must have been composed in Ireland. If the old black-letter book had said that the Irish got their dinner at night, it would have been nearer the truth, for the larders of the Milesian chiefs in the neighbourhood of the English pale were often supplied by the nocturnal marauds of their cattle-lifters. However, I see that Stanihurst writes that the Irish dined in winter before day, and in summer about the seventh hour.
Can any of your readers say in whose possession this book is now? I was informed that it was purchased by a dignitary of Cambridge University.
H. F. H.
Wexford.
POLITICAL PAMPHLETS.
The loan of the following works is much desired by a gentleman who has in vain tried to find them in the British Museum, or to purchase them. They belong to a class of books which being of little money-value are generally wasted by booksellers, rarely or never inserted in their catalogues:—
A Collection of Letters on Government, Liberty and the Constitution, which appeared from the time Lord Bute was appointed First Lord of the Treasury to the Death of Lord Egremont. 3 vols. [possibly 4], published in 1774 by Almon.
A Collection of esteemed Political Tracts, which appeared 1764, 5, and 6. 3 or 4 vols. published 1766 or 7, by Almon.
A Collection of most Interesting Political Letters which appeared in the Public Papers from 1763 to 1765. 3 or 4 vols. Almon, 1766.
The Briton (a Periodical). 1763.