Chapter L: S. will find his difficulty solved by Johnson's Dictionary (a work to

which he himself refers), if he compares the following quotation with Portia's reply to Shylock:--

"He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth
Is forced and strained," &c.

EGDUF.

[We have also to thank, for replying to this Query, our correspondents
R. F., R. T. G. H., P. K., J. H. KERSHAW, C. M., Y., E. N. W., C. D.
LAMONT, and also MR. SNOW, who remarks that "actresses rarely commence
this speech satisfactorily, or give, or seem to feel, the point of
contrast between the _must_ and _no must_, the _compulsion_ and _no
compulsion_. In fact, the whole of it is usually mouthed out, without
much reference to Shylock or the play, as if it had been learned by
rote from a school speech-book. Hazlitt says, in his _Characters of
Shakspeare's Plays_, 'The speech about mercy is very well, but there
are a thousand finer ones in Shakspeare.'"]

_Headings of Chapters in English Bibles_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--The summaries of the contents of each chapter, as found in the authorised editions of our English Bible, were prefixed by Miles Smith, bishop of Gloucester, one of the original translators, who also wrote the preface, and, in conjunction with Bishop Bilson, finally reviewed the whole work. Your correspondent will find full answers to his other queries in Stackhouse and Tomlins; in Johnson's _History of English Translations_, &c.; and in T. H. Horne's _Introduction_.

COWGILL.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The author of _The History of the Church of Rome to the end of the Episcopate of Damasus_, A.D. 384, which has just been published by Messrs. Longman, well remarks, "that he is not aware that there is any account of the Church of Rome, framed on the simple and obvious principle of merely collecting and arranging the testimony of history with regard to facts, and so presented to the reader as that he should leave a right to believe that when he has read what is before him, he {270} has learnt all that is to known. This is strange, considering the points at issue, and the extent, duration, and intensity of the controversies which have been carried on between that Church and the rest of Christendom." It is indeed strange, and it happens fortunately, looking at the all-important question which now agitates the public mind, that the subject should have engaged for some years the attention of a learned, acute, and laborious scholar like Mr. Shepherd, so that he is enabled to put forth the result of his inquiries upon this interesting topic at this moment. Mr. Shepherd's book is indeed a startling one: and when we tell our readers that he "has proved, or, to say the least, has given such indications as will lead to the proof that some documents which have been quoted as authorities in the History of the Early Christian Church, are neither genuine nor authentic;" that he has pretty well resolved St. Cyprian into a purely mythic personage; and shown that all the letters in his works passed between imagined or imaginary correspondents,--we think we are justified in pronouncing his _History of the Church of Rome_ a work calculated to excite the deepest interest in all who peruse it (and by the omission of all long quotations in the learned languages, it is adapted for the perusal of all), to exercise great influence on the public mind, and to awaken a host of endeavours to combat and overthrow arguments which appear to us, however, to be irresistible.

The Council of the Shakspeare Society has just issued to the members the first volume for the present year. It contains _Two Historical Plays on the Life and Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Thomas Heywood_, which are very ably edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Mr. Collier; and we have no doubt will be very acceptable; first, from the interest of the plays themselves, the second of which appears to have been extremely popular; and, lastly, as a further instalment towards a complete collection of Heywood's dramatic works.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell on Tuesday and Wednesday next a valuable portion of the Library of a gentleman, including the late Charles Mathews' copy of the Second Shakspeare; a valuable series of works on Annuities, &c.; and another on the History and Antiquities of London.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Supplement on the Doctrine and Discipline of the Greek Church._ We characterised Mr. Appleyard's interesting little volume, entitled, _The Greek Church_, as historical rather than doctrinal. The title of this Supplement shows that it expressly supplies the very material in which the original work was deficient.--_Archaeologia Cambrensis, New Series, No. VI._ A very good number of this record of the Antiquities of Wales and its Marches, and in which are commenced two series of papers of great interest to the Principality: one on the Architectural Antiquities of Monmouthshire, by Mr. Freeman; the other on the Poems of Taliessin, by Mr. Stephens.

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