Dec. 6. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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■which was unfit for reading aloud, and also those 

 which might be called dangerous, which the un- 

 learned and unstable might wrest to their own 

 destruction. 1 



My Query was, whether such a Bible was ever 

 published, and whether any of your correspondents ; 

 could furnish a copy of the prospectus alluded to ? ! 

 It is no answer to this to say, that the committee 

 who proposed to publish this Bible were not ap- [ 

 pointed by the Society of Friends, and that the \ 

 Friends applied to by your correspondent knew 

 nothing of the project. The authoress of the work 

 I quoted has since been publicly named, and if : 

 this query should meet her eye, perhaps she may I 

 be able to give me the information I require. It 

 is the more incumbent upon her to do so, as the | 

 tone of your correspondent is evidently intended 

 to throw a doubt upon her veracity. T. 



" Acu tinali meridd" (Vol. iv., p. 406.). — An 

 ingenious friend has suggested to me the following 

 explanation of this passage : "Aicoue tt/c &KKi)v fiepiSa. , 

 It is rendered almost certain by the words that 

 come immediately after, in the line quoted by 

 C. W. G., i. e. " audi alteram partem." I am un- 

 able, however, to point out the source from which 

 the Greek motto was derived. Perhaps some of 

 your readers will solve this ulterior question. 



C. II. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



What the Laureate of the day, inspired by the Peace 

 of Aix-la-Chapelle, sang in 174S, — 

 " Th' Almighty hand, whicli first her shores secured 

 With rolling oceans, and with rocks immured, 

 Which spread her plains, and bade her flocks increase, 

 Designed Britaimia for the Land of Peace; 

 Where Commerce only should exert her sway. 

 And musing Science trim th' unfading bay" — 

 was in 1851 recognised by the whole civilised world, not 

 as a poetical fiction, but as a practical, we had almost 

 said a political, truth. Hence the Crystal Palace, that 

 glorious Temple of Concord, which those potent genii 

 Fox and Henderson, at the bidding of the arch-magician 

 Paxton, raised before our eyes, to put to shame the 

 visionary glories of the Arabian Siyhts ; — and hence 

 the avidity with which, like ministering sprites, all the 

 great manufacturers and producers, artists and artizans, 

 vied with each other in assembling lieneath its fairy 

 dome the masterpieces of their respective skill, inge- 

 nuity, and science. Hence, too, the unfading interest 

 with which, day after day, from Rlay until October, 

 did thousands upon thousands press forward to gaze 

 upon a scene unparalleled in the world's history, whether 

 for costliness of display or moral grandeur. 



Of such an event — of such a scene, which it was 

 acknowledged fairly represented the ])roductive genius 

 of the whole world, all may well desire to preserve 

 some remembrance; and whatever may be the fate of 

 the Crystal Palace, the great gathering of the nations 



which assembled under its roof has found an imperish- 

 able monument in the three handsome octavo volumes 

 which form The Official Descriptive and Illuatrateil 

 Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 18.51. In this great 

 and useful record — the raw materials for which were 

 furnished by no fewer than fifteen thousand authors — 

 we have not only an account of every article exhibited, 

 accompanied in many instances by valuable notes from 

 the ablest scientific pens, pointing out the leading 

 features of interest in the objects described — wliich 

 annotations again are rendered still more valuable by 

 the twelve hundred woodcut illustrations which arc 

 scattered through these pages, — but we have also Mr. 

 Cole's valuable Historical Introduction, illustrating the 

 Rise of the Exhibition, its Progress and Completion; 

 Mr. Digby Wyatt's able account of the Construction 

 of the Building and of the mechanical applications 

 employed ; and Mr. Ellis' interesting description of 

 the Revision and Preparation of the Catalogue ; when 

 we add that it contains, moreover, all sorts of Indices 

 and Lists for facilitating references — our readers will, 

 we think, agree with us that this most complete, in- 

 structive, and extraordinary Catalogue may fairly be 

 regarded as An Encyclopcedia of the Industry of all 

 Nations in 1851, and as such should find a place not 

 only in every factory and workshop, but in every study 

 and educational establishment within the realm. To 

 meet the requirements of those who cannot purchase 

 the Illustrated Catalogue, Messrs. Spicer have issued a 

 corrected and improved edition o( ihe Official Catalogue, 

 with Alphabetical Indices of Names arid Subjects, and 

 British and Foreign Priced Lists: while to enable the 

 non-scientific reader to understand, and to furnish the 

 scientific reader with the results, or, as we might term 

 it, a summing-up of the details to be found in the 

 works already described, they commissioned Mr. Robert 

 Hunt to prepare a Handbook to the Official Catalogues ,- 

 an Explanatory Guide to the Natural Productions and 

 Manufacture's of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of 

 All Nations, 1851 ; and that gentleman has so ably 

 executed his task, that, though some who may only 

 wish for general views and impressions may content 

 themselves with his Handbook, the majority of the pur- 

 chasers of the larger Catalogues must secure Mr. Hunt's 

 interesting volume as an indispensable companion to 

 them. 



When we read the announcement that Mr. Planche 

 was about to publish The Pursuivant of Arms; or 

 Heraldry founded upon Facts, we looked for a work in 

 which good common sense and sound antiijuarian 

 knowledge would be found ap|)lied to an important 

 branch of historical learning, which has been too often 

 followed by men whose disregard of the former, and 

 want of the latter gift, have done much to justify 

 Voltaire's biting sarcasm ujion heraldry. Nor have we 

 bt'cn dis;ipi)ointed. The work is one of facts rather 

 than of inferences ; and although the accomplished 

 gentleman now at the head of the College of Arms, to 

 whom, " as an able antiquary and worthy man," the 

 work is most ap))ropriately dedicated, may probably 

 dissent from some of Mr. Planche's views, he will, we 

 are sure, admit that they are cautiously advanced, and 

 maintained with learning and ability ; and that the 

 Pursuivant of Arms, with its numerous woodcut illus- 



