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:notes and queries. 



[No. iro. 



'•'■Life is like, a Game of Tables" SfC. (Vol. vii., 

 p. 40.). — The sentiment is very possibly '"'■from 

 Jeremy Taylor," but it is not his own. It occurs 

 in Terence's Adelphi and Plato's Commonwealth. 



A. A. D. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The issue by the Shakspeare Society of an edition of 

 the Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakspeare's 

 Plays from early MS. Corrections in a Copy of the Folio 

 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq., affords 

 an opportunity, of which we gladly avail ourselves, to 

 recall attention to a volume which is unquestionably 

 the most important contribution to Shakspearian lite- 

 rature which has issued from the press for many years. 

 Although we have no evidence of the authority upon 

 which these Notes and Emejidations were made, an ex- 

 amination of them must, we think, convince even the 

 most sceptical, that they were made upon authority, 

 and are not the result of clever criticism and happy 

 conjecture. The readers of " N. & Q." know well 

 what discussions have been raised upon such phrases as 

 " Prenzie Angelo," " Whose mother was her painting," 

 " Ribaudred nag," " Most busy, least when I do it," 

 &c. The writer of the Notes and Emendations, now 

 first published, has given in these, and hundreds of 

 other difficult and disputed passages, corrections which 

 are consistent with Shakspeare's character as the poet 

 of common sense. He converts the "prenzie Angelo" 

 into the "priestly," and the "prenzie guards" into 

 " priestly garb." So that the passage now reads — 



" Claud. The priestly Angelo. 



Isah. O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, 

 The damned'st body to invest and cover 

 In priestly garb." 



In the passages to which we have referred above, 

 " whose mother was her painting," is clianged into 

 " who smothers her with painting ; " " ribraudred nag " 

 into " ribald hag ; " and the passage from The Tempest 

 is made plain — 



" Most busy blest when I do it." 



We think these examples are sufficient to make all 

 lovers of Shakspeare anxious not only to examine the 

 present volume, but to see the promised new edition 

 of his works, in wliich Mr. Collier proposes to give the 

 text as corrected by this great, although unknown au- 

 thority. 



The meeting for the establishment of the Photo- 

 graphic Society, held on Thursday week at the Society 

 of Arts, was most numerously attended. The Society 

 was formed. Sir Charles Eastlakc elected president for 

 the first year, Mr. Fenton honorary secretary, and Mr. 

 Roslyn treasurer. The subscription was fixed at one 

 guinea, with an admission fee of the same amount. 



At a recent meeting of the Surtees Society, it was 

 announced that the works in progress for this year are 

 the Pontifical of Egbert, Archbishop of York (to be 

 edited by the Rev, W. Greenwell), and a volume of 

 IVills and Inventories from the Registry at Richmond, by 



Mr. Raine, Jun. The books for 1854 are to be the 

 Northumbro-Saxon translation of The Gospel of St. 

 Matthew, to be edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, 

 and the Inventories and Account Rolls of the Monasteries 

 of Monkwearmouth and Jarrova until the Dissolution, 

 which will appear under the editorship of the Rev. 

 James Raine. 



The Corporation of London Library is being thrown 

 open to all literary men ; the tickets of admission 

 being accompanied by letters expressive of a wish that 

 the holders should make frequent use of them. This is 

 an act of becoming liberality, worthy of imitation in 

 other quarters. 



Books Received. — History of England from the 

 Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713 — 1783, 

 by Lord Mahon, vol. i. This is the first volume of 

 a new and revised edition of this history of a most 

 important period in our national annals, by the noble 

 President of the Society of Antiquaries. — The Ethiio- 

 logy of the British Islands, by R. G. Latham, M. D. 

 The value of all Dr. Latham's researches, whether into 

 the history of our language, or of the races by which 

 these islands have been successively inhabited, is so 

 fully recognised, that we may content ourselves by 

 merely calling attention to the publication of this able 

 little volume On the Lessons in Proverbs : Five Lec- 

 tures, ^c, by the Rev. R. C. Trench. Those wlio 

 know the value of Mr. Trench's admirable lectures 

 On the Study of Words, will find in this companion 

 volume, in which he attempts to sound the deptiis and 

 measure the real significance of National Proverbs, a 

 book which will give them a pleasant hour's reading, 

 and subjects for many pleasant hours' meditation. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO FUHCHASE. 



Free Thoughts on the Brute Crkation, by the Rev. John 



HiLDKOP. Lond. 1751. 

 T)k i.\ Croix's Connubia Florum. Bathoniae, I79I. 8vo. 

 nKn>'.s Historical Botany. Windsor, 182G. 3 vols. 12mo. 

 Antiiologia Bouralis et Australis. 



Fi.oRILEGIUM SaNCT. AsHIRAT. 



Laderchii Annales EccLEsiASTici, 3 tom. fol. Romae, 17i8^ 



1737. 

 Townsend's Parisian Costumes. 3 Vols. 4to. 1831—1839. 

 The Book ok Adam. 

 The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sons of 



Jacod. 

 Massinger's Pi.ays, by Gifford. Vol. IV. 8vo. Second 



Edition. 1813. 

 .Spi-ctator. Vols. V. and VII. 12mo. London, 1753. 

 Cohterus (Fran(;ois) Cinquante Meditations de toutb 



i.'HisTOiRE DE LA Passion i)B NosTRK Seigneub. 8vo. Auvers, 



Christ. Plantin. ; or any of the works of Cosierus in any lan- 

 guage. 

 The World without a Sun. 

 Guardian. I'imo. 

 What the Chartists are. A Letter to Enalish Working Men, 



by a Fellow- Labourer. l'2mo. London, 181H. 

 Letter of Church Rates, by Ralph Barnes. 8vo. London, 



1837. 

 Colman's'Translation of Horace Or Arte Poetica. 4to. 1783. 

 Casaubon's Treatise on Greek and Roman Satire. 

 Boscawen's Treatise on Satire. London, 1797. 

 Johnso.n's Lives (Walker's Classics). Vol. I. 

 Titmarsh's Paris Sketch-book. Post 8vo. Vol. I. Maerone, 



1840. 

 Fielding's Works. Vol. XI. (being second of ".Amelia.") 



12mo. 1808. 

 Holcroft's Lavater. Vol. I. 8vo. 1789. J 



