Jan. 8. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have received a copy of Notes and Emendations 

 on the Text of Shakspeare's Plays from Early Manuscript 



Corrections in a Copy of the Folio in the Possession of 

 J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S. A., forming a Supplemental 



Volume to the Works of Shakspeare, by the same Editor, 

 in Eight Volumes, 8vo. With the nature of this volume 

 the readers of " N. & Q," are already so fully ac- 

 quainted, from the frequent references which have 

 been made to it in these columns, that on this occa- 

 sion we feel that we need do little more than re- 

 cord its publication, and the fact that it appears to 

 be edited with the same scrupulous care, for which all 

 works which appeared under the superintendence of 

 Mr. Collier are invariably distinguished. That all the 

 critics will agree either with the MS. corrections, or with 

 Mr. Collier in his estimate of the value of the emend- 

 ations, is not to be expected; but all will acknow- 

 ledge that he has done good service to Shakspearian 

 literature by their publication. 



" The New Year," observes The Athenaeum, " opens 

 with some announcements of promise in our own lite- 

 rary world. Mr. Bentley announces the Memorials 

 and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, on which 

 the late Lord Holland was understood to be so long 

 engaged. The work, however, is now to be edited by 

 Lord John Ilussell, and to extend to two volumes 

 octavo. The same publisher promises a history, in 

 one large volume, of' The Administration of the East 

 India Company,' by Mr. Kaye, author of the ' History 

 of the War in Affghanistan ; ' and a ' History (in two 

 volumes octavo) of the Colonial Policy of the British 

 Empire from 1847 to 1851,' by the present Earl Grey. 

 — The fifth and concluding volume of ' The Letters 

 of the Earl of Chesterfield,' including some new letters 

 now first published from the original MSS., under 

 the editorship, as before, of Lord Mahon, will, we 

 believe, shortly appear. — Two volumes of 'Letters 

 of the Poet Gray,' so often announced by Mr. Bent- 

 ley, are to come out at last during the present 

 season. They will be edited by the Rev. J. Mit- 

 ford, author of 'The Life of Gray.' — Nor is Mr. 

 Murray without his usual attractive bill of fare for the 

 literary appetite. The Lowe Papers, left in a mass of 

 confusion at the death of Sir Harris Nicolas, are 

 now nearly ready ; and the St. Helena Life of Na- 

 poleon will appear, it is said, for the first time, as far as 

 Sir Hudson Lowe is concerned, in its true light. The 

 Castlereagh Papers (no-"- in Mr. Murray's hands) will 

 include matter of moment connected with the Congress 

 of Vienna, the Battle of Waterloo, and the occupation 

 of Paris. The same publisher announces The Speeches 

 of the Duke of Wellington (to which we called at- 

 tention some time back) : — also a work by Mr. George 

 Campbell, called ' India as it may be,' — and another 

 by Captain Elphinstone Erskine about the Western 



Pacific and Feejee Islands The Messrs. Longman 



announce a Private Life of Daniel Webster, by his late 

 Private Secretary, Mr. Charles Lanman — and a new 

 work by Signor Mariotti, ' An Historical Memoir of 

 Fra Dolcino and his Times.' — Mr. Bohn will have 



ready in a few days « Yule-Tide Legends,' a collection 

 of Scandinavian Tales and Traditions, edited by 



B. Thorpe, Esq. — Messrs. Hurst and Blackett 



whose names now take the place of Mr. Colburn's, as 

 his successors — are about to publish Memoirs of the 

 Court and Cabinets of George the Third, to be com- 

 piled from original family documents by the Duke of 

 Buckingham and Chandos." 



We need scarcely remind the Fellows of the Society 

 of Antiquaries who may have in their minds sug- 

 gestions for the improvement of the Society, how de- 

 sirable it is that they should bring those suggestions at 

 once under the consideration of the Committee just 

 appointed. We are sure that all such as are submitted 

 to Mr. Hawkins and his colleagues will receive every 

 attention; and we trust that the Committee will at 

 once proceed to their task, so that the Society may 

 have time to well consider their Report before the 

 Anniversary in April. 



Boors Received. — Dictionary of Greek and Roman 

 Geography, by various Writers. Edited by William 

 Smith. Part V. The new issue of this most useful 

 work extends from Campi Raudii to Cimolus. — Cyclo- 

 paedia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological 

 and General Literature, Analytical, Bibliographical, and 

 Biographical. Part IV. of this useful guide for au- 

 thors, preachers, students, and literary men, extends 

 from Henry Bull to Isaac Chauncy. — The Journal of 

 Sacred Literature. New Series. Edited by Dr. KItto. 

 No. VI. — Swift and Richardson, by Lord JeflTrey, is 

 the new Number of Longman's Traveller's Library. — 

 The Goose Girl at the Well, &c. , completes the interest- 

 ing collection of Grimm's Household Stories. — The 

 Shakspeare Repository is the first Number of a work 

 especially devoted to Shakspeare, containing a great 

 variety of matter illustrative of his life and writings, by 

 J. H. Fennell. — The Chess Player's Chronicle, the first 

 Number of which professes and appears to be an im- 

 proved series of this indispensable Chess Player's 

 companion. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



LuD. GcicciARDiNi's Descrip. Bklgii. 



Rastall's Exposition op Words. 



The Gentleman's Magazine for January 1851 . 



Ben Jonson's Works. (London, 1716. 6 Vols.) Vol. II. 

 wanted. 



The Pursuit op Knowledge. (Original Edition.) Vol. I. 



Rapin's History of England, 8vo. Vols. I., III. and V. of 

 the Continuation by Tindal. 1744. 



Sharpe's Prose Writers. Vol. IV. 21 Vols. 1819. Piccadilly. 



Inchbald's British Theatre. Vol. XXIV. 25 Vols. Long- 

 man. 



Mkyrick's Ancient Armour, by Skelton. Part XVI. 



Donne, B/«fla»«Tor, 4to. First Edition, 1644. 



Second Edition, 1648. 



PsEUDO-iVlARTYK. 4tO. 



—^ Paradoxes, Problems, and Essays, &c. 12mo. 1653.] 



Essays in Divinity. 12mo. 1651. 



Sermons on Isaiah 1. 1. 



Pope's Works, by Warton. Vol. IX. 1797. In boards. 



Percy Society Publications. No. 94. Three copies. 



Memoirs of the Duchess of Abbantes. (Translation.) 8 vols. 

 8vo. Bentley. 



Poems of " Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair " Mac- 

 Donald. 



