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mlttee is to do its work well, the number of its mem- 

 bers must be limited ; secondly, that in the nomina- 

 tion of those members care must be taken to select 

 those who add to antiquarian knowledge the practical 

 habits of men of business. We think we could name 

 a committee of five (and fiive are quite enough) which 

 should be unobjectionable. Following the example 

 set " in another place," we should first name Mr. Haw- 

 kins, the mover, and Lord Mahon as representing the 

 government. To these we should add, one who has 

 already done the Society great service, as chairman of 

 the finance committee, and who is well aware of the 

 improvements in its working which are desired; we 

 need hardly say that we allude to Sir Charles Young. 

 While, with the view of securing to the committee that 

 legal knowledge which will be required, we should 

 venture to hope that the Lord Chief Baron might be 

 induced to give the Society the benefit of his great 

 experience and distinguished position ; and join with 

 him another good antiquary, lawyer, and man of busi- 

 ness, Mr. Foss. 



Lord Derby, recognising the universal desire to do 

 honour to the memory of the Duke of Wellington, 

 has issued a proposal that it shall be one to which all 

 may contribute, which shall be worthy of its object and 

 of the nation, and which shall be of permanent use to 

 the service of which he was long the head and orna- 

 ment, namely, the erection and endowment, by public 

 subscription, of a school or college to bear the name of 

 the Duke of Wellington, for the gratuitous or nearly 

 gratuitous education of orphan children of indigent 

 and meritorious officers of the army. The Queen and 

 Prince Albert have approved of the project, and placed 

 their names at the head of the subscription list for the 

 respective sums of 1,OOOZ. and 500/. The Times very 

 justly observes, that if the plan " be carried out in the 

 manner proposed by those who have brought the sub- 

 ject under the attention of the public, it will be one of 

 the noblest monuments ever erected by the piety and 

 gratitude of a nation to the memory of a great man." 



Books Received. — Matthew Paris's English History 

 Jromthe Year 1235 to 1273. Translated from the Latin 

 by the Rev. J, A. Giles, D.C.L., Vol. I., is the new 

 volume of Bohn's yhitiquarian Library, and forms the 

 continuation of that valuable old chronicler, Roger of 

 Wendover. — The Earth, Plants, and Man. Popular 

 Pictures of Nature, by Professor Schouw of Copenhagen, 

 and Sketches from the Mineral Kingdom, by F. von 

 Kobell, translated by Arthur Henfrey, F. R.S., &c., is 

 the new volume of his Scientific Library ; and The 

 Olynthiac and other Public Orations of Demosthenes, 

 Translated, with Notes, &c., by Charles Rann Kennedy, 

 is the new volume of the same enterprising publisher's 

 Classical Library. 



Life and Character of the Duke of Wellington, being 

 the Substance of a Lecture delivered in the Worsley 

 Literary Institution by the Earl of Ellesmere, a new 

 issue of Murray's Railway Reading, is no less interest- 

 ing for the many personal recollections of the Duke 

 which are to be found in it, than for the fact of its 

 being another proof of the good feeling now so rife 

 among us, which brings the " belted earl " and the 

 " hard-handed artizan " together in the common field of 

 literature. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to purchase. 



Prideaux's Connection of the Old and New Testament 



HiSTOBY. 



The Metropolitan Magazine, March 1833. 



Bernard's Ketrospections of the Stage. 2 vols. 8vo. 



Edwin and Emma. Taylor. London, 1776. 



Watson's New Botanist's Guide. 



Elegiac Epistles on the Calamities of Love and War ; In- 

 cluding a Genuine Description of the Tragical Engagements 

 between His Majesty's Ships the Serapls and Countess of Scar- 

 borough and the Enemy's Squadron under the Command of 

 Paul Jones, on the 23rd Septpmber, 1779, 8vo., 1781. 



Costerus.Franciscus S. J., MeditationesdePassione Christ:. 

 In Latin 5«., or English lOx. Published in Latin at Antwerp 

 about 1590. Date in English unknown. 



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



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 Rev. J. Norman. 



Selby's British Forest Trees. 



ARCHiEOLOGIA. Vols. III., IV., V. 



Chinese Customs. Drawings by W. Alexander. London: 



W. Miller, Old Bond Street. 1803. 

 Dr. Richard Cosin's Ecclesi^ Anglican.^ Politeia im 



Tabulas digesta. 

 The Book of Enoch the Prophet. 

 The Book of Jasher. 

 Sully's Memoirs (12nio. 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. 

 A Letter to David Garrick, published by Bleadon, 1772. 

 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 of Mexico. Translated by Cullen. 2 vols, 



4to. Lond. 1787. 

 Brown's .Anecdotes of Animals. 

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to send their names. 

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

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

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Ursula. How may a letter be forwarded to this Correspondent? 



J. D., who writes to us respecting the rrumument of Archbishop 

 Chicheley at Canterbury, is referred to the article on Emaciated 

 Monumental Effigies in our No. for the IZrd Oct. last ; and to 

 the various other communications on the same subject there re- 

 ferred to. 



W. P. A. has been anticipated with respect to Cromwell's Ser. 

 mon by our valued Correspondent Mr. Crossley, in No. 158., 

 p. 447. 



T. Warrington, who writes to us on the subject of Booty's 

 Case, will probably find as much information as he requires on 

 rtference to pp. 40. 93. 170. of our 3rd Volume. 



Moravian Hymns. Will H. B. C. (Vol. v., p. 30.) and 3. O. 

 (Vol. v., p. 492.) enable us to put them in correspondence with a 

 minister of the church of the United Brethren, who desires to com- 

 municate with them on the subject of the Moravian Hymn Books 

 in their possession ? 



Spes. We have a letter vailing for this Corresponderlt. How 

 can we forward it? 



The Scholar. This periodical, about which our Correspondent 

 Mr. Forbes inquires, was piiblishcd at Preston. Its title is The 

 Scholar, conducted by the Pupils of the Preston Grammar School, 

 and the passage referred to by the quondam Editor {in " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. vi., p. 425.) was in the 5th No., published May 30, 1850, p. 5. 



J. M. (Oxford). We shall be glad to receive the Notes re- 

 ferred to. 



De Navorscher. T. v. L. received. We have not seen De 

 Navorscher since the third part of Vol. II. 



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