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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 90. 



and in St. Matthew, xii. 40., one can hardly call 

 it a vulgar error to speak of it commonly as a 

 whale. C B. 



Book Plates (Vol. iii., p. 495.). — Your corre- 

 spondent inquiring about book plates mentions, 

 that ] 698 is tlie earliest date he has heard of. In 

 a sale at Sotheby's, commencing on the 21st inst., 

 there is a copy of Evelyn's Silva, presented by him 

 to Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London, 

 with his book plate in it, date 1679. E, N. W. 



South wark, July, 1S51. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The Cunons and Decrees of tite Council of Trent, with 

 a Supplement, coiitaininy the Condemnations of the Early 

 Reformers, and other matters relating to the Council. 

 Literally translated into English by Tlieodore Alois 

 Buckley, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, is the title 

 of a volume which has just been issued; and which 

 many of our readers will probably consider a very well- 

 timed volume. It is not, however, because Ave admit 

 with Mr. Buckley that " to try Rome fairly we must 

 hear her plead her own cause" (for with polemics we 

 have nothing to do), that we direct their attention to 

 it; but because we agree with him that the Decrees 

 and Canons of the Council of Trent are documents as 

 valuable in a legal and historical, as in a religious point 

 of view, and because there must be inany who would 

 gladly learn what these Canons and Decrees were, yet 

 are not acquainted with the language in which they 

 were originally recorded. By such persons ]\Ir. 

 Buckley's name on the title-page may be received as a 

 sufficient guarantee of the accuracy of the present 

 translation. 



The first volume of a history of the book-trade in 

 Germany, containing notices of some booksellers of the 

 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, has just been pub- 

 lished at Leipsic, under the title of Beitrage ztir 

 Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels. The author is 

 Albrecht KirchhofT, and the work, short as it is, will 

 be found very useful to parties engaged in biblio- 

 graphical investigations. 



Our valued correspondent, the Rev. Dr. Todd of 

 Dublin, has just published Three Treatises hy John 

 WycUhiffe, D.D. I. Of the Church and her Members. 

 II. Of the Apostacy of the Church. III. Of Antichrist 

 and his Meynee. Now first printed from a Manuscript in 

 the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. The Treatises, 

 which, in Dr. Todd's opinion, contain internal evidence 

 of having been written within the last year of the 

 Reformer's life, are accompanied by Notes and a 

 copious Glossary; and tlie work has been undertaken 

 not without a hope that the publication of these 

 Treatises may direct the attention of influential scholars 

 to the importance of collecting and printing all tlie 

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 the name of Wycklyffe and his followers. We sin- 

 cerely trust that this hope will soon be realised. 



Messrs. Puttick and Simpson announce for approach- 



ing sale the highly important collection of Autograph 

 Letters and Historical MSS. of Mons. A. Donnadieu. 

 The series of English Royal Autographs alone ex- 

 tends to nearly three hundred articles ; nearly all the 

 letters after Henry VII. being entirely autograph. 

 This fact alone will give some idea of the extent and 

 value of this extraordinary collection. 



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Corona mistica Beate Virginis Marie Gloriose. Impressa 

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