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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 113. 



the immortal fame which was destined to await the 

 writings of their " so worthy Friend and Fellow," 

 they addressed the volume to all, " from the most able 

 to him that can but read." And it is ol)vious from 

 the moderate price at which it has been issued, that 

 the proprietor of the handsome one-volume edition 

 which has just appeared under the title of The Lans- 

 dowiie Shakspeare looiis for purchasers within the 

 same wide range. The book is indeed well calculated 

 to win favour from all classes. The text, which is 

 based on that of Collier, compared with that of the 

 first folio and the editions of Steeveiis, Malone, Knight, 

 &c., is clearly and distinctly printed ; the names of the 

 characters being given, not only at full length, and in 

 the middle of the page, but also in red ink. The 

 stage directions are distinguished in the like manner. 

 It has, moreover, the Dedicatory Address and Com- 

 mendatory Verses from the original edition ; and, what 

 certainly deserves especial mention, an admirable fac- 

 simile by Robinson of the portrait by Droeshout, which, 

 on the authority of Ben Jonson's well-known decla- 

 i-ation, that it was a work — 



"Wherein the Graver had a strife 

 With Nature, to out doo the life: 

 O could he but have drawne his wit 

 As well in b)'asse as he hath hit 

 His face; the Print would then surpasse 

 All that was ever writ in brasse" — 

 is by many regarded as the most authentic portrait of 

 the great poet. Altogether, therefore. The Lans- 

 domne Shakspeare is a beautifid book, and well de- 

 serves to be both the library and travelling companion of 

 every lover of poetry — of every stiid-.;nt of Shakspeare. 

 Our correspondent. Dr. Henry, has published a 

 miscellaneous volume under the title of Unripe Hind- 

 falU, which consists of some amusing vers de sociili — a 

 Letter addressed to ourselves, containing some very 

 trenchant criticism on the obscurities of Lord Byron ; 

 and, lastly, some specimens of Dr. Henry's Vtrgilian 

 Commentaries, some few of which have appeared in 

 our columns. This fact, coupled with the letter ad- 

 dressed to ourselves, must preclude us from speaking 

 of the volume in those terms of commendation which 

 we should otherwise have felt it right to employ. 



Outlines of Comparative Physiology touching the Struc- 

 ture and Development of the Races of Animals Living 

 and Extinct, by L. Agassiz and A. A. Gould, edited 

 from the Revised Edition and greatly enlarged by T. 

 Wright, M. D., is the new issue of Bohn's Scientific 

 Library. The present volume forms the first part of 

 the Principles of Zoology, which was designed by Pro- 

 fessor Agassiz, in conjunction with IVIr. Gould, as a 

 text book for the use of the higher schools and colleges, 

 for which, as the editor remarks, it is well adapted 

 from its simplicity of style, clearness of arrangemi nt, 

 and its important and comprehensive range of subjects. 

 In the present edition the woodcut illuslrations have 

 been increased from 170 to 390. thereby adding greatly 

 to the value of a work which is well calculated to fur- 

 nish the general reader with trustworthy information 

 upon the matter to which it relates. 



Books Received. — The Literary and Scientific Re- 

 gister and Almanac fur 1852, ediied by J. W. G. Gutch, 

 puts forth this — its eleventh appearance — with increased 



claims to public favour in the shape of many important 

 additions and improvements, in the gnat mass of con- 

 densed information which it contains. The Orations 

 of M. T. Cicero literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A. 

 Fol. I. containing the Orations fur Quintijis, Sextus 

 Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Qiiintlus Cmcilius and 

 against Verres, is the new volume of Bohn's Cbissicul 

 Library. The fifth volume of JVeander's General His- 

 tory of the Christian Religion and Church (of the value 

 of which we have already spoken) forms the new issue 

 of the same enterprising publisher's Standard Library. 



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A Sermon preached at Fiilhaiii in 1810 by the Rev. John Owen 

 of Pagle.-hani, on the death of Mrs. Frowse, Wicken Park, 

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FUSSLEIN, JOH. CONKAD, BeVTUAGE ZUK ErLAUTERUNG DER 

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Pervunent Enlargement of "Notes and Queries." — In 

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Can. Kbor. shall have early attention. 



The Rev. James Graves requests us toerpress his obligations to 

 ]Mr. D'Alion /fir information respecting the Hulhams, from the 

 collections Mr. D' Alton has made for illustrating the history of 

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Theoi'hvlact. How can we address a tetter to this corre- 

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S. Wmson. The passages referred to are not in Richard the 

 Third as written by Shakspeare, but in Gibber's adaptation of that 

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Grimaldi's Origines Genealogics. a copy of tliis in good 

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General IVolfe — Allerius Orbis Papa — Three Estates of the 

 Itealm — Mirahilis Liber ~ There is no Mistake — -Lines on the 

 Bible — Passage in Goldsmith — Suicides buried in Cross Roads — 

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