A remedy happily presents itself. As it appears, a short note is sufficient to raise inquiry; and inquiry may lead to new fact, or advance critical equity. It may rescue a meritorious author from oblivion, and restore him to his true position on the roll of fame. It is near a century and a half since Ant. Wood printed a notice of the reverend Thomas Powell, and more than a century since the inquisitive Oldys devoted eighteen pages to an abstract of his _Human industry_;--yet we search in vain for the name of Powell in the dictionaries of Aikin, Watkins, Chalmers, Gorton, &c.--It is even omitted in the _Cambrian biography_ of his countryman William Owen, F.S.A. An exact transcript of the title of the work, and of the manuscript notes which enrich my own copy of it, may therefore be acceptable:-- "Humane industry; or, a history of most manual arts, deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them. Furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit. [_Anonymous._] London, for Henry Herringman, 1661." 8º. [_On the title._] "E libris rarioribus Joannis Brand, Coll. Line. Oxon. 1777." [_On a fly-leaf._] "This book is ascribed by Wood to Dr. Tho'm. Powell, canon of St. David's, who was, says he, 'an able philosopher, a curious critic, and well versed in various languages.' See an abstract of this scarce book in Oldys's _British librarian_, p. 42." "N.B.--The above is the hand-writing of the Rev'd. M'r. Granger, author of the _biographical history._--I bought it of Mr. Prince, at Oxford, who purchased his books." [John Brand.] I have now only to consign the learned Powell to future biographers, and to recommend the volume as one which deserves a place in every choice collection of English books. BOLTON CORNEY. * * * * * MINOR NOTES. _Quotations from Pope._ D***N**R. (p. 38.), gives, as an instance of misquotation, a passage from Pope, as it appeared in the _Times_, and adds a correction of it. As my _memory_ suggested a version different from both that of the _Times_, and the correction of your correspondent, I turned to Pope (Bowles edition, 1806), and found the passage there, precisely as it is given from the _Times_. Has your correspondent any authority for his reading? No various reading of the lines is given by Bowles. While on the subject of Pope, I will make a note (as I have not seen it noticed by his commentators), that the well-known line, "The proper study of mankind is man," is literally from Charron (_De la Sagesse_, I. i. ch. 1.)-- "La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est l'homme." F.F.B. [We may add, that in the Aldine edition of Pope, which was produced under the editorial superintendence of the Rev. A. Dyce, the lines are given as quoted from the _Times_, and without any various reading. See vol. ii. p. 55.]