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"... for shortness call Noll,Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll?"—

"... for shortness call Noll,

Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll?"—

must be grateful to Mr. Murray for commencing his New Series of theBritish Classicswith theWorks ofOliver Goldsmith, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. The Series is intended to be distinguished by skilful editorship, beautiful and legible type, fine paper, compactness of bulk, and economy of price. Accordingly, these handsome library volumes will be published at 7s.6d.each. If Mr. Murray has shown good tact in choosing Goldsmith for his first author, he has shown equal judgment in selecting Mr. Cunningham for his editor. Our valued correspondent, it is well known, and will be proved to the world when he gives us his new edition of Johnson'sLives of the Poets(which by the bye is to be included in this Series of Murray'sBritish Classics), has long devoted himself to the history of the lives and writings of the poets of the past century. But in the present instance Mr. Cunningham has had peculiar advantages. Besides his own collections for an edition of Goldsmith, he has had the free and unrestricted use of the collections formed for the same purpose by Mr. Forster and Mr. Corney: a liberality on the part of those gentlemen which deserves the recognition of all true lovers of literature. With such aid as this, and his own industry and ability to boot, it is little wonder that Mr. Cunningham has been able to produce under Mr. Murray's auspices the best, handsomest, and cheapest edition of Goldsmith which has ever issued from the press.

Of all the critics of Mr. Dod'sPeerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr. Dod is himself at once the most judicious and unsparing; and the consequence is, that every year he reproduces his admirable compendium with some additional feature of value and interest. For instance, in the volume for 1854, which has just been issued, we find, among many other improvements, that, at a very considerable cost, the attempt made in 1852 to ascertain and record the birthplace of every person who is the possessor, or the next heir, of any title of honour, has been renewed and extended with such success, that many hundred additional birthplaces are now recorded; and the unknown remnant has become unimportant. These statements are perfectly new and original, acquired from the highest sources in each individual case, and wholly unprecedented in the production of peerage-books.

Wanted To Purchase.

Companion to The Almanac.All published.

Isaac Taylor's Physical Theory of Another Life.

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

Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses are given for that purpose:

A Sermon on Knowledge.By Rev. H. J. Rose. Lond. 1826.

Letters By Catholicuson Sir Robt. Peel's Tamworth Address. Lond. 1841.

Kircher's Musurgia Universalis.Romæ, 1650. 2 Toms in 1. Folio.

Granvil's Lux Orientalis, with Notes by Dr. H. More. Lond. 1682. 8vo.

Wanted byJ. G., care of Messrs. Ponsonby, Booksellers, Grafton Street, Dublin.

Selden's Worksby Wilkins. Folio. Vol. III. Part II. 1726.

Bishop Gauden, the Author of "Icon Basilike," by Dr. Todd. 8vo. (A Pamphlet.)

Wanted byThos. G. Stevenson, Bookseller, Edinburgh.

Kingdom's Dictionary of Quotations From the English Poets.3 Vols. Published by Whittaker.

Wanted byA. Griffith, Bookseller, 8. Baker Street.

Clarke's Memoir of W. Falconer

Wanted byF. Dinsdale, Leamington.

Prescott's Conquest of Mexico.Bentley. 1843. Vol. I.

Wanted byHenry Ditchburn, Esq., Gravesend.

G. Macropedii, Fabulæ Comicæ.2 Tom. 8vo. Utrecht, 1552.

Junius Discovered, by P. T. Published about 1789.

Wanted byWilliam J. Thoms, 25. Holywell Street, Millbank, Westminster.

Gallery of Portraits.Published by Charles Knight, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge. No. XLIII. (December, 1835), containing Adam Smith, Calvin, Mansfield.

Wanted byCharles Forbes, 3. Elm Court, Temple.

Bristol Drollery.1674.

Holborn Drollery.1673.

Hick's Grammatical Drollery.1682.

Oxford Jests.

Cambridge Jests.

Wanted byC. S., 12. Gloucester Green, Oxford.

Mudie's British Birds.Bohn. 1841. 2nd Volume.

Waverley.1st Edition.

Wanted byF. R. Sowerby, Halifax.

We are compelled to postpone until next week severalNotes on BooksandNotices To Correspondents.

IfMr. Kerslakewill send the extract from his catalogue which illustrates the corrupted passage inChilde Harold, "Thy waters wasted them," &c.,we will give it insertion in our columns.

J. W. T.Thanks. Your hint shall not be lost sight of.

E. R. (Dublin).Erastianism is so called from Erastus, a German heretic of the sixteenth century. (See, for farther particulars, Hook'sChurch Dictionary, s. v.)

A Priest.We do not like to insert this inquiry without being able to give our readers a specific reference to some paper containing the advertisement; will he enable us to do so?

A. B. (Glasgow).This Correspondent appears to have fallen into an error; on reference he will find ether not washed is recommended(Vol. vi., p. 277.); 2ndly, if he varnishes his pictures with amber varnish(Vol. vii., p. 562.)previous to the application of the black varnish, which should beblack lacquerand notBrunswick black, then he will succeed. Courtesy demands a reply; but we must beg a more careful reading of our recommendations, which will save him much disappointment.

