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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 204. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



"We have received from Messrs. Williams and Nor- 

 gate copies of the first number of two new German 

 periodicals, with which, when they know their nature, 

 some of our readers may desire better acquaintance. 

 Our antiquarian friends, for instance, may be glad to 

 know, that the opening number of one of these, the 

 Anzeige fur Kunde des Deutschen Vorzeit, Organ des 

 Germanischen Museums (which is to appear monthly), 

 contains, among other articles of antiquarian interest, 

 notes on the earliest known MS. of the Nuremburg 

 Chronicle, and on an early MS. of the Nibelungen ; 

 notice of an original Letter of Pirkheimer, relative to 

 the wars of Maximilian against the Swiss ; and also of 

 a remarkable, and hitherto unknown, old copper-plate 

 engraving on six sheets by an unknown artist, apparently 

 of the school of Martin Schon, illustrative of that cam- 

 paign ; and an account of an early miscellaneous MS., 

 in which is a List of Masons' Marks. The second is 

 one which will interest all lovers of folk lore. It is 

 edited by J. W. Wolf, and entitled Zeitschrift fiir 

 Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, and numbers 

 among its contributors, W. Grimm, Nordnagel, Kuhn, 

 and many other good men and true, who have devoted 

 their talents to the study of popular antiquities. We 

 hope shortly to find room for a specimen or two of the 

 " Old World" stories and customs which they have 

 here recorded. 



Books Received. — A Guide containing a Short His- 

 torical Sketch of Lynton and Places adjacent in North 

 Devon, including Ilfracombe, by T. H. Cooper : a well- 

 timed guide to the most picturesque portion of one of 

 the most beautiful parts of North Devon, pleasantly 

 interlarded with scraps of folk lore and historical anec- 

 dote. — In Bohn's Standard Library, we have a farther 

 issue of Miss Bremer's works, comprising A Diary ; 

 The I I Family ; Axel and Anna, and other Tales : 



and the second volume of Mr. Hickie's translation of 

 The Comedies of Aristophanes forms the issue for the 

 present month of the same publisher's Classical Library. 

 — Mr. Darling proceeds with great regularity in the 

 publication of his Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, of which 

 ■we have received No. XII., which extends from Ber- 

 nard Lancy to Martin Madan. — The Irish Quarterly 

 Review, No. XL for September, contains, among other 

 articles of general interest, such as those on French 

 Social Life and Fashion in Poetry, and the Poets of 

 Fashion, a farther portion of the amusing anecdotical 

 paper, entitled The Streets of Dublin. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to purchase, 



The Builder, No. 520. 



OswALLi Crollii Opera. 12mo. Geneva, 1635. 



Gaffarell's Unheakd-op Curiosities. Translated by Chelmead. 

 L'mdon. 12mo. 1650. 



Beaumont's Psyche. 2n(I Edit, folio. Camb., 1702. 



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

 lished by Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street. Square I2itio. 



Jer. Collier's Ecclesiastical History of England. Folio 

 Edition. Vol. II. 



London Labour and the London Poor. 

 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. 



PAMPHLETS. 



Junius Discovered. By P. T. Publislied about 1789. 



Rba.sons 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. 



*** Correspondents sending Lists of Bookt fVanled are requested 

 to send their names. 



*«• Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of " NOTHS AND 

 QUERIES." 186. Fleet Street. 



G. T. (Reading). We are happy to be able to assure our Cor. 

 respondent that that venerable antiquary John Bhitton is still 

 among us, and, when we last saw him, as hale as his best friends 

 could toish. 



H. H. R. will find in our earlier volumes several Notes on the 

 subject of his Query. 



W. M. The line — 



" Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim," 

 is from lib. v. 301. of the Alexandreis of Philip Gualtier : and not 

 Tempora, but 



" Omnia mutantur, nos et mutaraur in illis," 

 is from a poem by Matthno Borbonius in <A<; Delitiae Poetarura 

 Germanorum, vol. i. p. 683. 



H. C. C. Will this Correspondent favour us with his address in 

 exchange for that ^/Newbury, which we have, and who wishes to 

 correspond with him ? 



J. O. May we insert the interesting Beply sent by this Cor- 

 respondent, or is it his wish that we should forward it? 



W. S. F. will find an interesting article on the loss of Gray's 

 original US. from La Grande Chartreuse, in our First Volume, 

 p. 410. 



J. M. G. 7s not the translation of The OAe, spoken of in the 

 article alluded to as being by James Hay BeatCie, the one respect- 

 ing which our Querist inquires ? 



F. M. (A Maltose). I. IVe shotild recommend our Correspon- 

 dent to make his gun cotton with the nitrate of potash and sulphuric 

 acid, as originally recommended in " N. & Q.," taking care that 

 they are both thoroughly incorporated before the addition of the 

 cotton. Much vexation often occurs in consequence if the various 

 strengths of nitric acid. But the gun cotton can now be procured 

 at some of the photographic houses quite as reasonably as it can be 

 prepared. 2. Acetic acid is added to the pyrogaltic acid to prevent 

 its too rapid decomposition, and to facilitate the more easy flowing 

 of the fluid over the plate. But the more acetic acid is used, the 

 more slow will be the development. 3. Is not the cracking of the 

 albumen the result of the climate of Malta ? 



F. (Manchester). We do not think that you can do better than 

 adopt strictly the mode of obtaining positives recommended by Mr. 

 Pollock, and which we printed some ti?ne since ; or that pursued 

 by Dr. Diamond, wliich we have in type, but have been compelled 

 to postpone until next week. 



A. B. C. Having ourselves practised the Paper Process, ac- 

 cording to the directions given in our first Number for the present 

 year {with the correction of using the gallic acid, wliich, ax staled 

 in a subsequent Number, ions by accident omitted), we would ad- 

 vise our Correspondent to adhere strictly to those rules rather than 

 any other with which we have since become acquainted. We are 

 of opinion that sufficient care is very rarely jjsed in the preparation 

 of t/ie iodized paper, and upon which all future success must de- 

 pend. 



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