f which the
appearance is particularly well timed, for a fitter book for fire-side
reading, or a Christmas present, we know not than this edition of
Keightley's _Fairy Mythology_, with its inimitable frontispiece by George
Cruikshank, which alone is worth the price of the volume.

Whitaker's _Clergyman's Diary and Ecclesiastical Calendar_ is intended to
supply a want which is acknowledged to have been long felt by the clergy,
though the lawyer and man of business have been for many years well
supplied with works of a similar character. A glance at the Table of
Contents shows how much valuable matter, of especial interest to our
clerical friends, has here been collected from various sources for their
information; and to prove the value of a work destined, we have no doubt,
to find for many years an extensive and well-deserved patronage.

Few of our readers but have tested and found the value of Mrs. Cowden
Clarke's _Concordance to Shakspeare_; and few are the nurseries into which
some of her clever and kindly books for children have not found their way;
so that albeit her projected series of tales, _The Girlhood of Shakspeare's
Heroines_, scarcely belongs to the class of works usually noticed in our
columns, we gladly find in Mrs. Clarke's love of children and reverence for
Shakspeare, an excuse for saying a few words in favour of her good work of
tracing the probable antecedents in the history of some of Shakspeare's
heroines.

We have received the following Catalogues:--Edward Stibbs' (331. Strand)
Catalogue, Part I, of a Valuable Collection of Books; W. S. Lincoln's
(Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No. 63. of English and
Foreign Second-hand Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

DUCANGE'S GLOSSARY, (Didot's edition).

_Odd Volumes_.

CHALMER'S BRITISH POETS, Vols. IV. and VI.

*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be
sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NORVICENSIS _is informed that upon reference to Stewart's_ (11. _King
William Street_) _Catalogue, we find No._ 1304. Dodd's Commentary, 3 vols.
folio, 1770, _marked at_ 2l. 16s. _The work is esteemed for the notes of
Locke, Waterland, and Clarendon, which it contains._

_We have again to request the indulgence of many of our correspondents for
the