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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 228. 



Smiths and Robinsons (Vol. ix., p. 148.). — 

 Arms of Smith of Curdley, co. Lancaster : Argent, 

 a cheveron sable between three roses gules, 

 barbed, vert seeded, or. 



Robinson (of Yorkshire) : Vert, a cheveron be- 

 tween three roebucks trippant or. Crest, a roe- 

 buck as in the arms. Motto, " Virtute non 

 verbis." 



Robinson of Yorkshire, as borne by Lord 

 Rokeby : Vert, on a cheveron or, between three 

 bucks trippant of the last, as many quatrefoils 

 gules. Crest, a roebuck trippant or. Cid. 



Churchill's Grave (Vol. ix., p. 123.). — If I am 

 not mistaken, there is a tablet to the memory of 

 Churchill, with a more lengthy inscription, within 

 the church of St. Mary, Dover, towards the 

 western end of the south aisle. 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Before proceeding to notice any of the books which 

 we have received this week, we will call the attention 

 of the publishing world to two important works which 

 we know to he now wanting a publisher, namely, 

 I. A Syriac- English Lexicon to the New Testament and 

 Book of Psalms, arranged alphabetically, with the de- 

 rivatives referred to their proper roots, and a com- 

 panion of the principal words in the cognate lan- 

 guages ; and II. A Syriac- English Grammar, translated 

 and abridged from Hoffman's larger work. 



Samuel Pepys is the dearest old gossip that ever 

 lived ; and every new edition of his incomparable 

 Diary will serve but to increase his reputation as the 

 especial chronicler of his age. Every page of it 

 abounds not only in curious indications of the tone 

 and feelings of the times, and the character of the 

 writer, but also in most graphic illustrations of the 

 social condition of the country. It is this that renders 

 it a work which calls for much careful editing and il- 

 lustrative annotation, and consequently gives to every 

 succeeding edition new value. Well pleased are we, 

 therefore, to receive from Lord Brayhrooke a fourth 

 edition, revised and corrected, of the Diary and Cor- 

 respondence of Sumuel Pepys, and well pleased to offer 

 our testimony to the great care with which its noble 

 editor has executed his duties. Thanks to his good 

 judgment, and to the great assistance which he ac- 

 knowledges to have received from Messrs. Holmes, 

 Peter Cunningham, Yeowell, &c, his fourth edition is 

 by far the best which has yet appeared, and is the one 

 which must hereafter be referred to as the standard one. 

 The Index, too, has been revised and enlarged, which 

 adds no little to the value of the book. 



Mr. Murray has broken fresh ground in his British 

 Classics by the publication of the first volume of 

 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with 

 Notes and Preface by Dean Milman and M. Guizot, 



and edited, with Notes, by Dr. Smith. If the pub- 

 lisher showed good tact in selecting Mr. P. Cunning- 

 ham for editor of Goldsmith, he has shown no less in 

 entrusting the editing of his new Gibbon to Dr. Smith, 

 whose various Dictionaries point him out as peculiarly 

 fitted for such a task. In such well practised hands, 

 therefore, there can be little doubt as to the mode in 

 which the labour of editing will be conducted ; and a 

 very slight glance at the getting up of this first volume 

 will serve to prove that, for a library edition of Gibbon, 

 while this is the cheapest it will be also the hand- 

 somest ever offered to the public. 



Books Received. — Macaulay's Critical and His- 

 torical Essays, People's Edition, Part I. The first issue 

 of an edition of these admirahle Essays, which will, 

 when completed, cost only Seven Shillings ! Can cheap- 

 ness go much lower ? — Adventures in the Wilds of 

 North America, by Charles Lanman, edited by C. R. 

 Wild, forming Parts LV. and LVI. of Longman's 

 Traveller's Library. These adventures, partly pisca- 

 torial, are of sufficient interest to justify their publica- 

 tion even without the imprimatur, which they have 

 received, of so good a critic as Washington Irving. — 

 Darling's Cyclopcedia Bibliographica, Part XVII., ex- 

 tends from Andrew Rivet to William Shepheard. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



London Labour and London Poor. Nos. XLIV. and LXIV. 



to End of Work. 

 Mrs. Gore's Banker's Wife. 

 Tales by a Barrister. 

 Schiller's Wallenstein, translated by Coleridge. Smith's 



Classical Library. 

 Goethe's Faust (English). Smith's Classical Library. 

 The Circle of the Seasons. London, 1828. l2mo. 



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

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Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent 

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 names and addresses are given for that purpose : 



A Memoir of the Life of James Stanley, Seventh Earl of 

 Derby, by W. H. Whatton, Esq. Published by Fisher, 

 Newgate Street. 



History of the Westminster Election. London, 1784. 

 1 Vol. 4to. 



Wanted by G. Cornewall Lewis, Kent House, Knightsbridge. 



A Map, Plan, and Representations of Interesting and Remark- 

 able Piaces connected with Ancif.nt London (large size). 



A Copy of an early number of " The Times " Newspaper, or of 

 the " Morning Chronicle," " Morning Post," or " Morning 

 Herald." The nearer the commencement preferred. 



Copies or Fac-simi!es of other Old Newspapers. 



A Copy of The Breeches or other Old Bible. 



Wanted by Mr. Joseph Simpson, Librarian, Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, Islington, London. 



Percy Society's Publications. Nos. XCIII. and XCIV. 

 Wanted by G. J. Hargreaves, Stretford, near Manchester. 



Cambridge Installation Ode, 1835, by Chr. Wordsworth. 



4to. Edition. 

 Kitchener's Economy of the Eyes. Part II. 

 Brown's Anecdotes of Dogs. 

 i ii i of Animals. 



Wanted by Fred. Dinsdale, Esq., Leamington. 



