Chapter C: H. Cooper

Cambridge, January 25. 1851.

_Form of Prayer at the Healing_ (Vol. iii., p. 42.).--A copy of this service of an earlier date than those mentioned is before me. It was printed in folio at the Hague, 1650; and is appended to "a Form of Prayer used in King Charles II.'s Chappel upon _Tuesdays_, in the times of his trouble and distress." Charles I. was executed on that day of the week.

J. H. M.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

"Thoughts take up no room," saith Jeremy Collier, in a curious passage which Mr. Elmes has adopted as the motto of a pretty little volume, which he has just put forth under the following characteristic title: _Horae Vacivae, a Thought-book of the Wise Spirits of all Ages and all Countries, fit for all Men and all Hours_. The work appears to have furnished a source of occupation to its editor when partially recovering from a deprivation of sight. It is well described by him as a "Spicilegium of golden thoughts of wise spirits, who, though dead, yet speak;" and being printed in Whittingham's quaintest style, and suitably bound, this Thought-book is as externally tempting as it is intrinsically valuable.

_The Calendar of the Anglican Church Illustrated, with Brief Accounts of the Saints who have Churches dedicated in their Names, or whose Images are most frequently met with in England; the Early Christian and Mediaeval Symbols; and an Index of Emblems_, is sufficiently described in its title-page. The editor very properly explains that the work is of an archaeological, not of a theological character--and as such it is certainly one which English archaeologists and ecclesiologists have long wanted. The editor, while judiciously availing himself of the labours of Alt, Radowitz, Didron, and other foreign writers, has not spared his own, having, with the view to one portion of it, compiled a list of all the churches in England, with the saints after whom they were named. This is sufficient to show that the work is one of research, and consequently of value; that value being materially increased by the numerous woodcuts admirably engraved by Mr. O. Jewitt, with which it is illustrated.

_Books Received._--_Helena, The Physician's Orphan_. The third number of Mrs. Clarke's interesting series of tales, entitled, _The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines_. {127} _Every-day Wonders, or Facts in Physiology which all should know:_ a very successful endeavour to present a few of the truths of that science which treats of the structure of the human body, and of the adaptation of the external world to it in such a form as that they be readily apprehended. Great pains have been taken that the information imparted should be accurate; and it is made more intelligible by means of some admirable woodcuts.

_Catalogues Received._--John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) No. 18. of Catalogues of Books Old and New; J. Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street) Catalogue Part II. of an Extensive Collection of Choice, Useful, and Curious Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES SUR LES CONGREGATIONS HOSPITALIERS DES FRERES PONTIFES. A. GREGOIRE. Paris, 1818, 8vo. 72 pp.

SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS OF A MARKET TOWN, by DAWSON TURNER. Yarmouth, 1848.

STEPHEN'S CENTRAL AMERICA, 2 vols. 8vo. plates.

WHARTONI ANGLIA SACRA. The best edition.

NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GR. Ex recensione Greisbach, cum var. lect. 4 vols. 4to. Leipsic, 1806 or 1803. Engraved Frontispiece.

LARDNER ON THE TRINITY.

GOODRIDGE, JOHN, THE PHOENIX; or, Reasons for believing that the Comet, &c. London, 1781, 8vo.

*** 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 have many articles in type which we are compelled, by want of space, to postpone until next week, when the publication of our double number will enable us to insert many interesting communications which are only waiting for room._

REPLIES RECEIVED. _St. Pancras--Daresbury--Plafery--Touching for the Evil--Munchausen--Cold Harbour--Landwade Church--Bacon and Fagan--Soul's Dark Cottage--Fine by Degrees--Simon Bache--Away let nought--Mythology of the Stars--Adur--Burying in Church Walls--Sir Clowdesley Shovel--Lynch Law--Cardinal's Monument--Inns of Court--True Blue--Averia--Dragons--Brandon the Juggler--Words are Men's Daughters--Sonnet by Milton--Dryden's Essay upon Satire--Ring Dials--Sir Hilary--Arthur Massinger--Cranmer's Descendants--Post Conquestum--Prince of Wales' Feathers--Verbum Graecum--Visions of Hell--Musical Plagiarism--Lady Bingham--Cockade--Saint Paul's Clock--By and by--Aristophanes on the Modern Stage._

LITURGICUS, _who writes on the subject of the letters_ M. _and_ N. _in the Catechism and Marriage Service, is referred to our First Volume, pp._ 415. _and_ 468.

F. M. B. Hicks' Hall _was so called from its builder, Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount Camden; and the name of the_ Old Bailey, _says Stow, "is likely to have arisen of some Count of old time there kept."--See Cunningham's_ Handbook of London.

K. R. H. M. _received_.

E. T. (Liverpool). _We propose to issue a volume similar to our first and second, at the termination of every half-year._

E. S. T. T. _For origin of_

"Tempora mutantur," &c.,

_see our First Volume, pp._ 234. 419.

GEORGE PETIT. _The book called_ Elegantiae Latinae, _published under the name of the learned Joh. Meursius, was written by Chorier of Grenoble. Meursius had no share in it_.

H. A. R. _Much information concerning the general and social condition of Lunatics before 1828 will be found in Reports of Committees of House of Commons of 1815, 1816, and 1827, and of the House of Lords of 1828._

A. C. P. _The explanation furnished is one about which there can be no doubt, but for obvious reasons we do not insert it._

K. R. H. M. _We cannot promise until we see the article; but, if brief, we shall have every disposition to insert it._