Sept. 28. 1850.] 



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large edition of th« Statutes, printed by the Record 

 Commissioners, may no doubt be seen at the Par- 

 liament Office, near the House of Lords, on pay- 

 ment of the fee of 5s. 



I believe I am correct in saying that no debates 

 of that session are extant ; but the pi-oceedings on 

 the various bills may probably be traced in the 

 journals of the two Houses of Parliament, which 

 are printed and deposited in most of our great 

 public libraries. C. H. Coopeb. 



Cambridge, Sept 7. 1850. 



City Offices. — The best account of the different 

 public olHces of the city of London, with their 

 duties, &c., that I know of, your correspondent 

 A Citizen (Vol. ii., p. 216.) will find in the i?e- 

 ports of the Municipal Corporation Commissioners. 



Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood (Vol. ii., 

 p. 266.). — The claim set up on behalf of Father 

 Paul to the honour of Harvey's discovery, which 

 is noticed by your correspondent W. W. B., is 

 satisfactorily disposed of in the life of Harvey in 

 the Biographia Britannica, iv. 2548., note C 

 Harvey gave a copy of his treatise De Motii Cordis 

 to the Venetian ambassador in England. On his 

 return home tlie ambassador lent the book to 

 Father Paul, who made some extracts from it. 

 After Father Paul's death, he was thought to be 

 the author of these extracts ; and hence the story 

 which your correspondent quotes. It might oc- 

 casionally be convenient if your correspondents 

 would make a little inquiry before they send off 

 their letters to you. Beruchino. 



:;^{^cclliturflus. 



NOTES 0\ BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



All who love tlie sliady side of Pall Mall, and agree 

 with Dr. Johnson that the tide of human enjoyment 

 flows higher at Charing Cross than in any other part 

 of the globe, will gladly welcome Mr. Jesse's recently 

 published volumes entitled London and its Celebrities. 

 They are pleasant, gossiping, and suggestive; and as 

 the reader turns over page after page of the historical 

 recollections and personal anecdotes which are asso- 

 ciated with the various localities described by Mr. Jesse, 

 he will doubtless be well content to trust the accuracy 

 of a guide whom he finds so fluent and so intelligent, 

 and approve rather than lament the absence of those 

 references to original authorities which are looked for 

 in graver histories. The work is written after the style 

 of Saint Foix' Hues de Paris, which Walpole once 

 intended to imitate ; and is executed with a tact which 

 will no doubt render it very acce|)table to those for 

 whom it has been written, namely, those persons whose 

 avocations of business or pleasure lead them to tiaverse 

 the thoroughfares of the gnat metropolis ; and to whom 

 it points out in a manner which we have correctly 

 designated gossiping, pleasant, and suggestive, " such 



sites and edifices as have been rendered classical by the 

 romantic or literary associations of past tiroes." 



Messrs. Williams and Norgate have forwarded to us 

 a Catalogue of an extensive Collection of Books, the 

 property of a distinguished physician, which are to be 

 sold by auction in Berlin on the 21st of October. The 

 library, which was forty years in forming, is remarkable 

 for containing, besides numerous rare works in Spanish, 

 Italian, French, and English Literature, a curious series 

 of works connected with the American aborigines ; 

 and a most extensive collection of works on the .sub- 

 jects of Prison Discipline, Poor Laws, and those other 

 great social questions which are now exciting such 

 universal attention. 



We have received the following Catalogues : J. Mil- 

 ler's (43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square) Catalogue 

 No. II. for 1850 of Books Old and New, including a 

 large Number of scarce and curious Works on Ireland, 

 its Antiquities, Topography, and History ; W. Heath's 

 (29i. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue No, 5- for 1850 

 of Valuable Second-hand Books in all Departments of 

 Literature. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Translation of the French Letters in the Appendix to 



Fox's History of Jamus II. 4to. 1808. 

 Button's (W.) Roman Wall, 8vo. 1801. 



• Barbers, a Poeni, 8vo. 1793. [Genuine edition, 



not the fac-siniile copy.] 

 Edgar and Elfriua, 8vo. 1794. 



Odd Volumes. 

 Bryan's Dictionary ok Painters and Engravers, 4to. Lon- 

 don, 18IC. Vol. I. 

 Silly's Memoirs, Eight Volumes in French. London, I7C3. 



Vol. II. 

 Les Aventures de Gil Bias. London, 1749. Vols. I. and II. 

 •j,* Letters, slating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to lie sent to Mr. Bell. Publisher of "NOTES AND 

 QUERIES." 186. Fleet Street. 



flatitti to Cnrr(riSj!0irtctit^. 



VoLUJiE THE First oi' Notes and Queries, with 

 Title-paye and very copious Index, is now ready, price 

 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may he had, by order, of all 

 Booksellers and Newsmen. 



Tli£ Monthly Part for September, being the Fourth of 

 Vol. II., is also now ready, price Is. 



Notes and Quebies may be procured by the Trade at 

 noon on Friday .- so that our country Subscribers ought to 

 experience 7io dijjiculty in receiving it regularly. Many 

 of the country liookscllers are probably not yet aware of 

 this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in 

 their Saturday parcels. 



S. G. (C. C Coll., Camb. ), w/io writes respecting the 

 History of Edward II., is referred to our First Volume, 

 pp. 59. 91. 220. 



A Student or Hi.storv. The Oxford Chronological 

 Tables published by Talboys, and now to be had o/Bohn, 

 Henrietta Stret't, Covent Garden, at the reduced price 

 of One Guinea, is, we believe, the best work of the kind 

 referred to by our correspondent. 



S. S. The Query respecting Pope's lines, — 



" Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest," 

 has been answered. See No. 42. p. 188. 



