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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



English Books of Emblems, by the Rev. Thomas Corser 469 

 Autiior of Tract on " Advantages of the East India 



Trade, 1720, 8vo.," by James Crossley - - - 471 



" Ake " and " Ache," by Thomas Keightley - - 472 

 Localities mentioned in Anglo-Saxon Charters, by B. 



Williams 473 



Inedited Letter - - - - - - 473 



A Shaksperian Book ..... 474 



Minor Notes : — Shakspeare's Monument— Archbishop 

 Leighton and Pope : Curious Coincidence of Thought 

 and Expression — Grant of Slaves — Sealing-wax - 475 



Queries : — 



Walmer Castle, by C. Waymor ... - 475 



Scotchmen in Poland, by Peter Cunningham - . 475 



Bishop Juxon and Walton's Polyglott Bible - . 476 



Minor Queries: — Was Andrew Marvell poisoned ?— 

 Anonymous Pamphlet by Dr. Wallis — Mrs. Cobb's 

 Diary— Compass Flower — Nuns of tlie Hotel Dieu — 

 Purlieu — Jennings Family — Latimer's Brothers-in- 



Law — Autobiographical Sketch — Schonbornerus 



Symbol of Globe and Cross— Booth Family — Ennui — 

 Bankruptcy Records — Golden Bees — The Grindstone 

 Oak — Hogarth — Adamsons of Perth— Cursitor Barons 

 of the Exchequer — Syriac Scriptures ... 475 



Bepues : — 



Psalmanazar, by Rev. Dr. Mailland ... 479 



Consecrated Roses, &c., by William J. Thorns . - 480 



Campbell's Imitations ..... 481 



" The Hanover Rat" . - . - - 481 



Font Inscriptions ...... 482 



Irish Rhymes : English Provincialisms : Lowland Scotch 483 



Pictures by Hogarth ..... 



Photographic Correspondence: — Washing Collodion 

 Process — Colouring Collodion Pictures — Wanted, a 

 simple Test for a good Lens — Photographic Tent : 

 Restoration of Faded Negatives - . . 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Gibbon's Library — 

 Robert Drury— Grub Street Journal — Wives of Eccle- 

 siastics — Blanco White — Captain AylofT^ General 

 Monk and the University of Cambridge— The Ribston 

 Pippin — Cross and Pile — Ellis Walker — Blackguard — 

 Talleyrand — Lord King and Sclater — " Beware the 

 Cat" — " Bis (iat qui cito dat " — High Spirits a Pre- 

 sage of Evil— Colonel Thomas Walcott — Wood of the 

 Cross : Mistletoe— Irish Office for Prisoners— Andries 

 de Grjeflf: Portraits at Brickwall House — " Qui facit 

 per alium, facit per se"— Christian Names— Lamech's 

 War-song — Traitor's Ford . - - 



484 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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Vol. VII. — No. 185. 



ENGLISH BOOKS OF EMBLEMS. 



It is a remarkable circumstance, that whilst the 

 emblems of Alciatus went through almost innu- 

 merable editions, and were translated into most 

 of the continental languages, no version of these 

 Emblems should ever have been printed in this 

 country, although we believe that MS. translations 

 of them are in existence. It is remarkable also 

 that more than half a century should have elapsed 

 after their appearance, before any English pub- 

 lication on this subject should have been com- 

 mitted to the press. Our English authors of 

 Books of Emblems were not only late in their ap- 

 pearance, but are few in number, and in their 

 embellishments not very original, the plates being 

 for the most part mere copies of those already 

 published abroad by Herman Hugo, Rollenhagius, 

 and others. The notices of the English writers on 

 this entertaining subject are also but meagre and 

 imperfect, and restricted to a very few works ; 

 both Dibdin, in his slight and rapid sketch on 

 Books of Emblems in the Bibliogr. Decam., vol. i. 

 p. 254., and the writer in the Retrosp. Rev., vol. ix. 

 p. 123., having confined their remarks to some one 

 or two of the leading writers only, Arwaker, 

 Peacham, Quarles, Whitney, and Wither. With 

 the exception of an occasional article in the Bibl. 

 Ang. Poet.., Cens. Liter. Restituta, and similar bib- 

 liographical volumes, we are not aware that any 

 other notice has been taken of this particular 

 branch of our literature*, nor does there exist, 



* We must exempt from this sweeping assertion a 

 very interesting and well-written account of works on 

 this subject, entitled " A Sketch of that Branch of 

 Literature called Books of Emblems, as it flourished 

 during the 16th and 17th centuries, by Joseph Brooks 

 Yates, Esq., F.S.A.," of West Dingle, near Liverpool, 

 the friend of Roscoe, and the worthy and intelligent 

 President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool, read at their meetings, and of which two 

 parts have already been printed in their volumes of 

 Proceedings. This " Sketch " only requires to be en- 

 larged and completed, with specimens added of the 

 different styles of the engravings, to render it every- 

 thing that is to be desired on the subject. 



