I apprehend, deserve better to be collected and published than those by the very learned Bishop Barlow, Provost of Queen’s College from the year 1657 to 1677, and who left the chief part of his library to that society.  The rest of his books, being such as were not in the Bodleian, he bequeathed to that library, of which he was for some years the librarian.  The Biographia Britannica represents him to have been “an universal lover and favourer of learned men, of what country or denomination soever.”

J.M.

Oxford

Rev. J. Edwards on Metal for Telescopes.—­“T.J.” informs the correspondent who inquired (No. 11, p. 174.) respecting this valuable paper, that it was printed in the Nautical Almanac for 1787.  E.B.  PRICE adds, “A Treatise on Optical Instruments, published about twenty years ago by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, contains much useful and general information upon this subject; and it is stated in that work that Mr. Edward’s treatise, which is now very scarce, is republishing in the Technological Repository.”  While “G.B.S.” furnishes the information that the treatise in question may be procured from Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street.

Ordination Pledges.—­In reply to the inquiry of “CLERICUS” (No. 10., p. 156.) for manuals containing a complete list of Ordination Pledges, may be mentioned Johnson’s Clergyman’s Vade Mecum, 2 vols. 12mo., and William’s Laws relating to the Clergy, being a Practical Guide to the Clerical Profession on the Legal and Canonical Discharge of their various Duties, 8vo.  The author of this useful work, which appears not to have been seen by Lowndes, says, in his advertisement, “The works which are already extant on Ecclesiastical Law, being either too diffuse or too concise for ready reference and practical use, the compiler of this volume has endeavored to remedy this defect by the publication of the following compendium.”

T.J.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The Percy Society have just issued A New and Mery Enterlude called the Triall of Treasure, from the edition printed at London by Thomas Purfoote, 1567, edited by Mr. Halliwell.  The other works issued by the Society since May last (when the year’s subscription became due) have been A Poem (satirical) of The Times of Edward II., edited by the Rev. C. Hardwick, from a MS. at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, of which a less perfect copy from an Edinburgh MS. was printed by Mr. Wright, in the volume of Political Songs, edited by him for the Camden Society; Notices of Fugitive Tracts and Chap-Books, printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, &c. by Mr. Halliwell; The Man in the Moone, or The English Fortune Teller, edited by the same gentleman, from the unique copy printed in 1609, now in the Bodleian; and lastly, The Religious Poems of William de Shoreham, Vicar of Chart-Sutton in Kent, in the Reign of Edward II., edited by Mr. Wright, from a contemporary manuscript.