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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

_As we again propose this week to circulate a large number of copies of
"NOTES AND QUERIES" among members of the different provincial Literary
Institutions, we venture, for the purpose of furthering the objects for
which our paper has instituted, to repeat the following passage from our
52nd Number_:--

It is obvious that the use of a paper like "NOTES AND QUERIES," bears a
direct proportion to the extent of its circulation. What it aims at
doing is, to reach the learning which lies scattered not only throughout
every part of our own country but all over the literary world, and to
bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of the scholar; to enable, in
short, men of letters all over the world to give a helping hand to one
another. To a certain extent, we have accomplished this end. Our last
number contains communications not only from all parts of the
metropolis, and from almost every country in England, but also from
Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and even from Demerara. This looks well. It
seems as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design. But much yet
remains to be done. We have recently been told of whole districts in
England so benighted as never to have heard of "NOTES AND QUERIES;" and
after an interesting question has been discussed for weeks in our
columns, we are informed of some one who could have answered it
immediately if he had seen it. So long as this is the case the advantage
we may confer upon literature and literary men is necessarily imperfect.
We do what we can to make known our {383} existence through the
customary modes of announcement, and we gratefully acknowledge the kind
assistance and encouragement we derive from our brethren of the public
press; but we would respectfully solicit the assistance of our friends
upon this particular point. Our purpose is aided, and our usefulness
increased by every introduction which can be given to our paper, either
to a Book Club, to a Lending Library, or to any other channel of
circulation amongst persons of inquiry and intelligence. By such
introductions scholars help themselves as well as us, for there is no
inquirer throughout the kingdom who is not occasionally able to throw
light upon some of the multifarious objects which are discussed in ou