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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 58. 



means by which they attained their object are 

 detailed. J. M. 



Oxford, Nov. 8. 



Kilt (Vol. ii., p. 62.). — Your correspondent 2. 

 will find some information regarding the introduc- 

 tion of the kilt into Scotland in a volume entitled 

 Notes to assist the Memoi-ij in various Sciences, 

 2d edition, London, Murray, 1827. I quote the 

 passage, p. 297. : 



" The PheUcheg. Thomas Rawlinson, an iion-smclter 

 and an Englishman, was the person who, about or 

 prior to a. n. 1728, introduced the pheliebeg, or short 

 kilt, worn in the Higlihinds. This fact, very little 

 known, is estal)lished in a letter from Ewan Baillie, of 

 Oberiachan. inserted in the Edhibiirg/t Magazine for 

 1785, and also by the Culloden Papers." 



The writer of that work, and of that darivg 

 statement, was, I have been informed, a Scottish 

 military gentleman of the name of Hamilton. 

 This origin of the kilt is also mentioned by Mr. 

 Robert. Chambers in his Life of Duncan Forbes, 

 of Culloden. See his Biographical Dictionary of 

 Eminent Scotsmen. Scoxus Sjecundus. 



Edinburgh, Nov. 22. 



Bacon Family (Vol. ii., p. 247.). — The origin 

 of this surname is to be iound, I conceive, in the 

 word Beacon. The man who had the care of the 

 Beacon would be called John or Boger of the 

 Beacon. Beacon Hill, near Newark, is pro- 

 nounced in that locality as if spelt Bacon Hill. 



AV. G. S. 



Mariners Compass (Vol. ii., p. 56.). — The 

 "fleur de lis" was made the ornament of the 

 northern radius of the mariner's compass in com- 

 pliment to Charles of Anjou (whose device it was), 

 the reigning king of Sicily, at the time when Flavio 

 Gioja, the Neapolitan, first employed that instru- 

 ment in navigation. O. P. Q. 



Arabic Nrimerals, Bi-iigscli (Vol. ii., p)i. 294. 

 424.). — Briigsch, Numerorum apnd Veieres 

 JEgypfos demoticorwn Doctrina. Ex Papyris et 

 Ihscriptionibus nunc prinmm illu.^trata. 4to., with 

 five plates of facsimiles, &c., is published in this 

 country by AVilliams and Norgato, Henrietta 

 Street, Covent Garden, where J. W. H. may see 

 it, or whence he may get any information he may 

 require respecting it. W. 



characterised alike by a quick perception of the beauty 



of the popular myths recorded in its pages, the good 

 taste manifested in their selection, and the learning 

 and scholarship with which Mr. Keightley lias illus- 

 trated them. 'I'lie lovers of folk-lore will be delighted 

 j v.ith this new edition of a book, which such men as 

 I Goethe, Grimm, Von Hammer, Douce, and Southey 

 j have agreed in commending ; and of which the ap- 

 i pearance is particularly well timed, for a fitter book 

 for fire-side reading, or a Christmas present, we know 

 I not than tliis edition of Keightley's Fainj Ali/thology, 

 witli its inimitable frontis^piece by George Cruikshaiik, 

 which alone is worth the price of the volume. 



Whitaker's Cltrgymrm's Diary and Ecclesiastical Ca- 

 lendar is intended to supply a want which is acknow- 

 ledged to have been long felt by the clergy, though the 

 lawyer and man of business have been for many years 

 well supidied with works of a similar character. A 

 glance at tiie Table of Contents shows how much 

 valuable matler, of especial interest to our clerical 

 friends, has here been collected from various sources 

 for their information ; and to prove the value of a 

 work destined, we have no doubt, to find for many 

 years an extensive and well-deserved patronage. 



Few of our readers but have tested and found the 

 value of Wrs. Cowden Clarke's Concordance to Shak- 

 speare ; and few are the nurseries into which some of 

 her clever and kindly books for children have not 

 found their way ; so tliat albeit her projected series of 

 tales. The Girlhood of Shakspcare's Heroines, scarcely 

 belongs to the class of works usually noticed in our 

 columns, we gladly find in INIrs. Clarke's love of chil- 

 dren and reverence for Shakspeare, an excuse for saying 

 a kw words in favour of lier good work of tracing the 

 probable antecedents in the history of some of Shak- 

 speare's heroines. 



We have received the following Catalogues: — Ed- 

 ward Stibbs' (331. Strand) Catalogue, Part I., of a 

 Valuable Collection of Books; W. S. Lincoln's (Chel- 

 tenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No. 63. 

 of English anil Foreign Second-hand Books. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Mr. Bohn has just issued a new volume of his An- 

 tiquarian Library ; and we shall be greatly surprised 

 if it docs not prove one of the most popular of the 

 whole scries. It is a new and gready enlarged edition 

 of Mr. Keightley's Fairy Mythology illustrative of the 

 Romance and Superstition of various Countries, a work 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTKD TO rOECHASE. 

 Dccaxge's Glossary, (I)iilot's edition). 



Ofid Vobimcs. 

 Chalmers' British Poets, Vols. IV. and VI. 



*»• Letters, stating particiit.irs and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to lie Si-ni to Mil. Bell, Publisher of" NOTEa AND 

 QUl'.RIES," ISG. Fleet Street 



flatitti ta CarrcjJpau'acitt^. 



NoRvicENsis is informed that upon reference to Stewart's 

 (IL King William 'street) Catalogue, we fnd No. 1304. 

 Dodd's Commentary, P, vols, folio, 1770, marhed at 

 2/. 16,'!. The work is esteemed for the notes uf Locke, 

 Wattrland, and Clarendon, ivhich it contains. 



}Ve hare again to request the indulgence of many of our 

 correspondents for the postponement of their comtnuni- 

 cations. 



