Feb. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



115 



Scytliians were especially addicted to it ; and in 

 the Taurica Chersonesus, now called the Crimea, 

 it was customary to sacrifice to this goldess the 

 strangers who came to their shores. We regret 

 to see the horrid rites, vre may say, renewed in 

 our own day, and celebrated at this moment. 



^ B. H. C. 



Rhymes on Places (Vol. x., p. 369.). — 

 " Sutton for mutton, 

 Tamworth for beef, 

 Walsall for bandy-legs, 

 Birmingham for a thief." 



Another has in it the following line : 



" Worcester for pretty girls." 

 I am unable to supply the remainder.* B. H. C. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, BTC. 



Nobility, §*c., by Henry Eumsey Forsfer, of the Morning 

 Post. Fifth Tear, revised by the Nobility. Having taken 

 some pains to test the accuracy of this compact Pocket 

 Peerage, we can bf-ar evidence to the great varietj' of 

 information which Mr. Forster has compressed into hia 

 volume, and to the reliance which may be placed upon it. 



Gifled with a ready pen and as ready a pencil, and a 

 power of observation which seems to allow few objects 

 deserving of notice to escape his attention, jMr. George M. 

 Musgrave, M.A., has produced an octavo volume umler 

 the title of Rambles through Normandy ; or Scenes, Cha- 

 racters, and Incidents, in a Sketching Excursion through 

 Calvados, which will afford a few hours' amusing reading 

 to those who love to travel by the fireside; and, on the 

 other hand, will be found an interesting travelling com- 

 panion to those who maybe tempted to visit the romantic 

 and picturesque scenes to which it relates. 



We have received a small volume from America, pret- 

 tily illustrated, and containing a good deal of pleasant 

 semi-antiquarian gossip, entitled The History and Poetry 

 of Finqer Rings, by Charles Edwards. The worthy 

 Counse\lor-at-Law of New York, for such it appears is 

 the profession of the writer, has collected his materials 

 from a great variety of sources, and produced a little 

 volume wliich, if not so profoundly learned as those in 

 which Kirchmann, Gorleus, Kircher, &c., dissertate De 

 Annulis, will, we doubt not, be found lighter and more 

 agreeable reading. 



Books Received. — Cornwall, its Mines, Miners, and 

 Scenery, by the author of Our Coal Fields and our Coal 

 Pits, forms, like that work, a portion of Longman's Tra- 

 veller's Library, and will be found as full of information 

 and interest as its predecessor. 



Curiosities of London, exhibiting the most rare and 

 remiirkable Objects of Literest in the Metropolis, with nearly 

 Fifty Fears' Personal Recollections, by Joim Timbs, F.S.A. 

 Mr. Timbs might have added in his title-page, to his list 

 of advantages under which the present volume has been 

 produced, the many years for which he edited The Mirror, 

 and those which must have resulted from his long-con- 

 tinued connexion with the Illustrated London A^ews. 



Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Umpire, edited 

 by Dr. Smith, with Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. 

 The seventh Volume of this handsome edition, one of 

 Murray's British Classics, brings Gibbon's narrative down 

 to the victory of the Genoese over the Venetians and 

 Greeks in 1352. 



The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, with 

 Genealogical and Historical Notices of the Families of the 



[• See " N. & Q.," Vol. v., pp. 374. 404., for two other 

 versions of the above.] 



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