DEATH OF CHARLES II. (3rd S. xi. 264.)-The of those who have passed away from among us, showing following entry occurs in an ancient register of the dates of their births and deaths, and a reference to the Chapel Royal, Whitehall: the preceding editions in which their respective memoirs are to be found. Both these add to the utility of this ffebry 24 most useful book. “ King Charles the 2 { 1684 The Bible by Corerdale, MDXXXV. Remarks on the * Candlemas day being Monday. Bee it remembered Titles ; the Year of Publication; the Preliminary, the that his Māty was seis'd wth a most violent fit of apo Water-Marks, &c., uilh Fac-similes, by Francis Fry, plexy, wch terminated in an intermittent fever, of weh hee F.S.A. (Willis & Sotheran.) dyed about 12 the ffriday following, being ffeb. 6th." Mr. Fry, who has devoted so much time and research J. WILKINS, B.C.L. to the history of the earliest English versions of the Scrip tures, here presents to Bibliographers a small volume on JOHN DE CRITZ (3rd S. ix. 470.) – I can find the subject of Coverdale's Translation of the Bible, the nothing in Flemish biographies or others (ex- date of its composition and publication, peculiarities of cepting Horace Walpole's (G. Vertue's) Anecdotes title-pages, variations in the Dedication, and other mi nutiæ connected with the Edition, which, illustrated 23 of Painting) about the said John de Critz, who they are by fac-similes, make it a very interesting little seems, at all events, to have been very well off in book. the world, as we see he could bear without flinch The Mad Folk of Shakespeare. Psychological Essures by ing a royal debt of 2,1581. 138., “ having been due John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.S. Second Edition, vnto him a long tyme since in his Mato greate revised. (Macmillan.) wardrobe.” P. A. L. Eight years ago we bore testimony to the interest of these Essays, in which Mr. Bucknill brings his experience Couruly (3rd S. x. 129.)—“Couth,” in South as a professional man, to bear upon Shakespeare's knowYorkshire, is used in the sense of keen." He's ledge of abnormal states of mind; and we are glad to couth eniff at a bargain,” is a phrase sometimes see our judgment confirmed by such a recognition of the heard. C. C. R. value of the writer's labours as is shown by the call for a second revised edition of them. PELL-MELL (354 S. xii. 483.) – Your learned correspondent A. A. has indeed unearthed a cu The Boy's Own Book: a Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Pastimes, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreatice. riosity. Clearly the 'prentice-box, or Christmas (Lockwood & Co.) box, was so called from piller and malle, spoil-box Between 600 and 700 pages devoted to In-door and or polling-box, to contain the spoil or black mail Out-door Sports, Illustrations of Natural History, Scienlevied by them. Mail means rent or tribute, and tific Recreations, Games of Skill, and Parlour Conjuring, is mal in Saxon. It also means a spot, macula, profusely illustrated with well-executed woodcuts, make mole, but the round tribute could hardly designate up a book which any boy will be well pleased to call his a halfpenny. Can Minsheu possibly mean that it is a box that “the prentices buy to put money BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES [2. e. a halfpenny) into,” &c., “à Gal. piller, e. e. pill or polle, and maille”? The words may be WANTED TO PURCHASE. Particulars of price, &c., of the following Book to be sent direct to the only out of order. 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OCR NEW YEAR'S NUMBER, achich will be the First of a Nae Series (the Fourth) of Notes and Queries, will be a double number, consisting of NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. forty-eight pages, and in addition to the first part of The UNIVERSAL ART CATALOGUE Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, cor will contain, among many other interesting papers taining Notices of Eminent Characters of both Seres. Caricatures of James Ward of Ipswich, by Mr. Bruce Churchyard and Fortunatus, by Mr J. Payne Callier. Anthony Munday's Maiden of Confolens, by Dr. Rimbauit. Library and its Librarians, by Mr. Williars J. Tkon. That a work of such obvious popular interest should Ancient Drinking Glass. The Author of "The Cherrie and the Slae." reach a seventh edition, and in due time a seventeenth Inedited Letter of Oliver Cromwell. and a seventieth, may well be expected-more especially Mason's Portrait of Gray,&c. &c. 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The last five are reproduced in facsimile, with an Introduction to each by These antiquated scandals are here blown to the winds by irresi ible evidence."--Inverness Courier. FRANCIS FRY, Bristol. WILLIAU G. SMITH, 43, Welliogton Street, Strand, w.c. WILLIS & SOTHERAN, London; LASBURY, Bristol. And all Booksellers and Newamen. Printed by GEORGE ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, at 5 New Street Square, in the Perish of St. Bride, in the County of Middleset: and Pablished by WILLIAM GREIG SMITH, of 43 Wellington Street, Strand, in the said County Saturday, December 23,147. INDE X. THIRD SERIES-VOL. XII. (For classified articles, see ANONYMOUs Works, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, Epitaphs, FOLK LORE, PROVERBS AND Porases, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPERIANA, AND SONGS AND Ballads.] A. 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