Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Records of the Roman Inquisition, Case of a Minorite
Friar who was sentenced by S. Charles Borromeo to be walled up, and who,
having escaped, was burned in effigy: edited, with an English Translation,
Notes, &c., by_ Rev. Richard Gibbings. Published from one of the MSS.
conveyed from Rome to Paris by order of Napoleon, at the close of the last
century, as a challenge to the defenders of the papacy to acknowledge its
truth, or to controvert it.--_The History of England from the Peace of
Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles_, by Lord Mahon, Vol. III. The third
volume of this new and cheaper edition of Lord Mahon's valuable history
comprehends the period from 1740 to 1748.--_English Forests and Forest
Trees; Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive, with numerous
Illustrations._ This volume, one of the _Illustrated London Library_, is a
pleasant chatty compilation on a subject which will interest many of our
readers and correspondents by furnishing them with a series of notices of
old forests, remarkable trees, &c., which have never before been gathered
together.--_The Shakspeare Repository, edited by_ J. H. Fennell, No. II.
The second part of this periodical, the only one exclusively devoted to the
Elizabethan writers, contains, among other interesting articles, a long one
on the medical practice of Shakspeare's son-in-law, Dr. John Hall.
[Footnote 1: Since this was written we have heard that MR. COLLIER has
traced back the history of his Folio 1632 for upwards of a century.--ED.]
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SCOTT, REMARKS ON THE BEST WRITINGS OF THE BEST AUTHORS (or some such
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SERMONS BY THE REV. ROBERT WAKE, M.A. 1704, 1712, &c.
HISTORY OF ANCIENT WILTS, by SIR R. C. HOARE. The last three Parts.
REV. A. DYCE'S EDITION OF DR. RICHARD BENTLEY'S WORKS. Vol. III.
Published by Francis Macpherson, Middle Row, Holborn. 1836.
DISSERTATION ON ISAIAH XVIII., IN A LETTER TO EDWARD KING, ESQ., by
SAMUEL LORD BISHOP OF ROCHESTER (HORSLEY). The Quarto Edition, printed
for Robson. 1779.
BEN JOHNSON'S WORKS. 9 Vols. 8vo. Vols. II., III., IV. Bds.
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOVELS. 41 Vols. 8vo. The last nine Vols. Boards.
JACOB'S ENGLISH PEERAGE. Folio Edition, 1766. Vols. II., III., and IV.
GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
ALISON'S EUROPE. (20 Vols.) Vols. XIII., XX.
ABBOTSFORD EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Odd Vols.
THE TRUTH TELLER. A Periodical.
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Notices to Correspondents.
_We are compelled to omit several interesting papers respecting Shakspeare
which are in type, among which we may mention a notice of some drawings
which are great interest._
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