roads the Duke bore testimony when discussing the 

 Caffre War ; and the writer of this little essay, which 

 is full of " wise saws and modern instances," will con- 

 firm every reader in the accuracy of the great Duke's 

 opinion. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to purchase. 



Selby's British Forest Trees. 



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



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



1825. Simpkin and Co, 

 ARCHa;oLoGiA. Vols. III., IV., V. 

 Chinese Customs. Drawings by W. Alexander. London : 



W. Miller, Old Bond Street. 1803. 

 Dr. Richard Cosin's EccLEsiiE Anglican^; Pouteia in 



Tabl'las digesta. 

 Ths Book of Enoch the Prophet. 



The Book of Jasher. 



Swift's Works (demy 8vo. in twenty volumes). Vols. 1. and 



XII. Dublin, George Faulkner, 1772. 

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



1778. 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland, 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. 



Clavioero's History op Mexico. Translated by Cullen. 2 vols. 



4to. Lond. 1787. 

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



of any other edition which contains the " Vocacyon of Johaa 



Ball to tlie Bishoprick of Osserie." 

 Brown's Anecdotes of Dogs. 

 Brown's Anecdotes of Animals. 

 Chalmers' Works. Glasgow and London. Post 8vo. Vol. IV. 



Lectures on the Romans. 

 Retrospective Review. Vols. XV. & XVI. 

 Adolphus' (J.L.) Essay, to prove Sir Walter ScoM the author 



of Waverley. 



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 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



Precise References. Our valued Correspondent Mr. C. 

 Forbes lately pointed out the necessity of precision in all refe- 

 rences, on the part of those seeking or giving information through 

 our columns. We now allude to this valuable hint, because ve are 

 anxious to impress upon our friends how much time and labour 

 they would save us, if, when replying to Queries, they would be 

 particular in specifying the volume and page in which those 

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 pies much time to supply such omissions. 



Correcting the Press. Kappa probably refers to the direc- 

 tions for this, given in an early Number of the Penny Magazine. 

 They will be found also in Johnson's Typographia, vol. ii. p. 216., 

 and several of the London Publishers and Printers have published 

 Guides to Authors, which contain useful information on the pre- 

 paration of copy, correction of the press, Sjc. 



Nepos (Liverpool). There are several modern editions of 

 Herrick's Poems; the best being that published by Pickering. 

 We are not aware of any modern edition of the Poetical Works of 

 Sir John Suckling. 



W. D. Mitchell (Worcester). The title of Charlemagne was 

 Carolus Magnus Imperator, Rex Francorum. 



Photography : Wax Paper Process. Our Correspondent 

 Mb. R. Elliott (ante, p. 442.), who complains that he has not been 

 able to succeed in the use of wax paper, as directed by Le Gray, 

 is informed that Dr. Diamond has met with perfect success by 

 following in the main the process described by the French Photo- 

 grapher. Dr. Diamond, Aouetier, has now written to us that he 

 believes he is enabled much to accelerate the action of it, without 

 impairing its efficacy, and to request us to withhold his communi- 

 calion for the present, which our readers will not regret, in the 

 present very unphotographic state of the weather. Since loriting 

 the foregoing we have received Mr. Crockes' interesting commu^ 

 nication on the Wax-Paper Process, which will be found at p. 443 



Philo-Col. We have certainly heard of the new French Col- 

 lodion : but that is all. We hope next week to be enabled to give 

 our Photographic friends some account of it. 



OxoNiKNsis. The line is from Borbonius. See our 1st Vol., 

 pp. 234. 419. 



J. R. R. Situla is'a bucket. The article referred to is pro- 

 bably one of those Anglo-Saxon buckets of which examples are 

 figured in Akerman's -Archajological Index and Worsaae's 

 Primeval Antiquities. 



Back Numbers of Notes and Queries. Full Price will be 

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