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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

We have still some of the Christmas Books waiting for a few words of notice from us, ere we commence our record of the publications of the opening year. Foremost among them in richness of illustration, is Bogue's new edi- tion of the Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Evangeline; Voices of the Night; The Seaside and the Fireside; The Golden Legend; Miscellaneous Poems: illus- trated with upwards of ICO Engravings on Wood from Designs by Jane E. JBenham, Birket Foster, Sfc. The poetry of Longfellow has inspirited the pencils of the artists ; and the result is a volume on whose almost every page we see a happy combination of melodious verse and pictorial beauty.

The fair authoress of the Heir of Redcliffe has given us, what was greatly to be desired, a most genuine, vera- cious, and agreeable History of the Life and Death of the Good Knight, Sir. Thomas Thumb, with divers other Matters concerning the Court of Good King Arthur of Britain. The book has been illustrated by that cunning artist J. B., whose Photographic Illustrations of Scripture, last year, excited so much attention and admiration in the world of Art. It seems doubtful whether the book was written to the pictures, or the pictures made to fit the book; but they do fit most admirably, and Miss Yonge bids fair to be the Macaulay of Fairy Land.

This lady must, however, look to her laurels. There is another Richmond in that field, which she has almost made her own. Claude de Vesci, a Tale, in two volumes, is a new and interesting story of the Heir of Redcliffe school, written with very considerable talent ; although some lady readers ma}', perhaps, find it deficient in that peculiar interest which depends upon the prominence given to a heroine.

Lady Maxwell Wallace has produced a delightful little volume, rich in poetic fancy; and which we have the authority of a whole band of juvenile readers for pro- nouncing to be very pretty indeed. We ourselves thought so, on reading Princess I/se, a Legend translated from the German. And now that we have heard its beauty ex- tolled by such excellent judges, we can have no hesita- tion in giving utterance to our opinion.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to an article in the Gentleman's Magazine for the present month, on the subject of that long-looked-for companion to Anthony ci Wood's great work, an Athe.na Cnntabrigienses. From this we learn that Mr. C. PI. Cooper, F.S.A., the author of the Annals of the University and Town of Cambridge, and his eldest son, Mr. Thompson Cooper, have been for some time past engaged in arranging their materials for the publication of such a work on a scale commensurate with the importance and interest of the subject. The readers of " N. & Q." have seen too many proofs of the fitness of both these gentlemen for the task they have undertaken, to doubt that at last there is something like a prospect of seeing that justice done to Cambridge which, nearly two centuries since, old Anthony rendered to the sister university.

BOOKS RECEIVEP. A Short Account of the Early Manufacture of Gunpowder in England, by W. H. Hart. This valuable little pamphlet, founded on documents dis- covered by the author among the Public Records, is but a foretaste of a larger work upon the subject, for which the author has the materials.

Brazil viewed through a Naval Glass : loith Notes on Slavery and the Slave Trade. By Edward Wilberforce, late of H. M. Navy. Two new parts of Longman's Tra- veller s Library, smartly written, and certainly very amusing.

The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, conducted by Memliers of the Two Universities. No. I. This new can- didate for public favour bids fair to win it. It exhibits evidences that both originality and talent are to be found among its contributors.

The English Bible according to the Authorised Version, newly divided into Paragraphs. Part VIII. 2 Kings and 1 Chronicles. We have so often called attention to this new and useful Paragraph Bible, that we can now do no more than chronicle its progress.

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ORIGIN, NATDRB AND USB or JETTONS AND COUNTBRS. With Copper Plates. By Mr. Snelling. Printed for J. Snelling, No. 16S. next the Horn Tavern, Fleet Street, 1769.

TH VILLAGE OPERA. By C. Johnson. 1729.

IL DSCAMBRONB DI M. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. Post 8vo. Vol. I. 1757.

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MARQUIS OF WORCESTER'S CBNTUHT, OF INVENTIONS. Edited by Par- tington. Murray. 1825.

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MY BBS BOOK. By Rev. W. C. Cotton. Wanted by Rev. John D. GUnnie, 51. Green Street, Grosvenor Square.

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