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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 53. 



effect to the fullest extent of her wishes. (Vid. 

 Southey's Oinniana, voL ii. p. 54., where Santel's 

 lines are quoted.) J. M. B. 



West (James), P?-esident of Royal Society (Vol. 

 ii., p. 289.). — T. S. D. states there " has certainly 

 never been a president or even a secretary of the 

 Royal Society, of the name of James West." 

 Your readers will remember that West is men- 

 tioned by Mr. Cunningham in his London, as 

 having filled the tbrmer distinguished odice : his 

 statement, which T. S. D. thus contradicts, is per- 

 fectly correct. 



Mr. West's election took place 30th of No- 

 vember, 1768, and he hlled the chair until his 

 death in July, 1772. ' J. 11. M. 



[Mr. Cooper, of Cambridge, J. G. N., and other 

 corresjiondents, have called our attention to this over- 

 sight.] 



KOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The idea of selecting from the Spectator those papers 

 in which the refined taste of Addison, working on the 

 more imaginative genius of Steele, has embodied that 

 masterpiece of quiet thorough English humour which 

 is exhibited in the portrait of Sir Roger de Coverley, 

 is a most happy one, — so excellent indeed, and wlien 

 done, it is so obviously well that it is done, that we can 

 only wonder how it is, that, instead of having now to 

 thank Messrs. Longman for the quaintly and beauti- 

 fully got up volume entitled Sir Roger de Coverlet/. 

 By the S/jectaiur. The Notes and Ithtstrutions iy Mr. 

 lieiiry Wills : the Engravings by Thompson, from De- 

 signs by Fred. Tuykr, — as a literary novelty — such a 

 selection has not been a stock hook for the last century. 

 Excellent, however, as is the iilea of the present volume, 

 it has been as judiciously carried out as happily con- 

 ceived. Mr. Tayler's designs exhibit a refined humour 

 perfectly congenial with his subject, and free from that 

 tendency to caricature which is the prevailing fault of 

 too many of the comic illustrators of the present day ; 

 while the pleasant gossiping notes of Mr. Wills fur- 

 nish an abundance of chatty illustration of the scenes 

 in which Sir Roger is placed, and the localities he 

 visited, and so enable us to realise to ourselves, in every 

 respect, Addison's admirable picture of the worthy 

 knight, '• in bis habit as he lived." May we add that, 

 on looking through these amusing notes, we were miuh 

 gratified to find Mr. Wills, in his illustration of the 

 passage, "his great-grandfather was inventor of that 

 famous country-dance called after him," speaking of 

 "the real sponsor to the joyous conclusion of every 

 ball" as having "only been recently revealed, after 

 the most vigilant research," since that revelation, with 

 other information contained in the same note, was pro- 

 cured by that gentleman through the medium of" Notes 

 AND Queries." 



IMessrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson are now selling the 

 last portion of the Miscellaneous Stock of the late Mr. 

 Thomas llodd. This sale, which will occupy eleven 



days, will close on Friday next: and on Saturday they 

 will sell the last portion of Mr. Rodd's, books, which 

 will consist entirely of works relating to Ireland, in- 

 cluding several of great curiosity and rarity. 



Messrs. Putiick and Simpson will sell on Monday 

 next a Collection of Books from the library of the late 

 well-known and able .nntiquary. Dr. IJromet, together 

 with his BookcasL's, Drawing Materials, &c. 



We have received tlie following Catalogues : — W. 

 Brown's (No. 130. and 131. Old Street) List of English 

 and Foreign Theological Books; W. Nield's('36. Bur- 

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 Books; W. Peilder's(lS. Holywell Street) Catalogue, 

 Part IX., for 1850, of Books Ancient and Modern; 

 J. Ilowwell's (28. Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn) 

 Catalogue, No 39., of a Select Collection of Second- 

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 Westminster Road) Sixty-second Catalogue of English, 

 Foreign, Classical, and Miscellaneous Books. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUECHASE. 



T. NAocnoNOUS — Hegnum Vapisticim. 8vo. 1553. 

 Baknaue Googe's Poi'isH KiNcnuM. 4to. 1570. 



Odd J'uhinieS- 



liERUv's IlEiiAI.niiv, 9 Vols. Siip|ilenieiit. 



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As we again propose this week to circulate a large 

 nnynher of copies of "Notes and Queries" among 

 members of the. different provincial Literary Institutiotui, 

 we verdure, for the purpose of furthering the objects for 

 which our paper was instituted, to repeal the following 

 passage from our 52nd Number: — 



It is obvious that the use of a paper like " Notes 

 AND QuEiiiEs" bears a direct proportion to the extent 

 of its circulation. What it aims at doing is, to reach 

 the learning which lies scattered not only throughout 

 every part of our own country, but all over the literary 

 world, and to bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of 

 the scholar; to enable, in short, men of letters all over 

 the world to give a helping hand to one another. To 

 a certain extent, we have accomplished this end. Our 

 last number contains communications not only from all 

 parts of the metropolis, and from almost every county 

 in England, but also from Scotland, Ireland, Holland, 

 and even from Demerara. This looks well. It seems 

 as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design. 

 But much yet remains to be done. We have recently 

 been told of whole districts in England so benighted as 

 never to have heard of "Notes and Queiues;" and 

 after an interesting question has been discussed for 

 weeks in our columns, we are informed of some one who 

 could have answered it immediately if he had seen it. 

 So long as this is the case the advantage we may con- 

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