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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 227. 



Belgium : and some too are of local origin or 

 formation. 



In the latter category is the name of Warville, 

 which is derived from Ouarville, near Chartres, 

 where Brissot was born in 1754. Between the 

 French ouar and our " war," there is a close simi- 

 larity of sound; and in the spirit of innovation, 

 which characterised the age of Brissot, the transi- 

 tion was a matter of easy accomplishment. Hence 

 the nom de guerre of Warville, by which he was 

 known to his cotemporaries. Hbnky H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Camden Society has just issued a volume of do- 

 mestic letters, which contain much curious illustration 

 of the stirring times to which they refer. The volume 

 is entitled Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, wife of 

 Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the 

 Bath, with Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. T. T. 

 Lewis. The writer, Lady Brilliana, was a daughter 

 of Sir Edward Conway, afterwards Baron Conway, and 

 is supposed to have been born whilst her father was 

 Lieut.- Governor of the " Brill." The earlier letters 

 (1625 — 1633) are addressed to her husband, the re- 

 mainder (1638 — 1643) to her son Edward, during his 

 residence at Oxford. The appendix contains several 

 documents of considerable historical interest. 



Elements of Jurisprudence, by C. J. Foster, M. A., 

 Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, 

 London, is an able and well-written endeavour to 

 settle the principles upon which law is to be founded. 

 Believing that law is capable of scientific reduction, 

 Professor Foster has in this little work attempted, and 

 with great ability, to show the principles upon which 

 he thinks it must be so reduced. 



Mr. Croker has reprinted from The Times his cor- 

 respondence with Lord John Russell on some pas- 

 sages of Moore's Diary. In the postscript which he 

 has added, explanatory of Mr. Moore's acquaintance 

 and correspondence with him, Mr. Croker convicts 

 Moore, by passages from his own letters, of writing 

 very fulsomely to Mr. Croker, at the same time that 

 he was writing very sneeringly of him. 



A three days' sale of very fine books, from the 

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 the 22nd ult. by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, at 

 their house in Wellington Street. The following prices 

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Schiller's Poems, translated by Merivale. 

 S. N. Coleridge's Kiographia Literauia. 

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Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. 



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



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