Is this the work published at New York in 1840? I suppose so: at least, if "Prof. Noah" has been reproducing the Bristol Book of Jasher (1829), he can claim but little of the justice and perfectness of his great namesake.
A. A. D.
Stearne's (not Hearne's) Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft (Vol. v., p. 416.).—Of this tract, inquired after by Mr. Clarke, and which is certainly one of the most extraordinary of all the treatises on Witchcraft, the only copy I ever saw is the one I possess, and which I have fully described in the notes to Pott's Discovery of Witches, printed for the Chetham Society, p. 4. The Rev. Author was no theorist, but a thoroughly practical man; having been an agent in finding and bringing to justice 200 witches in the eastern counties. He has the subject so perfectly at his fingers' ends, and discusses it so scientifically, that Hopkins sinks into insignificance by the side of him. Pity it is that such a philanthropic individual should have had occasion to complain: "In many places I never received penny as yet, nor any am like, except that I should sue!!"
Jas. Crossley.
Lines on Chaucer (Vol. v., p. 586.).—The lines should be quoted:—
"Britain's first poet,
Famous old Chaucer,
Swan-like, in dying
Sung his last song
When at his heart-strings