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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 78. 



the twelfth volume. We notice this useful condensa- 

 tion of Tlie Ptnni/ Cyclopa:dia principally, however, for 

 a feature which we hope to see more widely extended, 

 namely, that of issuing it in a strong and handsome 

 half-binding, at the moderate charge of one sliilling 

 per volume extra. The practice of publishing books in a 

 bound form (more especially such books as are intended 

 for very general circulation) is one which we have no 

 doubt may be widely extended with great satisfaction 

 to purchasers. It has, generally speaking, been, up to 

 tlie present time, too closely confined to books of liigh 

 price, adapted only to wealthy purchasers, whom the 

 words " bound by Hayday," or " morocco extra," with 

 the necessary increase of price, charm, rather than dis- 

 courage. 



Tliere is perhaps tio work to which, at the present 

 moment, — when the World's Fair is about to commence, 

 and we are sure to be visited by Imndreds, or rather 

 thousands, of our Gallic friends, with whom we shall 

 be in daily and hourly conversation, — we can more 

 appropriately call the attention of our readers than to 

 the second division (Partie Frunfaise- Auglahc') of M. 

 T.trver's Oictionnaire Plirase^dnrjlqiie Roi/al, in wliich we 

 can assure them they will find the readiest solution of 

 all those phraseological qufries which may arise during 

 their inti.rcourse witli our lively neighbours. A very 

 cursory cxaminatio:i of its pages will serve to convince 

 the inquirer of the great learning and patient industry 

 of J\I. Tarver ; and his interest in the work will not be 

 diminished by the reflection that the name of its accom- 

 plished author will be found in the obituary of the 

 present week. 



When noticing, a few weeks since, one of Captain 

 Knox's interesting volumes, we spoke of the untying 

 popularity of White's SMorne. A proof at once of 

 this popularity, and a means of increasing it, will be 

 found in a new edition of this delightful book just 

 issued as one of the volumes of Bohns Illustrated 

 Library. It is entitled to its place in this series on 

 account of forty adtnirable woodcuts by wliich it is 

 illustrated; and to a place on the bookshelves of every 

 Naturalist, for the sake of the additional notes of 

 Sir W. Jardine, and its present editor, iMr. Jesse. 



Messrs. Puttlck and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will 

 sell on Tuesday and Wednesday next an exceedingly 

 choice Collection of Autograph Letters, comprising 

 numerous Letters of extraordmary rarity, selected 

 principally from Upcott's Collection. We cannot 

 attempt to particularise the many interesting lots 

 which are to be fjund in the present collection, but 

 recommend the Catalogue to attention for the satis- 

 factory manner in which the diSerent documents are 

 arranged and described. 



Catalogues Received. — B. Quaritch's (16. Castle 

 Street, Leicester Square) Cheap Book Circular (No. 

 XXVIII.) of Books in all Languages; W. Pedder's 

 (18. Holywell Street) Catalogue Part II. for 1851, 

 of Books Ancient .and Modern; R. Saywell's (138. 

 High Holborn) Select Catalogue Part XXI. of Books 

 in Theology, Classics, and General Literature. 



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IjObd: and the .Summe sealed I'p of New England's Her- 



SECiiTiONS. liy Oeokge BisnoPE. Quarto, 1051. Wanted 



from iiage 150 to llie end. 



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J. S. S. (Leio'Ster). The C^hucer MoNUMENr. Il unll re- 

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 that amuu.it lias yd been subscribed. 



X. Y. Z. The ciistoin of" Swearing on the Horns at Higligate " 

 IS veil/ 'ibl;/ treated by Hnie, Every-Uay Book, vol. ii. p. 79. et 

 seq. It prnbabtt/ aros^ from the griizi'ers who put up at the Gaie~ 

 house on their way to Soiittifietd^ and were aecustoined, as a means 

 of keepinfi strangers out of their company, to bring an o.t to the 

 door OS a test : those who did not like to be sworn of their frater- 

 nity . and kiss its horns, not being deemed Jit members of their 

 society. 



W. II M. Mill this correspondent favour us with another 

 copy of his Queries, which were received and intended for inser- 

 tion, but have apparently been omitted by some accident f 



.\ . W. II. Our correspondent wilt find that his (hiery had been 

 ar'ti:ipa'cd ni \"ol. i , p. 33',. Its appearance then brought it a 

 inagt if Replies, mostly of a vcri/ unsalisfactory kind, IVe delayed 

 repeating the Query until wc coitld find leisure to condense those 

 replies, so as to prevent our correspondents furnishing us with 

 information already in our possession. If'e hope to do this next 

 week. 



SiSG. Bryan Waller Procter, Esq., one of the Commissioners 

 of Lunacy. 



Rkplics Received. — Nettle in — San Graal — Duchess of 

 Buchingliam — Neu'burgh H.imillon — E.T Pede Hereulem — 

 Knebsend — Derivation of Yankee — Passage in I'irgil — Bacon 

 and Fiii:ai — Solid-hoofed Pigs — Under the Hose — Stick at 

 Nothing — EJusdein Fanine — ."^leaning of Hock — Meaning of 

 Tye~^Tltc Tanthony ~ Do^^s Head in the Pot — Huron Mun- 

 chausen — Stiakspeare's Seimanship — Criston — B god de I.oges 

 — God's Acre — Joseph Nicolson — Brill. Hex — Triidescant — 

 Moore's Almanack — The Mistteloe — St John's Bridge Fair — 

 Curious F'lCt in Naturiil History — -Pursuits of Literature — 

 Burton's Birthplace — Engelbert of Treves — God takes those 

 soonest — Tandem D. 0. ii. SjC. — Bartolomeo's Pictures — Herst- 

 inonceaux, ^c. 



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