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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 224. 



Gaoll, stranger, is used in Erie to denote a 

 foreign settler, e. g. the Earl of Caithness is Mor- 

 phear (pronounced Morar) Gaoll, the stranger 



freat man ; being lord of a corner of the land in- 

 abited by a foreign race. 

 Galloway, on the other hand, takes its name 

 from the Gael, being possessed by a colony of that 

 people from Kintyre, &c, who long retained the 

 name of the wild Scots* of Galloway, to distinguish 

 them from the Brets or British inhabitants of the 

 rest of the border. Fkancis John Scott, M.A. 

 Holy Trinity, Tewkesbury. 



Brydone the Tourist's Birth-place (Vol. vii., 

 p. 108.). — According to Chambers's Lives of Scots- 

 men, vol. i. p. 384., 1832, Brydone was the son of 

 a clergyman in the neighbourhood of Dumbarton, 

 where he was born in the year 1741. When he 

 came to England, he was engaged as travelling 

 preceptor by Mr. Beckford, to whom his Tour 

 through Sicily and Malta is addressed. In a copy 

 of this work, now before me, I find the following 

 remarks written in pencil : 



" These travels are written in a very plausible style, 

 but little dependence is to be placed upon their veracity. 

 Brydone never was on the summit of iEtna, although 

 he describes the prospect from it in such glowing 

 colours." 



It is right to add, that the writer of these re- 

 marks was long a resident in Italy, and in constant 

 habits of intercourse with the most distinguished 

 scholars of that country. J. Macray. 



Oxford. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The second volume of Murray's British Classics, 

 which is also the second of Mr. Cunningham's edition 

 of The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, fully justifies all we 

 said in commendation of its predecessor. It contains 

 Goldsmith's Enquiry into the State of Polite Literature 

 in Europe, and his admirable series of letters, entitled 

 The Citizen of the World. Mr. Cunningham tells us 

 that " he has been careful to mark all Goldsmith's own 

 notes with his name ; " his predecessors having in 

 some instances adopted them as their own, and in 

 others omitted them altogether, although they are at 

 times curiously illustrative of the text. We are glad 

 to see that Mr. Murray announces a new edition, re- 

 vised and greatly enlarged, of Mr. Foster's valuable 

 Life of Goldsmith, uniform with the present collection 

 of Goldsmith's writings. 



Memorials of the Canynges Family and their Times ; 

 Westbury College, Redcliffe Church, and Chatterton, by 

 George Pryce, is the somewhat abbreviated title of a 

 goodly octavo volume, on which Mr. Pryce has bestowed 



* Scot or Scott is applied only to the men of Gaelic 

 extraction in our old records. 



great industry and research, and by which he hopes to 

 clear away the mists of error which have overshadowed 

 the story of the Canynges family during the Middle 

 Ages, and to show their connexion with the erection 

 or restoration of Westbury College and Redcliff 

 Church. As Mr. Pryce has some few inedited memo- 

 randa relating to Chatterton, he has done well to in- 

 corporate them in a volume dedicated in some measure 

 to the history of Bristol's " Merchant Prince." 



Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 

 Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, 

 Lord Buchhurst, edited by Robert Bell, forms the 

 second volume of Parker's Annotated Edition of the 

 British Poets. Availing himself, very properly, of the 

 labours of his predecessors, Mr. Bell has given us very 

 agreeable and valuable memoirs of Surrey and Buck- 

 hurst ; and we have no doubt that this cheap edition 

 of their works will be the means of putting them into 

 the hands of many readers to whom they were before 

 almost entirely unknown. 



The Library Committee of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries, having had under their consideration the state 

 of the engraved portraits in the possession of the So- 

 ciety, consulted one of the Fellows, Mr. W. Smith, as 

 to the best mode of arrangement. That gentleman, 

 having gone through the collection, advised that in 

 future the Society should chiefly direct its attention to 

 the formation of a series of engraved Portraits of the 

 Fellows, and with great liberality presented about 

 one hundred and fifty such portraits as his contribu- 

 tion towards such collection. Mr. Smith's notion is 

 certainly a very happy one : and we mention that and 

 his very handsome donation, in hopes of thereby ren- 

 dering as good service to the Society's Collection of 

 Portraits, as we are glad to learn has been rendered 

 to their matchless Series of Proclamations by our 

 occasional notices of them. 



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WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Torrens on Wages and Combinations. Longmans. 1834. 



*„* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

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The British Preserve, etched by S. Howitt. Prints, 2. The 

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An Account of the Ministers, &c, who were Ejected or 

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