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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°i S. IX. Jan. 21. '60. 



furaverit aut occiderit " he proposes to read " Si 

 quis bisontem, bubalum, vel cervum qui prugit, 

 furaverit," &c, taking prugit as equivalent to rugit. 

 This emendation Du Cange supports by the two 

 following citations from the Lex Longob. : " Si quis 

 cervum domesticum alienum, qui nou rugit, intri- 

 caverit," and "si quis cervum domesticum alie- 

 num, qui tempore suo rugire solet, intricaverit." 



The proposed emendation is liable to this ob- 

 jection, that we have nothing in the way of 

 evidence to prove that prugit ever stood for 

 rvgit. May not the true solution be that the 

 original reading was q rugit (qui rugit) ; and that 

 some copyist, not minding his p's and q's, for 

 q rugit wrote p rugit, whence prugit ? 



Thomas Boys. 



#ffteceTTaueau<*. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Pious Robert 

 Nelson, Author of " The Companion to the Festivals and 

 Fasts of the Church." By Rev. C. F. Secretan, M.A., 

 Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Westminster. (Murray.) 



If the virtues of Robert Nelson were not tried in the 

 fire of persecution, yet it may be truly said of him that 

 the Church of England has had no more zealous, no more 

 worth}' son — none who in his station has done more to 

 show by good works what his faith was. The child of a 

 wealthy parent, the pupil of so ripe a scholar and good a 

 churchman as Bishop Bull, it was Nelson's good fortune 

 to make to himself friends of the mammon of unrighte- 

 ousness, by using his means and influence for the noblest 

 purposes — the benefit of his fellow creatures, and the 

 promotion of God's honour. It is no small wonder, then, 

 that it should be left to a writer of the present day to 

 give us the life of one who exercised so much influence 

 on the times in which he lived, by his labours and his 

 writings, more especially by the publication of his Festi- 

 vals and Fasts, which Dr. Johnson pronounced "a most 

 valuable help to devotion," and to have had the greatest 

 sale of any book in England except the Bible. Mr. 

 Secretan has been fortunate in his subject; and that it 

 has been with him a labour of love, is manifest from the 

 extent of his researches as well as the tone of his book. 

 While perhaps it is no less fortunate for the memory of 

 Nelson that the task of describing his various good works 

 and schemes of usefulness should have fallen upon one 

 who, having the spiritual charge of a poor metropolitan 

 district, is especially enabled to appreciate the value of 

 Nelson's labours, and to point out how all the great schemes 

 of social improvement, of which we now boast so freely, 

 were proposed a century and a half since by this model 

 of a Christian gentleman. There can be little doubt 

 that Mr. Secretan's Life of Robert Nelson is an important 

 addition to our Standard Christian Biographies. 



My Diary in India in the Year 1858-9. By William 

 Howard Russell, Special Correspondent of " The Times." 

 With Illustrations. 2 Vols. (Routledge.) 



Of the great descriptive power of Mr. Russell, as dis- 

 played in his Letters to The Times, in which he painted 

 all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of the late glo- 

 rious but unhappy war by which we lately reconquered 

 India, it would be superfluous to say one word. The 

 present volume, which relates to Mr. Russell's own per- 

 sonal adventures, and what we may call the inner life of 

 that great struggle, is equally striking and interesting ; 



and whether we regard the variety of characteristic 

 anecdotes of so many of those who made their names 

 famous in those days of peril — the daring incidents and 

 hair-breadth escapes, or whether we consider the views 

 of Indian policy — of our relations with the natives — of 

 the principles which must guide our future rule — or the 

 occasional sketches of the natural aspect of the country, 

 and the characteristics of the various races now under 

 our government, — we know of no book better calculated 

 to amuse the English reader, and to imbue him with a 

 vivid notion of the vastness and importance of our Indian 

 Empire. 



Country Trips : a Series of Descriptive Visits to Places of 

 Interest in various Parts of Enqiand. By W. J. Pinks. 

 Vol. I. (Pickburn, Clerkenwell.) 



A series of interesting papers originally published 

 in The Clerkenwell News. This is reallj- turning the cheap 

 press to good account : for these topographical and his- 

 torical excursions are well adapted to stimulate juvenile 

 curiosity, and enrich the mind with useful knowledge. 

 The chapters on St. Alban's Abbey, and the Memorials of 

 Shakspeare's house, are particularly interesting. The 

 mass of information concentrated in this small volume 

 does high credit to the author's diligence and research. 



The success which has attended Mr. Lovell Reeve's 

 Stereoscopic Cabinet has induced him to publish a Foreign 

 Companion to it at the same price, 2s. Gd., and which 

 may be forwarded by post for one penny. The first 

 number contains three capital stereoscopic views — 1. The 

 Halle of Bruges ; 2. Sketch of Character at Rouen ; and 

 3. Valley of the Flon, Lausanne. 



Books Received. — 



Morplafs Games at Chess, being the best Games by the 

 distinguished Champion in England and America. Edited 

 by J. Lowenthal. (Bohn.) 



There can be no doubt that Mr. Bohn has done good 

 service to the chess-playing world by this valuable ad- 

 dition to the literature of that fascinating game. 



Rights and Wrongs. A Manual of Household Law. By 

 Albany Fonblanque, Jun., Esq. (Routledge.) 



A very useful companion to Mr. Fonblanque's sketch 

 of our constitution, Flow we are governed, detailing as it 

 does in an unteebnical and familiar manner our legal 

 privileges and duties in the various relations of life. 



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Notices! ta <Iatrc£p0!il,cuW. 



B. H. Cowper. The Revolt of the Bees, 1826, is attributed to ]{«!« H 

 Owen. 



G. F. C. See The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, ?»/ II". 

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