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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 190. 



^^ Wanderings of Memory" (Vol.vii., p. 527.). — 

 The author of Wanderings of Memory, publislied 

 by subscription at Lincoln in 1815, 12nio. pp. 151., 

 was a younoj man " in his apprenticeship," of the 

 name of A, G. Jewitt. He dedicates the book to his 

 father, Mr. Arthur Jewitt, Kiinberworth School, 

 Yorkshire. Nearly the whole of the embellish- 

 raents were engraved by a younger brother of the 

 author, " who at the time had not attained his 

 sixteenth year, and who had not the opportunity 

 of profiting by any regular instructions." 



There are some good lines in the poem, but not 

 enough to rescue it from that fate which poetical 

 mediocrity is irreversibly doomed to. 



Jas. Cbosslet. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, £TC. 



The reputation which Mr. Finlay has acquired by 

 his History of Greece, and his Greece under the Ro7nans, 

 will unquestionably be increased by his newly pub- 

 lished History of the Byzantine Empire from Dccxvi. to 

 MLvii. The subject is one of great interest to the 

 scholar ; and the manner in which Mr. Finlay has traced 

 the progress of the eastern Roman empire through an 

 eventful period of three centuries and a half, and while 

 doing so enriched his pages with constant reference to 

 the original historians, has certainly enabled him to 

 accomplish the object which he has avowedly had in 

 view, namely, that of making his work serve not only 

 as a popular history, but also as an index for scholars 

 who may be more familiar with classic literature than 

 •with the Byzantine writers. 



We understand that Her Majesty and Prince Albert, 

 with that appreciation of the beautiful and the useful 

 for which they are distinguished, have shown their 

 ■opinion of the value of photography by becoming the 

 Patrons of the Photographic Society. 



The Camden Society is about to put to press a work 

 which will be of great value to our topographical 

 writers, as well as to historians generally, namely. The 

 Extent of the Estates of the Hospitalers in England, 

 taken under the direction of Prior Philip de Thame, a. d. 

 1338. The original MS. is at Malta ; and though the 

 transcript of it was made by a most competent hand, 

 we have reason to believe that our correspondent at 

 La Valetta ( W. VV.) would be doing good service both 

 to the Society and to the world of letters and one 

 which would be most acceptable to the Transcriber, if 

 he could find it convenient to revise the proof sheets 

 with the original document. 



Books Received. — Cyclopadia Bibliographica, a 

 Library Manual of Theological and General Literature. 

 Part IX. of this useful Library Companion extends 

 from G'dthe to Matthew Henry. — Reynard the Fox, 

 after the German Version of Gothe, with Illustrations, by 

 J. Wolf Part VI. contains Chap. VI. The Relapse.— 

 Messrs. Longman have added to their Traveller s Li- 

 brary (in two parts) an interesting and cleverly written 

 account of our Coal Mines, and those who live in them, 

 which gives a graphic picture of the places and persons 



to whom we are all for so many months indebted for 

 our greatest comfort. — Mr. Bohn continues his good 

 work of supplying excellent books at moderate prices. 

 We are this month indebted to him for publishing 

 in his Scientific Library the third volume of Miss 

 Ross' excellent translation of Humboldt's Personal 

 Narrative of his Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of 

 America, which is enriched with a very copious index. 

 In his Classical Library he has given us Translations 

 of Terence and Phadrus ; and in his Antiquarian Li- 

 brary, the second volume of what, in spite of the laches 

 pointed out by one of our correspondents, we must 

 pronounce a most useful work for the mere English 

 reader, the second volume of Mr. Riley's translation of 

 Roger de Hoveden's Annals of English History, which 

 completes the work. Probably, however, the volume 

 which Mr. Bohn has just published in his Standard 

 Library is the one which will excite most interest. It 

 is issued as a continuation of Coxe's History of the 

 House of Austria, and consists (for the most part) of a 

 translation of Count Hartig's Genesis of the Revolution 

 in Auitria. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to purchase. 



King on Roman Coins. 



Lord Lansdowne's Works. Vol. I. Tonson, 1736. 



James Baker's Picturesque Guide to the Local Beauties 



OF Wales. Vol. I. 4to. 1794. 

 Websteu's Dictionary. Vol. II. 4to. 1832, 

 Walkhr's Particles. 8vo. old calf, 1683. 

 Warner's SerM'NS. 2 Vols. Longinan, about 1818, 

 AuiHoR's Printing and Piiblishing Assistant. 12mo., cloth, 



1842. 

 Sanders' History op Shenstone in Staffordshire. J. Nichols, 



London, 1794. Two CopifS. 

 LoMBABDi (Petri) Senten iiarum. Lib. IV. Any good edition. 

 Hkrblrt's Carolina Thhenodia. 8vo. 1702. 

 Theobald s Shakspeare Restored. 4lo. 1726. 

 Sermons by the Rtv. Robert Wake, M.A. 1704, 1712, &c. 

 History of Ancient Wilts, by Sie R. C. Hoare. The last 



three Parts. 



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 to send their names. 



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 to be sent, to M». Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AN1> 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



^Qlitti to C0rre)SpouifciiW. 



D. A. A. will find an answer to his Query, " Was St. Patrick 

 ever in Ireland?" in our -ith Vol., p.h6\., from the pen of that 

 accompliihed scholar, the Rev. Dr. Rock. 



We have to apologise to many of our Shakspearian correspon- 

 dents for the delay which has taken place in the insertion of their 

 commrtnications. A. E. B. will perceive that we have complied 

 with his request in subsiiluting for immediate publication the 

 paper he sent this veek, instead of one by him which has been in 

 type for two or three ueeks. 



The coincident communications from two correspondents on 

 Pulsions death, — Mr Singer's valuable emendation if a passage 

 in Romeo and Juliet.— »«d Mr. Blink's ond Mr. Rawuinson's 

 respective communications, shall have our earliest attention. 



We are also compelled to postpone our usual replies to Photo- 

 graphic Querists. 



Mr. Meuritt's Photographic specimens are very satisfactory. 

 Tliei e can be no doubt that, with perseverance, he will accomplish 

 everything that can be desired in thii useful and pleasing art. 



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