thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the tone of the condemned man's _Legacy_, that he would purposely avoid any mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and "usually performed the part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:" he almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the love and labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" so that he was mostly preaching itinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a player in Shakespeare's company." That _Legacy_ in question, and a book autograph of Hugh Peters, are at the service of DR. RIMBAULT. BLOWEN. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. All who take an interest in English philology will join in the wish expressed a few pages back by one of the highest authorities on the subject, Mr. Albert Way--namely, "that the Philological Society has not abandoned their project of compiling a complete Provincial Glossary;" and will greet as a valuable contribution towards that great desideratum, every skilful attempt to record a local dialect. As such, Mr. Sternberg's valuable little book, _The Dialect and Folk Lore of Northamptonshire_, will meet a hearty welcome from our philological friends; and no less hearty a welcome from those who find in "popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teutonic heathenism," materials for profitable speculation on the ancient mythology of these islands. We are bound to speak thus favourably of Mr. Sternberg's researches in this department, since some portion of them were first communicated by him to our Folk-Lore columns. BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd, by the Rev. William Basil Jones, M.A._ A learned essay on the subject of deep interest to the antiquaries {215} of the Principality, involving, as it does among other questions, that of the claim of the Gael, or the Cymry, to be the aborigines of the country. _The Book of Family Crests, comprising nearly every Family Bearing, properly blazoned and explained, accompanied by upwards of Four Thousand Engravings, with the Surnames of the Bearers, Dictionary of Mottoes, and Glossary of Terms_, in 2 Vols., Sixth Edition. The best criticism on this popular work, with its _well blazoned_ title-page bearing the words SIXTH EDITION on its _honour point_, is to state, as a proof of its completeness, that it records the Crests of upwards of ninety _Smiths_, and nearly fifty _Smyths_ and _Smythes_. _Illustrations of Medieval Costume in England, collected from MSS. in the British Museum_, by T. A. Day and J. B. Dines. When before did English antiquaries see four plates of costume, some of them coloured, sold for one shilling? As an attempt at cheapening and so popularising archaeological literature, the work deserves encouragement.