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[2nd s. No 109., Jan. 30. '58. 



my inquiry, and ask how long this custom has 

 existed? — a reply to which may give me some 

 clue to the reason why our Alma Mater is behind 

 all the rest of the world. 



Amongst your contributors are many of the 

 students, and not a few of the Dons (including a 

 distinguished Senior Fellow, well known for his 

 love of antiquarian lore), some of whom will 

 doubtless be able to throw light on this subject. 

 John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Charity Sermon (2"'^ S. v. 70.) — The French 

 Protestant refugees, in 1727, contributed for their 

 distressed brethren even a larger sum than that 

 mentioned by Mk. Walcott : — 



" M. Henry Guinard, of Little St. Helen's (one of the 

 Deacons), stood at the Church door with a large pewter 

 dish in his hands. On counting the money put in by the 

 Congregation, it was found to be the amazing sum of 

 1248/. 7s. M. The Pewter dish, with a suitable inscrip- 

 tion on it, is now preserved." — Some Account of the 

 Reformed Church of France, by J. Long, Esq., 1819. 



John S. Bubn. 

 The Grove, Henley. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



« What ho ! What ho ! The Hobby-horse is forgot ! " 

 Not so, while the graphic and gossiping pen of Dr. Doran 

 survives to record his mad pranks, and the quips and jests 

 of his motley riders. How well Dr. Doran would dis- 

 course on such a theme, which his keen sense of the hu- 

 morous would make him relish, and his discursive reading 

 make him fully the master of, those who have turned 

 over the pleasant volumes with which ever and anon he 

 gratifies the lovers of chatty books will readily imagine. 

 His newly published History of Court Fools, which treats 

 of, — The Fool of Legend and Antiquity — The Fool by 

 right of Office — The Female Fools — The Oriental 

 Noodle — The English Minstrel and Jester — English 

 Court Fools — Court Fools of France — The Spanish 

 Jesters — Fools of Germany — Jesters of Italy — Jesters 

 in Priests' Houses; and, lastly, of Princes who have been 

 their own Fools. We have given the titles of Dr. Doran's 

 chapters, because those who know how gracefully he dis- 

 sertates upon everj' subject, from " predestination down 

 to slea silk," will judge from those titles what a pleasant 

 morning's reading is to be found in this History of Court 

 Fools. 



Those who, like ourselves, find great interest in inves- 

 tigating the under-currents of literature, have long ap- 

 preciated at their just value those two storehouses of minor 

 biography, Nichols's Literary Anecdotes and Nichols's 

 Jjiterary Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century. The 

 seven volumes of which the latter consisted have, up to 

 the present time, been less used by literary inquirers than 

 would otherwise have been the case from their wanting 

 that desideratum to all works of a similar character — a 

 good Index. Mr. John Bowyer Nichols, who has now 

 nearly reached the age at which his father, the original edi- 

 tor, arrived, has lately busied himself with completing the 

 v/ork ; and those who are fortunate enough to possess the 

 volumes already issued will be glad of the opportunity 

 thus aflibrded them of making their sets complete. We 

 use the word complete advisedly, when speaking of this 



newly published eighth volume of Illustrations of the Lite- 

 rary History of the Eighteenth Century, consisting of Au- 

 thentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Fersoiis; 

 to which are added Additions to the Literary Anecdotes and 

 Literary Illustrations, by John Bowyer Nichols, F.S.A. : 

 because, while the industry of Mr. Nichols has enabled 

 him to register a number of minute facts supplementary 

 to his father's volumes, he has done excellent service by 

 giving us a very full and elaborate Index to the entire 

 work. It is not often that the world sees three genera- 

 tions of literary antiquaries in one family. The Nichols 

 family is certainly remarkable in this respect. The au- 

 thor of The Literary Anecdotes, the venerable John Ni- 

 chols, has his labours completed by his son, John Bowyer 

 Nichols ; while his son again, John Gough Nichols, has 

 shown himself by many important works to be a most 

 able and accurate investigator into the early history and 

 literature of England. 



Mr. Woodward announces The History ajid Antiquities 

 of the Town of Bungay, in Suffolk: with a Sketch of the 

 Geology and Natural History of the Neighbourhood, and 

 notices of the surrounding Parishes, as in active prepara- 

 tion. The Duke of Norfolk has kindlj' thrown open his 

 muniment room to Mr. Woodward's inspection, and that 

 gentleman would feel obliged by permission to conwlt 

 deeds, charters, court-rolls, maps and plans, terriers, pa' 

 rish- registers, churchwardens' account-books, records of 

 charities, and other original documents, earlier than the 

 year 1700 ; or to use accurate copies of them. 



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