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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 102. 



shilling's worth, The Chase, by Nimrod. Well do we 

 remember, that on the appearance of that sparkling 

 sketch in the Quarterly, in the same way that many — 

 who like Michael Cassio, 



" never set a squadron in the field, 

 Nor the division of a battle knew, 

 More than a spinster," 



have watched with the deepest interest the masterly 

 strategy of Marlborough, Napoleon, or that greater still, 

 The Duke — liundreds who never set foot in stirrup — 

 who certainly never joined in a view hallo ! followed with 

 the greatest interest and anxiety the adventures of Snob 

 and his little bay mare in the Q,uorn Country. If 

 Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies 

 of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived. 

 IVIay he sell as many of its more important companion. 

 The Essays from The Times : for, as he well observes 

 in his prefatory notice to the volume in question, these 

 brilliant Papers on Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, 

 Railway Novels, Louis Philippe, Southey, &c. exhibit 

 " literary merits and a moral tone well calculated to pro- 

 mote the important national object" advocated by that 

 powerful jotirnal in the article on the Literature of the 

 Rail to wliich the present series owes its origin. How 

 many hundreds, nay thousands, must there be who, 

 having read these Essays and Reviews in The Times, 

 where they were made to point a moral most effec- 

 tually, have especially desired to possess them in a 

 more permanent form ; and who, having secured the 

 present admirable selection, will look anxiously for the 

 period when Mr. Murray will be enabled to give a 

 second volume of them, 



Among the many works illustrative of the history of 

 France — literary, social, and monumental — for which 

 the French are mainly indebted to the enlightened ad- 

 ministration of M. Guizot, when Minister of Public 

 Instruction, there is not one of greater value than the 

 handsome quarto published by M. Didron, the learned 

 Secretary of the Comitc des Arts et Monuments, en- 

 titled Iconographie Chrcticnne. Of the importance and 

 utility of this volume, with its admirable illustrations, 

 every journal in this country devoted to art or arehcE- 

 ology has exhibited repeated proofs : and of the many 

 wonderfully cheap books which Mr. Bohn has from 

 time to time produced, there is not one to compare 

 with the Translation of this interesting volume, which 

 he has just put forth under the title of Christian Icon- 

 ography ; or the History of Christian Art in the Middle 

 Ages. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. comprising the His- 

 tory of the A'imbus, the Aureole, and the Glory, the JJis- 

 tory of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 

 This first volume contains not only nearly the whole of 

 M. Didron's quarto; but also between 100 and 150 

 wood-cuts from the original blocks. The subject is 

 one almost new to tlie English public ; and the book 

 therefore will be found of great interest to the general 

 reader, and of especial interest to the artist, the eccle- 

 siologist, the antiquary, and tlie student of Church 

 History. 



Cata[.ogue Received. — Cole's(I5. Great Turnstile) 

 List No. 57. of Very Cheap Books. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WAKTED TO PURCHASE. 



The ANTiQU4nY. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1816. Vols. I. and II. 



History and Antiquities op Twickenham, being tlie First Part 

 of Piiroclii;il Collections for the County of Middlesex, begun in 

 1780 by E. Ironside, Esq., London, 1797. (This work forms 



1 vol.ol'Miscell. Antiquities in continuation of the Bib. Topngra- 

 phiea, and is usually bound in the 10th Volume.) 



IliTsoN's KoBiN Hood. 12mo. London, 179S. Vol. II. (10s. 



will be given for a clean copy in boards, or 7s. 6d. for a clean 



copy Itound.) 

 Du. Johnson's Prayers and Meditations. 

 Annual Obituary and Biography. Vol. XXXI. 

 Theoimiilus and Philodoxus, or Several Conferences, S<.c., by 



Gilbert Giles, D.D., Oxon, 1674 ; or the same work repiiblishnd 



1679, under the title of a '• Dialogue between a Protestant and 



a Papist." 

 Peck's Complete Catalogue of all the DiscouBses written 



DOTH FOH and AGAINST PAPACY IN THE TiME OF KiNG JasIES II. 



1735. 4to. 

 Nichols' Leicestershire. Wanted the Vol. containing the 



Gutlilaxton Hundred. 

 Harleian Manuscripts. Index to Vol. IV. 

 Reports of Charity Commission. Vols. VI. VIII. IX. 

 Index to Additional MSS. in the Museum. 

 Fearne's Essay on Human Consciousness, 4to. 

 Bishop Kidder's Life of Anthony Horneck. 

 Tighe's Life of Law. 



Macropedii, Hecastus Fabula. 8vo. Antwerp, 1.539. 

 Ohnes Georgii Macropedii FABULiE Comic*. Utrecht, 1552. 



2 Vols. 8vo. 



Othonis Lexicon Rabbinicum. 



•»* Letters, st.iting particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be S'-nt to Mb. Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



^alitti to (Iflirc^poiilJciit^. 



We this week present our Reader.; iri'l/t an extra half-sheet for 

 the purpose of making room for some if tlie mani/ coinmuniciitions 

 which have tono been waiting for insertion. By the ent of the 

 present month we shall reduce the number if these very consider- 

 ably, ci'cn iftvefail in our purpose of finding room for alt of them. 



J. E. (Homerton) will find an account of Peter of Btois or 

 Peter Blcsensis in any biograpliical dict'onarif j and very full par- 

 ticulars of him and his works in Mr. IVright's Biographia Britan- 

 nica Literaria (.inglo-Norman Period). 



Alph \ Beta's Query would give rise to a di:tcussion — icJiich we 

 believe would be fruitless — and woidd certainty occupy ?no re space 

 than we could afford in it. The omission is not general, and pro- 

 bably originated in different places from very different causes. 



Leicestriensis is thanked for his friendly hint, which shall not 

 be lost sight of. Even he can hardly be aware of ilie difficulties we 

 have to contend with. 



T. C. S. The " Poetic.ll Ciincidence" in our next. 



C. H. B. In our next if possible. 



R. will find the subject of" Beating the Bounds" or " Parochi.il 

 Perambulations" treated very full;/ in Brand's Popular .\ut)iiui- 

 ties, Vol. i. p. 191. (ed. Ellisi 1841. For " Gospel Trees" he is 

 referred to our 2nd Vol. pp.407. 496. 



J. M. B. Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary of Biography, My- 

 thology, and Geography, price one guinea, is tlie cheapest work 

 upon the subject. Dr. Smith's larger dictionaries contain more 

 information j but they arc, of course, more expensive. 



H. G. D. fVilt our correspondent favour us with copies of the 

 ballads to which he refers ? 



J. Allason will find his tiuery respecting " .\pres Moi le De- 

 luge " discussed in our 3rd Vol. pp. 299. 397. 



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