Nov. 22. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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printed at the Pitt Press, contains the most cir- 

 cumstantial account of their authors. W. K. C. 

 College, Ely. 



iHiiSrcIIaucouS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SAXES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



We had occasion, some short time since, to speak in 

 terms of deserved commendation of the excellent Hand- 

 hook to the Antiquities of the British Museum which had 

 been prepared by Mr. Vaux. Another and most im- 

 portant department of our great national collection has 

 just found in Dr. Mantell an able, scientlKc, yet popu- 

 lar expositor of its treasures. His Petrifactions and 

 their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of Organic 

 Remains in the British Museum, forms the new volume of 

 Bohn's Scientific Library; and, thanks to the acquire- 

 ments of Dr. Mantell, his good sense in divesting his 

 descriptions, as much as possible, of technical language, 

 and the numerous well -executed woodcuts by which 

 it is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to 

 accomplisli the purpose for which it has been prepared; 

 namely, to serve as a handbook to the general visitor to 

 the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an explanatory 

 Catalogue for the more scientific observer. 



To satisfy the deep interest taken by many persons, 

 who are linable to study the phenomena themselves, 

 in the numerous new and remarkable facts relating to 

 the formation and temperature of the globe, and to the 

 movements of the ocean and of the atmosphere, as well 

 as to the influence of both on climate, and on the 

 adaptation of the earth (or the dwelling of man, which 

 the exertions of scientilic men have of late years re- 

 vealed, was the motive which led Professor BufF to 

 write his Familiar Letters on the I'hysics of the Earth ; 

 treiiting of the chief Movements of the Land, the Waters, 

 and the Air, and the Forces that give rise to them : and 

 Dr. Hoffman has been induced to undertake an English 

 edition of them from a desire of rendering accessible to 

 the public a source of information from which he has 

 derived no less of profit than of pleasure : which profit 

 and which pleasure will, we have no doubt, be shared 

 by a large number of readers of this unpretending but 

 very instructive little volume. 



irelsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of 

 the Twelfth Century. These sketches, which treat of 

 Bardisin, the Kings of Wales, the Welsh Church, 

 Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensls, are 

 from the pen of the amiable author of the Essays on 

 Church Union, and are written in the same attractive' 

 and popular style. 



About Hve-and-thirty years ago the Treatment of the 

 Insane formed the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry, 

 and the public mind was shocked by the appalling 

 scenes revealed before a Committee of the House of 

 Commons. But the publication of them did its work ; 

 for that such scenes are now but matters of history, we 

 owe to that inquiry. The condition of the London 

 Poor, iu like manner, is now in the course of investi- 

 gation ; not indeed by an official commission, but by a 

 private individual, Mr. Henry Mayhew, wiio is gather- 

 ing, by personal visits to the lowest haunts of poverty 

 and its attendant vices, and from personal comumnicu- 



tion with the people he is describing, an amount of fact 

 illustrative of the social condition of the poorest classes 

 in this metropolis, which deserves, and must receive, 

 the earnest attention of the statesman, the moralist, and 

 the philanthropist. His work is entitled London Labour 

 and the London Poor, a Cyctopeedia of the Condition and 

 Earnings of those that will work, those that cannot 

 work, and those that will not work. Vol. I. The 

 London Street Folk, is just completed. It is of most 

 painful interest, for it paints in vivid colours the 

 misery, ignorance, and demoralisation in which thou- 

 sands are living at our very doors; and its perusal must 

 awaken in every right-minded man an earnest desire to 

 do his part towards assisting the endeavours of the 

 honest poor to earn their bread — towards instructing 

 the ignorant, and towards reforming the vicious. 



Catalogues Received. — Williams and Norgate's 

 (14. Henrietta Street) German Book Circular No. 28. ; 

 J. Lilly's (19. King Street) very Cheap Clearance 

 Catalogue No 2.; J. Miller's (4,3. Chandos Street) 

 Catalogue No. 31. of Books Old and New; W. 

 Brown's (1.^30. Old Street) Register of Literature, 

 Ancient, Modern, English, Foreign, No. 1. ; T. Kers- 

 lake's (3. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue of Geological 

 and Scientific Library of the late Rev. T. Williams. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to pukchase. 



Hunter's Deanery op Doncaster. Vol. I. Large or small 



paper. 

 Clare's Riiual Wuse. 

 Christian Piety freed from the Delusions op Modern 



Enthusiasts, a.d. 17iG nr 1757. 

 An Answer to Father Huddlestone's Short and Plain Way 



to the Faith and Church. 13y Samuel Grascombe. London, 



1703. 8vo. 

 Reasons for Abrogating the Test imtosed upon all Members 



OF Parliament. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon. 



1688. 4to. 

 Lewis's Life cF Caxton. 8vo. 1737. 

 Catalogue of Joseph .\mes's Library. 8vo. 1760. 

 Tripp's Commentary. Folio. Vol. L 

 Whitlav's Paraphrase on the New Testame.st. Folio. Vol. I. 



1706. 

 Long's Astronomy. 4to. I74'2. 

 Mad. D'Arblav's Diary. Vol. II. 1842. 

 Adams' Moral Tales. 

 Autobiography of Dr. Johnson. 180.t. 

 Willis's Architecture of the Middle Ages. (IDs. 6(f. will be 



pai'l for a copy in pood coiulition.) 

 Carpenter's Deputy Divinity; a Discourse of Conscience. 



12mo. 16.57. 

 A True and Lively Representation of Popery, shewing that 



Popery is only New MoDklled Paganism, &c., 1679. 4to. 

 Erskine's Speeches. Vol.11. London, 1810. 

 Hare's Mission of the Comforter. Vol. I. London, 18-16. 

 Hope's Essay on jVrchitectuuk. Vol. 1. London, 1835. 2nd 



Edition. 

 Muller's History of Greece. Vol. II. (Library of Useful 



Knowledge. Vol. XVII.) 

 RoMiLLV's (Sir Samuel) Memoirs. Vol. II. London, 1840. 

 Scott's (.Sir W.) Life OF Napoleon. Vol.1. Edinburgh, 1837. 



9 Vol. Edition. 

 Robert Wilson's Sketch of the History of Hawick. Small 



8vo. Printed in 182.5. 

 James Wilson's .-Vnnals op Hawick. Small 8vo. Printed in 



1850. 



Barrington's Sketches of his own Time. Vol. III. London, 



|S30. 

 British Poets (Chalmers', Vol. X ) London, 1810. 

 (iiEsrEHPiELD's LETTERS TO HIS SoN. Vol. HI. London, 1774. 

 Constable's Miscellany. Vol. LXXV. 

 ScoiT's Novels. Vol. XXXVI. (Uedgauntlet, II.) ; Vols. 



XM V. XL v. (Ann of (ireistein, I. \- II.) 48 Vol. Edition. 

 SMoLLirrr's Works. Vols. II. & IV. Eduiburgh, 1800. 2na 



Edition. 



