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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603; Hamlet by 

 William Shakespeare, 1604. Being exact Reprint* of the 

 First and Second Editions of Shakespeare's Great Drama 

 from the very rare Originals in the Possession of his Grace 

 'the Duke of Devonshire, with the Two Texts printed on 

 opposite Pages, and so arranged that the Parallel Passages 

 face each other. And a Bibliographical Preface, by Samuel 

 "Timmins. (Sampson Low.) 



It may be a question whether the first and second edi- 

 tions of Hamlet are most to be prized for their rarity or 

 their literary value, as illustrating the progress of the 

 great workman by whom this wondrous drama was 

 fashioned. The fortv admirable facsimiles produced by 

 the liberality of the Duke of Devonshire, under the super- 

 intendence of Sir. J. P. Collier, and as liberally presented 

 to various public libraries and known .Shakspeare stu- 

 dents, served apparently but to stimulate a desire on the 

 part of a larger public for the opportunity of comparing 

 the two editions. This they are now enabled to do in a 

 most satisfactory manner for fewer pence than the ori- 

 ginals are worth pounds, thanks to the typographical 

 skill of Mr. Allen, Jun., of Birmingham, and to the edi- 

 torial supervision of Mr. Timmins. 



A History, Military and Municipal, of the Ancient 

 Borough of Devizes, and, subordinate; ly, of the entire Hun- 

 dred of Potterne and Cannings in which it is included. 



This is obviously the work of a Devizes man, and in 

 the eyes of the inhabitants of Devizes we doubt not it 

 will find great favour. The author has avoided the fault 

 of making his book a mere mass of dry names and dates, 

 but he has fallen into another mistake, that of not con- 

 lining his book to the proper subject of it, and it is 

 almost as much occupied with the history of England 

 generally as of Devizes in particular. This will, how- 

 ever, make the History of Devizes more acceptable to the 

 general reader. 



An Analysis of Ancient Domestic Architecture in Great 

 Britain. By F." T. Dollman and J. R. Jobbins. (Mas- 

 ters.) 



The examples in the present work are extremely well 

 chosen, and the elevations and details are drawn to a 

 larger scale than usual, with a view to supply an archi- 

 tectural want that has long been experienced both by 

 students and professors. The work bids fair to be one of 

 great usefulness to all who are interested in the study of 

 our ancient domestic architecture. 



Although the Quarterly Review jast issued (No. 213.) 

 contains only seven articles, it .vill be found a varied and 

 amusing number. The first paper on The Australian 

 Colonies and the Gold Supply is obviously written by one 

 who is master of the subject. Cotton Machines and their 

 Inventors is an interesting sketch of the rise of what is 

 now one of our most important branches of industr3*. 

 China and the War gives a good sketch of recent pro- 

 ceedings in that country, and of the course to be pursued 

 hereafter. Religious Revivals is a temperate and well. 

 considered article. The Roman Wall in Northumberland 

 will please the antiquary and scholar ; and a masterly 

 sketch of the Life and Works of Cowper will please all 

 readers. The last article. Reform Schemes, is the only 

 really political article in The Quarterly, and — shall we 

 confess the truth ? — we have not jet read it. 



Books Received. — 



Brief Sketches of Booterstown and Donnybrooh. By the 

 Rev. B. H. Blacker. (Herbert, Dublin.) 



A carefully compiled little volume, relating briefly the 

 annals of the Fair-renowned Donnybrook. 



Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. 

 Edited and abridged from the First Edition by the Right 

 Hon. Lord John Russell. People's Edition. To be com- 

 pleted in Ten Parts. (Longman & Co.) 



It is difficult to believe that cheap publishing can go 

 beyond this — an edition of Moore's Memoirs and Journals, 

 with Eight Portraits, for Ten Shillings. 



Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. 

 J. G. Wood. (Routledge.) 



This capital popular Natural History improves as it 

 proceeds. This Tenth Part exceeds in beauty and in- 

 terest any of those which have preceded it. 



Dr. Hickes' Manuscripts. — 



A painful rumour has been the topic of conversation in 

 literary circles during the past week. It appears that 

 three large chests full of manuscripts, left by the cele- 

 brated Dr. George Hickes, the deprived Dean of Wor- 

 cester, were consigned to the custody of his bankers after 

 his decease. Owing to the dissolution of the firm, the 

 premises have been lately cleared out, and the whole of 

 these valuable documents committed to the flames in one 

 of the furnaces at the New River Head! Here is a loss, 

 not only to the ecclesiastical student who wishes to form 

 an impartial judgment on the history of the English 

 Church at the eventful period of the Revolution ; but of 

 papers illustrative of the biographical and literary history 

 of the close of the seventeenth century. For it is well 

 known that Dr. Hickes was a person of such political, 

 ecclesiastical, and literary eminence in his time, that he 

 was in daily correspondence with the most learned men 

 at home and abroad. It is melancholy to contemplate 

 the loss literature has sustained when we consider that 

 Dugdale, Gibson, Nicolson, Elstob, Robert Ilarley, Earl 

 of Oxford, Wanley, Pepys, Kettlewell, Jeremy Collier, 

 Dodwell, and his bosom friend the pious Robert Nelson, 

 were among his correspondents. Dr. Hickes died on Dec. 

 15, 1715. Mr. Thomas Bowdler was his executor, and Mr. 

 Anneslev the overseer of his will. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Particulars of Price, lc, of the following Books to be sent direct to 

 the gentleman by whom they are required, and whose name and address 

 are given below. 

 J. J. Ghoslev, a Took in London, tie., translated from the French. 2 



Vole. 8vo. 1772. 

 F. A. "YVendeborn, View of England towards the close of the 



18th Century, translated by the author himself. S Vole. 8vo. 17W-9. 

 Wanted by Mr. Jos. Thome. 11. Fortess Terrace, Kentish town, N.W. 



flutters to <£flrrr*uD!itfcntiJ. 



Munchaoskn's Travels. Mr. Philips will find no less than seven cuti- 

 cles on this sikV'i ct in our ist Series* 



J. H. (Glasgow). Etas not "iir correspondent misunderstood flic Arch- 

 bUhop, toAose remarks refer only to the " first edition " o/The Directory. 



? There is no such word as Paudite. The Gibsune motto is 

 l * Paudite cadestes porta." 



II. B. It lias never been satisfactorily shown that Richard Baxter was 

 the avthm o/The Heavy Shove. Our correspondent wishes to know who 

 ,• - the author o/Salve for Sore Eyes, and Pins and Needles for the Un- 

 godly. 



H. B. The lines on London Pn'ssenting Ministers wen printed, for the 

 first time, in our Ists. i. 151. See also pp. 383. 445. of the same volume. 



F. R. S. S. A. Thi reference is to the University of Marburg, a town of 

 Hessen-t 'asset in Qi nnaiiy. We believe it keeps an agency inLondonjor 

 conferring its academical honours. 



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