r. Thorpe's scholarship is too well known
to require recognition at our hands.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Remains of Pagan Saxondom, principally from Tumuli in
England, by_ J. Y. Akerman. The present number contains coloured engravings
of the _Umbo of Shield and Weapons found at Driffield_, and of a _Bronze
Patera from a Cemetery at Wingham, Kent_.--_Gervinus' Introduction to the
History of the Nineteenth Century_. Apparently a carefully executed
translation of Dr. Gervinus' now celebrated brochure issued by Mr. Bohn;
who has, in his _Standard Library_, given us a new edition of _De Lolme on
the Constitution_, with notes by J. Macgregor, M.P.; and in his _Classical
Library_ a translation by C. D. Yonge of _Diogenes Laertius' Lives and
Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers_.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

WALKER'S LATIN PARTICLES.

HERBERT'S CAROLINA THRENODIA. 8vo. 1702.

THEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. 1726.

SCOTT, REMARKS ON THE BEST WRITINGS OF THE BEST AUTHORS (or some such
title).

SERMONS BY THE REV. ROBERT WAKE, M.A. 1704, 1712, &c.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT WILTS, by SIR R. C. HOARE. The last three Parts.

REV. A. DYCE'S EDITION OF DR. RICHARD BENTLEY'S WORKS. Vol. III. Published
by Francis Macpherson, Middle Row, Holborn. 1836.

DISSERTATION ON ISAIAH XVIII., IN A LETTER TO EDWARD KING, ESQ., by SAMUEL
LORD BISHOP OF ROCHESTER (HORSLEY). The Quarto Edition, printed for Robson.
1779.

BEN JONSON'S WORKS. 9 Vols. 8vo. Vols. II., III., IV. Bds.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOVELS. 41 Vols. 8vo. The last nine Vols. Boards.

* * * _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send
their names._

* * * 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.

_We are compelled to postpone until next week many interesting articles
which are in type, and many Replies to Correspondents._

MR. RILEY'S _Reply to the_ REV. MR. GRAVES' _notice of_ Hoveden _did not
reach us in time for insertion this week._

I. A. N. (93rd Highlanders.) _Several correspondents, as well as yourself,
complain of the difficulty of obtaining amber varnish. There are several
Eastern gums which much resemble amber, as also a substance known as
"Highgate resin." Genuine amber, when rubbed together, emits a very
frag