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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2 n * S. IX. June 23. '60. 



Preston Rebels (2 nd S; ix. 404.) — There was 

 printed a very particular list of the rebels in a 

 contemporary broadside in niy collection. The 

 following is the title : — 



" The Names of the Prisoners try'd at Liverpool from 

 the 20th of January last to the 4th of February following, 

 are plac'd in the following List in the same order ag they 

 were try'd : all the Scots are said to be of Prestown, be- 

 cause the certain places of their abode in their own countr}' 

 ■were not known. Those with the mark (*) to them were 

 found guilty; those marked thus (f) pleaded guilty; aild 

 those with no marks were acquitted." 



No date or place. 



The place of execution is marked opposite to 

 each name — many at Manchester, and more at 

 Wiganj most at Preston. J. M. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay. In 

 Two Volumes. Willi a Portrait. (Longman.) 



We have in these volumes the completion of the Works 

 of one who has gained for himself the highest reputation 

 as Poet, Essayist, and Historian : and in this collection 

 of the Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay will be 

 found specimens of his skill in each of the great branches 

 of composition to which ho devoted himself. Written at 

 different periods of his life, and varied alike in matter 

 and in form, the various compositions here reprinted 

 serve to exhibit the noble writer's characteristics, — his 

 glowing fancy, his varied and thorough scholarship, and 

 his rich yet classic style. 



The collection opens with what may be called the 

 firstlings of his muse, the papers contributed by him to 

 Knight's Quarterly Magazine during his residence at col- 

 lege, comprising not only able criticisms on Dante, Pe- 

 trarch, the Athenian Orators, and Mitford's Greece, but 

 two pieces of imagination — " Fragments of a Roman 

 Tale," and " A Scene from the Athenian Revels," which 

 will be read with great delight; and an "Imaginary 

 Conversation between Cowley and Milton touching the 

 Great Civil War," of which we are told that Lord Ma- 

 caulay " spoke many j'eafs after its publication as that 

 one of his works which he remembered with most satis- 

 faction." These are followed by contributions to the 

 Edinburgh Review, foremost among which are the papers 

 on John Dryden and on History, and that matchless 

 specimen of vituperative criticism, the article on Barere. 

 The five admirable specimens of Biography contributed 

 to the Encyclopcedia Britannica, Atterbury, Bunyan, 

 Goldsmith, Johnson, and Pitt, come next ; and the work 

 concludes with the Miscellaneous Poems and Inscriptions, 

 among which will he found " The Battle of Naseby," 

 which we have been so often requested to republish" in 

 these columns. Such are the contents of these volumes, 

 the appearance of which will be received with the highest 

 satisfaction by all the admirers of the no less gifted than 

 kind-hearted writer, and who have from the moment of 

 his lamented death looked forward anxiously for such a 

 republication. Lord Macaulay's works form his fittest 

 monument — and if, of these it may be said the Essavs 

 are the solid Base, and the History the polished Column, 

 these Miscellanies may well be 'designated the highly 

 decorated Capital. One word as to the Portrait ;— it is 

 strikingly like, and satisfactory in the highest degree. 



On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries. By 

 Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Dean of Westminster. 

 Second Edition, revised and enlarged. To which is added, 

 a Letter to the Author from Herbert Coleridge, Esq., on, 

 the Progress and Prospects of the Society's New English 

 Dictionary. (J. W. Parker & Son.) 



In the contidence that this admirable Essay will be 

 read by all interested in the subject, we shall content 

 ourselves with drawing attention to this enlarged and 

 improved edition of it, and with announcing the fact 

 that no less than fifty efficient contributors are engaged 

 in the preparatory work for the new dictionary. 



Curiosities of Science. Second Series. A Bool; for Old 

 and Young. By John Timbs, F.S.A. (Kent & Co.) 



This volume, which is in the main devoted to che- 

 mistry and its professors, forms the sixth and concluding 

 one of the Series Of Things not Generally Known, and is 

 marked by all the tact, care, and usefulness which cha- 

 racterise all Mr. Timbs's books. 



The Sand Hills of Jutland. By Hans Christian An- 

 dersen. (Bentley.) 



Hans Christian Andersen is one of the most original 

 of modern writers, and one of the most fortunate of the 

 day, for he has escaped imitators. The nineteen tales 

 found in the present volume exhibit all the quaint poetic 

 fancy of his Danish Fairy Tales; and while the rich 

 humour of the writer is undiminished, his deep feeling of 

 reverence appears more frequently. 



Ovingdean Grange : A Tale of the South Downs. By 

 William Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by Hablot K. 

 Browne. (Routledge.) 



The admirers of this new ofi'spring of Mr. Ainsworth's 

 genius for historical fiction will be pleased to have in 

 a collected form a story which has for months formed 

 the great attraction of Bentley's Miscellany. It is quite 

 equal in interest to any of Mr. Ainsworth's works. 



Chapters on Wives. By Mrs. Ellis. (Bentley.) 

 Five stories developing the character of woman in her 

 married life, written in the tone and spirit which have 

 made the writings of Mrs. Ellis so popular with her own 

 sex. 



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H. M.(Holmnrth.) JT'e hare no recollection of receiving such a Query. 

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A. Z. The portion of a masque in the Earl. MS. 511., is in the hand- 

 writing of Peter Bculr*, the -writing master. It Is a Dialogtfe between a 

 Squire, Proteus, drrmhitrite, and Thamesis, written for the entertain- 

 ment of Queen Elizabeth. 



Dido. See " N. & Q." 2nd S. viii. 413. for the origin of thephrase " To 

 get into the wrotig box.*' 



Errata.— 2nd S. ix. p. 403. col. ii. 1.46. for " grace " read " pace;" 

 2ndS. ix. p. 462. col. ii. 1. 18. from bottom, for "Bury " read u Bray." 



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