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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2»*S. IX. June 2. 'GO. 



Bavins and Puffs (2 nd S. ix. 25. 110. 333.)— 



Bavins are small faggots : thousands of them have 

 been sold from time to time out of my woods. 

 Small fir faggots are at Newbury and the neigh- 

 bourhood called jmffs. F. A. Carbington. 



fBLiitzXimtmi. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its 

 Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century down to the 

 present Time. By Octave Delepierre, LL.D. Compiled 

 from Flemish Sources. (Murray.) 



When one considers how intimate were the literary re- 

 lations which formerly existed between England and the 

 Low Countries — an intimacy fostered probably by the 

 great commercial intercourse between the two nations, — 

 it is somewhat extraordinary that it should be left to an 

 author of the present day to bring before the English 

 reader a Sketch of Flemish Literature. It is so, however; 

 for, familiar as men of letters in this country may be with 

 the labours of Flemish scholars, whose works are written 

 in Latin, Flemish authors who wrote in their own mother 

 tongue are scarcely known even byname among us; and 

 HI. Delepierre has therefore done good service in employing 

 his talents, and the peculiar advantages which he enjoys 

 for the purpose, in the preparation of a volume calculated 

 to till up a chapter in the literary history of Europe 

 which is at present very defective. 



The Real and the Beau Ideal. By the Author of 

 " Visiting my Relations." (Bentley.) 



This is a "sort of lay sermon addressed by a maiden 

 aunt to a newly married niece, preparing her for the 

 difference between the stern realities of married life and 

 the romance with which les fiancees are apt to invest it. 

 Lest this description should deter young-lady readers 

 from perusing the volume, let us add that it is full of 

 good sensible advice as to the management (we use the 

 word in its best sense) of a husband, and of his household. 



It is with the deepest regret that we announce the 

 death, on the 23rd ultimo, of Mr. Glover, Her Majesty's 

 Librarian — a gentleman to whose friendship and varied 

 acquirements we have often been indebted for valuable 

 assistance. In Mr. Glover Her Majesty has lost one in 

 whom she justly placed the greatest confidence, and whose 

 loss we have no doubt Her Majesty deeply regrets; and 

 who in the execution of the duties of his office combined 

 in a high degree kindly feelings and excellent tact : while 

 his death will, we fear, deprive the literary world of the 

 valuable materials which he had collected for an English 

 Barbier, or History of Anonymous and Pseudonymous 

 Books. 



The Annual Meeting of the Children of the Charity 

 Schools of the Metropolis, which has so long been an- 

 nually held in St. Paul's Cathedral, will this year take 

 place at the Crystal Palace on Wednesday next, June 6, 

 preparations for which have been in active progress for 

 some time past. The great Handel Orchestra being 

 double the diameter of the dome of Saint Paul's, affords 

 opportunity for the introduction of a much largernuml.er 

 of children than were ever assembled in the cathedral 

 together. The favourable construction of the Orchestra 

 also renders it a much more appropriate locale than the 

 old staging in the ecclesiastical edifice. The result will 

 no doubt therefore be much more successful than the 

 meetings at St. Paul's, although they have hitherto been 

 regarded as among the great sights of London ; and the 

 popular annual solemnity of the " Charity Children " 



of the Metropolis will this year more than ever retain 

 its attractions. 



We learn from The Bookseller that the manuscripts and 

 printed books bequeathed to the University of Oxford by 

 Ashmole, Aubrey, Wood, and others, till lately deposited 

 in the Ashmolean Museum, have, during the past month, 

 been removed to the Bodleian Library. 



Books Received. — We must content ourselves with 

 the acknowledgment of the receipt of the following tracts 

 and pamphlets: — 



Boohs and Libraries ; a Lecture delivered before the Mem- 

 bers of the Hyde Literary and Scientific Institute. By Sir 

 John Simeon, Bart. (J. W. Parker.) 



On the Roman Antiquities of Invereslt. By D. M. Moir. 

 Read before the Antiquaries of Scotland. (Blackwood & 

 Sons.) 



Notes on Newark ; a Lecture before the Nerval k Me- 

 chanics' Institution. By R. F. Sketchley, B.A. (Moss, 

 Newark.) 



Memoirs of the O'Connors of Ballintubber, County of 

 Roscommon, Sec, with their Pedigrees. By Roderick O'Con- 

 nor, Esq. (Dublin.) 



A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland. 

 By William Dickinson, F.L.S. (J. Russell Smith.) 



The Poetry of Spring. A Poem. By Goodwyn Barmby. 

 (Tweedie.) 



Evenings with Grandpapa, or Naval Stories for Chil- 

 dren. (Dean & Son.) 



The History of the Unreformed Parliament, and its Les- 

 sons. An Essay. By VValter Bagshot. (Chapman & 

 Hall.) 



Parliamentary Reform. An Essay. By Walter Bag- 

 shot. (Chapman & Hall.) 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Tnc Roliiad, Probationary Odes, &C. 8vo. 1810. 



*»* Letters, statin? particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to le 

 seat to Messrs. Bell & Daldy, Publishers of " NOTES AND 

 OUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



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

 the gentlemen ly whom they are required, and whose names and ad- 

 dresses are given below. 



The Kerry Magazine. 2 Vols. 



Caulfield's (Richard) Episcopal and Capitular Seals op Ireland. 



Parts 1 and 2. 

 Hayman's (Rep. Samuel) Annals of Todohal. Series 1 and 2. 

 Parliamentary Report on the Ordnance Memoir of Ireland. 



1814. 



Wanted by Stv. B. H. Blacker, Rokcby, Blackrock, Dublin. 



Bentley's Miscellany. Vols. X. to XL. 



Wanted by Mr. II. J. Cooke, Ely. 



#0t{ccj> ta Carre3u0!tacnte. 



T. C. N. will find a vera fuM account of the " Devil Tavern " in Cun- 

 ningham's Handbook of London. 



A. Z. The translation of" The Frogs of Aristophanes" in the Cam- 

 bridge University Magazine, has neither the name nor the initials of the 

 author. It is unfinished, owing to the discontinuance of this periodical. 



Conway Edxvards's drama First Love was performed at Bath on 



March 13,1841: the scene, East coast, by the Wash, to York, temp. Charles 



II. Thomas Hawkins's Wars of Jehovah does not contain any list of 



his tragedies. See London Catalogue for five of his works. Thejullow- 

 ina works are not in the British Museum : Poems by Miss D. B. Camp- 

 la II, 1810 ; Poems, by A. M'lntosh, 1811 ; Irene and other Poems, by the 

 late Marchioness of Northampton , 1833. 



Notices to other Correspondents in our next. 



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