Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851

*** Letters stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.

Notices To Correspondents

Among many articles of great interest which are in type, but unavoidably postponed until next Saturday, the fourth and last in the month, when we shall consequently publish a double number, are Shakspeare and Fletcher, by Mr. Hickson—Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IV.—Illustrations of Tennyson—Sallust and Tacitus—Haybands in Seals, by Mr. Lower, Mr. Burtt, and L. B. L.—North Side of Churchyards—Sir F. Kynaston's Academy, by Dr. Rimbault—and several very important communications on the proposed Monumentarium Anglicanum.

S. J. R. is referred to our First Volume, p. 467., for information on the subject of May Marriages being unlucky.

An Old Boy. We will do our best to follow the good advice so pleasantly given; but he has little knowledge of the difficulty of pleasing all—to say nothing of our editorial selves. For instance, in the case to which has has referred in our Second Volume, we have ascertained that the second article was in type before the one which precedes it had reached us.

H. K. G. S. Received with great regret. We believe we best consulted the respect due to our correspondent by the course we followed, as we are certain that we adopted it with the best intentions towards him.

We are this week compelled to go to press one day earlier than usual; we have to request the indulgence of our correspondents for the omission of our usual List of Replies Received, and for not replying until next week to several inquiries which have been addressed to us.

Vols. I. and II., each with very copious Index, may still be had, price 9s. 6d. each.

Notes and Queries may be procured, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsvenders. It is published at noon on Friday, so that our country Subscribers ought not to experience any difficulty in procuring it regularly. Many of the country Booksellers, &c., are, probably, not yet aware of this arrangement, which will enable them to receive Notes and Queries in their Saturday parcels.

All communications for the Editor of Notes and Queries should be addressed to the care of Mr. Bell, No. 186. Fleet Street.

In royal 8vo., with numerous illustrations, price 1l. 8s.

THE ARCHÆOLOGY and PRE-HISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. By Daniel Wilson.

"Many reflections are suggested by this beautiful volume, which is one of the most interesting, learned, and elegant works we have seen for a long time. * * * We commend it to every reader of taste and judgment."—Westminster Review.

Sutherland and Knox, Edinburgh: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; and J. H. Parker, London.

Valuable Library and MSS. Antiquities and Miscellaneous Objects.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 101, Piccadilly, on WEDNESDAY, April 23, and Three following Days, the LIBRARY of a Gentleman, consisting of Modern Useful Books, together with some articles of considerable Rarity, a First Edition of Cocker's Arithmetic (but one other known); numerous Bibliographical Works, important Collection of MSS., relating to Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, London, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, and other Places; Charters, Epistolæ S. Paula MS. of the Tenth Century, &c. Catalogues will be sent on application.

Just published, price 2s. 6d. in cloth,

AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF SCRIPTURE NAMES, ACCENTED AND EXPLAINED; with Copious Illustrative Notes, and Introductory Observations on the Origin of Language and Proper Names, &c. By W. G. Hird.

Recommended by the Rev. Drs. Eadie, Forbes, Hannah, Hill, Acworth, and Godwin; Revs. Daniel Walton, W. Bird, J. D. Brocklehurst, T. Rowland, Jonathan Glyde, J. G. Miall, W. Cooke, &c. &c.

London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Glasgow: G. Gallie. Manchester: Fletcher and Tubbs. Bradford, Yorks.: Dale and Byles.

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 3. Parliament Street, London.

VALUABLE NEW PRINCIPLE.

Payment of premiums may be occasionally suspended without forfeiting the policy, on a new and valuable plan, adopted by this society only, as fully detailed in the prospectus.

A. Scratchley, M.A.,

Actuary and Secretary; Author of "Industrial Investment and Emigration; being a Second Edition of a Treatise on Benefit Building Societies, &c." Price 10s. 6d.

London: J. W. Parker, West Strand.

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY for the Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday the 2nd of May, at Four o'Clock precisely; the Lord Braybrooke, the President, in the Chair.

William J. Thoms, Secretary.

The following are the Publications of the Society for the year 1850-1.

I. A SELECTION FROM THE WILLS Preserved in the Will Office at Bury St. Edmund's. Edited by Samuel Tymms, Esq.

II. WALTER MAPES "DE NUGIS CURIALIUM." A Treatise on the Political Affairs of his Time, written in 1181. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A.