Photo-Inquirer.Restoring Old Collodion.—The question was asked in a late Number. Mr. Crookes being a practical as well as scientific photographer, we hope to receive a solution of the Query.

Index to Volume the Eighth.—This is in a very forward state, and will be ready for delivery withNo. 221.on Saturday next.

"Notes and Queries."Vols. i.tovii.,price Three Guineas and a Half.—Copies are being made up and may be had by order.

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52. PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES of CHARLES II. and JAMES II. Edited by J. Y. AKERMAN, Esq., Sec. S.A.

53. THE CHRONICLE OF THE GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. Edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library by J. GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A.

54. PROMPTORIUM: An English and Latin Dictionary of Words in Use during the Fifteenth Century, compiled chiefly from the Promptorium Parvulorum. BY ALBERT WAY. Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Vol. II. (M to R.) (Now ready.)

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56. THE VERNEY PAPERS. A Selection from the Correspondence of the Verney Family during the reign of Charles I. to the year 1639. From the Originals in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart. To be edited by JOHN BRUCE, ESQ., Trea. S.A.

57. REGULÆ INCLUSARUM: THE ANCREN REWLE. A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, in the Anglo-Saxon Dialect of the Thirteenth Century, addressed to a Society of Anchorites, being a translation from the Latin Work of Simon de Ghent, Bishop of Salisbury. To be edited from MSS. in the Cottonian Library, British Museum with an Introduction, Glossarial Notes, &c., by the REV. JAMES MORTON, B.D., Prebendary of Lincoln. (Now ready.)

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58. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY, during the Civil Wars. To be edited by the REV. T. T. LEWIS, M.A. (Will be ready immediately.)

ROLL of the HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES of RICHARD SWINFIELD, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289, 1290, with Illustrations from other and coeval Documents. To be edited by the REV. JOHN WEBB, M.A., F.S.A.

THE DOMESDAY OF ST. PAUL'S: a Description of the Manors belonging to the Church of St. Paul's in London in the Year 1222. By the VEN. ARCHDEACON HALE.

ROMANCE OF JEAN AND BLONDE OF OXFORD, by Philippe de Reims, an Anglo-Norman Poet of the latter end of the Twelfth Century. Edited, from the unique MS. in the Royal Library at Paris, by M. LE ROUX DE LINCY, Editor of the Roman de Brut.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY (being the First Part of a new Volume) contains the following articles—1. The Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth a Prisoner at Woodstock. 2. On supposed Apparitions of the Virgin Mary; and particularly at La Salette. 3. Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherborne. 4. Manners and Morals of the University of Cambridge during the last Century. 5. English Sketches by Foreign Artists—Max Schlesinger's Saunterings in and about London. 6. Richard Baxter's Pulpit at Kidderminster (with a Plate). 7. Cambridge Improvements, 1853. 8. The Toxaris of Lucian, Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: English Physicians in Russia—Knights Banneret—Sir Constantine Phipps and Sir William Phipps—Diaries of Dr. Stukeley, &c. With Notes of the Month; Historical and Miscellaneous Reviews; Reports of Antiquarian and Literary Societies; Historical Chronicle; and Obituary, including Memoirs of the Queen of Portugal, the Duke of Beaufort, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Cloncurry, Rear-Adm. Pasco, Bickham Escott, Esq., Wm. Gardiner. Esq., Mrs. Opie. Mr. Jas. Trubshaw, C.E., Mr. Samuel Williams, &c. &c. Price 2s.6d.

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CHARLES I.—A Curious Collection of upwards of 300 various Portraits of this King, to be had at No. 1. Osnaburgh Place, New Road. Regent's Park. Also may be had on application, or on the receipt of Six Postage Stamps, a list of Books, Drawings, and Prints, illustrating the City of London. Books on History, Biography, and Topography, illustrated, inlaid, and mounted.

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PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, January 18, and two following days, a large collection of RARE, CURIOUS, and INTERESTING BOOKS, on Astrology, Witchcraft, Magic; the History of America, the East and West Indies, and of England, Ireland, and France; Curious Works on Quakerism, Controversial Theology, and in General Literature; History, Philology, Bibliography, Voyages, and Travels, &c.; also a few Manuscripts, including Bywater's Account of the Cutlers' Company, containing many curious entries; the Original Drawings of Carter's Ancient Architecture; a complete and early copy of Chalon's Etchings from Rembrandt, &c.

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Library and MSS. of the late EARL of MACARTNEY.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 91. Piccadilly, on TUESDAY, January 24, 1854, and following Days, the Important LIBRARY and MSS. of the late GEORGE, EARL of MACARTNEY, Ambassador to China in 1792, &c. The MSS. comprise Heraldic Visitations for many English Counties; the MS. of Hobbes's Leviathan, presented by the Author to Charles II.; Volumes of Superb Oriental and other Drawings; Original MSS. of Bishop Atterbury; State Papers of Sir George Downing, &c.

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