"By a singular chance, at a sale of the library of Dr. Guise in January, 1812, he met with two copies of Mr. Gough's juvenile translation of the _History of the Bible_; and at the end of one of the volumes were ten sheets of Mr. Pickering's _Dictionary_, perhaps the only copy of them in existence." The Rev. Roger Pickering was Mr. Gough's tutor until he was admitted at Bene't College, Cambridge, July, 1752, being then in the 17th year of his age. This Dictionary was compiled on the plan of Calmet, but left unfinished. Mr. J. B. Nichols, son of the late venerable octogenarian, having recently presented me with a copy of Mr. Gough's scarce volume, I am anxious to learn by whom the original French work was written, and where a copy may be purchased. It is one of much erudition; sound in doctrine and principle; pleasing and familiar in its language, and would, I should think, well repay the publisher of a new edition, after a careful correction of a few deficiencies in composition, incidental to the early period at which Mr. Gough translated it. There is nothing in the preface, or in any part of the volume, to indicate the name of the original author. Should Mr. J. B. Nichols still possess Mr. Gough's more matured and corrected copy, he might perhaps discover some reference to the author. J. M. G. Worcester, Jan. 1851. * * * * * FOLK LORE. _Lammer Beads_ (Vol. iii. p. 84.).--If L. M. M. R. had taken the trouble to consult Jamieson's _Etymological Dictionary_,--that rich storehouse of curious information, not merely in relation to the language, but to the manners and customs, and the superstitions of North Britain,--he would have found interesting notices connected with his inquiry. See the word LAMMER, and the same in the Supplement. We might accept, without a moment's hesitation, the suggestion of a learned friend of Dr. Jamieson's, deriving Lammer from the French, _l'ambre_, were it not that Kilian gives us Teut. Lamertyn-steen, _succinum_. In Anglo-Saxon times it was called Eolhsand (_Gloss. AElfr._), and appears to have been esteemed in Britain from a very early period. Amongst antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon age, beads of amber are of very frequent occurrence. Douglas has collected some interesting notes regarding this substance, in his _Nenia_, p. 9. It were needless to cite the frequent mention of _precularia_, or Paternosters, of amber, occurring in inventories. The Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, purchased a most costly chaplet from a Parisian jeweller, in 1431, described as "une patenostres a signeaux d'or et d'ambre musquet." (Leber, Inventaires, p. 235.) The description "de alba awmbre," as in the enumeration of strings of beads appended to the shrine of S^r William, at York Minster, may have been in distinction from jet, to which, as well as to amber, certain virtuous or talismanic properties were attributed. There were, however, several kinds