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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 278. 



Essay 7ipon Lithography in all its Branches, showing more 

 particularly the Advantages of the Patent Autographic 

 Press. Though we cannot speak practically as to the 

 advantages of the press, we can speak of the clearness and 

 simplicity of these directions for its use. 



" A discovery," says The Athenaum of Saturday last, 

 "which, perhaps, will prove an important one to the 

 German literatiire of the sixteenth centurj', has recently 

 been made in the Raths-archio (Kecord Office of tlie 

 Senate), at Zwickau, in Saxony, where Dr. Herzog, quite 

 nnexpectedly, found thirteen manuscript folios, all of 

 them containing poems of old Hans Sachs, the cobbler 

 poet of Nuremberg. A close investigation has led to the 

 knowledge, that these thirteen folios are the remainder of 

 a series of thirty -four volumes ; forming a complete col- 

 lection of all the works of Hans Sachs (the unprinted 

 Ones included), and compiled by order, and for the private 

 use, of the celebrated 'Meistersanger' himself. The 

 MS., though not an autograph of Hans Sachs, is yet full 

 of corrections by his own hand." 



Books Received. — We have under this heading to 

 notice no less than six of Mr. Bohn's contributions to 

 cheap literature. 



History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain, trans- 

 lated from the Spanish of Dr. J. A. Conde, by Mrs. Jona- 

 than Foster, Vol. II., is the new volume of Bohn's 

 Standard Library. 



The Worf>s of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 

 Vol. II., containing his Political Miscellanies, Reflections 

 on the Revolution in France, and Letter to a Member of the 

 National Assembly, is the new volume of Bohn's British 

 Classics. 



The Works of Pftilo-Judceus, the cotemporary of Jose- 

 phus, translated from the Greek, by C. D. Yonge, B.A., 

 Vol. III., is the addition to the same publisher's Ecclesi- 

 astical Library. 



Elementary Physics, an Introduction to the Study of 

 Natural Philosophy, by Robert Hunt. A new edition, 

 with corrections, of Professor Hunt's Popular Introduc- 

 tion, will, we have no doubt, prove one of the most suc- 

 cessful volumes of Bohn's Scientific Library. 



The Lives of the Twelve Ccesars, by C. Suetonius Tran- 

 quillus, to which are added The Lives of the Grammarians, 

 Rhetoricians, and Poets, the translation of Alexander 

 Thomson, M.D., revised and corrected by T. Forester, 

 A.M., form this month's issue of the Classical Library. 



The Life and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 

 Sj-c.^ This volume of Bohn's Illustrated Library is one 

 which will be welcome to all the admirers of this master- 

 piece of Defoe's genius, being illustrated with no less than 

 twelve engravings on steel after Stothard, and seventy 

 characteristic wood engravings, chiefly from designs by 

 Harvey. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Xhb ■Worm of Abel. Published at Christiana. The most recent 



edition. 

 Iktebmakriaoe. By Alexander Walker. 

 Callop.edta. 



The Grenville Correspojidknce. Vol. III. Murray, 1853. 

 Stephens's Edition of Common Prayer. 

 Strutt's Common-place Book. 

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sent to Mr. Beli, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 



186. Fleet Street. 



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 Oie gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and ad- 

 dresses are given for that purpose : 



Gibbon's Deciine and Fall. VoL I. Edition 1828, in i Vols. Pub- 

 lished m Jones's series of British Historians. 



Wanted by J. A., at Mr. Millikin's, Bookseller, College Green, Dublin. 



Parkinson's Sermons on Points op Doctrine and Rules op Dutt. 



Vol. L PostSvo. Rivmgtons, 1832. 

 Blomfield's Norfolk. The part containing Great Yarmouth and the 



hundreds of East and West i legg, or the Volume containing them. 

 Wanted by Mev. E. S. Taylor, Ormesby, St. Margaret. 



^'v°J!"'jY''''-S"?5-°'' '5.?^, P^AYs op Shakspeare, in Nine Vols. Pub- 

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Wanted by E. S. Tudor, 167. Upper Thames Street. 



LrrEs of Scottish Worthies. By Alexander F. Tytler. Vol. HL 



London, 1839. 

 The Chronicle of the Derbyshire Blpes. 



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LoNo's Obskrvations on the Study op the Latin and Gkekk Law- 



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Edwards on the Will. 



Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms. Edition 1530 (?). 



Wanted by J. T. Cheetham, Firwood, near Manchester. 



Speech at length of the Doke of Bedford on a Motion for Zi(E 

 XhsMissAL of Ministry. 8vo. Jordan, 1797. 



Wanted by The Librarian, Wobnm Abbey. 



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 every disposition to assist all inquirers, we really cannot insert such 

 Queries as " What is the meaning of Sold for a mere sone, or an old 

 song ? " " What particular Virgin was the Constellation Virgo named 

 after f " " Who are S. Godolphin and L. Hyde, who signed public docu- 

 ments in 1679 .» " ^c, which are among many similar ones whidi have 

 reached us during tliepresent week. 



A Lady's Query respecting Kirkstall Abbey has not been received. 



Q. Does our Correspondent really believe that these lines are to be 

 found in any edition o/ Mother Shipton's Prophecies ? — 



" When the moon doth shine both night and day 

 On the Majoraltie chaire of London gaye, 

 The Corporate will play such trickes 

 The worlde shall deeme them Lnnatickes." 



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