June 18. 1853.] 



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shall ever (as in duty bound) pray for your continual 

 prosperity and eternal Iiappiness." We do not believe 

 that any petition veould be rendered informal by such 

 addition as would make it more comprehensible.] 



Bibliography. — I am about to publish a brochure 

 entitled Notes on Books: with Hints to Readers, 

 Authors, and Publishers ; and as I intend to give 

 a list of the most useful bibliographical works, I 

 shall feel much obliged to any one who will fur- 

 nish me with a list of the various Printers' Gram- 

 mars, and of such works as the following: The 

 Authors Printing and Publishing Assistant; com- 

 prising Explanations of the Process of Printing, 

 Preparation and Calculation ofMSS., Paper, Type, 

 Binding, Typographical Marks, Sfc. 12mo., Lond. 



1840. I have met with Stower's Printei-s' Gram- 

 mar, London, 1808. Makiconda. 



[The following Printers' Grammars may be advan- 

 tageously consulted; 1. Hansard's Typographia ; an 

 Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art 

 of Printing, royal 8vo. 1825. 2. Johnson's Typo- 

 graphia ; or the Printers' Instructor, 2 vols. 8vo. 1 824. 

 3. Savage's Dictionary of the Art of Printing, 8vo. 



1841, the most useful of this class of works. 4. Tim- 

 perJey's Dictionary of Printers and Printing, royal 8vo. 

 1839. Stower also published The Compositors' and 

 Pressmen's Guide to the Art of Printing, royal 12mo. 

 1808 ; and The Printer's Price Book, 8vo. 1814.] 



Peter Frajicius and De Wilde. — In a little work 

 on my shelf, with the following title, 

 " Petri Francii specimen eloquentias exterioris ad ora- 

 tionem M. T. Ciceronis pro A. Licin. Archia accom- 

 modatum. ArnstelEedami, apud Henr. Wetstenium 



CIO 13C XCVII.," 



occurs the following brief MS. note, after the text 

 of the speech for Archias : 



" Orationem banc pro Archia sub Dno Petro Franclo 

 memoriter recitavi Wilhelmus de Wilde in Athensei 

 auditorio Majore, a. d. xviii kal. Januarias, a"' 1699." 



The volume is 12mo., containing about 200 pp.; 

 the text of the speech occupying nearly 42 pp. 



Who was Peter Franclus ? Did De Wilde ever 

 distinguish himself':* D. 



[Peter Franeius, a celebrated Greek and Latin poet, 

 was born in 1645 at Amsterdam, afterwards studied at 

 Leyden, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Laws at 

 Angers. In 1674, the magistrates of Amsterdam ap- 

 pointed him Professor of History and Rhetoric, which 

 office he held till his death in 1704. See Biographie 

 Universelle.'j 



Work by Bishop Ken. — 



" A Crown of Glory the Reward of the Righteous ; 

 being Meditations on the Vicissitude and Uncertainty 

 of all Sublunary Enjoyments. To which is added, a 

 Manual of Devotions for Times of Trouble and Afflic- 

 tion : also Meditations and Prayers before, at, and after 

 receiving the Holy Communion ; with some General 

 Hules for our Daily Practice. Composed for the use 



of a Noble Family, by the Right Reverend Dr. 

 Thomas Kenn, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. 

 Price 2s. 6d." 



I find the above in a list of "books printed for 

 Arthur, Betterworth, &c.," at the end of the 7th 

 edition of Horneck's Crucified Jesus : London, 

 1727. I do not remember to have seen any no- 

 tice of this work in the recent biographies of the 

 saintly prelate to whom it is here attributed. 



E. H. A. 



[This work originally appeared under the following 

 title : The Royal Sufferer ; a Manual of Meditations and 

 Devotions, written for the use of a Royal though afflicted 

 Family, by T. K., D. D., 1669 ; and was afterwards 

 published with the above title. It has been rejected 

 as spurious by the Rev. J. T. Round, the editor of T/ie 

 Prose Works of Bishop Ken, 1838.] 



Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon. — This 

 talented criminal is said to have left behind liim 

 collections for a dictionary of the Celtic, Hebrew, 

 Greek, Latin, and English languages, comprising 

 a list of about 3000 words, which he considered 

 them to possess in common. Was this ever pub- 

 lished ? and where are any notices of his works to 

 be found ? E. S. Taylor- 



[The following notice of Eugene Aram's Lexicon 

 occurs in a letter written by Dr. Samuel Pegge to 

 Dr. Philipps, dated Feb. 18, 1760: "One Eugene 

 Aram was executed at York last year for a murder. 

 He has done something, being a scholar and a school- 

 master, towards a Lexicon on a new plan. Hearing of 

 this, I sent for the pamphlet, which contained some 

 account of his life, and the specimen of a Lexicon. He 

 goes to the Celtic, the Irish, and the British languages, 

 as well as others; and there are things in the specimea 

 that will amuse a lover of etymologies." {Gent. Mag., 

 1789, p. 905.) Aram left behind him an Essay rela- 

 tive to his intended work, from which some extracts 

 are given in Kippis's Biographia Britannica, s. v. The 

 Lexicon does not appear to have been printed.] 



Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan. — I should feel obliged 

 through the medium of " N. & Q.," to be informed 

 of the whereabouts of a locality in Scotland with 

 the above euphonious na^e. Alpha. 



[Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan is situated in the island 

 of Mull, and county of Argyle.] 



Coins of Europe. — Where can I find the fullest 

 and most accurate tables showing the relative value 

 of the coins in use in different parts of Europe ? 



AlphjI. 



[Consult Tate's Manual of Foreign Exchanges, and 

 the art. Coins in M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce.] 



General Benedict Arnold. — Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." inform me where General 

 Arnold is buried ? After the failure of his attempt 

 to deliver up West Point to the English, he escaped, 

 went to England, and never returned to his native 



