284 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 8, No 14., Apri 5, 756. 
The Cobbe of Lyme (2 S. i. 153. 221.) — The 
mode in which this work was constructed, viz. of 
large irregular rough stones, cobs — as cobwails, 
walls of unhewn stones, seems to explain the name, 
which is analogous to pier, from pierre. 
DEN WARWICK. 
“ Thanks” after the Gospel (2°° 8. i. 234.) — 
At St. Giles’s Church, Oxford, ever since I have 
known it, some twenty-four years, it has been 
customary not merely to say “ Glory be to Thee, 
O Lord,” before the Gospel, but to say “ Thanks 
be to Thee, O Lord,” after the Gospel. 
A Constant READER 
Nursery Rhymes (27'S. i. 171.) — There are 
some French verses on the alphabet, in which 
words are used of similar sound to the letters. I 
cannot remember them entirely, but send what I 
know, in hopes that some one will complete them : 
“ Abbé, cedez, eh eff ! J’ai hache, Ika elle emmene O 
Pequ, est resté:”” U V XY et Z—-do something, but what 
I cannot recollect, 
de OBA? 
PAtscelaneaug, 
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC, 
Robert Southey was a right-minded, right-hearted 
Englishman — a scholar anda ripe one. He wrote what 
he felt, said what he meant; and as when he wrote to 
his chosen friends and associates, he was wont to interlard 
much wit with his wisdom, and to vary his graver specu- 
lations with “ most excellent fooling,” his Letters furnish 
us with a picture of the man, which makes us love him 
the more the better we know him: while from the 
variety of his learning, and the unexpected manner in 
which he at times drags in scraps of his out-of-the-way 
reading, his Letters are gs amusing as they are instructive. 
Nor are there wanting in the volumes which have called 
forth these remarks, namely, the first and second of Se- 
lections from the Letters of Robert Southey, edited by his 
Son-in-Law, John Wood Warter, B.D. — letters calcu- 
lated to make the reader a wiser, better, and perhaps 
sadder man. Can it be otherwise? They give us, to use 
his own words, “the hopes and the fears, the prospects 
and disappointments, the good and evil fortunes, the joys 
and the sorrows,” of the writer during a long series of 
years. How heayy were the trials which fell to the lot 
of Southey, and how manfully they were borne, we need 
not now consider. He left behind him a name honoured 
by all parties, and furnished an example of independence 
to the literary men of his country, which we hope will 
never be lost sight of ; and therefore it is, that feeling 
that every line written by such a man has a germ of good 
in it, we welcome these volumes, and shall welcome every 
volume which gives us the outpourings of the heart of 
Robert Southey. 
With the fourth volume of the Introduction io the 
Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth,and Seven- 
teenth Centuries, by Henry Hallam, Mr. Murray has 
brought to a close his uniform, cheap, and handsome col- 
lection of the writings of this accomplished scholar. 
That in this new and accessible form Mr, Hallam’s three 
great works should receive the honour of becoming Class 
Books at our Universities and higher schools, is nothing 
more than might be expected from the vast amoynt of 
learning and research which Mr. Hallam has displayed in 
the accumulation of his materials, and the good taste and 
refined style with which he has communicated to his 
readers the results of his own long studies and specu- 
lations. } 
The third volume of the Woetes Ambrosiane is as redo- 
lent of the fine imagination, racy criticism, and rollicking 
fun of Christopher North and his associates, as its prede- 
cessors; and will, like them, be most acceptable to all 
who remember the time when the readers of Blackwood 
looked as anxiously on the first of the month for a new 
number of the Woctes, as the admirers of Charles Dickens 
now do for the new part of Little Dorrit. 
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 
WANTED TO PURCHASE. 
* 
Sautn’s Dictionary or Brocraruy. Parts 12, 13. 15, 16, 17, 18. 20, 21. 
23, 24, 25. 27., 2 ditto, Part 19. 
Camprincs Marnematicat Jounnan. Parts 14. & 19. 
*#* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be 
sent to Messrs. Brett & Danpy, Publishers of ‘‘ NOTES AND 
QUERIES,” 186. Fleet Street. 
Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent direct to 
the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and ad~ 
dresses are given for that purpose: 
Harrrry Coreripas’s Essays. The Volume containing the Critique on 
Hamlet. 
Swirt’s Drary_to Srecra. 
Mitt on tae Tempration or Carist. 
ai Spe DivaRicaTIon BETWEEN THE WorpD or Gop AnD THE WorpD or 
AN 
Wanted by Charles F. Blackburn, Bookseller, Leamington. 
Tar Tourer Brorarrs, A Novel. By Pickersgill. Published by 
Stockdale. 
Wanted by Mfr. Sternberg, 15. Store Street, Bedford Square. 
Punny CycropmprA. Vol. XXVIL, or signature 2I in that Volume, 
being pages 241 to 248 inclusive. 
Wanted by William Brown, Bookseller, 130. & 131. Old Street, London. 
Ricnarpson’s TrRANstATION oF Emanvet Kanr’s Treatise on Loaic ; 
Pro.ircomMena to Forore Merarnysics; AND AN Enquiry INTO THE 
Proors ror tHe Existence or Gop, AND 1NtO THE T'HEOpicy. 3 Vols. 
8vo. Portraits. 1819—36. 
WANELLA, oR THE Farr Concupine. 4to. 1732. 
Parapise or Dainty Devices. Reprinted from the Edition of 1576. 
By Sir G. Brydges. 8vo. 1810. 
Sir Wm. Sramroan’s Exposition or THe Kino's Prerocarive. 
Tyrrev’s (Jas.) Brstiormeca PorrticA; on AN Enquiry into Tar An- 
crent Constirerion or THE Enonise Government. To which is 
added Dialogue XIV., &ec. Small 4to. 1694—1702. 
Peienor (G.) Dictionnaire Critiqur, Lirrerarre ET BrearioGraPurque 
DES PRINCIPAUX Livres CONDAMNES AU Fro, SUPPRIMES OU CENSURES. 
2Vols. 8vo. Paris, 1806. 
Ginpert’s Minacte Prays, &c. 8vo. 
Cartyte’s Lire or Jno. Stie4ine. 
Voyace Meranturcique —EN ANGLETERRE, Par le Beaumont. 
Wanted by Jno. C. Hotten, Bookseller, 151. Piceadilly, London. 
(About) 1822, 
Matices ta Currespanventg. 
B.C. The Index to the Twetve Votumes of our First Serres is now 
nearly ready for press ; but the labour of revision has been greater than 
was anticipated. It will make a separate Volume. 
Henry Kenstncton. Would our Correspondent specify the titles, &c. 
of the old books referred to in his two articles on Hieroglyphics and 
Neat’s Tongues. LMvery Lodkeriied or referred to in the pages of ** N. 
& Q.,”’ should be so clearly described, that our readers should have no 
difficulty in identifying it. 
A. A. is thanked. More upon this curious point hereafter. 
“Norges anp ee is published at noon on Friday, so that the 
Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night’s parcels, and 
deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday. . 
“ Norrs anp Querizs’’ is also issued in Monthly Parts, for the con- 
venience of those who may either have a difficulty in procuring the un- 
stamped weekly Numbers, or prefer receiving it monthly. While parties 
resident in the country or abroad, who may he desirous receiving the 
weekly Numbers, may have stamped copies forwarded direct from the 
Publisher. The subscription for the stamped edition “Nores anp 
Queries” (including a very copious Index) is eleven shillings and four- 
pence for six months, which may be paid by Post-Office Order, drawn in 
Savour of the Publisher, Ma. Gzonce Bett, No, 186. Fleet Street. 
ae ae 
