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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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its discovery. I shall be bappy to supply your 

 correspondent with an extract, if he has not the 

 above work at hand. J. B. Colmab. 



Noli metangere (Vol. ii., p. 153.). — In addition 

 to the painters already enumerated as having 

 treated this subject, the artist Le Sueur, com- 

 monly called tlie Raphael of France, may be men- 

 tioned. In his picture, the figures are somewhat 

 above half nature. W. J. Meecek. 



Cad (Yo\.\., p. 250.). — Jamieson derives this 

 word, or rather its Scotch diminutive, " cadie," 

 from the French, cadet, I have heard it fancifully 

 traced to the Latin " cauda." W. J. Mehcer. 



NOTES Olf BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Mr. Disraeli's work, entitled Commentaries on the 

 Life and Reign of Charles the First, has been pro- 

 nounced by one of the great critical authorities of our 

 own days, " the most important work " on tlie suljject 

 that modern times have produced. Those who differ 

 from Mr. Disraeli's view of the character of the king and 

 llie part he played in the great drama of his age may, 

 in some degree, dissent from this eulogy. None will, 

 however, deny that the work, looking to its anecdotical 

 cliaracter, and the great use made in it of sources of 

 information hitherto unemployed, is one of the most 

 amusing as well as interesting histories of that eventful 

 period. AVhile those who share with the editor, Mr. 

 B. Disraeli, and many reflecting men, the opinion that 

 in the great questions which are now aeitaling the 

 public mind, history is only repeating itself; and that 

 the " chapters on the Genivs of the Papacy ; on the 

 Critical Position of our earlier Protestant Sovereigns 

 with regard to their Roman Catholic Subjects, from the 

 consequences of the oaths of Allegiance and Supre- 

 macy ; OK the Study of Polemical Divinity prevaleyit at 

 the commencement of the Seventeenth Century, and kindred 

 themes, are, in fact, the history of the events, the 

 thoughts, the passions, and the perplexities of the pre- 

 sent agitated epoch," will agree that the republication 

 of t|ie work at this moment is at once opportune and 

 acceptable. 



We have received a copy of Dr. Rimbault's Musical 

 Illustrations of Bishop Pircj/'s Relitjnes of Ancient 

 English Poetry : a Collection of Old Ballad Tunes, 

 chiefly from rare MSS. and Early printed Books, deci- 

 phered from the obsolete Notation, and harmotiized and 

 arranged according to Modern Usage. If any tliinn- 

 could add to the extensive popularity which Percy's 

 work has continued to enjoy ever since its first ap- 

 pearance, (for have we not Washbourne's handsome 

 reprint of it, published within this year or two?) it 

 must be the quaint and racy melodies, the " old antique 

 strains," to which these fine old ballads were anciently 

 sung. Dr. Rimhault, who combines gre.it musical 

 acquirements with a rich store of antiquarian know- 

 ledge, in giving us these, has produced a work as care- 

 fully executed as it is original in its character; one 

 which can only be exceeded in interest bv the Musical 



Illustrations of Shakspeare's Plays, which we are glad 

 to see promised from the same competent authority. 



We are at length enabled to announce that The 

 Treatise on Equivocation, so often referred to in our 

 columns, is about to be published under the editorship 

 of Mr. Jardine, whose attention has long been directed to 

 it from its connexion with the Gunpowder Conspiracy; 

 and whose intimate acquaintance with that subject, as 

 shown in his Criminal Trials, is a sufficient pledge for 

 his ability to do justice to this curious and important 

 historical document. 



We regret to learn, from the Catalogue of the Mu- 

 seum of Mediceval Art, collected by the late Mr. Cottingham, 

 which has been very carefully drawn up, with a pre- 

 face by Mr. Shaw, that, if the Family are disappointed 

 in disposing of the Museum to the Government, or by 

 private contract, it will be submitted to Public Sale in 

 April next, and a Collection of the most ample and 

 varied examples of Mediaeval Architecture ever brought 

 together, which has been formed at a vast outlay both 

 of labour and cost, will be dispersed, and be thereby 

 rendered inaccessible and valueless to the architectural 

 student. 



The' Rev. W. H, Kelke lias published some Notices of 

 Sepulchral Momiments in EnglishChurchei, a work which 

 is not intended for professed antiquaries, but for that 

 large class of persons who, although they have some 

 taste for the subject of which it treats, have neither 

 time nor inclination to enter deeply into it, and as will, 

 we have no 'doubt, he very acceptable to those to whom 

 it is immediately addressed. 



We regret to anrioimce the death of one of our 

 earliest and most valued contributors. Professor T. S. 

 Davies, of Woolwich. " Probably few men in Eng- 

 land," says the Athenaeum, " were better versed in the 

 methods of the old geometers, or possessed a more 

 critical appreciation of their .relative merits." His 

 death is a great loss to geometrical science, as well as 

 to a large circle of friends. 



We have received the following Catalogues : — 

 Stacey and Co. (19. Southampton Street, Strand) Ca- 

 talogue of Books, chiefly relating to History, Com- 

 merce, and Legislation ; G. Bumstead's (205. High 

 Holborn) Catalogue of Interesting and Rare Books on 

 the Occult Sciences, America, Ai a, &c. 



jlottfcS to (!i;arrciSji0iilJaTt^. 



To meet the wishes of mntiy friends, and to avoid the inconveni- 

 ence arising fro7n the diversity of prices in our Monthly l^aits, we 

 propose in future to publish a fifth, or Supplementary Number, 

 every Mu7it/i in which there n'e v^ily four Saturdays, lly this 

 arrangmietit our ilonlhly Parts vi.l be if the uniform price of 

 One shilling and Three pence, irith the exception of those for 

 January and July, which vill incluile the Index of the preceding 

 half-year at the price of One shilling and Kinepence each. Thus 

 the yearly subscription to Notes and QiEniES, either in un- 

 stamped ll'eekly Au7nbers or Monthly Parts, will be Sixteen 

 Shillings. The subscription for the Stumped Edition, with uhidi 

 Gentlemen may he supplied regularly by giving their (}> ders direct 

 to the Publisiier, Mr. George Bell, ISO. i leet Street (.accompanied 

 by a Post Office Order), is One pound and Pourpence for a twelve- 

 month, or Ten shillings and Two pence for six months. 



ReI'LIES Keceived It has been suggested to vs that we should 



here acknowledge all communications received by us. lye would 

 willingly do so, but that, from their number, such acknowledgment 

 would necessarily occupy far more space than our readers would 

 like to see so employed. Hut we propose in future to notice all 

 replies that have reached us ; by which means those who li.ive re- 

 plied will be aware that their cummunicati^ns have come to hand, 

 and those who are about to reply will be enabled to judge whether 



