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 320 NOTES AND QUERIES. [sw S. v1. om. 20, 1900. The Holy Bible. Two-Version Edition. (Oxford, University Press.) THE present eminently useful Bible issued by the Oxford University Press takes as its basis the Authorized Version, and supplies in the margin the differences of the Revised ersion, so that both texts are before the eye of the reader at the same moment. A satisfactory and explanatory key, the mastery of which is indispensa le, precedes the text, and in the preliminary matter to the Old and New Testaments appears a ‘preface by the Bishop of Gloucester describing t e principle and the advantages of the present arrangement. For the Bret time the teacher may dispense with the em- plo ent of two volumes, having before him, in a ‘mod-:lately sized book, what is practically the complete text of the two versions, showing the slightest variation even in punctuation. The idea of the volume originated wit Mr. Alfred F. Buxton. Its utility] both for the closet and the lecture-room will, wit out doubt, find immediate recognition. It is issued on different papers, that before us being on the delightful Oxford India paper, which has just carried off, as it deserved, one of the highest- Srizes in the Paris Exposition, and in a no less elightful flexible leather binding. It can, if re- quired, be had bound_ up with the Oxford ‘ Helps to the Study of the B1ble,’ a work as to the merits of which we are in a posit-ion to speak. We have used it incessantly since its first appearance and found its utility extend far beyon the Biblical illustration for which it is specially designed. There is a larfe range of profane subjects the com- prehension o which is facilitated by an intimacy with this eminently desirable work. MR. THOMAS’S article on animal superstitious and totemism in Folk-Lore for September is written to show that many fragmentary survivals of totemism are yet to be found in Europe, although the belief from which they sprang has long been outgrown. He has, accordingly, brought together a mass of superstitious whic he hol to be “ best accounted for by the theogy that they originated in a system of totemism di ering in no essential respect from that which we tind among the non-European races.” Certainly many of the i ess and customs collected do suggest comparison with the cult which has had such great influence in North America and Australia. The paper next following is Mr. Chad- wick’s contribution to a knowledge of the ancient Teutonic priesthood, and he has succeeded in bringing together a great deal of valuable informa- tion in a few pages. Mr. Gale’s small collection of Korean beliefs is also inwortant, and Miss Law has done good service to iltshire by recording its death and burial customs. Hoasnooxs.-The late Mr. Andrew Tuer in his ‘ History of the Hornbook’ called attention to an interesting phase of education in England. The hornbook consisted usually of the alp abet, &c., rinted on a small sheet of paper mounted on a handled wooden slab, and covered with a thin sheet of translucent horn, framed by brass or copper rimming fixed with tacks. The rarity of these relics of safest age was put to the test last summer when r. Tuer’s col ection was sold at Sothebyis at amazing prices. Mr. Elkin Mathews of Vi o Street, secured at the sale “upwards oi a hundred real horns, which he has h _made up from an old Elizabethan example. This strictly limited edition will be on sale at the end of Octo- ber. The edition contains the usual rinted matter found in hornbooks, viz. the alphahet, numerals invocation, and Lord’s Prayer ; the backs are of plain oak, with a hole in the handle, to be sus- pended from a girdle. AT Glasgow Universit o l d t 'b to Mr. Thomas Bayne has lieeliir Jpapcliiitellogxlxmlineg for graduation in the department of English lan- guage and literature. Mas. Pxosr Tovsssn who is editin a ne edition of ‘The Letters bf Horace Walgolef asl; owners of original letters, alread printed or not, to communicate with her. All dyocuments will be carefully treated and duly acknowledged. Mrs. Toynbee _ will be grateful for accurate copies if the originals cannot be sent. It is expected tha: the rfew editxgdwill oLcicup¥ ten or eleven oc vo vo umes. ress rs. t To bee Dorney Wood, Burnham, Bucks. age yn ' gntim in Gsrnsgmzlmxts. 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