A hand-bell (as I am informed by a Roman Catholic gentleman) often precedes the Host, when carried in procession to the sick, &c., in order to clear the way, and remind passengers of the usual reverence paid at such times. B. Lincoln. _Shillings and Sixpences of George III._ (Vol. iii., p. 275.).--R. W. C. has fallen into a misconception in supposing that these coins present an erroneous spelling of the Latinized style of the monarch, whilst the contemporary crowns and half-crowns have the correct orthography. The spelling of the legend on the sixpences and shillings was intentional, and with a meaning, being inscribed in an abridged form--GEOR: III. D: G: BRITT: REX F: D:--the reduplication of the T was designed, after classical precedent, to represent the plural _Britanniarum_, i.e., Great Britain and Ireland. N. _Odour from the Rainbow_ (Vol. iii., p. 224.).--I hope that I have found JARLTZBERG'S note in the following lines: "Like to that smell which oft our sense descries Within a field which long unploughëd lies, Somewhat before the setting of the sun; And where the rainbow in the horizon Doth pitch her tips; or as when in the prime, The earth being troublëd with a drought long time, The hand of heaven his spongy clouds doth strain, And throws into her lap a shower of rain; She sendeth up (conceivëd from the sun) A sweet perfume and exhalation." Browne, _Britannia's Pastorals_, Book i. Song 2. [Clarke's Cabinet Series, 1845, p. 70.] C. FORBES. _Odour from the Rainbow._--The following stanzas are from a poem, called "The Blind Girl," in a publication by Pickering, 1845, of _Memorials of a Tour, and Miscellaneous Poems_, by Robert Snow, Esq. Lond., 1845:-- "Once in our porch whilst I was resting, To hear the rain-drops in their mirth, You said you saw the rainbow cresting The heavens with colour, based on earth: And I believe it fills the showers With music; and when sweeter air Than common breathes from briar-rose bowers, Methinks, the Rainbow hath touched there." [We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow neither from Bacon's _Sylva_, nor from any of our English poets, but from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge in his _Table Talk_.] * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.