360 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '58. 



Dean Trench's " Sacred Latin Poetry " (2°'» S. 

 vi. 147.) — I am happy to see that the Dean of 

 Westminster contemplates re-editing his volume 

 of Sncred Latin Poetry. He says that the works 

 of Thomas a Kempis would not yield a second 

 extract equal to tlJe very beautiful specimen he 

 gives. May I venture to call his attention to the 

 exquisite little poem commencing — 



" Vitam Jesu Christi stude imitari : 

 Castfe, juste, pife, disce x;onversari." 



The concluding verses appear to me very strik- 

 ing : — 



" Jesu ob amorem 



Omnem fer laborein. 



Sustine vim patiens, 



Tace ut sis sapiens, 



Mores regc, aures tege, 



Srepfe ova, sa;pfe lege, 



Omni die, omni bora, 



Te resigna sine mora." 



I need not remind you that the collected works 

 of Thomas a Kempis are difficult to be met with. 



R.H. 



Running Footmen (2°* S. i. 9. 80. &c.)— Fos- 

 brooke, in the Berkeley MSS. (p. 204.), says : — 



" Langbam, au Irish Footman, carried a letter from 

 Callowdon to Dr. Fryer of Little Brrtaine, London, and 

 returned with a gl.iss bottle in band, a journey of 148 

 miles ; performed in less than 42 houi's." 



J. L. P. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We are indebted to the Rev. Thomas Latbburj"-, the 

 well-known author of the History of the Nonjurors, ^-c, 

 for a new volume on a very important subject. It is A 

 History of The Booh of Commoyi Prayer, and other Books 

 of Authority, with an Attempt to ascertain how the Rubrics 

 and Caytons have been understood and observed from the 

 Reformation to the Accession of George III. Also an 

 Account of the State of Religion and Religioug Parties in 

 England from 1G40 to 1C60. It will be seen from this 

 very ample title how essentially the present work differs 

 from the many which have preceded it on the subject of 

 the Common Prayer, the Rubrics, and the Canons. It 

 is more essentially historical than doctrinal, and is im- 

 portant from the fact which the author insists upon, but 

 which now is too frequently overlooked, — that Church- 

 men and Nonconformists have at all times agreed re- 

 specting the meaning of the Rubrics and Canons ; and 

 that the objection taken by the Puritans was to the en- 

 forcement of the Rubrics and Canons, and not to the 

 erroneous interpretation of them. At a moment lik'- the 

 present, when there is an endeavour to get up an agita- 

 tion for a revisal of our Liturgj-, such a work as Mr. 

 Lathbury's is very opportune : and for its illustration of 

 the History of onr admirable Prayer Book, as well as for 

 the amount of bibliographical information, the book de- 

 serves to be widely circulated. One fault we must find ; it 

 ought to have had a good Index. This we trust will be 

 added to the next edition. 



The reputation which Mr. Murray has won for himself [ 

 by the accuracy of his world-renowned Handbooks for 

 Travellers, will, if possible, be increased bj-the volume 



which he has just issued, namely, A Handbook for Tra- 

 vellers in Kent and Sussex. With a Map. We can give 

 the authority of one who knows intimately every inch of 

 Kent — every page of its history — and every descent in 

 Kentish Pedigrees — for the great accu/acy of the present 

 Handbook of that county, and for the tact and judgment 

 shown by the Editor in compressing within such reason- 

 able limits so vast an amount of useful and trustworthy 

 information. And we have no doubt that the same may 

 be said of the other portion of the volume, The Hand- 

 book of Sussex. 



The new number of The Quarterly Review contains 

 only seven articles, but they are calculated to maintain 

 the character of The Quarterly. Thei-e are two capital 

 biographical articles, James Watt and Sir Charles Napier's 

 Career in India ; two papers to please classical students, 

 Horace and his Translators, and The Roman at his Farm ; 

 a pleasant article on Fresco Painting and the Publications 

 of the Arundel Society, a review corrective of Wiseman's 

 Four Last Popes, and finally its political article on T%e 

 Past and Prese7tt Administrations. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



LixTO.v's Views of Greece. Second-hand. 

 Leake's Travels in Northern Greece. Ditto. 



»*• Letters, statin J particulars and lowest price, carruxoe/rM, to be 

 sent to Messrs. Beli. s Daldt, Publishers of " NOTES AND 

 QUEKIES," 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. 



Hate's Chronology. 4 Vols. 4to. 



AV anted by J. H. ^Y. CaMij, 83. New Street, Birmingham. 



Btbltothsca Sacra, published at Andover. A complete set QntU (in- 

 clusiTC) 1857. 



Wanted by Messrs. Williams Sr Xorgate, U. Henrietta Street, 

 Covent Garden. 



flotfcc^ to dLatxti^antitnti. 



jimong oth'r Papers of great interest ivhich ictll appear in our wexf 

 Xujnber is one btj Mr. Moy Thomas i,ichosc recent edition of Collins* 

 Poems shoips his fitness for the task-), in tchich he inrcstigales the mysteri- 

 ous story of RicJtard Savage; and to say the least of it, throws great 

 doubt upon tJiefact of Savage being (as he aUeged) the son of the CourUess 

 of MacclesJUtd. 



K. N. will find a good account q/" the stattics of Gog and Magog in 

 Hone's Table Book, vol. ii.pp. 610—618. 



GoLDjoBN (Calcutta). Barbara Allen's Craclty ifiU be found in Percy's 

 Reliques, vol. Hi. p.\2i. 



K. (Arbroath) will find a long list of works on Epitaphs m Bohn's new 

 edition of Lowndes, vol. i. p. 747. 



X. The titles qftheTi\-e Dramas, bii an Englishman., 1854, artSyMna! 

 A Plaij without a Xame,or What You Phase ; Jietribution ; Love with- 

 out Money, and Money without Love ; and The Governess, or a Voyage 



round the World Marii Leapor's unfinished play is simplv entitled 



" Some Acts of a .Second Play written at the request of a Friend in^about 

 a fortnight.'^ It consists of three Acts. The namcJt of the dramatis per- 

 sonam art Edict, Eleoiutra, 0<.loff, Dusteraixdus, Elgiva, Oswin, Emmel, 

 and Leander, 



G. L. S. The lies. Charles Girdlestonc ptibllshed in 18S), A Concor- 

 dance to the Psalms according to the Version in the Book of Common 

 Prayer. 



J. R. G. T/ie Guild of St. Alban cotnnrises iico grades of members, 

 FeUon-s and Brethren, as well as an Order of Sisters. Its object is ** to 

 assist the clergy in parochial work, and to promote unity in the Chttrch.'' 

 Its ** Constitutions may be had at Masters s,Aldersgate Street. 



FoLL Price will be ojVETffor the following Xos. of our 1st Series, \i, 

 15,16,1;. IS. 16S. 



"Notes and Qperies" is published at noon on Friday, and is also 

 isstted in Monthly JPahts. Tlie subscription for Stauped Copies for 

 Six Months forwarded direct from the Publishers (including the Half- 

 yearly Index) is ]\s. id., which may be paid by Post Office Order in 

 favour 0/ Messrs. Bell and Daldy.ISB. Fleet J^tbeet, E.C; to tcJwm 

 all C^UHUNicATio.Ns FOB THE Editob should be addressed. 



