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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 235. 



paper, and precisely similar to those now in use. 

 The earliest of the letters which I have found so 

 sealed is dated April, 1607, which is seventeen 

 years earlier than the earliest known instance, 

 mentioned by Beckmann (History of Inventions, 

 Bohn's edit., vol. i. p. 146.), of a letter sealed with 

 a wafer. Walter Sneyd. 



Denton. 



I have before me a reprieve from the Council, 

 dated in 1599, sealed with a wafer, and am certain 

 that I have earlier instances, had I time at this 

 moment to look them up. L. B. L. 



ffliSceUmizaxig. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Northern Antiquaries set their brethren in this 

 country a noble example. Every year sees one or 

 more of them engaged in the production of carefully- 

 edited volumes of early Scandinavian history. We 

 have now to record the publication, by Professor 

 Munch, of the old Norse text of Kong Olaf Tryggve- 

 s'on's Saga from a MS. in the Library at Stockholm 

 which has not hitherto been made use of; and also, 

 by the same gentleman, in conjunction with his friend 

 Professor Unger, of an edition of the Saga Olafs Ro- 

 utings ens Helga, from the earliest MS. in the library 

 at Stockholm. Each work is introduced by a preface 

 of great learning, and illustrated by a large body of 

 valuable notes. 



Those who have shared our regret, that the brilliant 

 notices of books which occasionally appear in the 

 columns of The Times should be presented in a form 

 which scarcely admits of their being preserved, and 

 also our satisfaction when Mr. Murray put forth his 

 selection from them under the title of Essays from the 

 Times, will be glad that the same publisher has issued 

 in his Railway Reading a Second Series of them, com- 

 prising fourteen articles. 



We may remind all lovers of beautiful illustrations 

 of Mediaeval Art, that Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson 

 will sell by auction on Monday next the entire stock 

 of the magnificent publications of Mr. Henry Shaw, 

 F.S. A., whose Dresses and Decorations of the Middle 

 Ages are a type of the whole. Such an opportunity of 

 securing copies at a reasonable rate will never occur 

 again. While on the subject of sales, we may mention 

 that Messrs. Puttick and Simpson announce a sale of 

 Photographs. This is the first instance ; but we may be 

 sure, with the growing taste for these accurate and, in 

 many cases, also artistic transcripts of nature, every 

 season will see many similar sales. 



At the anniversary of the Society of Antiquaries on 

 Monday last, Admiral Smyth moved a vote of thanks 

 to Mr. Bruce, on his retirement from the Treasurer- 

 ship, for his zeal and indefatigable exertions in that 

 office. The manner in which the gallant Admiral's 

 remarks were received showed, first, that the reforms 

 advocated by Mr. Bruce now meet the general approval 

 of the Society ; and, secondly, that the warmth of feeling 



which they had called forth on both sides has entirely 

 disappeared. 



Books Received. — Conde's History of the Arabs in 

 Spain, translated from the Spanish, by Mrs. Jonathan 

 Foster, in three volumes, Vol. I. Mr. Bohn deserves 

 the best thanks of all lovers of history for this English 

 translation — the first which has ever been made — of 

 the admirable work of Conde. It is one of the most 

 important volumes which he has published in his 

 Sta?idard Library. — The Diary and Letters of Madame 

 D'Arblay, Vol. II. The second volume of this amusing, 

 gossiping, and egotistical work, comprises the period 

 1781 — 1786. — Pantomime Budgets, 8cc, a clever 

 pamphlet in favour of prepaid taxation. — John Penry, 

 the Pilgrim Martyr, 1559 — 1593, by John Wadding- 

 ton. A violent anti-church biography of Penry, whose 

 share in the Marprelate Controversy Mr. Waddington 

 disbelieves on very insufficient grounds. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Lingard's England. Foolscap 8vo. 1844. Vols. I. to V., and 



X. and XI. 

 The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift. London, printed for 



C. Bathurst, in Fleet Street, 1768. Vol. VII. (Vol. VI. 



ending with " Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift," written in 



Nov. 1731.) 

 Byron's Works. Vol. VI. of Murray's Edition. 1829. 

 The Volume of the London Polyglott which contains the 



Prophets. Imperfection in other parts of no consequence. 

 Carlisle on Grammar Schools. 

 The Circle of the Seasons. London, 1828. l'imo. Two copies. 



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

 to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of "NOTKS AND 

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

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Any of the occasional Sermons of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, of 

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 the Labouring Classes, and Clothes Cheap and Nasty, by 

 Parson Lot. 



Wanted by H. C. Cowley, Melksham, Wilts. 



The Numbers of the British and Colonial Quarterly 

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 containing a review of a work on graduated, sliding-scale. 

 Taxation. Also any work of the French School on the same 

 subject, published from 1790 down to the end of the Revolu- 

 tion. 



Wanted by It. J. Cole, 12. Furnival's Inn. 



Brevint's Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice. 4th Edition, 

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Wanted by S. Hayward, Bookseller, Bath. 



J. G. Agardh, Species, Genera, et Ordines Algarum. Royal 



8vo. London, 1848—1853. 

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Admiral Napier's Revolution in Portugal. Moxon, Dover 

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Platonis Opera Omnia (Stallbaum). Gothaj et Erfordia?, 



Sumptibus Guil. Hennings, 1832 ; published in Jacobs and Rost's 



Bibliotheca Grasca. Vol. iv. Sect. 2., containing Menexenus, 



Lysis, Hippias uterque, Io. 



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