April 12. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUP:RIES. 



293 



cocked-hats of coachmen and beadles, the traces of 

 these old ligaments. Hence the phrase to cock 

 ones hat. Let me add one or two remarks on 

 other points of dress arising out of old military 

 habits. In old times coats were of the shape we 

 now call frocks, and lined throughout, generally 

 with a different colour from the outside. When 

 a person in one of these coats was ^oing about any 

 active work, and particularly into fight, he doubled 

 back his sleeves, and folded back the collar, which, 

 being of a dlffe;ent colour, came to be what we 

 now call the facings of military uniforms. The 

 French, truer to their origin, still call them the 

 " revers." So also on such occasions the broad 

 skirts of the frock coat used to be hooked back not 

 to impede the movements of the lower limbs, and 

 thence the swallow tails of military uniforms. So 

 also the high jack-boots, that covered the knees, 

 used, in walking, to be turned down, and the in- 

 side being of a lighter colour, gave the idea of what 

 are called top-boots. C. 



iHt^rcIIaiicnuS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



In the belief that the time has arrived when the 

 history of our national architecture must be reconsi- 

 dered, witli a view to a revision of the classes or periods 

 into which it has hitherto been divided, Mr. Sharpe h^is 

 just put fortli a handsomely illustrated volume, under 

 the title of The Seven Periods of English Architecture 

 dejiiied and illustrated. Mr. Sharpe's proposal is, that 

 tht'se seven periods should be thus formed: — three 

 belonging to the division Romanesque, under the titles 

 of Saxon, Norman, and Transitional Periods ; and the 

 remaining four to the Gothic, viz. the Lancet, Geome- 

 trical, Curvilinear, and llectangular Periods. We 

 must, of course, refer our readers who desire to know 

 the prinei|jles upon which Air. Sliarpe proposes this 

 great change to the work itself, which is plain and to 

 the purpose. 



Mr. Bolin some time since became the purchaser of 

 a large number of the copper-plates of Gillray's Carica- 

 tures. Having had impressions taken, and arranged 

 them in one large volume, he sought the assistance of 

 Mr. Wright, who had just then published his Hiitonj 

 of the House of Hinorer, illustrated hi/ Caricnturis, and 

 Mr. 11. H. I'ivans, the well-known bibliopole, towards 

 an anecdotical catalocjuo of the works of this clever 

 satirist: and the result of the labours of these gentle- 

 men has just been published under the title of Histori- 

 cal awl Descriptioe Account of the Cai icntitrcs of Jomes 

 GiUray, comprising a Political and Humorous History 

 of the latter Part of the Reiyn of George III. Tlie 

 volume will be found not only an interesting key to 

 Mr. Holm's edition of Gillray, and a guide to those 

 who may be making a separate collection of his works, 

 but a pleasant illustration of the wit and satire wliieh 

 lashed the politicians and amused the public 

 " In the old time when George the Third was king." 

 Those who know the value of those historical re- 

 searciius wliicli Sir F. Palgravc has already given to 



the world, will be glad to hear that the first volume of 

 his History of Normandy and of England will probably 

 be published before the close of the present month. 

 In this first volume, which is described in the adver- 

 tisement as containing the general relations of Mediae- 

 val Europe, the Carlovingian Empire, and the Danish 

 Expeditions into Gaul, we understand the learned 

 author has treated those expeditions at, considerable 

 length, and enters very fully into that of the decline of 

 the Carlovingian Empire, — a portion of the work as 

 important, as it is in a great measure new, to the 

 English reader. Not the least valuable part of the 

 book will be Sir Francis Palgrave's account of the 

 nature and character of the Continental Chronicles, 

 which form the substratum of his work, but which, 

 existing only in the great collections of Duchesne, 

 Bouquet, Pertz, &c., are generally very imperfectly 

 known to English students. 



Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell, on Monday 

 next, a collection of very rare and interesting Auto- 

 graph Letters, more particularly illustrative of the 

 period of the Civil Wars. On the same day they will 

 also comiTience a Four-days' Sale of valuable Books, 

 and Books of Engravings, chiefly from the Library of 

 a gentleman deceased, including the original edition 

 of Stuart and Revett's Athens, a copy of Merian's Topo- 

 graphia GermanitB containing nearly one thousand en- 

 gravings, and many other works of high character. 



Books Receiveo. — ■lioswcH's Life of Johnson, Illus- 

 trated, vol. i. Tliis is the first volume of the National 

 Illustrated Library, which the projectors describe " as 

 an endeavour to bestow >i])on half-crown volumes for 

 the mayiy the same typographical acem'acy, and the 

 same artistic ability, hitherto almost exclusively devoted 

 to higli-piiced books for the few." In choosing Bos- 

 well's Johnson for their first work, the projectors have 

 shown excellent judgment ; and we are bound to add 

 that the book is not only well selected, but neatly 

 printed, and illustrated with a number of excellent 

 woodcuts. — Illustrations of Medieval Costume in Eng- 

 land, ^-c. Part II. This second part deserves the 

 same praise for cheapness as its predecessor. — The Cope 

 and the Kafirs, the new volume of Bohn's cheap series, 

 is a well-timed reprint of Mrs. Ward's Five Years in 

 Kafirland, with some little alteration and abridgment, 

 and the addition of some information for intending 

 emigrants, from information supplied by published 

 official reports. 



Catalogues Receiveo. — J. IMiller's (43. Chandos 

 Street) Catalogue No. XX. of Books Old and New; 

 T. Kerslaki-'s (fi. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue of 

 Books lately bought; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham 

 House, Westminster Road) Sixty-seventh Catalogue of 

 Low-priced books, mostly Second-hand; Williams and 

 Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) Cata- 

 logue No. III. of Foreign Second-hand Books, and 

 Books at reduced prices. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to pukciiase. 



The Cijmpi.avnt op Scotland, eilitcd by Leyden. 8vo. Edin- 

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