III. SIR RICHARD GUYLFORDE'S PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND, A.D. 1506. Edited from a copy believed to be unique from the press of Richard Pynson, by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Sec. S. A.

The Subscription to the Society of 1l. per annum which becomes due on the 1st of May.

Communications from Gentlemen desirous of becoming Members may be addressed to the Secretary; or to Messrs. Nichols, No. 25. Parliament Street, Westminster, by whom the Subscriptions of all Members resident in London are received.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXVI., is just published.

CONTENTS:

1. POULTRY LITERATURE.

2. WOMEN IN FRANCE—MADAME DE MAINTENON.

3. JULIUS CÆSAR—MERIVALE'S ROMAN HISTORY.

4. THE REPUBLIC IN THE KING'S COACHES.

5. SANITARY MOVEMENT—CENTRALIZATION.

6. LIVES OF CALVIN. By Dyer, &c.

7. LORD HOLLAND'S REMINISCENCES.

8. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

John Murray, Albermarle Street.

DR. MAITLAND'S ERUVIN—SECOND EDITION.

In small 8vo., price 5s. 6d.

ERUVIN; or MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS on Subjects connected with the NATURE, HISTORY, and DESTINY of MAN.

By the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D.D., F.R.S., and F.S.A.

Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo Place;

Of whom may be had, by the same Author,

1. ESSAYS on the REFORMATION in ENGLAND. 15s.

2. ESSAYS on the DARK AGES. Second Edition. 12s.

ORIGINAL LETTERS ON THE CHURCH IN IRELAND.

In post 8vo., price 10s. 6d.

ORIGINAL LETTERS and PAPERS in ILLUSTRATION of the HISTORY of the CHURCH in IRELAND, during the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.

Edited, with Notes, from Autographs in the State-Paper Office,

By Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., M.A.

Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo Place.

MAPS AND ATLASES of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Published by C. Knight, 90. Fleet Street.

ATLAS COMPLETE, with Index, 212 Maps, plain, in 1 vol., half morocco or russia, 6l. 7s. Coloured, 1 vol., half morocco or russia. 9l. 14s.

LIBRARY ATLAS, 161 Maps, 1 volume, plain, 5l. 5s.; coloured, 7l. 7s.

FAMILY ATLAS, 54 Maps, plain, 2l. 2s.; coloured 2l. 16s.

SCHOOL ATLAS, Modern and Ancient, 39 Maps, plain, 1l. 3s.; colored, 1l. 13s.

OUTLINE MAPS, FOR LEARNERS, Part I., 12 Maps, 4s.; Part II., 8 Maps, 3s.

SINGLE MAPS, plain, 6d. each; coloured, 9d.

MAP OF LONDON, for the convenience of Visitors to the Exhibition, plain, 1s.; coloured, 1s. 6d.; bound in cloth, 3s.

The whole of the Maps are corrected to the present time, and a Prospectus, with full particulars, will be forwarded post-free on application to the Publisher, 90. Fleet Street.

Just published, foolscap 8vo., cloth with Steel Engraving, price 4s. 6d.

THE FAIRY GODMOTHERS and other Tales. By Mrs. Alfred Gatty.

London: George Bell, 186. Fleet Street.

A New Edition, 24mo., price 5s., of

KEMPIS DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI, et Contemptu Mundi, omniumque ejus vanitatum, Libri IV. Codex De Advocatis Seculi xiii. With Life by Charles Butler.

William Pickering, 177. Piccadilly.

A New Edition, 8vo., with Frontispiece, "Ecce Homo," engraved by Robinson, after a Painting by Guercino, 9s.,

OF the IMITATION of JESUS CHRIST.

Translated from the Latin original, ascribed to Thomas à Kempis. By T. F. Dibdin, D.D.

William Pickering, 177. Piccadilly.

1

Southey was not aware that the whole of Chaucer's Poem, and the "Testament of Cressid," by Henryson, was translated by Kinaston and accompanied by a copious commentary in English, but only exists in one sole MS. The press of the Camden Society would be well employed on it.

2

In Baron von Aretin's Beytrage zur Geschichte und Literatur, vol. vii. p. 301.; but the copy, though a good text, was defective at the end.

3

[We are sure we are only expressing the opinion of the majority of our readers when we say it will be most acceptable.—Ed.]

4

See Parkhurst.

5

Dickinson's Delphi Phœnic., p. 10.

6

Stillingfleet's Orig. Sacræ, book iii. c. iii. s. 18.