May 7. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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rally stuffed -with straw; and hence, in legal 

 phraseology, "a man of straw" denotes the sem- 

 blance of a man — a person of neither substance 

 nor responsibility, who is put forward to screen a 

 real delinquent, or bear the brunt of a prosecu- 

 tion. Such, at least, is the origin commonly 

 assigned by the French to their "homme de paille," 

 the prototype of our " man of straw." 



Henry PI. Breen. 

 St. Lucia. 



How to stain Deal (Vol. vii., p. 356.). — If C. 

 will apply by letter or otherwise to Mr. Henry 

 Stephens, 54. Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, 

 he will learn every particular, and be furnished 

 with samples of its effect on common deal, as now 

 very extensively used in churches, school-rooms, &c. 



Detached Belfry Towers (Vol. vii., pp. 333. 

 416.). — Add to the list, Marston Morteyne in 

 Bedfordshire, not fiir from Ampthill, and Gun- 

 walloe, in Cornwall, about five miles south of 

 Helston. Gunwalloe tower appears to be much 

 older than the church, and faces the south-west 

 angle of the nave, from which it is distant about 

 fourteen feet. J. M. B. 



Tunbridge Wells. 



Cambrensis has forgotten that the cloich teachs 

 (bell-houses), or round belfries, peculiar to Ireland, 

 and which have become famous as " round towers^' 

 are almost always separate from the churches. 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



To your instances of detached belfries in Eng- 

 land add Magdalene College and New College in 

 Oxford, and Woburn in Bedfordshire. H. C. 



Thurles. 



Detached church-towers exist at Beccles, Suf- 

 folk, and at East Dereham, Norfolk. G. J. C. 

 Oxford. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC*. 



The anniversary of the Camden Society on Monday 

 last, when Mr. Peter Cunningham, Sir F. Madden, 

 and Sir C. Young were elected on the Council, was 

 distinguished by two departures from the usual routine : 

 one, a special vote of thanks to Sir Harry Verney for 

 placing his family papers at the service of the Society; 

 and the other, a general expression of satisfaction on the 

 part of the members at the steps taken by the Council 

 to bring under the consideration of the Commission 

 appointed to inquire into the laws regarding matters 

 testamentary, the great impediments thrown in the 

 ■way of all historical and literary inquirers by the au- 

 thorities in the Prerogative Office. 



It does not require the skill of an CEdlpus to divine 

 that in giving us so graphic a picture of The Vicar and 



his Duties, the Rev. A. Gatty has had the advantage 

 of sketching from the life, and that his portraiture of 



" A good man of religioun 



That was a poore Persone of a toun ; 



But riche he was of holy thought and werke." 

 Is as much a true effigy, though taken with pen and 

 ink, as if he had put that capital parish priest, the 

 Vicar of Leeds, before his camera. To the many 

 friends of Dr. Hook, this little volume will be deeply 

 interesting. 



Books Received. — Pulleyn's Etymological Compen- 

 dium, or Portfolio of Origins and Inventions. Third 

 edition, revised and improved, bi/ Merton A. Thoms. 

 This new edition of a very popular and useful little 

 book has had the advantage of a thorough revision, 

 and contains much new and interesting information. — i 

 Longman's Traveller's Librari/ has lately been enriched 

 by two of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant essays, viz. on Lord 

 Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, 

 and by a carefully compiled life of Marshal Turenne by 

 the Rev. T. O. Cockayne : while Mr. Murray has 

 added to his valuable collection of Railway Readings, 

 a reprint of The lAfe of Lord Bacon, by his noble 

 biograplier Lord Campbell. — Reynard the Fox, after the 

 German Version of GUihe, with Illustrations by J. Wolf. 

 Part V. This translation is kept up with spirit, and 

 the present number carries us to The Pardon of the 

 wily transgressor. — Mr. Bohn has put forth numerous 

 fresh claims on the favour of poor scholars : in his 

 Standard Library he has given a third volume of 

 Miss Bremer's Works, containing Home and Strife and 

 Peace ; in his Classical Library he continues the trans- 

 lation of Aristotle in 77te Politics and Economics, trans- 

 lated by G. Walford, M. A. ; in bis Antiquarian Library, 

 he has continued his series of translations of Early 

 English Chronicles by giving us in one volume a 

 translation of Henry of Huntingdon, and also of the 

 Gesta Stephani ; while he will have done good service 

 to naturalists and keepers of aviaries and cage birds by 

 the edition of Bechstein's Cage and Chamber Birds and 

 Sweet's Warblers, which he has included in the same 

 volume of his Illustrated Library. 



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