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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 206. 



Camera Lucida (Vol, viii., p. 271. )• — Caret 

 will find Dr, Wollaston's description of his in- 

 vention, the " Camera Lucida," in the 17th vo- 

 lume of Nicholson's Journal. M. C. M. 



MiictXltimmg, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Messrs. MacMillan of Cambridge have commenced 

 the publication of a series of theological manuals by 

 A History of the Christian Church (^Middle Age), by 

 Charles Hardwick, M.A. ; which, although written 

 for tliis series, claims to be regarded as an integral and 

 independent treatise on the Mediieval Church. The 

 work, which extends from the time of Gregory the 

 Great to 1520, when Luther, having been extruded 

 from those churches that adhered to the communion 

 of the Pope, established a provisional form of govern- 

 ment, and opened a fresh era in the history of Europe, 

 is distinguished by the same diligent research and con- 

 scientious acknowledgment of authorities which pro- 

 cured for Mr. Hardwick's History of the Articles of 

 Religion such a favourable reception. The work is 

 illustrated by four maps, which have been especially 

 constructed for it by Mr. A. Keith Johnston. 



The amiable and accomplished author of Proposals 

 for Christian Union, and of Welsh Sketches, has just 

 issued the third and concluding series of his little vo- 

 lumes on Welsh history, civil and ecclesiastical. We 

 have no doubt that the eight chapters of which it con- 

 sists, and in which he treats of Edward the Black 

 Prince, Owen Glyndwr, Prince of Wales, Mediaeval 

 Bardism, and the Welsh Church, will be read with 

 great satisfaction, not only by all sons of the Prin- 

 cipality, but by all who look with interest on that 

 portion of our island in which the last traces of our 

 ancient British race and language still linger. 



Books Received. — The Journal of Sacred Litera- 

 ture, No. IX. for October, continues to put forth strong 

 claims to the support of those who have a taste for 

 pure biblical literature. From the address of its new 

 editor, it would seem not to be so well known as the 

 object for which it is established plainly deserves. — 

 Cyclopcedia Bihliographica, Part XIII. for October, 

 continues its useful course. Every succeeding number 

 only serves to prove how valuable the work will be 

 when completed. — The Shakspeare Repository, edited 

 by J. H. Fennell, No. III., is well worth the attention 

 of our numerous Shakspearian readers. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



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Ford's Handbook of Spain. Vol. I. 



Austin Cheironomia. 



Rev. E. Irving's Orations on Death, Judgment, Heaven, 



and Hell. 

 Thomas Gardener's History of Ddnwich. 

 Marsh's History of Hursley and Baddesley. About 1805. 



8vo. Two Copies. 

 NicEPHORUs Catena on the Pentateuch. 



PrOCOPIUS GAZjEUS. 



Watt's Bibliographia Britannica. Parts V. and VI. 

 Maxwell's Digest op the Law of Intestates. 

 Carlyle's Chartism. Crown Svo. 2nd Edition. 



The Builder, No. 520. 



Oswalli Crollii Opera. 12mo. Geneva, 1635. 



Gaffarell's Unheard-of Curiosities. Translated by Chelraead. 



London. 12mo. 1650. 

 Beaumont's Psyche. 2nd Edit, folio. Camb., 1702. 



PAMPHLETS. 



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



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



Another Guess at Junius. Hookham. 1809. 



The Author op 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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C. E. F. Warm water and a few small shot will thoroughly 

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An Amateur Experimentalist. Formerly the pint used in 

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Having active professional duties, it has been only at his leisure 

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Hugh Henderson. \st. Black Japan varnish is very improper 

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