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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

JONES (EDMUND) GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND RELIGIOUS ACCOUNT OF ABERYSTWITH. 8VO.  Trevecka, 1779.

CARTARI.—­LA ROSA D’ORO PONTIFICIA, ETC. 4to.  Rome. 1681.

SHAKSPEARE’S DRAMATIC WORKS.—­The Fourth Volume of WHITTINGHAM’S
Edition, in 7 vols, 24mo.  Chiswick. 1814.

M. C. H. BROEMEL, FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN.  Jena, 1705.

*** 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.

The matter is so generally understood with regard to the management of periodical works, that it is hardly necessary for the Editor to say that HE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS; but on one point he wishes to offer a few words of explanation to his correspondents in general, and particularly to those who do not enable him to communicate with them except in print.  They will see, on a very little reflection, that it is plainly his interest to take all he can get, and make the most, and the best, of everything; and therefore he begs them to take for granted that their communications are received, and appreciated, even if the succeeding Number bears no proof of it.  He is convinced that the want of specific acknowledgment will only be felt by those who have no idea of the labour and difficulty attendant on the hurried management of such a work, and of the impossibility of sometimes giving an explanation, when there really is one which would quite satisfy the writer, for the delay or non-insertion of his communication.  Correspondents in such cases have no reason, and if they understood an editor’s position they would feel that they have no right, to consider themselves undervalued; but nothing short of personal experience in editorship would explain to them the perplexities and evil consequences arising from an opposite course.

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MYTHOS is thanked for his kind hints, which shall not be lost sight of.  We have abundance of NOTES on the subject, not only of the SEVEN WISE MASTERS, but of that other treasury of ancient fictions, the GESTA ROMANORUM, which we shall bring forward as opportunity offers.

S.Y.  The edition of Chaucer, in five volumes 12mo, edited by Singer, in 1822, was the only modern library edition of the “Works” until the appearance of Sir H. Nicolas’s edition in the Aldine Poets.  Bell’s edition, in 14 volumes, and Dolby’s in 2, though they may have done much to extend a knowledge of the writings of the Father of English Poetry, can scarcely be called library editions.

A.P. will see the matter he refers to illustrated in an early number.