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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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PHiscelanedus. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 
We have still some of the Christmas Books waiting for 
a few words of notice from us, ere we commence our 
record of the publications of the opening year. Foremost 
among them in richness of illustration, is Bogue’s new edi- 
tion of the Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 
Evangeline; Voices of the Night; The Seaside and the 
Fireside; The Golden Legend; Miscellaneous Poems : illus- 
trated with upwards of 160 Engravings on Wood from 
Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, &c. The 
poetry of Longfellow has inspirited the pencils of the 
artists; and the result is a volume on whose almost every 
page we see a happy combination of melodious verse and 
pictorial beauty. A 
The fair authoress of the Heir of Redcliffe has given 
us, what was greatly to be desired, a most genuine, vera- 
cious, and agreeable History of the Life and Death of 
the Good Knight, Sir Thomas Thumb, with divers other 
Matters concerning the Court of Good King Arthur of 
Britain. The book has been illustrated by that cunning 
artist J. B., whose Photographic Illustrations of Scripture, 
last year, excited so much attention and admiration in 
the world of Art. It seems doubtful whether the book 
was written to the pictures, or the pictures made to fit 
the book; but they do fit most admirably, and Miss 
Yonge bids fair to be the Macaulay of Fairy Land. 
This lady must, however, look to her laurels. There is 
another Richmond in that field, which she has almost 
made her own. Claude de Vesci, a Tule, in two volumes, 
is a new and interesting story of the Heir of Redcliffe 
school, written with very considerable talent; although 
some lady readers may, perhaps, find it deficient in that 
peculiar interest which depends upon the prominence 
given to a heroine. 
Lady Maxwell Wallace has produced a delightful little 
volume, rich in poetic fancy; and which we have the 
authority of a whole band of juvenile readers for pro- 
nouncing to be¥ery pretty indeed. We ourselves thought 
so, on reading Princess Ilse, a Legend translated from the 
German. And now that we have heard its beauty ex- 
tolled by such excellent judges, we can have no hesita- 
tion in giving utterance to our opinion. 
We beg to call the attention of our readers to an article 
in the Gentleman’s Magazine for the present month, on 
the subject of that long-looked-for companion to Anthony 
& Wood’s great work, an Athene Cantabrigienses. From 
this we learn that Mr. C. H. Cooper, F.S.A., the author of 
the Annals of the University and Town of Cambridge, and 
his eldest son, Mr. Thompson Cooper, have been for some 
time past engaged in arranging their materials for the 
publication of such a work on a scale commensurate with 
the importance and interest of the subject. The readers 
of “N. & Q.” have seen too many proofs of the fitness of 
both these gentlemen for the task they have undertaken, 
to doubt that at last there is something like a prospect of 
seeing that justice done to Cambridge which, nearly 
two centuries since, old Anthony rendered to the sister 
university. 
Booxs Recetvep.— A Short Account of the Early 
Manufacture of Gunpowder in England, by W.H. Hart. 
This valuable little pamphlet, founded on documents dis- 
covered by the author among the Public Records, is but a 
foretaste of a larger work upon the subject, for which the 
author has the materials. 
Brazil viewed through a Naval Glass: with Notes on 
Slavery and the Slave Trade. By Edward Wilberforce, 
late of H. M. Navy. Two new parts of Longman’s Tra- 
veller’s Library, smartly written, and certainly very 
amusing, 
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, conducted by 
Members of the Two Universities. No.1. This new can- 
didate for public favour bids fair to win it. It exhibits 
evidences that both originality and talent are to be found 
among its contributors. 
The English Bible according to the Authorised Version, 
newly divided into Paragraphs. Part VIII. 2 Kings and 
1 Chronicles. We have so often called attention to this 
new and useful Paragraph Bible, that we can now do no 
more than chronicle its progress, 
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