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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 197. 



Creole (Vol. vii., p 381.). — It is curious to 

 observe how differently this word is applied by 

 different nations. The English apply it to white 

 children born in the West Indies ; the French, I 

 believe, exclusively to the mixed races ; and the 

 Spanish and Portuguese to the blacks born in 

 their colonies, never to whites. The latter, I 

 think, is the true and original meaning, as its 

 primary signification is a home-bred slave (from 

 " criar," to bring up, to nurse), as distinguished 

 from an imported or purchased one. 



J. S. Warden. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



"We have before us a little volume by Mr. Willich, 

 the able Actuary of the University Life Assurance So- 

 ciety, entitled Popular Tables arranged in a new Form, 

 giving Information at Sight for ascertaining, according to 

 the Carlisle Table of Mortality, the Value of Lifehold, 

 Leasehold, and Church Property, Renewal Fines, §-c., 

 the Public Funds, Annual Average Price and Interest on 

 Consols from 1731 to 1851 ; also various interesting and 

 useful Tables, equally adapted to the Office and the Li- 

 brary Table. Ample as is tliis title-page, it really gives 

 but an imperfect notion of the varied contents of this 

 useful library and writing-desk companion. For in- 

 stance, Table VIII. of the Miscellaneous Tables gives 

 the average price of Consols, with the average rate of 

 interest, from 1731 to 1851 ; but tliis not only shows 

 when Consols were highest and when lowest, but also 

 what Administration was then in power, and the chief 

 events of each year. We give this as one instance of 

 the vast amount of curious information here combined ; 

 and we would point out to historical and geographical 

 students the notices of Chinese Chronology in the pre- 

 face, and the Tables of Ancient and Modern Itinerary 

 Measures, as. parts of the work especially deserving of 

 their attention. In short, Mr. Willich's Popular Tables 

 form one of those useful volumes, in which masses of 

 scattered information are concentrated in such a way as 

 to render the book indispensable to all who have once 

 tested its utility. 



Mormonism, its History, Doctrines, and Practices, by 

 the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, is a small pamphlet 

 containing the substance of two lectures on this pestilent 

 heresy, delivered by the author before the Kennington 

 Branch of the Church of England Young Men's So- 

 ciety, and is worth the attention of these who wish to 

 know something of this now wide-spread mania. 



On the Custom of Borough- English in the County of 

 Sussex, by George R. Corner, Esq. This well-con- 

 sidered paper on a very curious custom owes its origin, 

 we believe, to a Query in our columns. We wish all 

 questions agitated in " N, & Q." were as well illus- 

 trated as this has been by the learning and ingenuity 

 of Mr. Corner. 



A Narrative of Practical Experiments proving to De- 

 monstration the Discovery of Water, Coals, and Minerals 

 in the Earth by means of the Dowsing Fork or Divining 

 Bod, 8fc., collected, reported, and edited by Francis Phip- 



pen. A curious little pamphlet on a fact in Natural 

 Philosophy, which we believe no philosopher can either 

 understand or account for. 



Serials Received. — Hurray's Railway Reading: 

 History as a Condition of Social Progress, by Samuel 

 Lucas. An able lecture on an interesting subject. — 

 The Traveller's Library, No. 46. : Twenty Fears in the 

 Philippines, by De la Gironiere. One of the best 

 numbers of this valuable series. — Cyclopcedia Biblio- 

 graphica. Part XL, August. This eleventh Part of 

 Mr. Darling's useful Catalogue extends from James 

 Ibbetson to Bernard Lamy. — Archaologia Cambrensis, 

 New Series, No. XV. ; containing, among other papers 

 of interest to the inhabitants of the principality, one on 

 the arms of Owen Glendwr, by the accomplished an- 

 tiquary to whom our readers were indebted for a paper 

 on the same subject in our own columns. 



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and following Volumes, in Boards. 

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 Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles. 1721. 

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of Charles I. Old Edition, ,ind that of 1813 by Nicol. 

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John Angier. London, 1685. 

 Moore's Melodies. 15th Edition. 



Wood's Athrn/e Oxonienses (ed. Bliss). 4 vols. 4to. 1813-20. 

 The Complaynts of Scotland. 8vo. Edited by Leyden. 1804. 

 Shakspeare's Plays. Vol. V. of Johnson and Steevens's edition, 



in 15 vols. 8vo. 1739. 



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