Morteyne in Bedfordshire, not far from Ampthill, and Gunwalloe, in
Cornwall, about five miles south of Helston. Gunwalloe tower appears to be
much older than the church, and faces the south-west angle of the nave,
from which it is distant about fourteen feet.

J. M. B.

Tunbridge Wells.

CAMBRENSIS has forgotten that the _cloich teachs_ (bell-houses), or round
belfries, peculiar to Ireland, and which have become famous as "round
towers," are almost always separate from the churches.

JAMES GRAVES.

Kilkenny.

To your instances of detached belfries in England add Magdalene College and
New College in Oxford, and Woburn in Bedfordshire.

H. C.

Thurles.

Detached church-towers exist at Beccles, Suffolk, and at East Dereham,
Norfolk.

G. J. C.

Oxford.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The anniversary of the Camden Society on Monday last, when Mr. Peter
Cunningham, Sir F. Madden, and Sir C. Young were elected on the Council,
was distinguished by two departures from the usual routine: one, a special
vote of thanks to Sir Harry Verney for placing his family papers at the
service of the Society; and the other, a general expression of satisfaction
on the part of the members at the steps taken by the Council to bring under
the consideration of the Commission appointed to inquire into the laws
regarding matters testamentary, the great impediments thrown in the way of
all historical and literary inquirers by the authorities in the Prerogative
Office.

It does not require the skill of an Oedipus to divine that in giving us so
graphic a picture of _The Vicar and his Duties_, the Rev. A. Gatty has had
the advantage of sketching from the life, and that his portraiture of

"A good man of religioun
That as a poore Persone of a toun;
But riche he was of holy thought and werke."

is as much a true effigy, though taken with pen and ink, as if he had put
that capital parish priest, the Vicar of Leeds, before his camera. To the
many friends of Dr. Hook, this little volume will be deeply interesting.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--Pulleyn's _Etymological Compendium, or Portfolio of
Origins and Inventions. Third Edition, revised and improved, by_ Merton A.
Thoms. This new edition of a very popular and useful little book has had
the advantage of a thorough revision, and contains much new and interesting
information.--Longman's _Traveller's Library_ has lately been e