Jan. 6. 1855.] 



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wood to each customer having articles to be dyed ; 

 and without the reproduction of which, the goods 

 in question are on no account given up. The 

 practice exists too, to some extent, among the 

 small bakers of Plymouth, more particularly among 

 those who have a large dinner-baking trade. This 

 system prevails in consequence of the numerous 

 frauds practised upon the bakers by parties apply- 

 ing for dinners who had never sent them to_ be 

 baked, and who thus enjoyed a cheap " tuck-in," 

 to the mortification and loss of the rightful owners. 



T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Tallies are still used by small shopkeepers in 

 some of the villages in Warwickshire. They are 

 occasionally produced in the small debt courts. D. 



Leamington. 



The Divining Rod, Table- turning, 8fc. (Vol. x., 

 p. 467.). — As Mr. Bates appears to be unac- 

 quainted with the communications of Professor 

 Chevreul (author of the remarkable work on the 

 harmony of colours, lately translated into English) 

 to the Journal des Savants on the " Divining 

 Kod " (la Baguette Bivinatoire), will you permit 

 me to refer him to that journal, in which he will 

 find a series of eight articles by Professor Chevreul. 

 The concluding communication is in the number 

 for July of the present year. John Macbat. 



Oxford. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



In the Biographical Catalogue of the principal Italian 

 Painters, with a Table of the Cotemporary Schools of Italy, 

 designed as a Hand-book to the Picture Gallery, by a Lady, 

 edited by R. N. Worrum, we are furnished with a short 

 but comprehensive sketch of the life and works of each 

 artist ; embracing the leading characteristics which dis- 

 tinguish them, and an enumeration of their principal 

 works. The accompanying Synchronoxis Table of the 

 principal Masters of the Italian Schools of Painting from 

 the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries inclusive, adds 

 to the great utility of this unpretending little volume, 

 and will make the lover of Art rejoice in the writer's 

 hope of proceeding with similar Catalogues of the artists 

 of other countries. 



The favour with which the volumes of the late Henry 

 Gunning's Reminiscences of the University, Town, and 

 County of Cambridge, were received, not only by Uni- 

 versity men, but also by the general public and the 

 press, speedily exhausted the first edition. A second, 

 somewhat enlarged, and yet cheaper edition, has now 

 appeared ; and will no doubt soon find its way into the 

 hands of all who like to hear an old man gossip of the old 

 times in which he lived, and the well-known men with 

 whom he associated. 



The interest we take in every endeavour to make more 

 popular, and more generally known, the writings of the 

 Father of English Poetry, would alone dispose us to speak 

 well of Mr. Bell's edition of The Poetical Works of Geoffrey 

 Chaucer, of which the First and Second Yolumes are now 



before us. But Mr. Bell, who has adopted as his text the 

 Harleian MS. of the Canterbury Tales, from which Mr. 

 Wright printed his version, has the merit of illustrating 

 his author by a mass of Notes which will go far to make 

 him as popular and well understood as he deserves to be. 

 Why, however, does he omit that useful, though slight 

 addition — numbering the lines of the poem? 



Whilst on the subject of old poetry, let us mention that 

 we have received from Messrs. Williams & Norgate the 

 First Part of a collection of the pseudo-Shakspeariaa 

 Dramas, edited by Dr. Delius, whose familiarity with our 

 language and Elizabethan literature is remarkable — 

 especially in one not to the manner born. His edition of 

 Edward the Third, an Historical Play, has but one defect ; 

 being intended for readers of English, its Introduction 

 should have been in the English language. 



We have before us two or three books of amusement, 

 which we must perforce dismiss in a few words. First let 

 us mention as of deep interest, and, we may add, of much 

 instruction as a picture of the times, Florine, a Tale of 

 iht First Crusade, by B. W. MacCabe. As we have no 

 doubt every incident it contains, however startling, has 

 its counterpart in some cotemporary chronicle, we wish 

 the learned and able writer had added to the value and 

 use of his book by a few references to his authority. — The 

 Mouse and her Friends is a fresh contribution to our 

 nursery literature from German sources, for which the 

 " spelling " public are indebted to an old friend, John 

 Edward T&y\or.— Mother and Son, the first of a new 

 series of Tales for the Young Men and Women of England, 

 will make all who read it look out anxiously for the re- 

 mainder of the series. 



We have good news for all our friends who have li- 

 braries ; Messrs. Letts, whose calendars and diaries are in 

 everybody's hands and everybody's pockets, have pub- 

 lished a form of Catalogue of the Library of , which 



must before long be on everybody's library table. It is 

 so constructed that one may see at a glance the shelf or 

 mark, author, editor or translator, title, edition, vols., size, 

 date, place and publisher, cost, remarks ; and what to the 

 good-natured is a column of no small moment, when and 

 to whom lent, Sfc. 



It mav be useful to such of our readers as have au- 

 thority 'to consult the Documents in the State Paper 

 Office, to be informed that, by a recent regulation, that 

 office is now open every day in the week between the 

 hours of ten and three o'clock. 



Mr. Lilly announces for early publication, in two vo- 

 lumes octavo, The Life of Bishop Fisher, by the Rev. J. 

 Lewis, author of the Life of Wickliff, with an Appendix 

 of Illustrative Documents, and an Introduction by the late 

 Mr. Hudson Turner. 



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 SociBTT OF Arts' Journal. No. 39. Vol. I., andNoi. 52. 54. k 55. 



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Wbaib's QnARTKRi.T Faphrs ok ARCHiTBcrnRB. Part 1. 

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