Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
The last part of the _Transactions of the Academy of Sciences_ of Berlin
contains two papers by Jacob Grimm, which will doubtless be perused with
great interest in this country. The one on the ancient practice of burning
the bodies of the dead (_Ueber das Verbrennen der Leichen_) will be of
especial interest to English antiquaries; but the other, from its connexion
with the great educational questions which now occupy so much of public
attention, will probably be yet more attractive. It is entitled, _Ueber
Schuele Universitaet Academie_. Separate copies of these Essays may be
procured from Messrs. Williams and Norgate.
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson (Wellington Street, Strand) will sell on
Monday next and two following days the valuable Dramatic and Miscellaneous
Library of the late John Fullarton, Esq., which contains an extensive
collection of the early editions of the Old English Dramatists.
We have received the following Catalogues:--Bernard Quaritch's (16. Castle
Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 21. for 1850, of Antiquarian,
Historical, Heraldic, Numismatic, and Topographical Books; William Heath's
(291/2, Lincoln Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 6. for 1850, of Valuable
Second-hand Books; Cole's (15. Great Turnstile) List of very Cheap Books.
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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.
LAW'S LETTERS TO BISHOP HOADLEY.
MILLES, REV. ISAAC, ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CONVERSATION OF, 1721.
BRAY, REV. T., PUBLIC SPIRIT ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE AND DESIGNS OF, 8vo.
1746.
HUET'S COMMERCE OF THE ANCIENTS, 1717.
VINCE'S ASTRONOMY, 3 Vols. 1808.
*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be
sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
JEEDEE. _Notwithstanding Dr. Parr's assertion to the contrary, the _MALLEUS
MALEFICARUM_ is by no means an uncommon book, as may be seen by a reference
to Gruesse _(Bibliotheca Magica, p. 32.)_, where upwards of a dozen editions
are enumerated, and a table of its contents may be seen. The work has been
very fully analysed in the second volume of Horst's Daemonomagie, and, if we
remember rightly, its history is told by Soldan in his _Gesch. der
Hexenprocesse.
R.H. (Trin. Coll. Dub.) _will see that it is impossible to adopt his kind
suggestion without spoiling the uniformity of the work. We have a bound
copy of our First Volume now before us, and can assure him that, although
the margin is necessarily narrow the book has not been spoilt by the
binder._
J.S. Nortor _or _Nawter_ is only the provincial mode of pronouncing
_neatherd_. The _Nolt_ market is the ancient name of a street in
Newcastle--the cattle-market. See Brockett's _Gloss. of North Country
Words_, s.v. _NOWT_ or _NOLT.
A.H. (Stoke Newington). "Limbeck" _is used by Shakspeare for _"Alembic;"_
and in the passage in Macbeth_,--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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