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NOTES AND QUERIES. L2-> s. vi. i4i., Sept. ii. 



'58- 



Involuntary Versification (2"* S. vi. 121. 173.) 

 — The Collect for the Thirteenth Sunday after 

 Trinity, in nse during the present week, is so dac- 

 tylic in its character that it is almost impossible to 

 read it without marking the rhythm : — 

 "Almighty and merciful God, 

 Of whose only gift it cometli 

 That thy faithful people do unto Thee 

 True and laudable service ; 



Grant, we beseech Thee, 

 That we may so faithfully serve Thee in this life, 

 That we fail not finally 

 To attain Thy Heavenly promises ; 

 Through," &c. 



WuiLiAM Feaser, B.C.L. 

 Alton Vicarage, Staffordshire. 



Perhaps the following example may be consi- 

 dered worth adding to the many amusing speci- 

 mens in Mr. Nicuols's commuuications, addressed 

 to " N. & Q." 



Everything Ovid wrote was expressed in poeti- 

 cal uunibei's, as he himself avers : — 



•' Et quid tentabam scribere versus erat." 



J. M. G. 



Cross and Pile (2'"' S. vi. 177.) — As the French 

 terms "croix" and "pile" very likely correspond 

 to the English, pei'haps it may help to elucidate 

 the question to know that in France " pile " 

 means " le cote de la monnaie oi^i sont les armes du 

 prince," and consequently is the reverse or tail of 

 the English. F. D. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



AVe have at length before us the first part of IMr. Pap- 

 worth's long-expected and much-wanted Alphabetical 

 Dictionary of Coats nj" Anns belonging to Families in Great 

 Britain and Ireland, forming an c.vtensive Ordinary of 

 Sritish Armorials, upon an entirely new plan, in wliivli the 

 Arms are systematically subdivided throughout, and so ar- 

 ranged in Alphatetical Order that the Names of Families 

 whose Shields have been phtccd upon Buildings, Seals, Plate, 

 Painted Glass, Brasses, and other Sepulchral 3Ionuments, 

 Sculptured or Painted Portraits, Sfc, whether Medimval or 

 Modern, can he readily ascertained. We have transcribed 

 the title-page in full that our readers maj' form some idea 

 of the extent and usefulness of the object which Mr. Pap- 

 worth has proposed to himself. But it is only by looking 

 at the List of Rolls, Printed and Manuscript, which he 

 has consulted, and then by examining the results of such 

 consultation in the pages of the work itself, that any just 

 appreciation of the vast labour and unquestionable utility 

 of Mr. Papworth's valuable contribution to archreolcgical 

 knowledge can be obtained. We hope that the appear- 

 ance of this First Part will serve, as it ought, to swell his 

 Subscription List, and to hasten the completion of the 

 work. 



The new Part (XIII.) of Mr. Chappell's admirable 

 work on the Popular Music of the Olden Time will be 

 read with very considerable interest, not only for the his- 

 tory which it gives of many of our most popular Songs; 

 but for the editor's very able illustration of the fact too 

 generally lost sight of — that many of the songs of Allan 

 Kamsay, Burns, and other Scotch Poets, were written to 



English tunes, and that those tunes being now known by 

 the names of their songs pass with the world for Scotch. 

 Mr. Chappell, at the conclusion of the present Part, 

 touches upon the history of the English Country Dance. 

 It is obvious that he does not favour the derivation of 

 that dance from the French Contre Danse, — but we 

 must reserve farther comment upon this curious point 

 until we have the whole of Mr. Chappell's argument be- 

 fore us. Mr. Chappell has as his opponents the late Mr. 

 Croker, the Dean of Westminster, the English Opium 

 Eater, and others; but he has the advantage of being, on 

 a musical point, unquestionably a far higher authority 

 than any, perhaps than all of them put together. 



Books Received. — A Lecture on the History of Wells 

 delivered by Mr. Thomas Serel at the Town Haiti Welle ; 

 with Explanatory Notes. An interesting sketch of an im- 

 portant locality — a sketch, indeed, which may well form 

 the basis of a far more extensive work. 



Shaltspeare a Lawyer, by William J. Rushton. If any 

 attentive reader of Shakspeare, at the present day, doubts 

 that Shakspeare had at some time acquired legal profes- 

 sional kno:vledge, Mr. Rusliton's ingenious Essay may 

 well put such doubts to flight. 



Darling's Cycloprcdia Bibliorjrapliica. Parts VIII. and 

 IX. It is really so impossible, within the limits which 

 we can aftbrd, to give anything approachfng to a satis- 

 factory notion of the contents of these new parts of Mr. 

 Darling's most useful book, that we must necessarily con- 

 fine ourselves to a mere record of their publication. 



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Ancient Tracts on HusnANDiiv. 



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TiiE Epuoi'ean Maoazine. Vols. XV. and XVI. 



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1\I. C. n. " Fine by degrees and bcaiUi/'uJly less," is from Prior's 

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A. H. v'Ulfiiid Apple Pie Order ittustralcd and explained in our 1st S. 

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FuiMos. Akerman. in his Numismatic Manual. sInUs that " no Enn- 

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G. Y. Gerson, Edor. Peregrinus. Tlianlrd, btd anticipated. 



Errata. — Mr. Cnthliert Bede's Note, an(e, p. 101. referred tothcXj/i'- 

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