Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850

A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER will find the line,

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,"

in Congreve's Mourning Bride.

JANUS DOUSA. In our next No.

MEDICUS, who inquires respecting the origin of the proverbial saying, "Quem Deus vult perdere," is referred to our First Volume, pp. 347. 351. 421. and 476. The original line reads "Quem Jupiter vult," and is Barnes' translation of a fragment of Euripides.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXIV., is published THIS DAY.

CONTENTS:

I. TICKNOR'S HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE.

II. CHURCH AND EDUCATION IN WALES.

III. FORMS OF SALUTATION.

IV. SIBERIA AND CALIFORNIA.

V. MURE ON THE LITERATURE OF GREECE.

VI. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.

VII. ANECDOTES OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

VIII. COCHRANES'S YOUNG ITALY.

IX. LAST DAY OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

Will be published on the 1st of November, 1850, with the other Almanacks,

THE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC REGISTER AND ALMANACK for 1851. Price 3s. 6d.

Dedicated by especial permission to H.R.H. Prince Albert, by J.W.G. GUTCH, M.R.C.S.L., F.L.S.;

Containing a condensed mass of scientific and useful information alike valuable to the student and man of science.

Tenth Yearly issue.

Published by D. BOGUE, Fleet Street, London

Shortly will be Published.

THE ARCHITECTURAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. A Literary Periodical devoted to Works appertaining to the Art and Science of Architecture. Prospectuses may be obtained from the Publisher. Letters for the Editor, and books, drawings, models, and specimens, to be addressed to the care of the Publisher.

GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.

Royal 4to., cloth, price 2l. 2s.

EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT PULPITS EXISTING IN ENGLAND. Selected and drawn from Sketches and Measurements taken on the Spot, with Descriptive Letterpress. By FRANCIS T. DOLLMAN, Architect.

This Work contains thirty quarto Plates, three of which are highly finished in Colours, restored accurately from the existing indications. The Pulpits delineated are St. Westburga, Chester: SS. Peter and Paul, Shrewsbury; St. Michael, Coventry; St. Mary, Wendon; St. Mary and All Saints, Fotheringay; All Saints, North Cerney; Holy Trinity, Nallsea; St. Peter Winchcombe; St. John Baptist, Cirencester; St. Mary, Totness; St. Mary, Frampton. Holy Trinity, Old Aston; St. Benedict, Glastonbury; St. Peter, Wolverhampton: St. Andrew, Cheddar (coloured); St. Andrew, Banwell; St. George, Brakworth; Holy Trinity, Long Sutton (coloured); St. Saviour, Dartmouth (coloured); All Saints, Sudbury; All Saints, Hawstead; St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester; St. Mary, North Petherton.

GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.

To be completed in Four Parts, Parts I. and II., price 5s. each plain; 7s. 6d. coloured.

ANTIQUARIAN GLEANINGS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND: being Examples of Antique Furniture, Plate, Church Decoration, Objects of Historical Interest, &c. Drawn and etched by W.B. SCOTT.

"A collection of antiquarian relics, chiefly in the decorative branch of art, preserved in the northern counties, portrayed by a very competent hand … All are drawn with that distinctness which makes them available for the antiquarian, for the artist who is studying costume, and for the study of decorative art."—Spectator.

Parts III. and IV., completing the Work, are in preparation, and will be published shortly.

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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No CLXXXVIII., will be publishd on THURSDAY, October 10th, 1850.

I. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

II. THE UNITED STATES.

III. BRITISH MUSEUM: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS.

IV. MURE'S CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE

AND LITERATURE OF ANTIENT GREECE.

V. COL. CHESNEY'S EXPEDITION TO THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS.

VI. RECENT CLASSICAL ROMANCES.

VIII. DIFFICULTIES OF REPLUBLICAN FRANCE.

IX. HORACE AND TASSO.

London: LONGMAN AND CO. Edinburgh: A. and C. BLACK.

MR. L.A. LEWIS'S SALES for OCTOBER, 1850, FRIDAY 11TH., and SATURDAY 12th. Valuable Books, Architechural Books, Books of Prints, &c., from the West of England, including Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens, 4 vols.; unedited Antiuities of Attica; Piranesi Campus Martius Antiqua Orbis; Houghton Gallery, 2 vols; Bowyer's Hume's England; Rogers' Collection of Prints, 2 vols.; Knorr, Deliciæ Naturæ Selectæ, 2 vols.; Tableaux Historiques de la Révolution Française, 2 vols.; Stow's London, by Strype, 2 vols.; Domesday Book, 2 vols.; Edmondson's Heraldry, 2 vols.; Illustrated London News, 11 vols.; Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 29 vols.; Neale's Gentlemen's Seats, 6 vols.; Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, 10 vols., large paper; Maund's Botanic Garden, 9 vols.; Sweet's Geraniums, 5 vols.; Beauties of England and Wales, 32 vols.; Hogarth's Works, 3 vols., red morocco; Knight's London, 6 vols.; Retrospective Review, 14 vols.; Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique, 16 vols.; Lodge's Illustrious Portraits, 10 vols.; Knight's Pictorial Bible, 3 vols.; Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, 6 vols.; a few Pictures and Prints, &c.

FRIDAY, 18TH, AND SATURDAY, 19TH.—Books, including the stock of the late Mr. C. Whiten.

FRIDAY, 25TH,—Pictures, Prints, Books, Stereotype Plates, Copyrights, Books in Quires, &c.

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