NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Mr. Macaulay's vigorous sketch of the gallant cornet of horse who resigned his commission for the toga, and, after figuring during his life as statesman than whom "none has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid name," was stricken down in full council while straining his feeble voice to rouse the drooping spirit of his country, forms the fifth part of The Traveller's Library: and it would be difficult to find a volume of the same compass better calculated to furnish a couple of hours' amusing and instructive reading than William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell, on Tuesday next, an extensive collection of Autograph Letters, chiefly of distinguished Actors, Actresses, and Dramatic Writers, but including a very interesting series of letters, documents, and papers relating to the Byron family, and, what is of still more importance and historical value, the Autograph Correspondence of Charles I. with Captain Titus, written during his imprisonment in Carisbrook Castle, and treating of his proposed escape from it, and also some letters of Charles II., addressed by him, after the Restoration, to the same zealous adherent. On the following day Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will be employed in the disposal of a very select Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, including Letters and Autographs of Queen Elizabeth, James I., King John of France (Jehan le Bon), Richard Duke of York, Philip II. of Spain, and many documents connected with the great Anglo-Norman Families, and the Royal Houses of France and Normandy.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—W. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Seventy-first Catalogue of English, Foreign, Classical, and Miscellaneous Literature; Cole's (15. Great Turnstile) List No. XXXVI. of very Cheap Books; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn) Catalogue Part 52. of Interesting and Curious Books.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
- BUDDEN'S LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP MORTON, 1607.
- THOMAS LYTE'S ANCIENT BALLADS AND SONGS. 12mo. 1827.
- DODWELL (HENRY, M.A.), DISCOURSE PROVING FROM SCRIPTURES THAT THE SOUL IS A PRINCIPLE NATURALLY MORTAL, &c.
- REFLECTIONS ON MR. BURCHET'S MEMOIRS; or, Remarks on his Account of Captain Wilmot's Expedition to the West Indies, by Colonel Luke Lillingston, 1704.
- GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Vol. I. 1731.
- NEW ENGLAND JUDGED, NOT BY MAN'S BUT BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, &c. By George Bishope. 1661. 4to. Wanted from p. 150. to the end.
- REASON AND JUDGMENT, OR SPECIAL REMARQUES OF THE LIFE OF THE RENOWNED DR. SANDERSON, LATE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN. 1663. Sm. 4to. Wanted from p. 90. to the end.
- TRISTAM SHANDY. 12mo. Tenth Edition. Wanted Vol. VII.
- MALLAY, ESSAI SUR LES EGLISES ROMAINES ET BYZANTINES DU PUY DE DOME. 1 Vol. folio. 51 Plates.
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE REMAINS OF THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS, to which is added a Discourse thereon, as connected with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. London, 1786. 4to. By R. Payne Knight.
- CH. THILLON'S (Professor of Halle) NOUVELLE COLLECTION DES APOCRYPHES, AUGMENTÉ, &c. Leipsic, 1832.
- COURS DE PHILOSOPHIE POSITIVE, par Auguste Compte. 6 Vols. 8vo.
- SOCIAL STATICS, by Herbert Spencer. 8vo.
- THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. The back numbers.
- THE DAPHNIS AND CHLOE OF LONGUS, translated by Amyot (French).
- ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. The part of the 7th edition edited by Prof. Napier, containing the Art. MORTALITY.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON HEALTH AND MORTALITY, by Arthur S. Thomson, M.D. (A Prize Thesis.)
- REPORT ON THE BENGAL MILITARY FUND, by F.G.P. Neison. Published in 1849.
- THREE REPORTS, by Mr. Griffith Davies, Actuary to the Guardian, viz.:
- Report on the Bombay Civil Fund, published 1836.
- ——— Bengal Medical Retiring Fund, published 1839.
- ——— Bengal Military Fund, published 1844.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE MORTALITY AND PHYSICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN, by Mr. Roberton, Surgeon, London, 1827.
*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.
Notices to Correspondents.
REPLIES RECEIVED.—Marriage of Bishops—Whig and Tory—First Panorama—History of Magnetical Discovery—Mistake as to an Eclipse—A Posie of other Men's Flowers—Elision of Letter V.—Meaning of Carnaby—Bummaree—Fortune, infortune fort une—Curious Omen at Marriage—Petworth Register—Mice as a Medicine—Leman Baronetcy—Words of a Catch—Dies Iræ—Covines—Test of a Bow—Eisel—Plaids and Tartans—Voce Populi—Organs—Curfew—Churches decorated at Christmas—Mistletoe—Inscription on an Oak Board—Medical Use of Mice—Answer to Charade—Cure for Ague. [And many others which are already in type waiting for insertion.]
Copies of our Prospectus, according to the suggestion of T. E. H., will be forwarded to any correspondent willing to assist us by circulating them.