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found it out. In chap. 47. (and see note 26.), 
Gibbon was too happy to make the most of the 
murder of the female philosopher Hypatia, by a 
Christian mob at Alexandria. But the account 
which he gives is more shocking than the fact. 
He seems not to have been familiar enough with 
Greek to recollect that dyeiAov means hilled. 
Her throat was cut with an oyster-shell, because, 
for a reason which he has very acutely pointed 
out, oyster-shells were at hand; but she was 
clearly not “cut in pieces,” nor “her flesh scraped 
off the bones,” till after she was dead. Indeed, 
there was no scraping from the bones at all. That 
they used oyster-shells is a proof that the act was 
not premeditated. Neither did she deserve the 
title of modest which Gibbon gives her. Her way 
of rejecting suitors is disgusting enough in Suidas. 
C. B. 
Public Libraries. —In looking through the Par- 
liamentary Report on Libraries, I missed, though 
they may have escaped my notice, any mention 
of a valuable one in Newcastle-on-Tyne, “ Dr. 
Thomlinson’s ;” for which a handsome building 
was erected early last century, near St. Nicholas 
Church, and a Catalogue of its contents has been 
published. I saw also, some years ago, a library 
attached to Wunborne Minster, which appeared to 
contain some curious books. 
The Garrison Library at Gibraltar is, I believe, 
one of the most valuable English libraries on the 
continent of Europe. Wei C. ole 
Edinburgh, March 380, 1850, 
NOSCE TEIPSUM,—AN EXCEPTION. 
(From the Chinese of Confucius, or elsewhere.) 
I've not said so to you, my friend—and I’m not 
going — 
You may find so many people better worth know- 
ing. Kurus. 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC, 
Mr. Thorpe is preparing for publication a Col- 
lection of the Popular Traditions or Folk Lore of 
Seandinavia and Belgium, as a continuation of his 
Northern Mythology and Superstitions, now ready 
for the press. 
Mr. Wykeham Archer's Vestiges of Old London, 
of which the Second Part is now before us, main- 
tains its character as an interesting record of 
localities fast disappearing. ‘The contents of the 
present number are, the “ House of Sir Paul Pin- 
dar, in Bishopgate Without,” once the residence of 
that merchant prince, and now a public-house 
bearing his name; “ Remains of the East Gate, 
Bermondsey Abbey ;” which is followed by a hand- 
some staircase, one of the few vestiges still remain- 
ing of “Southampton House,” the residence of 
the Wriothesleys. Earls of Southampton. A plate 
of “Street Monuments, Signs, Badges, &c.,” gives 
at once variety to the subjects, and a curious illus- 
tration of what was once one of the marked fea- 
tures of the metropolis. ‘ Interior of a Tower 
belonging to the Wall of London,” in the premises 
of Mr, Burt, in the Old Bailey, presents us with a 
curious memorial of ancient London in its forti- 
fied state; it being the only vestige of a tower 
belonging to the wall in its entire height, and with 
its original roof existing. The last plate exhibits 
some “Old Houses, with the open part of Fleet 
Ditch, near Field Lane ;” and the letter-press 
illustration of this plate describes a state of filth 
and profligacy which we hope will soon only be 
known among us as a thing that has been. 
We have received the following Catalogues : — 
Messrs. Williams and Norgate’s (14. Henrietta 
Street) German Catalogue, Part I. comprising 
Theology, Ecclesiastical History, and Philosophy ; 
John Petheram’s (94. High Holborn) Catalocue, 
Part CX. No. 4. for 1850, of Old and New Books ; 
John Miller’s (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue, 
Number Four for 1850 of Books Old and New; 
and EK. Palmer and Son’s (18. Paternoster Row) 
Catalogue of Scarce and Curious Books. 
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 
WANTED TO PURCHASE, 
(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.) 
DEAN MILNER’s LiFe or JosepH MILNER. 
Preck’s CATALOGUE OF THE DIsccURSES WRITTEN BOTH FOR AND 
AGAINST PoPpery IN THE Time oF James II. 4to. 1735, 
Lerrer to Sir James M‘Inros# in Reply to some Observations 
made in the House of Commons on the Duel between Sir 
Alexander Boswell and James Stuart, Esq., of Dunearn. 
Odd Volumes. 
ParisH CHurcHES, by Branpon. Parts 1. and 2. 
Homent Opera. Glasgow, 1814, Vol. 1V. Large paper, uncut. 
Moyen AGE MONUMENYTALE DE M. Cuapuy. Paris, 1841, &c. 
(C. W. B. wishes to complete his set.) 
*,* Letters stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 
to be sent to Mr. Bett, Publisher of “ NOTES AND 
QUERIES,” 186, Fleet Street. 
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which they complain have arisen neither from want of 
courtesy nor want of attention, us they would be quite 
satisfied if they knew all the circumstances of their respec- 
tive cases. 
Nores anp Queries may be procured by the Trade at 
noon on Friday; so that our country Subscribers ought to 
experience no difficulty in receiving it' regularly. Many 
of the country Booksellers are probably not yet aware of 
this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in 
their Saturday parcels. Part V. is now ready. 
Erratum. By a provoking accident, some few copies of the last 
No. were worked off before the words “ Saxoniwx,” ‘“Saxonia”’ 
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and * audactey,.” 
