White Livers (Vol. v., p. 127.).
—The superstition, that a man or woman who survives several wives or husbands has a white liver, is common among the lower orders in Lancashire.
P. P.
Torshel's Design to harmonise the Bible (Vol. v., p. 199.).
—This rare and valuable tract is reprinted in The Phenix, 1707, vol. i. pp. 96-113.
JOHN I. DREDGE.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
The success which has attended the endeavour to supply, by means of the London Library in St. James's Square, the want so long felt by scholars and reading men, of a library of circulation of works of a higher class than those to be met with in ordinary subscription libraries, has just been rendered evident by the publication of the second volume of its Catalogue.
From this it appears that there are now in this admirable collection—for it is an admirable one—fifteen thousand distinct works (upwards, we believe, of forty-five thousand volumes), comprising the best and most expensive works in every department of learning, which scholars and men of learning may have the use of in their own studies for the small subscription of two pounds a year. There is little wonder that the plan has succeeded, for it has been well carried out,—thanks to the zeal of the Managing Committee, and to the care and attention of Mr. Cochrane, its able and most efficient Librarian.