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town and of the nunnery differed at various pe- 

 riods ; and it was clear that she was not even 

 acquainted with the localities. With reference to 

 my Russian friend, it is right to add that he was 

 a great worshipper of the Czar. It may be re- 

 membered that a glowing account was at the time 

 given of the pluck with which Pio None rated the 

 Emperor (then on his travels), for this barbarity ; 

 and that theEmperor was unable to defend himself. 

 This, also, my Russian friend denied ; adding, that 

 the Emperor assured His Holiness that nothing of 

 the sort had occurred. Yak. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Students of English History are again indebted to the 

 Camden Societi/ for a vohime of great interest ; and the 

 Members of that Societ\' are again indebted to their 

 zealous Director, Mr. Bruce, for the learning and care 

 with which he has edited the Liber Famelicus of Sir 

 James Whitehcke, a Judrfe of the Court of Kinfj's Bench 

 in the Reigns of James I. and Charles I., now First pub- 

 lished from thcbriginal Manuscripts. Mr. Bruc.e's introduc- 

 tory sketch furnishes us with a history of the Whitelockes, 

 and at the same time points out the value and use of this 

 curious Diary. The writer, we need scarcely say, was 

 the father of the well-known Bulstrode Whitelocke, who, 

 as Mr. Bruce ivell observes, " excelled his father in all the 

 principal points of his career. As a lawyer he was more 

 eminent, as a statesman far more distinguished, and as 

 an author his works are among the most useful materials 

 for tlie history of his period." This is certainly true ; yei, 

 although Bulstrode Whitelocke's Historical Memorials 

 and Journal of his Swedish JSmbassij are works of a far 

 higher character than the Liber Famelicus, the latter is 

 one calculated to throw light, not only on the history of 

 the Whitelockes and their associates, but on the social 

 condition of the time in which the writer flourished. 

 While for the "learned in the law," who maybe desirous 

 of investigating how lawyers lived in those days, the 

 work has a special and peculiar interest in its anecdotes 

 of legal functionaries, and its quaint notices of legal 

 customs. 



Messrs. Bell & Daldy have just issued a new edition of 

 the poetical works of Heniy Vaughan, the Silurist. Silcx 

 Scintillans, ifc. Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations hi/ 

 Henry Vaughan, would at .ill times be welcome to the 

 lovers of religious poetry — for the beauty, originality, 

 and piety for Avhich the muse of Vaughaa is distin- 

 guished ; but the present edition will be doubly welcome, 

 not only for tbe correctuess with which the text has been 

 prepared, but also for the. appropriate manner in which it 

 has been printed by Jlr. Whittiughani. We m.ay add 

 that the well-written Memoir of Vaughan by the late 

 Kev. H. F. Lyte, prefixed to the edition of 1847, has been 

 reproduced in the volume before us. 



As " X. & Q." was, we believe, the first Journal to call 

 attention to Mr. W. Alford Lloyd as a diligent naturalist 

 and a purveyor of specimens for those who desired to 

 follow that interesting branch of study — nature in aquaria 

 — and that, long before the pursuit was so much in vogue 

 as it is at this moment, we have especial pleasure iu re- 

 cording the success which has attended his endeavours to 

 popularise this study, as shown by his recently published 

 J.ist with Descriptions, Illustrations, and Prices of what- 

 ever relates to Aquaria, ^^'hcn we add that this List oc- 



cupies 128 pages, with 87 woodcuts, and gives prices of 

 thousands of objects, it will be seen how useful — we 

 may add indispensable — it is to all who have, or propose 

 to have, an aquarium. 



Messrs. Pnttick & Simpson announce for sale, next 

 season, the late Mr. Dawson Turner's remaining library 

 and highly-interesting collection of MSB. and autographs. 

 The collection is remarkably rich. Of the letters classed 

 as autographs there are more than thirty thousand ; 

 while entire volumes are filled with letters of Queen 

 Elizabeth, the Medici family. Napoleon Bonaparte, Ge- 

 neral ^\'olfe, the Duke of Marlborough, Tasso, Voltaire, 

 Sir Isaac Newton, Galvani, Archbishop Sharpe, James 

 Hervey, Thomas Gray, and others. The manuscript 

 library iilso includes extensive series of correspondence of 

 Anna Jlaria Schurmann, C. Huygens, Domenico Manni, 

 Ralph Tlioresby, Dr. Macro, Dr. Covel, Sir H. Spelman, 

 Strype, Dr. R. Richardson, George Chalmers, William 

 Upcott, and Dr. Dibdin ; but we are glad to hear does 

 not include Mr. Turner's own Correspondence. The 

 library contains many most important books and manu- 

 scripts for the history of the Fine Arts : amongst these 

 are the Vertue MSS., formerly at Strawberry Hill. Nor 

 must the Glastonbury Register and Cartulary be over- 

 looked. 



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pendix to Bedels Eccles. Hist. No. ix .-Idrian's Bull to Ilen'-y II. is 



printed in Matthew Paris, Hist. Ant'i. p. 9.5., edit. liiiO ; Baron. Anna], 

 niiHO 1 159 ; aurf iii Collier's Eccles. Hist. i. 31.5., fol. : see also " N. & (1." 



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