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[No. 203. 



Would that it might become the motto of all our 

 cathedral precincts ! W. S. 



Northiam. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Botany of the Eastern Borders, with the Popular 

 Names and Uses of the Plants, and of the Customs and 

 Beliefs which have been associated with them, by George 

 Johnson, M.D, This, the first volume of The Natural 

 History of the Eastern Borders, is a book calculated to 

 please a very large body of readers. The botanist will 

 like it for the able manner in which the various plants 

 indigenous to the district are described. The lover of 

 Old World associations ivill be delighted with the in- 

 dustry with which Dr. Johnson has collected, and the 

 care with wliich he has recorded their popular names, 

 and preserved the various bits of folk lore associated 

 ■with those popular names, or their supposed medicinal 

 virtues. The antiquary will be gratified by the bits of 

 archteological gossip, and the biographical sketches so 

 pleasantly introduced ; and the general reader with the 

 kindly spirit with which Dr. Johnson will enlist him 

 iu his company — 



" . . . Unconstrain'd to rove along 



The bushy brakes and glens among." 



Marry, it were a pleasant thing to join the Berwick- 

 shire Natural History Club in one of their rambles 

 through the Eastern Borders. 



Mr. Bohn has just added to his Antiquarian Library 

 a volume which will be received with great satisfaction 

 by all who take an interest in the antiquity of Egypt. 

 It is a translation by the Misses Horner of Dr. Lep- 

 sius' Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of 

 Sinai, with Extracts from his Chronology of the Egyp- 

 tians, with reference to the Exodus of the Israelites, re- 

 vised by the Author. Dr. Eepsius, it may be men- 

 tioned, was at the head of the scientific expedition 

 appointed by the King of Prussia to investigate the 

 remains of ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian civilisation, 

 still in preservation in the Nile valley and the adjacent 

 countries ; and in this cheap volume we have that 

 accomplished traveller's own account of what that ex- 

 pedition was able to accomplish. 



We are at length enabled to answer the Query 

 which was addressed to us some time since on the 

 subject of the continuation of Mr. MacCabe's Catholic 

 History of England. The third volume is now at 

 press, and will be issued in the course of the next 

 publishing season. 



Books Received. — yi Letter to a Convocation- Man 

 concerning the Rights, Powers, and Privileges of that 

 Body, first published in 1697. Edited, with an Intro- 

 duction and Notes, by the Rev. W. Eraser, B. C. L. 

 This reprint of a very rare tract will no doubt be 

 prized by the numerous advocates for the re-assembling 

 of Convocation, who must feel indebted to Mr. Eraser 

 for the care and learning with which he has executed 

 his editorial task. — A Collection of Curious, Interesting, 

 and Facetious Epitaphs, Monumental Inscriptions, 8fc., 



by Joseph Simpson. We think the editor would 

 have some difficulty in authenticating many of the 

 epitaphs in his collection, which seems to have been 

 formed upon no settled principle. — The Physiology of 

 Temperance and Total Abstinence, being an Examination 

 of the Effects of the Excessive, Moderate, and Occasional 

 Use of Alcoholic Liquors on the Healthy Human System, 

 by Dr. Carpenter : a shilling pamphlet, temperately 

 written and closely argued, and well deserving the 

 attention of all, even of the most temperate. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



The Monthly Army List from 1797 to 1800 inclusive. Pub- 

 lished by Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street. Square 12mo. 



Jer. Collier's Ecclesiastical History of England. Folio 

 Edition. Vol. II. 



London Labour and the London Poor. 



Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual. Pickering. 



Proceedings of the London Geological Society. 



Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico. 3 Vols. 

 London. Vol. III. 



Mrs. Ellis's Social Distinctions. Tallis's Edition. Vols. II. 

 and III. 8vo. 



History and Antiquities of Newbury. 8vo. 1839. 340 pages. 

 Two Copies. 



Vancouver's Survey of Hampshire. 



Hemingway's History of Chester. Large Paper. Parts I. 

 and III. 



Correspondence on the Formation of the Roman Catholic 

 Bible Society. 8vo. London, 1813. 



AtuenjEUM Journal for 1844. 



PAMPHLETS. 



JuNRis Discovered. By P. T. Publislicd about 1789. 



Reasons for rejecting the Evidence of Mr. Almon, &c. 1807. 



Another Guess at Junius. Hookham. 1809. 



The Author of Junius Discovered. Longmans. 1821. 



The Claims of Sir P. Francis refuted. Longmans. 1822. 



Who was Junius? Glynn. 1837. 



Some New Facts, &c., by Sir F. Dwarris. 1850. 



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Replies. We have again to beg those Correspondents who 

 favour us with Replies to complete ihein by giving the Volume 

 and Page of tlie original Queries. This would give little trouble 

 to each Correspondent, while its omission entails considerable 

 labour upon us. 



W. C. " When Greeks join'd Greeks" is from Lee's Alex- 

 ander the Great. 



A Constant Reader. The contractions referred to stand for 

 Pence and Farthings. 



C. W. (Bradford). IVe can promise that if the hook in ques- 

 tion is obtained, our Correspondent shall have the reading of it. 



Photographic Correspondence. We hope next week to lay 

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 tnenixed paper. We shall also reply to several Photographic 

 querists. 



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