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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 222. 



Curiosities of Literature, to " The Man of One 

 Book." He says : 



■ A predilection for some great author, among the 

 vast number which must transiently occupy our atten- 

 tion, seems to be the happiest preservative for our 

 taste .... He who has long been intimate with one 

 great author will always be found a formidable anta- 

 gonist The old Latin proverb reminds us of 



this fact, Cave ab homine unius libri, Be cautious of the 

 man of one book." 



and he proceeds to remark, that "every great 

 writer appears to have a predilection for some 

 favourite author," and illustrates it by examples. 



ElRIONNACH. 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. viii., p. 353.). — 

 In the amusing quarrel between Goldsmith's old 

 friend and his cousin in St. James's Park, "Cousin 

 Jeffrey," says Miss, " I knew we should have the 

 eyes of the Park upon us, with your great wig so 

 frizzled and yet so beggarly." " I could," adds 

 Mr. Jeffrey, " have patiently borne a criticism on 

 all the rest of my equipage ; but I had always a 

 peculiar veneration for my muff." (Essays, p. 263., 

 edit. 1819.) Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



ffiiittXimtawi. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



If, as we believe, the first and greatest qualifications 

 for an editor of Shakspeare be love for his author and 

 a thorough appreciation of his beauties, Mr. Charles 

 Knight may well come forward once more in that 

 character. And, as he well observes, the fact of his 

 having laboured for many years in producing a body of 

 Commentary on Shakspeare, so that he was, out of the 

 necessity of its plan, compelled not to miss any point, 

 or slur over any difficulty, renders him not the less 

 fitted for the preparation of an edition which is intended 

 to be " The People's Shakspeare." The first volume 

 of this edition, which he calls The Stratford Shakspeare, 

 is now before us. It comprises the " Facts connected 

 with the Life and Writings of Shakspeare," and the 

 " Notice of Original Editions," and a most valuable 

 shilling's worth it is. And there can be little doubt 

 that, if Mr. Knight realises his intentions of suiting the 

 present work to the wants of the many, by his endea- 

 vours, without any elaborate criticism, to unravel the 

 difficulties of a plot, to penetrate the subtlety of a cha- 

 racter, and to show the principle upon which the artist 

 worked, the present will be the crowning labour 

 of his many praiseworthy endeavours to place a good 

 edition of the works of our great dramatist within the 

 reach of all 



" Who speak the tongue 

 That Shakspeare spake." 



We cannot better show the utility and interest of 

 The Autograph Miscellany ; a Collection of Autograph 

 Letters, Interesting Documents, Sfc, selected from the 



British Museum, and other sources Public and Private, 

 than by stating the contents of the first number, which 

 certainly contains admirable lithographic fac-similes of 

 — I. Queen Elizabeth's Letter to the House of Com- 

 mons in answer to their Petition respecting her 

 Marriage; II. Letter from Catherine de Medici; 

 III. Wren's Report on the Design for the Summit of 

 the City Monument; IV. Letter from Rubens on the 

 Defeat of the English at Rochelle. Their execution is 

 certainly most creditable to the artist, Mr. F. Nether- 

 clift. 



Books Received. — The Works of Joseph Addison, 

 with Notes by Dr. Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, 

 in Four Volumes, with Engravings, Vol. I. This is the 

 first of a new, cheap, and well-printed edition of Hurd's 

 Addison, and forms one of Mr. Bohn's new series of 

 British Classics. — The Russians of the South, by 

 Shirley Brooks, the 53rd Part of Longman's Traveller's 

 Library, is a very lively and amusing little volume. It 

 would have been read with interest at any time, but 

 is especially deserving of attention at the present 

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