Jan. 13. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Great Exhibition ; Poetical RhPFSody. Pcarce, Sheffield. 



Dr. Commino on the Great Exhibition. Shaw. 



Hiooimson's Koh-i-noor. Pretyman and Nixon. 



Guide to the Great Exhibition. Ward. 



New Exhibition. Cooper, Quebec Street. o • »_ 



Crystal Paiace ; a Sketch. Square. Christian Knowledge Sooietr. 



J. H. Martin's Ode in Commemoration of Great Exhibition. 



Musings on the Exhibition, by Gray of Islay. Gilchrist. 



LoNDREs ET 1,'ExposiTioN. Durr. 



Mrs. Bkeweb's Lines on Gathering op the Nations. 



New Map of London, with Arrangements op Crystal i-ALACE. 



Kelly's Exhibition Guide. English Edition. Kent. ,„ . 



Goode's Sermon, " What have they seen in Thy House ? 8vo. 



Crystal Labyrinth : a Puzzle. 18S1. Ackermann. 



Illustrated Exhibition Almanac. Cassell. . 



Theology and Morality of Exhibition. 6d. Painter. , , . 



Three Cards, in German, French, and English. Lithographed in 



Gold by C. J. Smith. „ ^ ^ .v„.„ 



Palace of Glass and the City of Gold. Wertheim. 

 A LovAL Stanza : James Prior. Bath. 

 Exhibition Sheet Almanac. Gilbert. 

 Lb-^Filote, a Newspaper. 



Wanted by Mr. Francis, 14. WelUngton Street North, Strand. 



Weale's Quarterly Papers on Architecture- 

 Caveler's Gothic Architecture. Parts. 

 Puoin's Examples of Gothic Architecture 

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Wanted by John Hebb, 9. Lanrence-Pountney Lane 



Parti. 

 Parts 3 & 4 of Vol. I. 



Herring's Preservatives against the Plague. 4to. 1665. 

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fiatUti to €arteg^aiHstnti. 



p. P — m. will find much illustration of the epitaph 



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 Glittering in gold" 



in " N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 498. i and! Vol. riii., pp. 110. 348. 

 A. P. 



" Hell is paved with good intentions " 



is a saying ^Johnson's which has beamie proverbial. — See BosweH'a 

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J. E. The head on the seal is that of a laughing Faun copied from a 

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 to the other Query have been overlooked. They shall be seen to. 



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