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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The Coble of Lyme (2 nd S. i. 153. 221.) The mode in which this work was constructed, TIZ. of large irregular rough stones, cobs as cobwalls, walls of unhewn stones, seems to explain the name, which is analogous to pier, from pierre.

EDEN WARWICK.

" Thanhs " after the Gospel (2 nd S. i. 234.) At St. Giles's Church, Oxford, ever since I have known it, some twenty-four years, it has been customary not merely to say " Glory be to Thee,

Lord," before the Gospel, but to say " Thanks be to Thee, O Lord," after the Gospel.

A CONSTANT READER^

Nursery Rhymes (2 nd S. i. 171.) There are some French verses on the alphabet, in which words are used of similar sound to the letters. I cannot remember them entirely, but send what I know, in hopes that some one will complete them :

" Abbe", cetlez, eh eff ! J'ai hache, Ika elle emmene Pequ, est reste : " U V X Y et Z do something, but what

1 cannot recollect.

F. C. H.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Robert Sonthey was a fight-minded, right-hearted Englishman a scholar and a ripe one. He wrote what he felt, said what he meant ; and as when he wrote to his chosen friends and associates, he was wont to interlard much wit with his wisdom, and to vary his graver specu- lations with " most excellent fooling," his Letters furnish us with a picture of the man, which makes us love him the more the better we know him : while from the variety of his learning, and the unexpected manner in which he at times drag* in scraps of his out-of-the-way reading, his Letters are as amusing as they are instructive. Nor are there wanting in the volumes which have called forth these remarks, namely, the first and second of Se- lections from the Letters of Robert Sottihey, edited by his 'Son-in-Law, John Wood Wavter, B.D. letters calcu- lated to make the reader a wiser, better, and perhaps sadder man. Can it be otherwise ? They give us, to use his own words, " the hopes and the fears, the prospects and disappointments, the good and evil fortunes, the joys and the sorrows," of the writer during a long series of years. How heavy were the trials which fell to the lot of Southey, and how manfully they were borne, we need not now consider. He left behind him a name honoured by all parties, and furnished an example of independence to the literary men of his country, which we hope will never be lost sight of ; and therefore it is, that feeling that every line' written by such a man has a germ of good in it, we welcome these volumes, and shall welcome every volume which gives us the outpourings of the heart of Robert Southey.

With the fourth volume of the Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seven- teenth Centimes, by Henry Hallam, Mr. Murray has brought to a close his uniform, cheap, and handsome col- lection of the writings of this accomplished scholar. That in this new and accessible form Mr. Hallam's three great works should receive the honour of becoming Class Books at our Universities and higher schools, is nothing more than might be expected from the vast amount of

learning and research which Mr. Hallam has displayed in the accumulation of his materials, and the good taste and refined style with which he has communicated to his readers the results of his own long studies and specu- lations.

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