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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 241. 



dress the mayor's feasts, and shave the corporation — 

 gratis ! " 



Is not this the very paragraph which has been 

 supplied to you as an original ? The attempt to 

 disguise it by the alteration of two or three words 

 is below criticism. Surely, if passages from 

 common or easily accessible books are to occupy 

 valuable space in the pages of " N. & Q.," it is not 

 too much to expect that reference be honestly 

 given to the work which may be cited. 



Abtebus. 



Dublin. 



Misapplication of Terms (Vol. ix., p. 361.). — 

 Tour correspondent is quite entitled to the re- 

 ferences he demands, and which I had considered 

 superfluous. I beg to refer him to the school 

 dictionaries in use by my boys, viz. Mr. Young's 

 and Dr. Carey's edition of Ainsworth, abridged by 

 Dr. Morell ; also to the following, all I possess, 

 viz. Dr. Adam Littleton's, 4to. 4th ed., 1703 ; 

 Robertson's ed. of Gouldman, 4to., 1674; and 

 Gesner's Thesaurus, 4 vols. fol. I may add that 

 the observations of Home Tooke are quite to my 

 mind, especially when applied to the " legendary 

 stories of nurses and old women." (Todd's John- 

 son.) 



Working in the same direction as your corre- 

 spondent who has caused this invasion of your 

 space, I cannot resist the opportunity of protest- 

 ing against the use of " opened up " and " opened 

 out," as applied to the developments of national 

 enterprise and industry. These expressions, 

 common to many, and frequently to be read in 

 the "leading journal," stand a fair chance of be- 

 coming established vulgarisms. It is, however, 

 something worse than slipshod when a paper of 

 equal pretension, and more particularly addressed 

 to the families of the educated classes, informs its 

 readers ' " that some of the admirers of the late 

 Justice Talfourd contemplate the erection of a 

 cenotaph over his grave in the cemetery at Nor- 

 wood." {Illustrated News, March 25, 1854.) 



Squeehs, 



Dotheboys. 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



On the publication of the first volume of Mr. Peter 

 Cunningham's edition of The Works of Oliver Gold- 

 smith, we did not hesitate to pronounce it "the best, 

 handsomest, and cheapest edition of Goldsmith which 

 has ever issued from the press." The work is now 

 completed by the publication of the fourth volume, 

 which contains Goldsmith's Biographies ; Reviews ; 

 Animated Nature ; Cock Lane Ghost ; Vida's Game 

 of Chess (now first printed as it has been found tran- 

 scribed in Goldsmith's handwriting from the original 

 MS. in the possession of Mr. Bolton Corney), and 



his Letters. And after a careful revision of the book, 

 we do not hesitate to repeat our original opinion. It 

 is a book which every lover of Goldsmith will delight 

 to place upon his shelves. 



We have to congratulate Mr. Darling, and also all 

 who are interested in any way in theological literature, 

 on the completion of that portion of his Cyclopaedia 

 Bibliographica which gives us, under the names of the 

 authors, an account, not only of the best works extant 

 in various branches of literature, but more particularly 

 on those important divisions, biblical criticism, com- 

 mentaries, sermons, dissertations, and other illustra- 

 tions of the Holy Scriptures ; the constitution, 

 government, and liturgies of the Christian Church ; 

 ecclesiastical history and biography ; the works of the 

 Fathers, and all the most eminent Divines. We sin- 

 cerely trust that a work so obviously useful, and which 

 has been so carefully compiled, will meet with such 

 encouragement as will justify Mr. Darling in very 

 speedily going to press with the second and not less 

 important division — that in which, by an alphabetical 

 arrangement of subjects, a ready reference may be 

 made to books, treatises, sermons, and dissertations 

 on nearly all heads of divinity, theological con- 

 troversy, or ecclesiastical inquiry. The utility of such 

 an Index is too obvious to require one word of argu- 

 ment in its favour. 



The subject of the non-purchase of the Faussett 

 Collection by the Trustees of the British Museum 

 was brought before Parliament by Mr. Ewart on 

 Thursday, 1st June, when copies were ordered to be 

 laid before the House of Commons "of all reports, 

 memorials, or other communications to or from the 

 Trustees of the British Museum on the subject of the 

 Faussett Collection of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities." 



Books Received. — Miss Strickland's Lives of the 

 Queens of England, Vol. VI. This volume is entirely 

 occupied with the biography of Mary Beatrice of 

 Modena, the Queen of James II., in which Miss 

 Strickland has availed herself of a large mass of inedited 

 materials. — Selections from the Writings of the Rev. 

 Sydney Smith, forming Nos. 61. and 62. of Longman's 

 Traveller's Library, and containing his admirable 

 Essays on Education, the Ballot, American Debts, 

 Wit and Humour, the Conduct of the Understanding, 

 and Taste. — Critical and Historical Essays, &cc , by 

 the Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay, People's 

 Edition, Part III., includes his Essays on Lord 

 Mahon's War of Succession, Walpole's Letters, Lord 

 Chatham, Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, and 

 Lord Bacon. — Annotated Edition of the English Poets, 

 edited by Robert Bell. This month's issue consists of 

 the second volume of the Poetical Works of William 

 Cowper. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



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

 direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose 

 names and addresses are given for that purpose : 



The Trials of Robert Powell, Edward Burcii, and Matthew 

 Martin, for Forgery, at the Old Bailey. London. 8vo. 

 1771. 



Wanted by J. N. Ckadwick, Esq., King's Lynn. 



