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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 174. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Messrs. Longman have just published, in two thick 

 and closely printed volumes, A New Gazetteer or Topo- 

 graphical Dictionary of the British Islands and Narrow 

 Seas, Sfc, by James A. Sharp. When we tell our 

 readers that in these two volumes are recorded the 

 name, position, history, &c. of every city, town, vil- 

 lage, hamlet, &c. which appears in the censuses of 

 1821, 1831, 1841 ; or in the works of Carlisle, Pott, 

 Gorton, Lewis, Fullarton, Chambers, Hall, and other 

 general writers ; and, indeed, that among the sixty 

 thousand articles of which these volumes consist, will 

 be found particulars not only of all the natural objects 

 of the country — as rivers, lakes, mountains, hills, 

 passes, waterfalls, hays, ports, headlands, islands, shoals 

 — but also of every locality or object of historical 

 interest or antiquarian character : as Roman stations 

 and camps, Roman and British ways, Saxon towns, 

 Druid stones, cromlechs, round towers, Danish Raths, 

 Picts' houses, castles, abbeys, &c., not to mention rail- 

 way, police, and coast-guard stations, hunting "fix- 

 tures," &c., they will at once perceive what a vast 

 amount of useful, indeed of most valuable, information, 

 the persevering industry of Mr. Sharp has enabled him 

 to bring together. That a work consisting of so large 

 a mass of facts and figures should contain some errors, 

 is more than probable ; but having tested it by refer- 

 ring to localities with which we are personally ac- 

 quainted, we are enabled to say that it has stood that 

 test in a manner to make us feel assured that it is a 

 book to be fully relied upon, and one, therefore, which 

 we have no doubt will eventually take its place in 

 every well-appointed library. 



Books Received. — Tangible Typography, or How 

 the Blind Bead, by E. C. Johnson, is a little volume 

 detailing various modes of printing books for the blind, 

 and well calculated to awaken. an interest in the bene- 

 volent objects of The Society for Printing and Dis- 

 tributing Books for the Use of the Blind. — The Ghost 

 of Junius, Sfc, by Francis Ayerst. This endeavour to 

 identify Junius with Lieut.- General Sir Robert Rich, 

 on the strength of a letter written by that oflScer to 

 Viscount Barrington, years after the celebrated Letters 

 of Junius had appeared, is the largest theory based on 

 the smallest fact with which we are acquainted. — Mr. 

 Bohn has just issued in his Standard Library the fourth 

 volume of his edition of The Prose Works of John 

 Milton; containing the First Book of A Treatise on 

 Christian Doctrine, compiled from- the Holy Scripture 

 alone, translated from the Original by the Lord Bishop 

 of Winchester. The present edition has had the ad- 

 vantage of a thorough revision. — Mr. Bohn has also 

 enriched his Scientific Library by the publication of 

 The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon, 

 including his Dignity and Advancement of Learning, and 

 his Novum Organon, or Precepts for the Interpretation of 

 Nature, edited by Joseph Devey, who has availed him- 

 self of the best translations, and enriched the Novum 

 Organon with the remarks of the two Playfairs, Sir 

 John Herschel, and the German and French editors. — 

 Matthew Paris' English History, from the Fear 1235 to 

 1273; translated from the Latin by Dr. Giles, Volume 



the Second, is the new issue of Bohn's Antiquarian Li- 

 brary ; while, in his Classical Library, he has published 

 a volume which will be, we doubt not, welcome to 

 many : The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, and 

 the War Songs of Tyrtceus, literally translated into En- 

 glish Prose, by Rev. J. Banks ; with Metrical Versions, 

 by J. M. Chapman. — The Churchman's Magazine, a 

 Monthly Review of Church Progress and General lAtera- 

 ture. Judging from the January and February Num- 

 bers which are now before us, we can have no doubt 

 that this Magazine for Churchmen will please those to 

 whom it is addressed. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



W^ANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties. Original Edition. 



Vol. I. 

 The Book of Adam. 

 Prideaux's Connection of the Old and New Testament. 



Vol. I. 1718. 

 The Christian Magazine. Vol. for 17R3. 

 Pro Matrimonio Principis cum defunctm Uxohis Sorore 



contbacto Kesponsum Juris Collegii Jubisconsultoru.m in 



Academia Rintelensi (circa Ifi5.5). 

 Monner Jurisconsult., de Matrimonio. 

 Bruckner, df. Matrimonio. 

 Bedell's Irish Old Testament, Irish type, 4to., 168.5. [A copjr 



of O'Ooinhnuill's " Irish New Testaineiit," Irish type, 4to., 



1st edition, 1602 {being rare), is offered in exchange.] 

 Percy Society Publications. Nos. XCIII. and XCIV. 

 Southey's Works. Vol. X. Longmans. 1838. 

 Scott's Continuation of Milnek's Church History. Vols. 



II. and III., or II. oniy. 

 The Dragon of Wantlev, by H. Carey. 

 Ga.mmbr Gurton's Story Books, edited by Ambrose Meuton. 



13 Parts (Original Edition). 

 Hayward's British Museu.m. 3 Vols. 12mo. 1738. 

 Theobald's Shakspeare Restored. 4to. 1726. 

 Illustrated Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. 



Vol. I. 1840. Knight. 

 Peter Simple. Illustrated Edition. Saunders and Otiey. 



Vols. II. and III. 

 Historical Memoirs op Queens of England, by Hannab 



Lavvrance. Vol. II. 

 Ingram's Saxon Chronicle. 4to. London, 1823. 

 Newman's Ferns. Large Edition. 

 Enigmatical Entertainer. Nos. L and II. 1827 and 1828. 



Sherwood & Co. 

 Northumbrian Mirror. New Series. 1841, &c. 



*«♦ Correspondents sending Lists of Bookt Wanted are requested 

 to send tlieir names. 



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

 to be sent to Mu. Bell. Publisher of " NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



^a\itti t0 Corrc^jpoiiUgitW. 



We have this week the pleasure of presenting our Readers with 

 an additional eight pages. We do this from a desire that those 

 who do not participate in the interest which so many of them take 

 in our endeavours to popularise Photography, should from time 

 to time receive compensation for the space occupied by our 

 Photographic Correspondence. 



E. H. H. Caxton's Press is certainly not in Westminster 

 Abbey : we may add, certainly not in existence. 



Tee Bee. The quotation is from Pope's Moral Essays, 

 Epist. IF.: 



" To rest the cushion and soft Dean invite, 

 Who never mentions hell to ears polite." 



S. Jennings-G. We have a Note for this Correspondent. 

 Where shall it he sent ? 



H. E. P. T. (Woolwich). What Numbers are wanted f 



Earldom of Oxford. M. D., whose communication on this 

 subject appears in our No. for Feb. 12., p. I.'i3., writes to us that 

 he has been misinformed, inasmuch ns two of the sisters of Alfred, 

 the last Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, have sons. 



