Beccles.
Quaker Bible (Vol. iv., pp. 87. 412.).
—A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, who writes on the subject of a Quaker Expurgated Bible, appears to be unaware of the existence of a work once (I believe) well known in that body. This was an epitome or compendium of the Bible by John Kendall; it contained the greater portion of the Word of God, such parts being excluded as the editor did not consider profitable. It is probably to this book that the authoress of Quakerism refers; I have, however, never seen her work. This mutilated Bible of John Kendall was frequently to be met with formerly in the houses of members of the Society of Friends; as I have not seen it for more than twenty years, I cannot tell what its exact date may be; it was, however, published in the days when all religious publications of the Society of Friends were subject to the approval of a committee. In 1830, George Witley published a list of those chapters in the Bible which were "suitable" for reading in "Friends'" families; amongst other portions he excluded (I believe) the 16th of Leviticus and Psalm xxii. In private he thought the whole might be read; but he says that he prepared this index because of having heard very unsuitable matter read aloud! This information may be new to your correspondent.
SIMONIDES.
Wyle Cop (Vol. iv., pp. 116. 243. 509.).
—E. H. D. D. is in error; the Wyle Cop at Shrewsbury is not an artificial bank, but a natural eminence overlooking the Severn; and I cannot agree with him in the immateriality of the meaning attached to Wyle. The associations connected with names are frequently of great topographical and historical value. There are many singular names of streets, &c., in Shrewsbury, which I should be glad if any of your correspondents can interpret, such as "Mardol," "Shop latch," "Bispestanes," and "Dogpole;" also the derivation of "Shut" in the sense of passage or entry, a synonym with the Liverpool "Wient," which seems equally uncertain.
Βολις.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
If it be true, as we are inclined to believe, that there is no one subject in the whole wide range of speculative studies, to which the well-worn saying of Hamlet, that there are more things true than are dreamt of in our philosophy, may be applied with so much propriety as Animal Magnetism,—so we are also inclined to believe that a perusal of the two volumes recently published by Mr. Colquhoun under the title of An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism, will tend to convince our readers that to the same subject may be applied the yet older saying, that there is nothing new under the sun. Mr. Colquhoun, who many years since published his Isis Revelata, has long been a diligent inquirer into the nature and origin of the different phenomena of animal magnetism; and it would appear from the work before us, he has also been a persevering reader of all the various accounts of magic, witchcraft, and other so-called popular delusions, recorded by the writers of antiquity, and the chroniclers of the middle ages; as well as of those more modern mysteries (such as the Gustavus Adolphus Story, the Death of Ganganelli, &c.) which seem to increase in interest just in proportion as they approach to our own more enlightened days. As in all the extraordinary tales which he brings forward, our author sees only manifestations of well-known mesmeric phenomena, it may well be imagined that, in recording the result of these examinations and studies, he has probed two volumes which, if they do not satisfy all our requirements upon the subject, will be found of most considerable interest, not only to all who believe in Animal Magnetism, but to all who care to investigate the nature of the human mind, its organization, and the laws which govern its action.