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NOTES AND QUEKIES,

NO 18., MAT 3. '56.

while full justice is done to the merits of that writer, Borne of the graver faults of his " historical painting " are clearly pointed out. There is also a well-considered paper on Outrages on "Women, and the difficulties of finding such punishments for their offences as shall put an end to them. Papers on British New Testament Criticism, Grote's History of Greece, Indian Literature, and Weather and its Prognostics, make up the remainder of the number.

Time was when we looked upon Theobald, Steevens, and Malone as the great Commentators and Illustrators of Shakspeare. But a new race has arisen within these few years, and we, having carefully inspected the edition of The Winter's Tale just illustrated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Mr. George Scharf, and Mr. Grieve, the inimitable scene painter, are inclined to pronounce it the best edition which has yet been submitted to the public. To speak seriously, however, we doubt if any drama was ever pro- duced with so much attention to accuracy of detail, with such varied dramatic effects, and altogether with such a combination of efforts to realise the scene which the poet wished to bring before his audience. This notice the first of any dramatic performance which has ever appeared in our columns is drawn from us because we think The Winter's Tale, at the Princess's Theatre, the pleasantest lesson on Archeology we ever received : and what we have enjoyed ourselves, we wish others to be sharers in.

BOOKS RECEIVED Gulielmi Shaksperii Julius Ccesar Latine reddidit Henricus Denison. Coll. Om. An. apud Oxon. olim Socius. Mr. Denison has apparently pub- lished this specimen of his scholarship, for the purpose of advocating, which he does well in his prefatory notice, the increased employment of translation, written and oral, as a means of acquiring a dead language. Mr. Denison's remarks on this point seem very just, and well deserving the attention of the Masters" of our great Schools.

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_ H. T. HALL. For the saying " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but a step," Napoleon has obtained some notoriety : but the fnit/i is, he bprroived it from Tom Paine; Tom Paine borrowed it from Hugh Blair; and Hugh Blair from Longinus. See " N. & Q.," 1st S. V. 100.

R. W. For the origin and translation of the doorhead inscription at Wymondham,see our 1st S. vii. 23.

K._G. W. S. (Liverpool.) The Query seeking to identify some noble- man's castle on the month of a navigable river or arm of the sea, has al- ready appealed in our columns, 1st <. x. 444. It is too vague for us to hope that its repetition would end in ascertaining the locality.

MARY. The origin of the Crescent as a national emblem has been dis- cussed in our 1st S. Vols. vii. viii. x. xi.

R. W. HACK WOOD. Our Correspondent hat overlooked the article on the Luneburg Table in our 1st S. xi. 29.

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