Fabian gives no information on the charges made against lord Say; nor do the subsequent chroniclers. The received text contains two undoubted anachronisms--to what extent, it would require a volume to decide. On comparing the extracts, it appears that we must ascribe the anachronism on paper-making to the earlier dramatist, and that on printing to William Shakspere--who also borrowed the allusion to _the score and the tally_ from a former speech in the work of his unknown precursor. Malone, when he edited _The plays and poems of William Shakspere_, undertook to distinguish by inverted commas the lines of this play which the poet "retouched and greatly improved," and by asterisks, those which were "his own original production." The design was commendable, but in the execution of it he committed numerous oversights. BOLTON CORNEY. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. _The Book of Familiar Quotations; being a Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms selected from the Works of the best Authors_, is a little volume of such extracts from Shakspeare, Pope, and others of our greatest poets as most frequently fall on the ear in conversation, or meet the eye in the columns of the press and periodicals of the country. The present selection is a very good one, as far as it goes, and has the advantage over its predecessors of not only giving us the name of the author of each passage quoted, but also its precise place in his works. _Shall we Register our Deeds? answered by Sir Edward Sugden._ This clever pamphlet proposes an important Query, and replies to it thus: "Let us therefore to the question proposed, Shall we register our deeds? answer with one voice, No!" If the study of Natural History be one which may with advantage be introduced into the family circle (and who can doubt it?) we know no better medium than the clever and well-conducted little weekly paper which has just been commenced under the title of Kidd's _London Journal_, of which the first five numbers are before us. Mr. Tymms, the active and zealous Secretary of the _Bury and West Suffolk Archæological Institute_, and Editor of the volume of _Bury Wills_, printed by the Camden Society, is about to publish a _Handbook of Bury_, on the plan of Cunningham's _Handbook of London_, and would be glad to receive any notes upon the subject: more especially with respect to its remarkable inhabitants.