's _Body of Divinity_ is introduced under the head of
"English Bibles!"]

"These glaring errors are made with regard to {406} modern books, and may
seriously mislead the bibliomaniacs of the next generation; but what can be
expected from an author who, in giving directions for the selection of
Hebrew Bibles, forgets the beautiful and correct editions of VANDERHOOGHT
and JABLONSKI; who tells us that Frey republished Jahn's[17] edition of the
Hebrew Bible in 1812; and who calls Boothroyd's incorrect and ugly
double-columned 4to. '_admirable_.'[18]

"The Rev. gentleman fully proves, in the compilation of his volume, that he
can dip his pen in gall, as well as allow it to be guided by gold. Dr.
Warton's _History of English Poetry_, a very beautiful and correct edition,
greatly enlarged from most interesting materials at a very considerable
expense, has just issued from the press in 3 vols. 8vo. But 'Can any good
thing come out of Nazareth?' It was not published by any of the favoured
houses; hence the following ominous notice of it: 'Clouds and darkness rest
upon it!'[19] Gentle reader, they are the clouds and darkness of
_Cheapside._ It may be possible that some propitious golden breeze had
driven all the clouds and darkness from Cornhill, Paternoster Row, the
Strand, Pall-Mall, and Bedford Street."

J. Y.

Hoxton.

[Footnote 17: Frey republished Vanderhooght's Hebrew Bible in 1811.]

[Footnote 18: Note on page 24.]

[Footnote 19: Note on page 667.]

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Minor Notes.

_A Note on Dress._--Dress is mutable, who denies it? but still old fashions
are retained to a far greater extent than one would at first imagine. The
Thames watermen rejoice in the dress of Elizabeth: while the royal
beefeaters (buffetiers) wear that of private soldiers of the time of Henry
VII.; the blue-coat boy, the costume of a London citizen of the reign of
Edward VI.; the London charity-school girls, the plain mob cap and long
gloves of the time of Queen Anne. In the brass badge of the cabmen, we see
a retention of the dress of Elizabethan retainers: while the shoulder-knots
that once decked an officer now adorn a footman. The attire of the sailor
of William III.'s era is now seen amongst our fishermen. The university
dress is as old as the age of the Smithfield martyrs. The linen bands of
the pulpit and the bar are abridgments of the falling collar.

Other costumes are found lurking in provinces, and