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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 111. 



If the story that we have heard be true, namely, that 

 one of the most learned and active members of the 

 episcopal bench did, at a late clerical meeting, hold up 

 a copy of Whitaker's Clerc/iimciHS Dinry and Ecclesias- 

 tical Directory, and pronounce it to be a little hook, so 

 full of useful and invaluable information as to be in- 

 dispensable to every clergyman, it is clear that the 

 work is beyond all criticism. 



The Family Almanack and Educational Register for 

 1852, contains — in addition to full particulars of nearly 

 a thousand public schools, colleges, and universities, and 

 a list (containing upwards of a thousand) of the 

 principal private schools in the kingdom, — a vast 

 amount of miscellaneous information (including for the 

 first time the Statutes of the Irish University) and 

 statistical tables, and so forms a volume which no person 

 interested in the great question of education can at all 

 do without. 



While on the subject of education, we may acknow- 

 ledge the receipt of several educational works, which 

 we can only notice with great brevity. 



M. Mer\et's Dictionary of Freiich Difficidties (which, 

 but that the subject is almost too grave for such a jest, 

 we should have suggested might very appropriately 

 have been dedicated to the President) bears on its title 

 the stamp of its merit in the words "third edition." 



M. Falch Lebahn's Self Instructor in German ; 

 Practice in German; and German in One Vohime{f\\.\\ ed.), 

 are very able attempts to facilitate the study of that 

 most useful language. 



The last work, containing as it does La Motte 

 Fouque's beautiful tale of Undine, with explanatory notes 

 on all the difficult words and phrases, and its vocabu- 

 lary of 4500 words synonymous in German and En- 

 glish, cannot be found otherwise than most useful. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUUCHASE. 



Southey's Edition op Cowpeu. Vols. X. XII. XIII. XIV. 

 Journal of the Geolugic»l Society of Diidlin. Vol. I. 



Part I. (Several copies are wantfti, and it is believed that 



many are lying in London or Dublin.) 

 MiTFoiiD's History OF Greece. Vol. VI. Cadell, 1822. 8vo. 

 Willis's Arciiitectuke of the Middle Ages. \^s. will be given 



for a copy 

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Any of his works. 

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 Law's Appeal Case of Reason. 

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



paper. 

 Clare's Riiral Muse. 

 Christian Piety freed from the Delusions of Modern 



Enthusiasts, a.d. 17S6 or 1757. 

 An answer to Father Huddlestone's Short and Plain Way 



to the Faith and Church. By Samuel Grascombe. London, 



1703. 8vo. 

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of Parliament. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Cxon. 



1688, 4to. 

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numbers, and we repeat it now as a reply to two or three comniu~ 

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Among other interesting articles which arc in type, hut neces- 

 sarilij omitted from the present number, are " The Crucifix as used 

 by the Earlv Christians," by Sir J. E.merson Tennent : "Rem^iins 

 of .lames II.;" " Wady Mol<atteb identified with Kibroth 

 Hattavah," iiy the Rev. M. Margoliouth ; " Legend of the Red 

 Breast," &c. 



Jarltzberg is thanked. His suggestion will be carried out at 

 the comrnenee?nent of the New Year. 



Orus. Surelij the inscription is not correctly copied. The first 

 line we should read ' Ladi, help!" a7id the second, "Mercy, 

 Jhesu !" 



P. M. M. The article on " Deep Wells," is omitted this week 

 only from want of room. The other communication is postponed 

 for a short ti?ne. 



W. W. R. (Oxford) is at present the only'remonttrant. We 

 zuill, however, give his suggestion our best consideration. 



•T. B. ( Manchester), who inquires respecting the fnniily of Tonge, 

 is informed that his (iuery may be fully anstrered by a refLrence 

 to vol. xiii. of the liev. Canon Rainess Lancashire MSS. 



W. L. (Hitchin) <rill find articles on " Vegetating Insects " in 

 our .3rd Vol. pp. 1C6. MS. 43(1. 



Long's Astronomy has been reported, and may be had by 

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Erratum.— \n last line but one of Art. 307. p. 424. for " proud 

 father," read " grandfather." 



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