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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«i SL IX. Mar. 3. '60. 



Histoire Litteraire ties Fous. Par Octave Delepierre. 

 (Triibner & Co.) 



We know no one better qualified to work out the bib- 

 liography of a quaint idea with sound knowledge and good 

 judgment, than the author of the present little volume, 

 in which M. Delepierre treats of many a writer well 

 kuown and little known, to whom may fitly be applied 

 the lines of Dryden : — 



" He raves ; his words are loose 

 As heaps of sand, and scatter'd wide from sense; 

 f?o high he's mounted on his airy throne, 

 That now the wind has got into his head, 

 And turns his brains to frenzy." 

 M. Delepierre discourses first of Theologians who have 

 been mad — then of Students of Belles Lettres who have 

 shared their infirmity — next of those devoted to Philo- 

 sophy and Science— and then of Politicians. The second 

 part of the book is devoted to Biography and Biblio- 

 graphy — and the whole forms a pleasant gossiping illus- 

 tration of how much of method is in madness found. 



Notes nn Xtirsing. What it is, and What it is not. By 

 Florence Nightingale. (Harrison.) 



Miss Nightingale, with all her experience, hardly ever 

 saw one instance of intentional kindness to the sick: 

 how much cruelty she has seen through thoughtlessness 

 and want of knowledge, may be read in every page of 

 this most valuable work. Miss Nightingale's services in 

 the Crimea were most extraordinary ; but we doubt 

 whether they were exceeded by those" which she has 

 rendered by the publication of these Xotes. As she well 

 says : " Every woman must, at some time or other of her 

 life, become a nurse,"— therefore say we, for the sake of 

 her patients, " Every woman should read, nay study, 

 Miss Nightingale's Notes on Nursing." 



We have received the first three parts of A General 

 History of Hampshire. By B. B. Woodward, Esq., F.S.A. 

 Illustrated with 3Inps, Views, Portraits, §•& Mr. Wood- 

 ward well remarks that, important as Hampshire is with 

 regard to extent, population, and historical interest, 

 comprising within its limits a cathedral town, a great 

 naval arsenal, a mercantile port of eminence, and that 

 island the favourite resort of metropolitan tourists and 

 the seat of Her Majesty's marine residence, it has re- 

 ceived but little attention from the topographical his- 

 torian. This deficiency Mr. Woodward is about to supply, 

 and, if we may judge from the three parts here before us, 

 in a way to satisfy a very large class of readers ; all, in- 

 deed, who feel an" iuterest in the history of the county. 

 The work is publishing in monthly parts at 2s. 6d. each, 

 and when completed will form three handsome quarto 

 volumes. 



The Cornhill Magazine has clearly become one of the 

 established institutions of the country. The Editor's own 

 story of " Lovel the Widower," Mr. "Trollope's " Framley 

 Parsonage," and Mr. Sala's clever dissertations on that 

 thoroughly English painter and humorist " William 

 Hogarth,"" are alone sufficient to secure success — to say 

 nothing of the varied character of the many able papers 

 by which they are accompanied. Macmillan's Magazine, 

 which was two months in the field before The Comhill 

 made its appearance, is a worthy rival in the race for 

 popularity. It is somewhat graver in its general charac- 

 ter, but is replete with instructive and well-v ritten 

 papers. " Tom Brown at Oxford " goes *n swimmingly : 

 and among the best papers in the number we may men- 

 tion " The Greuvilles," " English Et3 - mologv," and that 

 by the Rev. J. W. Blakesley on "The Suez "Canal." 



Our readers will be glad to hear that a translation of 

 that valuable record of the social state of this great 

 metropolis, the Liber Albus, is preparing for immediate 

 publication by the Editor, Mr. H. T. Riley. 



Sir, Beutley has issued proposals for a limited edition, 

 on large paper, of Horace WalpoWs Letters, What a 

 book for illustrating! 



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