If the story that we have heard be true, namely, that one of the most learned and active members of the episcopal bench did, at a late clerical meeting, hold up a copy of Whitaker's _Clergyman's Diary and Ecclesiastical Directory_, and pronounce it to be a little book so full of useful and invaluable information as to be indispensable to every clergyman, it is clear that the work is beyond all criticism. _The Family Almanack and Educational Register for 1852_, contains--in addition to full particulars of nearly a thousand public schools, colleges, and universities, and a list (containing upwards of a thousand) of the principal private schools in the kingdom,--a vast amount of miscellaneous information (including for the first time the Statutes of the Irish University) and statistical tables, and so forms a volume which no person interested in the great question of education can at all do without. While on the subject of education, we may acknowledge the receipt of several educational works, which we can only notice with great brevity. M. Merlet's _Dictionary of French Difficulties_ (which, but that the subject is almost too grave for such a jest, we should have suggested might very appropriately have been dedicated to the President) bears on its title the stamp of its merit in the words "_third edition_." M. Falch Lebahn's _Self Instructor in German_; _Practice in German_; and _German in One Volume_ (4th ed.), are very able attempts to facilitate the study of that most useful language. The last work, containing as it does La Motte Fouque's beautiful tale of _Undine_, with explanatory notes on all the difficult words and phrases, and its vocabulary of 4500 words synonymous in German and English, cannot be found otherwise than most useful. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF COWPER. Vols. X. XII. XIII. XIV. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. Vol. I. Part I. (Several copies are wanted, and it is believed that many are lying in London or Dublin.) MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. VI. Cadell, 1822. 8vo. WILLIS'S ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 15_s._ will be given for a copy. FLUDD (ROBERT, M.D.) _alias_ DE FLUCTIBUS, called the Searcher. Any of his works. BEHMEN'S (JACOB) GENESIS. LAW'S APPEAL, &c. LAW'S APPEAL CASE OF REASON. HUNTER'S DEANERY OF DONCASTER. Vol. I. Large or small paper. CLARE'S RURAL MUSE. CHRISTIAN PIETY FREED FROM THE DELUSIONS OF MODERN ENTHUSIASTS. A.D. 1756 or 1757. AN ANSWER TO FATHER HUDDLESTONE'S SHORT AND PLAIN WAY TO THE FAITH AND CHURCH. By Samuel Grascombe. London, 1703. 8vo. REASONS FOR ABROGATING THE TEST IMPOSED UPON ALL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon. 1688. 4to. [Star symbol] Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.