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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. JULY 2, '98.

Mr. Ashdown, and Mr. John T. Page gives us '.The Death and Resting-place of the Great Lord Bacon.' Mr. Howlett, who writes on St. Alban's Abbey, observes a discreet resei've concerning the altera- tions that have of late been effected. He says, with the vagueness of an ancient oracle, " In the present day opinion is much divided on the subject ; but when time shall have obliterated all prejudice, the recent work will then stand forth for what it is really worth." We will take Mr. Hewlett's word for thus much. Mr. W. R. Willis deals with ' Markets and Market Laws,' and Mr. Lewis Evans with ' Witchcraft in Hertfordshire.' A strange engraving of the ducking of a witch (who was drowned) and her husband is among the illus- trations.

The Shakespeare Reference Bool: By J. S. Webb.

(Stock.)

IF this book were but a first part we might com- prehend it. A Shakspeare reference book of fewer than 120 pages can scarcely be regarded as final. The arrangement, moreover, strikes us as quaint and eccentric. We find under 'Pat,' "It will fall pat, as I told you," and under ' Harp,' " Harp not on that string, madam."

THE number of the Antiquary, for June is espe- cially good. The series of jmpers'upon ' Old Sussex Farmhouses and their Furniture ' finishes, and the concluding paper gives some very interesting illus- trations. We wonder whether the author, Mr. J. Lewis Andrd, knows that the looking-glass of which he gives an engraving, and which dealers usually misname "Chippendale," is to be found in many cottages in the northern part of Lincolnshire. The example given of a " Bible-box" will, we fear, send the dealers as a cloud of locusts down into Sussex. Miss F. Peacock sends a curious photo- graph representing scenes from the life of the Prodigal Son in late sixteenth or very early seven- teenth century tapestry. It is of Flemish make.

WE have received the sixth number of the Public Library Journal, a quarterly magazine issued by the committees of the Cardiff and Penarth Libraries and the Cardiff Museum. It contains much useful information, no little of which will interest those who live outside the Principality of Wales. The Cardiff authorities have most wisely felt it to be their duty to form a special collection of books in the Welsh language. From small beginnings it has grown to be a very valuable gathering. We are glad to find that a separate catalogue of these books is about to be taken in hand. This will be of great service to Celtic students. We hope that the library admits works in the other Celtic tongues. All of them are sisters, or at least cousins. It would be a great thing for Wales if there were one place within its borders where the whole literature of the race might be studied. Mr. John Ward has contributed a paper on Roman Cardiff, which we have found interesting.

WE have received a tabular sheet - pedigree (Mitchell & Hughes) of the descendants of the Rev. Thomas Maddock, rector of Coddington, Cheshire, who died 12 Feb., 1825. It seems to be very care- fully compiled. The persons named therein are numerous, and the necessary information is given in every case. This interesting document is illus- trated with well-engraved arms of the families of Maddock, Scott, Rokeby, Grey, and Edgecumbe.

MR. ROBERT HUDSOX, an old friend and con- tributor to ' N. & Q.,' died on Monday, the 20th ult., at his house at Lapworth, at the comparatively early age of sixty-four. He was a member of the Library Association from its formation, and at one time was president of the Birmingham Old Library. Mr. Hudson had gathered, by close examination of ancient deeds, materials for a history of Lapworth parish.

THE Oxford University Press has nearly finished printing the first part of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, which is being edited by Messrs. B. P. Grenfeli and A. S. Hunt for the Egypt Exploration Fund. The volume contains 158 texts, including the early fragments of St. Matthew's Gospel, Sappho, Aris- toxenus, Sophocles, and other lost and extant classics, with official and private documents dating from the first to the seventh century of our era.

MR. FOX-DAVIES has in preparation, and will publish in the autumn, the third edition of his very valuable ' Armorial Families,' an admirably illus- trated book, the worth of which is shown by the fact that it will have passed through three editions in four years. It will contain a compendium of all armorial bearings legitimately in use and a list of all entitled to bear them.

MR. BERTRAM DOBELL will shortly issue the first part of a 'Catalogue of Early Printed Dublin Books, 1601 to 1700,' by E. R. McC. Dix, with an introduction and notes by C. Winston Duncan. We should like to see the list extended. Pirated as many of them are, the Dublin books of the last century have an interest of their own, and deserve to find their bibliographer.

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