Notices to Correspondents.
Caution to Bookbuyers.—We have received copies of some letters, which we may perhaps hereafter print, but to which we now need make no farther allusion than to warn gentlemen whose inquiries for books through "N. & Q." may be answered not to part with their money until they receive the books—unless they are dealing with well-known and respectable booksellers.
Scrutator, who writes touching The Kilkenny Cats, is referred to our 2nd Vol., p. 71.
D. D. J. The fragment of MS. forwarded by our Correspondent is a portion of a Latin Commentary on St. Luke.
Our Eighth Volume is now bound and ready for delivery, price 10s. 6d., cloth, boards. A few sets of the whole Eight Volumes are being made up, price 4l. 4s.—For these early application is desirable.
"Notes and Queries" is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday.
COMPLETION OF THE CATHOLIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
By WM. BERNARD MAC CABE, ESQ.
In the Press.
THE THIRD AND LAST VOLUME OF A CATHOLIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Price 18s.
Orders to complete Sets can be addressed to the Publisher, T.C. NEWBY, 30. Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London.
N.B.—Only a limited number of Copies of this Edition will be published. It will be therefore necessary for intending purchasers to give their orders as early as possible.
"Carefully compiled from our earliest records, and purporting to be a literal translation of the writings of the old Chroniclers, miracles, visions, &c., from the time of Gildas; richly illustrated with notes, which throw a clear, and in many instances a new light on what would otherwise be difficult and obscure passages."—Thomas Miller, History of the Anglo-Saxons, p. 88.
Works by the same Author.
BERTHA; or The POPE and the EMPEROR.
THE LAST DAYS OF O'CONNELL.
A TRUE HISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION.
THE LIFE OF ST. ETHELBERT, KING of the EAST ANGLES.
A GRANDFATHER'S STORY-BOOK; or, TALES and LEGENDS, by a POOR SCHOLAR.
ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH POETS, BY ROBERT BELL.
This Day, foolscap octavo, 2s. 6d. cloth, the
POEMS OF THE EARL OF SURREY, of MINOR CONTEMPORANEOUS POETS, and of SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST: with Critical Notes and Biographical Memoirs.
The first Volume of the New and Annotated Edition of the "ENGLISH POETS" by ROBERT BELL, was published on the 1st January, containing the POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. Vol I., 2s. 6d. cloth.
On the 2nd March will be published DRYDEN'S POETICAL WORKS, Vol. II.
London: JOHN W. PARKER & SON, West Strand.
This Day, fcp. 8vo., 4s. 6d.
THE FOUR GOSPELS, IN ONE NARRATIVE. Arranged by Two Friends.
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COBDENIC POLICY THE INTERNAL ENEMY OF ENGLAND. The Peace Society: its Combativeness. Mr. Cobden: his Secretiveness. By ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE. "One who has Whistled at the Plough."
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