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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 
It may readily be conceived that from the small space 
devoted to this portion of our Journal, we often feel our- 
selyes unable to do justice in our notices to works of great 
learning a.d importance; being compelled to dismiss in a 
few lines books which it would take as many pages to 
characterise fully and clearly. Two or three publications 
of this character are now before us; and we have only 
the alternative of recording scarcely more than their 
title-pages, or of passing them by in silence. The first of 
these is The Languages of the Seat of War in the East, 
with a Survey of the Three Families of Language, Semitic, 
Arian, and Tauranian, by Dr. Max Miiller. Compiled at 
the suggestion of Sir Charles Trevelyan, with the specific 
object of aiding the officers of the army and commis- 
sariat in their intercourse among people of almost un- 
known tongues, this work gives a clear and succinct ac- 
count of the nature of_the eastern languages, and their 
philological and geographical connection; and as such 
will be found useful to all students— dnd they are an 
increasing class—of Comparative Philology. Another 
is upon that most interesting subject, a universal lan- 
guage, and it well merits the attention of all who re- 
cognise the great results which would flow from the 
establishment of a language which should be understood 
from Indus to Peru. But its title, which well describes 
the nature and object of the work — the subject of which 
has engaged the author’s attention for more than forty 
years — on which he has lately been employed from five 
in the morning till ten at night —for the production of 
which he has had a fount of type cast expressly —is all 
that we can give, A Universal Alphabet, Grammar, and 
Language, comprising a Scientific Classification of the Sci- 
entific elements of Discourse, and Illustrative Translations 
from the Holy Scriptures and the principal British Classics ; 
to which is added a Dictionary of the Language. By George 
Edmonds. A third volume is one by Mr. Hyde Clarke, 
a gentleman whose name has frequently appeared in our 
columns. It is a New and Comprehensive Grammar and 
Dictionary of the English Language as spoken and written ; 
and when we add that the writer is a follower of Horne 
Tooke and Latham, our readers will feel that the work 
has been undertaken by one who knew well how to set 
about his self-appointed task. The dictionary, small as 
it seems, contains more than one hundred thousand 
words! 
Mr. John Timbs, the well-known author of the Cu- 
riosities of London, and* some score of other useful and 
amusing volumes, in which sound knowledge is conveyed 
in a popular form, has just published a little book under 
the title of Things not generally known, familiarly explained, 
a Book for Old und Young, in which he has collected from 
a variety of sources a number of illustrative explanations 
of those points of science, ef curiosities in natural history, 
of peculiarities in popular superstitions, &c. &c., which 
often form the subject of after dinner and fireside chit-chat. 
The volume is a very amusing one, and we should be 
doing it injustice if we did not add that it is as instructive 
as it is amusing. 
Collectors of the early English drama have now an op- 
portunity which seldom occurs, of purchasing a large 
number of old plays of the seventeenth century. They 
were originelly part of the dramatic collection of the late 
well-known John Thelwall, formed with much trouble 
and expense: 130 are originals, or very early editions, 
and are enriched with manuscript annotations by that 
eminent critic. The others are original or early editions 
of Killigrew, Davenant, Beaumont and Fletcher, Dryden, 
&c.,; in all about 300 plays. Of these many are notin the 
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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British Museum cr University libraries, Altogether they 
would form a noble groundwork for a series of the plays 
of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is wished 
not to separate the collection, which may be seen at 
Boyle’s Court Guide Office, 120. Pall Mall. 
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Sartor will find a Note on the composition of Bonny Clabber, which 
appears to have been a mixture of beer and milk, in our 6th Vol. p. 318. 
A Sunscriner (Liverpool). 
a species of cake made from. fine flour, and is so called from the old Frenc 
Simenel. Herrick sings ** I'l to thee a simnel bring.’ 
Eriosate. Two or three Correspondents have recently addressed 
Queries to us onthe meaning of this word. They will find it treated of in 
our 12th Volume, pp. 180. 234. 373. 
Q. V. Q. is referred to our Sth Vol., pp. 78. 165. 237. for the derivation 
of donkey. 
J.L. Parcrs. The Creed of St. Athanasius is enly read upon the days 
named in the rubrick, for the reasons given by Bishop Sparrow, namely, 
because those days are most proper for this confession of the faith, which 
of all others is the most express concerning the Trinity; and partly, that 
so it might be said once a month at least. 
W.T. For notices of the author of Drunken Barnaby's Journal, see 
our Ist S. ili. 297. 403. ; ix. 163. Zhe best account of Richard Brathwait 
is that by Joseph Haslewood, presixed to Barnabe Itinerarium, but most 
biographical dictionaries contain some notices of him. 
G. W. J. The Key to Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea witl be 
found in sarily Davis's Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anec- 
dotes, pp. 18-21. 
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Simnel is not the name of a saint, but of 
