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more especially with regard to privately printed sheet 

 pedigrees. Tlie Catalogue will be printed for private 

 distribution, and he will be happy to give a copy to any 

 one who may favour him with communications. 



Books Received. — As usual, we have a large item 

 to enter under this head to the account of that enter- 

 prising caterer of good and cheap books, Mr. Bohn. 

 We have two volumes of his Standard Library, namely, 

 Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments; and Dis- 

 sertation on the Origin of Languages, with the Biogra- 

 phical and Critical Memoir of the Author, by Dugald 

 Stewart — and a work of greater present interest, 

 though in itself of far less importance, namely, Ranke's 

 History of Servia, and liis Insttrrection in Bosnia, trans- 

 lated from the German, by Mrs. A. Kerr, and tlie Slave 

 Provinces of Turkey, chiefly from the French of INI. Cy- 

 pnen Robert, a volume which will be read with eager- 

 ness in the present condition of the political world. 

 Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius, literally trans- 

 lated, with Notes and a General Index, by the Rcr 

 verend J. Selby Watson, M.A., forms the new vo- 

 lume of the same publisher's Classical Library. 

 Mr. Bohn has this month commenced a New Series 

 under the tide of Bohn's British Classics. The first 

 work is an edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, with 

 the notes of Guizot, Wenck, and other continental 

 writers ; and farther illustrations by an English Church- 

 man. In thus choosing Gibbon, Mr. Bohn has not 

 shown his usual tact. He may not mean his edition 

 to be a rival to that published by Mr. Murray under 

 the editorship of Dean Milman ; but he will find much 

 diflSculty in dissuading the reading world that it is 

 not so intended. We speak thus freely, because we 

 have always spoken so freely in commendation of Mr, 



Bohn's projects generally Catalogue of my English 



Library, collected and described by Henry Stevens, 

 F. S.A., is a catalogue of the books essential to a good 

 English library of about 5000 volumes, and such as 

 Mr. Stevens, the indefatigable supplier of book rarities 

 and book utilities to his American brethren, feels justi- 

 fied in recommending. It would be found so capital a 

 Hand-book to all classes, that we are sorry to see it is 

 only printed for private distribution. — The Botanist's 

 Word-booh, by G. Macdonald, Esq., and Dr. James 

 Allan. This little vocabulary of the terms employed 

 in the Science of Botany, which may now almost be 

 described asjhe science of Long Names, will be found 

 most useful by all who pursue that fascinating study, 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



The Friends. 1773. 2 Vols. 



Thb Edinburgh Miscellany. 1720. 



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

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

 QUEKIES." 186. Fleet Street. 



Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent 

 direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose 

 names and addresses are given for that purpose : 

 Ormchod's Cheshire. Parts II. and X. Small Paper. 

 Hemingway's Chester. Parts I. and III. Large Paper. 

 Wanted by T. Hughes, 13. Paradise Row, Chester. 



Aaron Hill's Plain Dealer. 

 Edinburgh Miscellany. Edinb. 1720. 



Wanted by F. Dinsdale, Leamington. 



Oxford Almanack for 1719. 



Amcenitates Academic*. Vol. I. Holmiae, 1749. 

 Ammanus I. Stirpes Uariores. Petrop. 1739. 

 Philosophical Transactions for 1683. 

 Annals of Philosophy for January, \S'H. 

 Universal Magazine for January, 1763. 

 Springel and Decandolle's Botany. 



Wanted by Mr. II. T. Sobart, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



Laderchii Annales Ecclesiastici. 3 Tom. Folio. Romas, 



1728-37. 

 The Bible in Shorthand, according to the method of Mr. Ja^iies 



Weston, whose Shorthand Prayer Book was published in the 



Year 1730. A Copy of Addy's Copperplate Shorthand Bible, 



London, 1687, would be given in exchange. 



LoESCHER, De LaTROCINUS, QVM in SCniPTORES PUBLICOS 



SOLENT committere h^retici. 4to. Vitcmb. 1674. 

 LoESCHER, Acta Ueformationis. 

 Schramm, Dissert, de Librouum Prohibitorum Indicibus. 



4to. Helmst. 1708. 

 Jamesii Specimen Corruptelarum Pontific. 4to. Lond. 



1626. 

 Maceuo, Diatribe de Cardinalis Bon£ Erboribus. 



Wanted by Rev. Richard Gibbings, Falcarragh, Letterkenny, 

 Co. Donegal. 



Peck's (Fit.) History op the Stamford Bull Running. 

 The Case op Mk. Sam. Bruckshaw considered. 8vo. or 12mo. 



Wanted by Mr. J. Phillips, Stamford. 



Recollections and Reflections during the Reign op 

 George III., by John NichoUs. 2 Vols. 8vo. London, 

 Ridgway, 18-20. 



Wanted by G. Corncwall Lewis, Kent House, Knightsbridge. 



We have this week the pleasure of again presenting our readers 

 wilh a Thirty-two page Number, in consfquetice of the number cif 

 Advertisements and the length of Dr. Diamond's valuable paper. 

 This latter we recommend to the attention, of our antiquarian 

 friends, who willfind, as we have done, thai the process is at once 

 simple and certain, and one which may be mastered with very 

 little trouble. 



Non-Medicv's. Your correction of an obvious blunder in the 

 Registrar-General's Report is not fitted for our columns. 



F. W. The proverb Good wine needs no bush has reference io 

 the practice which formerly prevailed of hanging a tuft of ivy at 

 the door of a vintner, as we learn from — 



" Now a days the good wyne needeth none ivye garland." 

 Rilson, in a note on the epilogue to Shakspeare's As You Like It, 

 speaks of the custom as then prevalent in Warwickshire, and as 

 having give7i the name to the well-known Bush Inn at Bristol. 



B. W. C. (Barum). The subject is under serious consideration, 

 but the difficulties are greater than our friendly Correspondent 

 imagines. 



i. D. Les Lettres Cabalistiques were written by M. D'.irgens, 

 the author 4/" Les Lettres Juives and Les Lettrcs Chinoises. 



Mr. J. A. DuNKiN, of Dartford, Kent, would feel obliged with 

 the loan of the following work : Memoirs of the Origin of the 

 Incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond. /( is 

 not in the British Museum. 



Folk Lore We propose next week to present our readers 



with a Christmas Number, rich in Folk Lore, and other kindred 

 subjects. 



Many replies to Correspondents are unavoidably postponed. 



" Notes and Queries " is published at noon on Friday, so that 

 the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, 

 and deliver them to their Subsciibers on tlie SaturcUiy. 



" Notes and Queries," Vols. i. to vli., price Three Guineas 

 and a Half.— Copies are being made up and may be had by order. 



