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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 181. 



Mi^ctXlantaxtS, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Our learned, grave, and potent cotemporary. The 

 Quarterly Review, has, in the number just issued, a 

 Very pleasant gossiping article on The Old Countess of 

 Desmond. The writer, who pays " N. & Q,." a passing 

 compliment for which we are obliged, although he very 

 clearly establishes the fact of the existence of a Coun- 

 tess of Desmond, who was well known and remarkable 

 for her extreme longevity, certainly does not prove 

 tliat the old Countess actually lived to the great age of 

 140 years. 



The publisher of Men of the Time, or Sketches of 

 Tiivxng Notables, has just put forth a new edition of 

 what will eventually become a valuable and interesting 

 little volume. There are so many difficulties in the 

 way of making such a book accurate and complete, that 

 it is no wonder if this second edition, although it con- 

 tains upwards of sixty additional articles, has yet many 

 omissions. Its present aspect is too political. Men of 

 the pen are too lightly passed over, unless they are 

 professed journalists ; many of the greatest scholars 

 of the present day being entirely omitted. This must 

 and doubtless will be amended. 



It is with great regret that we have to announce the 

 death of one whose facile pen and well-stored memory 

 furnished many a pleasant note to our readers, — J. R. 

 of Cork, under which signature that able scholar, and 

 kindly-hearted gentleman, Mr. James Roche, happily 

 designated by Father Prout the " Roscoe of Cork," was 

 pleased to contribute to our columns. The Athenaum 

 ■vrell observes that " his death will leave a blank in the 

 intellectual society of the South of Ireland, and the 

 i>eaders of ' N. & Q,.' will miss his genial and instruc- 

 tive gossip on books and men." 



The Photographic Society is rapidly increasing. The 

 meeting on the 7th for the exhibition and explanation 

 of cameras was a decided failure, from the want of due 

 preparation ; but that failure will be fully compensated 

 by the promised exhibition of them in the rooms of the 

 Society of Arts. While on the subject of Photography, 

 we may call the attention of our readers to a curious 

 paper on Photographic Engraving, in The Athenxum 

 of Saturday last, by a gentleman to whom the art is 

 already under so much obligation, Mr. Fox Talbot. 



Books Received. — Wellington, his Character, his 

 Actions, and his Writings, by Jules Maurel, is well de- 

 scribed by its editor, Lord EUesmere, as "among the 

 most accurate, discriminating, and felicitous tributes 

 which have emanated from any country in any lan- 

 guage to the memory of the great Duke." — Temple 

 Bar, the City Golgotha, a Narrative of the Historical 

 Occurrences of a Criminal Character associated with the 

 present Bar, by a Member of the Inner Temple. A 

 chatty and anecdotical history of this last remaining 

 gate of the city, under certainly its most revolting 

 aspect. The sketch will doubtless be acceptable, par- 

 ticularly to London antiquaries. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Arch«ologia. Vols. III., IV., v., VL, VII. VIII X 



XXVII.. XXVUI. Unbound. ' '""•'■^•» 



Vols. III., IV., v., VHI. In Boardi. 



Bayle's Dictionary. English Version, by Db Maizeaux. 



London, 1738. Vols. I. and 11. 

 Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry. Inorganic Part. 

 Lubbock, Elementary Treatise on the Tides. 

 Sanders (Rev. H.), the History of Shenstonb. 4to. Lond. 



1794. 

 Swift's (Dean) Works. Dublin: G. Faulkner. 19 volumes. 



1768. Vol. I. 

 ToDu's Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology. 

 Transactions of the Microscopical Society op London. 



Vols. I. and II. . , 



ARCHiEOLOGiA. Vols. III., IV., V., VIII. Boards. 

 Martyn's Plants; Cantabrigienses. 12mo. London, 17fi3. 

 Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. Odd Vols ' 

 The Truth Teller. A Periodical. 

 Sarah Coleridge's Phantasmion. 

 J. L. Petit's Church Arohitecturb. 2 Vols. 

 R. Mant's Church Architecture considered in Relation to 



THE Mind op the Church. 8vo. Belfast, 1840. 

 Cambridge Camden Society's Transactions. Vol. III. 



Ellicott on Vaulting.! 

 Quarterly Review, 1845. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, 1838 to 1852, all bUt Oct. to Dec. 1851. 

 Collier's further Vindication of his short View of thb 



Stage. 1708. 

 Congreve's Amendment of Collier's false and impehfkct 



Citations. 1698. 

 Kilmer's Defence of Plays, or the Stage vindicated. 1707. 

 The Stage condemned. 1698. 

 Bedford's Serious Reflections on the Abuses of the Stage. 



8vo. 1705. 

 Dissertation on IIsaiah, Chapter XVIII., in a Letter to 



Edward King, &c., by Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop o£ 



Rochester. 1799. First Edition, in 4to. 

 Bishop Fell's Edition of Cyprian, containing Bishop Peab-^ 



son's Annales Cypriania. 



*«* Correspondents sending Lists of Bookt Wanted are requestect 



to send their names. 

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



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



QUERIES." 186. Fleet Street. 



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Cantab. The line 



" Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," 

 is from Congreve's Mourning Bride, Act I. Sc. I. 



J. L. S. We will endeavour to ascertain the value of the copy 

 of Naunton, and tell our Correspondent when we write to him. 



C. Gonville. We hope this Correspondent has received the 

 letter forwarded to him on Saturday or Monday last. His letter 

 has been sent on. 



E. P., Jun. The best account qf Nuremburg Tokens is SneU 

 ling's View of the Origin, Nature, and Use of Jettons or Counters. 

 London, 1769, folio. 



Nemo. Thanks to its excellent Index, we are enabled, by Cun- 

 ningham's Handbook of London, to infor^n him that Vanburgh 

 was buried in the family vault of the Vanburghs in St. Stephen's, 

 Walbraok. 



C. M. J. will find the reference to " Language given to man" 

 $jC.,in Vol. vi., p. 575., in an article on South and Talleyrand. 



Protosulph, who asks whether, when using the developing solu- 

 tion, it is necessary to blow upon the glass, is informed that it is 

 not necessary ; but that, when there is a hesitation in the flowing 

 of the fluid, blowing gently on the glass promotes it, and the warmth 

 of the breath sometimes causes a more speedy development. 



X. A. We cannot enter into any discussion respecting lenses. 

 We have more than once fully recognised the merits of those manu- 

 factured by Mr. Ross: but never having used one of them, we 

 could not speak of them from our own experience. We do not 

 hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents. 



" Notes and Queries " is published at noon on Friday, so that 

 the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels^ 

 and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday, 



