Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850

HUBER ET ROST, Manuel des Amateurs de l'Art: I., II. Ecole Allemande; III., IV., Ecole Italienne; V., VI., Ecole des Pays-Bas; VII., VIII., Ecole de France, 8 vols. sm. 8vo. hf. bd. russia, very neat, 20s. Zurich, 1797-1804.

DICTIONNAIRE ROMAN, Walon, Celtique et Tudesque (par François), 4to. calf, scarce, 12s 6d. Bouillon, 1777.

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ACHARD, Vocabulaire Provençal-Français et Français-Provençal, 2 stout vols. 4to., bds., 22s. Marseilles, 1785.

EDWARDS, Recherches sur les Langues Celtiques, 8vo. sd., 6s. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1844.

A very valuable and learned Celtic Polyglott Grammar, giving a Comparative View of the Breton, Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and Basque Languages.

VULPIUS, Handwörterbuch der Mythologie der Deutschen, Nordischen, Sclavonischen und Celtischen Völker, 8vo. plates, sd., 4s. 6d. Leipzig, 1827.

This very interesting volume is particularly devoted to Teutonic and Scandinavian Mythology, and what renders it still mosre attractive is, that it includes Sclavonian, Wendian, Russian, Polish, Lapponic, Finnic, Celtic, British, and Gallic Antiquities and Mythology; constant references are given to the original sources.

DAVIES' Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, with Specimens of Poetry and Remarks upon Ancient British Coins, 8vo., hf. bd. calf, 7s. 6d. 1809.

FAEREYINGA-SAGA eller Faeroboernes Historie, in Icelandic, Danish, and the Faroer Dialect, by Rafn, imp. 8vo. large paper, bds., 7s. 6d. Kiob, 1832.

JOHNSON'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY, with numerous corrections, and with the addition of several thousand words, as also with additions to the History of the Language, by the Rev. H. J. Todd, 3 vols. 4to., last and best edition, calf gilt, 4l. 10s. 1827.

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notes

1

On Elizabeth Williams, youngest daughter of Miles (Smith), and wife of John Williams, Esq., died in child-bed at the age of seventeen. The above Miles Smith, was Bishop of Gloster during the latter part of Henry VIII. and part of Elizabeth's reign.

2

I allude to the old edition, 2 vols. Lond. 1691-2, folio; not having any other at hand.

3

We have in the name of this church an answer to A. E. B.'s Query, Vol. ii., p. 396., as to whether the Strand was ever known as Le Strand,—the Church of St. Mary-le-Strand.—Ed.

4

Standon, Herts, where he alighted.