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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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logue. So strong, indeed, was this feeling at the time, 

 as to call forth several announcements of works in 

 preparation,commemorativeof the Exhibition, including 

 one by the accomplished Honorary Secretary of the 

 Committee, Mr. Franks. Mr. Franks has, however, 

 we regret to hear, now abandoned that intention, so 

 that of these promised memorials, we shall probably 

 only see the one which has just been published under 

 the title of C/io/ce Examples of Art Workmanship, selected 

 from the Exhibition of Ancient and Mediceval Art at the 

 Society of Arts ; and, whether as a pleasant record to 

 those who visited the collection, or as a compensation 

 for their disappointment to those who were not so for- 

 tunate, the book will, doubtless, find favour with the 

 rapidly increasing class who take an interest in works 

 of this character. 'J'hat the publishers anticipate a 

 large sale, is obvious, from the remarkably low price at 

 which they have published this beautiful volume, which 

 contains upwar<ls of sixty engravings, drawn from the 

 gems of the collection, by Mr. De la Motte, and en- 

 graved under his superintendeiice ; and furnishes re- 

 presentations of objects of the most varied kinds, from 

 the Nautilus Cup belonging to Her Majesty, to Sir. 

 Vulliamy's luori/ Bas-reliefs ascribed to Flamingo, 

 jNIr. Slade's matchless specimens of Glass, and Dr. 

 Rock's Superaltare. 



Mr. Charles Knight has jnst put forth a small 

 pamphlet, entitled Case of the Authors as regards the 

 Paper Duty, in which he shows most ably and most 

 clearly the social advantages which must result from 

 the repeal of a tax which, as Mr. Knight proves, "en- 

 courages the production of inferior and injurious works 

 by unskilled labourers in literature." 



The Gentleman s Magazine of the present month is a 

 capital number. Mr. Cunningham has commenced in 

 it, what promises to be an interesting scries of papers 

 upon a subject which that gentleman's well-known 

 tact and judgment will prevent from being objectionable, 

 The Story of Nell Gwyn ; and the numerous friends of 

 the late JMr. Amyot — and how numerous were his 

 friends! — cannot but be pleased with the characteristic 

 portrait which accompanies the interesting memoir of 

 that kind-hearted and accomplished gentleman. 



Oracles from the British Poets, A Drawing- Room 

 Table Book and pleasant Companion for a Hound Party, 

 by James Smith, exhibits a good idea carried out with 

 excellent taste, and justifies the author's motto : 



" Out of these scatter'd Sibyl's leaves. 

 Strange prophecies mj fancy weaves." 



A game which, while it amuses the family circle, will 

 make its members acquainted with so many beautiful 

 passages from our poets as are here assembled, must 

 find a welcome in many a home at the present season. 

 The publisher of the Oracles has availed himself of the 

 demand, at this period of the year, for " Song of knight 

 and lady bright," to re-issue in one volume instead of 

 two, and at a reduced price, his Pictorial Book of Ballads 

 Traditional and Romantic. 



A Moniimenturium of Exeter C«</iti7rn/, carefully com- 

 piled by the Uev. J. W. Hewett, the result of six 

 months' regular labour, has been printed in the Trans- 

 actions of the Exeter Architectural Society. By this 

 work Mr. Hewett has done good service to all gene- 



alogists, local and general historians, &c., and we 

 know no greater benefit that could be conferred on this 

 branch of literature, than that some of our now super- 

 abundant brass-rubbers should follow Mr. Hewett's 

 example, and note with accuracy all the inscriptions, 

 monuments, coats of arms, &c., preserved in the churches 

 in their respective neiglibourh<)od<;. They may then 

 either hand them over for publication to the nearest 

 ArchiEological Society, or the Archaeological Institute, 

 or the Society of Antiquaries; or transmit a copy of 

 them to the MS. department of the Briiish Museum. 



IMessrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of Wellington Street, 

 will sell, on Monday next and two following days, the 

 valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Engrav- 

 ings of the late James Brown, Esq. 



We have received the following Catalogues: — W. S. 

 Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) 

 Sixty-fourth Catalogue of Cheap Second-hand English 

 and Foreign Books; John Miller's (-13. Chaudos 

 Street) Catalogue Number Sixteen of Books Old and 

 New. J 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCUASJi. 



Leland's History of Ireland. Vol. II. 



Gretser Opera Omnia. Folio. Ingolst. IGIG. 



I1e» wood's .Spider and Flie. London. 155U. Title-page and 



first leaf of Table. 

 Essay on Music, Encyc. Metropolitana. 

 Hodgson's Lady Jane Grey. 

 Zacchias Qi'EsTioNEs Medico Legales. 



Pl'lleyn's Etymological Compendicm. London. 8vo. 1850. 

 Shakspeare's Dp.amatic Works. Vol. IV. of VVhittingham's 



edition in 7 vols. 1814. 



*»* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be sent to Mk. Bell, Publisher of •' NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 18G. Fleet Street. 



Satires' to (ii:0iTCB'p0iiUc!iK 



ETYMOLOGicrs will find a full reply to his Query, under the 

 i''0)d " Aiguiilette," m llic Dictionn.aiie Infernal o/ .1/. Collin de 

 Plnncy; and by so doijig he will also learn why u'e do not here enter 

 into a fuller explanation. 



March. There is no question but that we derived ike name 

 April fool from the French Poisson d'Avril. See Ellis' Brand, 

 vol. i. p. 82. (ed. 1841). 



Investigator is referred to Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, 

 under tlie title " Huloet," /<^'' an account of Huloet's Abecedavium, 

 as well as of the 7ieu'li/ corrected edition of it by Higgins. 



A SrascRiBEii who wishes for an abridged translation of Dug- 

 dale's account of Xorton Priory, Lincolnsbirt., is referred to 

 Wrig'it's English Abridgment of the Monasiicoo, published in 1718. 



J. K. (Medical Use ot Mice) is thatikrd for his friendly Post- 

 script. He will, we trust, see a great alteration in future. 



CuRiosL'S. The best account of the Domestic Pool is in Donee's 

 Illustrations of Shjkspi'are, and Ftogel's Geschichte der Hof- 

 narren. 



Philo-Stevens. Bosk's Anglo-Saxon Grammar, by Thorpe t 

 and I'crnoi's Guide to Anglo-Saxon, are corisidered the best 

 elementary books. 



The Index to our Second Volume will, we trust, be ready by the 

 middle of the present month. 



Notes and Queries tnay be procured, by order, of all Book- 

 sellers and Xcicsvenders. It is published at noon on Friday, so 

 that our country Subscribers oug/it not to experience any difficulty 

 ill procuring it regularly. Many of the country Booksellers, i^c, 

 arc, probably, not yet aware of this arrangement, which will 

 enable /hem to receive Notes and Queries in their Saturday 

 parcels. 



All communications for the Editor r/NoTEs and Queries should 

 be addressed to the care of Mr. Bell, No. 186. Fleet Street. 



