A neat Case for holding Numbers of “NOTES AND QUERIES” until the completion of each volume, is now ready, price 1s. 6d., and may be had, by Order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen.

We are again compelled to omit many Notes, Queries, and Answers to Queries, as well as Answers to Correspondents.

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[Illustration:  A pilgrim in a field.]

This day is published, price 6s.,

THE PILGRIMAGES OF WALSINGHAM and CANTERBURY:  by DESIDERIUS ERASMUS.  Being his Colloquy on Pilgrimage, translated and illustrated with Notes, by JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, F.S.A.; together with the Colloquy on Rash Vows, and the Characters of Archbishop Warham and Dean Collet, by the same Author.

“This entertaining little volume will afford to many a reader not only much information on the subject of Pilgrimages, but also numerous illustrations of the feelings and habits of the times.”—­Athenaeum.

“We can conceive no more perfect translation than Mr. Nichols has given; most delicately does he express the quiet eloquence and quieter irony of the original; while his Notes—­which occupy about three-fourths of the handsome volume—­are full of the most curious, learned, and interesting matter.”—­Weekly News.

“In the Appendix, Mr. Nichols gives a very interesting dissertation on pilgrimages in general, and furnishes us with much curious information relative to Walsingham, and a judicious summary of facts and circumstances connected with the murder of Archbishop Becket.”—­ Salisbury Journal.

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THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE.

The Obituary of the Gentleman’s Magazine is generally allowed to be one of its most valuable features, and unremitting attention is devoted to the task of making it as complete and comprehensive as possible.  It records the decease of all persons of station in society or of individual merit, and biographical memoirs are given (amounting every year to more than three hundred) of eminent characters, whether statesmen, senators, officers in the public service, members of the learned professions, men of science, authors, artists, &c. &c.  The Magazine for January will contain, among others, Memoirs of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager; Sir John Dashwood King, Bart.; Sir Thomas Lethbridge, Bart.; Rear-Adm.  Sir S.J.B.  Pechell, Bart.; Admiral Sir J. Hawkins Whitshed; General Sir George Anson; General Sir John Vandeleur; Lieut.-Col.  John Browne; Charles Lyell, Esq.; John Musters, Esq.; Louis Hayes Petit, Esq.; Wm. Cooke Taylor, L.L.D.; Mr. Kenney, the dramatist; Charles Edw.  Horn, the composer, &c. &c.

The Number for January will be embellished with two Plates of the Roman Pavements recently found at Cirencester.

NICHOLS AND SON, 25.  Parliament Street.

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Vols.  I. and II. 8vo., price 28s., cloth.