2-" 1 S. IX. Mar. 31. 'CO.] 



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who were at rest, he unweariedly took pains against his 

 enemies as if heating his spurs, which we call Hate- 

 sporre." " For while others were given to sleep, he was 

 wont to watch over the enemy " (Knighton, 2096, 2728.) 

 "Henry Hatspur vulgariter nuncupatus" (2 Fordun, 

 405.). "" For his sharp quickness and speediness at need, 

 Henry Ilottespur he was called indeed " (Peevis). " Quern 

 Scotti vocaverunt Hatespur propter innatum sibi probi- 

 tatem" (2 Lcl. Col 382.)— Arch. JEl, vol. iv. N. S. 182. 



E. H. A. 

 " The Sisters' Traced* " (2 nd S. ii. 129.) — This 

 anonymous play was written by Captain Charles 

 T. Thruston, R.N., who died in July, 1858. See 

 an Obituary notice in The Illustrated London News 

 of 21st Aug. 18.58. R. Inglis. 



THE SHAKSPEARE CONTROVERSY. 

 [The following Letter reached us after our arrange- 

 ments for the present Number had been made : — 



Brit. Museum, 2Gth Mar. 1860. 

 Sir F. Madden presents his compliments to the 

 Editor of " N. & Q." The article on the " Shak- 

 speare Controversy" is written in a tone of moder- 

 ation which Mr. Collier would do well to imitate; 

 but as in the opinion of Sir F. Madden and his 

 friends there are several unfair and even untrue 

 (no doubt unintentionally) statements in it, Sir 

 F. Madden begs to ask whether the pages of " N. 

 & Q." are open to the Replies of himself and 

 friends, or whether it is to be merely a one-sided 

 Apology for Mr. Collier ? 



Thb Editor will be glad to insert any proper contra- 

 diction or explanation of any unfair or untrue statements 

 into which he may have fallen in his Article on The 

 SiiAKsrEARE Controversy of the 24th Instant. Whe- 

 ther the pages of this Journal would be open generally to 

 the Replies of Sir F. Madden aud his friends would depend 

 upon their tone and spirit. The Editor has lately seen 

 Replies upon this subject of a kind which he would not 

 have inserted — and if the Replies alluded to are to be 

 written in a similar spirit he should (in the exercise of the 

 right which every Editor must necessarily reserve to 

 himself) decline to print them. Subject to this right our 

 columns are open to Sir F. Madden.] 



Miittllmtaug. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



T/ie Life and Labours of Sir Charles Sell, K.G.H., 

 F.H.S.S. L. §• E. By Amedce Pichot, M.D., Author of 

 Charles the Fifth. (Bcntlcy.) 



It is strange that the man whose European reputation 

 led the French Professor whom he went to hear, dismiss his 

 class without a lecture, saying, " Gentlemen, enough for 

 to-day ; you have seen Charles Bell " — that that Charles 

 Bell the Surgeon, Physiologist, and Artist, should have 

 been laid in his grave for eighteen years before the world 

 received any detailed account of his life and labours. 

 They arc now recorded by an accomplished French gen- 



tleman, distinguished alike in medicine and in letters, 

 and a more interesting Biography we have seldom read. 

 But it has another claim to notice. We know no book 

 more pregnant with useful lessons to the younger mem- 

 bers of the liberal profession of which Bell was so distin- 

 guished an ornament as this graceful tribute to his 

 memory. It is a book to be read and re-read by medical 

 students. 



Books Received. — 



Say and Seat. By the Author of " The Wide Wide 

 World." (Bentley.) 



What can better prove the interest to be found in a 

 work of fiction than is contained in Mr. Bentley's own 

 announcement, that of the cheap Popular Edition of Say 

 and Seal, he is now issuing the Twentieth Thousand, and 

 of the Library Edition the Fourth ! 



Tht Spectator. By Addison, Steele, &-c. Revised Edi- 

 tion, with Explanatory Notes and a Complete Index. Parts 

 I. to IV. (Routledge.) 



It says much for the good taste of the reading public, 

 that Messrs. Routledge are encouraged to issue a new 

 edition of this great "well of English undefiled" in Six- 

 penny fortnightly Parts. The whole work, which is not 

 only carefully revised but illustrated with explanatory 

 notes, will be completed in Twenty- one Numbers. This 

 is indeed at once good and cheap literature. 



Devonshire Pedigrees recorded in the Heralds' Visitation 

 of 1720, with Additions from the Harleian MSS. and the 

 Printed Cillections of JVestcote and Pole. By John Tuckett. 

 Part III. (RussellSmith.) 



We are glad to see that Mr. Tuckett is encouraged 

 to proceed with this useful contribution to the Family 

 History of Devonshire. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 

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

 the gentleman by whom they are required, and whose name and ad* 

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Jameson's Beauties of the Court of Charles II. India proofs. 



Royal 4to. 

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IX., first edition. 

 Richardson's Works. 19 Vols. 



Ballantyne's Novelists' Library. 10 Vols. Also Vol. I. 

 Smollett's Works, by Moore. 8 Vols. Preferred in boards. 

 Dodsley's Old Plavs. 12 Vols. Last edition. 

 J. H. Stevenson's Works. 3 Vols. 

 Works of Isaac Peninotov. Very fine copy. 

 Concilia Sacrosancta. IS Vols. Folio. 

 Reeve's History of English Law. 5 Vols. 



Wanted by C. J. Skeet, 10. King William Street, W.C. 



We hare been compelled from want of space to postpone several 

 articles of great interest, among others a. continuation of The Gunpowder 

 Plot Papers; and a curious Series of Extracts from Treasury Records, 

 by Mr. Hart. 



Notes and Queries will be published at Noon on Thursday next in 

 consequence of next Friday being Good Friday. 



Antiquarics. Mr, Strong the bookseller emigrated to A ustralia some 

 few years since. 



W. W. H. (Bingham.) Is thanked fir the Folk-lore, which is alreadu 

 recorded In " N. & Q." 



J. T. (Gillingham.) Pornfs Heraldry has been lately recommended 

 by the highest authority/ we know. 



S. M. W. P. W. The Tyrconncl hunting at Cumbmartin is noticed in 

 our 2nd S. i. 453. 



J. L. Curtis. The poor K cnthusiast was as mad as a March hare. 



E. G. L. Inauirc of some neconel-hand bookseller, as so much depends 

 ujnrn the condition of the book. 



'loiawiMh Several artirhs on the present Knqlish branch of the Order 

 of St. John of Jerusalem appeared in our let S. i"ii. 455.; 2nd S. i. 197. 

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