Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

ESSAYS, SCRIPTURAL, MORAL, AND LOGICAL, by W. and T. Ludlam. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1807.

ELDERFIELD (C.), DISQUISITIONS ON REGENERATION, BAPTISM, &c., 4to. London, 1653.

DODWELL (HENRY, M.A.), DISCOURSE PROVING FROM SCRIPTURES THAT THE SOUL IS A PRINCIPLE NATURALLY MORTAL, &c.

THE TALE OF A TUB REVERSED, for the universal Improvement of Mankind, with a character of the Author.

REFLECTIONS ON MR. BURCHET'S MEMOIRS, or, Remarks on his Account of Captain Wilmot's Expedition to the West Indies, by Col. Luke Lillingston. 1704. [Two copies wanted.]

SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDUM. [Any Edition before 1700.]

CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES AND OTHER POEMS, 2 vols. 12mo. [Cumberland's Edition.]

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Notices to Correspondents

VOLUME THE FIRST OF NOTES AND QUERIES, with Title-page and very copious Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen.

NOTES AND QUERIES may be procured by the Trade at noon on Friday: so that our country Subscribers ought to experience no difficulty in receiving it regularly. Many of the country Booksellers are probably not yet aware of this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in their Saturday parcels.

W.A. will find an article on "The Owl was once a Baker's Daughter," quoted by Shakspeare, in one of MR. THOMS' Papers on the FOLK LORE OF SHAKSPEARE, published in the Athenæum October and November 1847.

JUNIUS IDENTIFIED.

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AMERICA AND IRELAND.—MILLER'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, Number XI. for 1850, contains many curious and interesting books on the above Countries with the usual valuable Miscellanies in all departments, Published this day, GRATIS.

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BALLAD ROMANCES, by R. H. HORNE, Esq., author of "Orion." &c.—Containing the Noble Heart, a Bohemian Legend—The Monk of Swinstead Abbey, a Ballad Chronicle of the Death of King John—The Three Knights of Camelott, a Fairy Tale—The Ballad of Delora, or the Passion of Andrea Como—Red Gelert, a Welsh Legend—Ben Capstan, A Ballad of the Night Watch—The Elf of the Woodlands, a Child's Story, fcap. 8vo, elegantly printed and bound in cloth, 248 pages, only 2s. 6d.

CRITICISMS AND ESSAYS On the Writings of Atherstone, Blair, Bowles, Sir E. Brydges, Carlyle, Carrington, Coleridge, Cowper, Croly, Gillfillian, Graham, Hazlitt, Heber, Heraud, Harvey, Irving, Keats, Miller, Pollock, Tighe, Wordsworth, and other Modern Writers, by the Rev. J.W. LESTER, B.A., royal 8vo., 100 pages of closely printed letterpress, originally published at 5s., reduced to 1s. 3d. 1848.

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FALLACY OF GHOSTS, DREAMS, AND OMENS, with Stories of Witchcraft, Life in Death, and Monomania, by CHARLES OLLIER, 12mo., cloth. gilt, with Illustrations by G. Measom, 250 pages of amusing letterpress, only 2s.

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Old Engravings, early Printed Books, Manuscripts, &c.

SOUTHGATE and BARRETT will SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, 22. Fleet-street, on Tuesday, September 24, at 12. PORTRAITS and ENGRAVlNGS. incliding many proofs, a very interesting and extensive collection of original proclamations, two books printed by Pynson unknown to bibliographers: also a few very valuable Manuscripts relating to the counties of Stafford, Salon, Leicester, Wilts, &c., ancient statutes upon vellum. heraldic MSS., &c.

Just Published, 8vo., price 8s., with numerous Illustrations by Messrs. O. Jerrit and H. Shaw,

REMARKS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL; with an Essay towards a History of the Fabric. By EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; author of the "History of Architecture."

London: W. PICKERING, 177. Piccadilly. Tenby: R. MASON.

Just Published, price 5s., in post 8vo., cloth lettered; if sent by Post. 6s.

THE POPE; Considered in his RELATIONS WITH THE CHURCH, TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTIES, SEPARATED CHURCHES, and the CAUSE OF CIVILISATION. By COUNT JOSEPH DE MAISTRE. Translated by the Rev. AENEAS MC D. DAWSON. Embellished with a Portrait of His Holiness Pope Pius IX.

London: C. DOLMAN, 61. New Bond-street; and 48A. Paternoster Row.

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SABRINAE COROLLA: a Volume Of Classical Translations with original Compositions contributed by Gentlemen educated at Shrewsbury School.

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RULES FOR OVIDIAN VERSE, with some Hints on the Transition to the Virgilian Hexameter, and an Introductory Preface. Edited by JAMES TATE, A.M., Master of the Grammar School, Richmond. 8vo. sewed, 1s. 6d.

FIRST STEPS TO LATIN VERSIFICATION, being an Analysis of the Scansion and Structure of the Ovidian Verse. Price 6d. on sheet; folded in cloth, 1s.

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CICERONIS CATO MAJOR, sive de Senectute, Laelius, site de Amicitia. et Epistolæ Selectæ; with English Notes and an Index. By GEORGE LONG. Being a second volume of the Grammar School Classics.

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SELECTIONS FROM OVID; AMORES, TRISTIA, HEROIDES, METAMORPHOSES: with prefatory remarks. This Selection is intended to afford an introduction, at once easy and unobjectionable, to a knowledge of the Latin Language, after a boy has become well acquainted with the declensions of nouns and pronouns, and the ordinary forms of verbs.