We have received the following Catalogues:—­W.  Brown’s (No. 130. and 131.  Old Street) List of English and Foreign Theological Books; W. Nield’s (46.  Burlington Arcade) Catalogue, No. 4., of very Cheap Books; W. Pedder’s (18.  Holywell Street) Catalogue Part IX., for 1850, of Books Ancient and Modern; J. Rowwell’s (28.  Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn) Catalogue, No 39., of a Select Collection of Second-hand Books; W. L. Lincoln’s (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Sixty-second Catalogue of English, Foreign, Classical, and Miscellaneous Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

T. NAOGEONGUS—­REGNUM PAPISTICUM. 8vo. 1553.

BARNABE GOOGE’S POPISH KINGDOM. 4to. 1570.

Odd Volumes

BERRY’S HERALDRY, 9 Vols.  Supplement.

SHAKSPEARE (Whittingham’s Chiswick Edition), Vol.  IV. 1814.

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

As we again propose this week to circulate a large number of copies of “NOTES AND QUERIES” among members of the different provincial Literary Institutions, we venture, for the purpose of furthering the objects for which our paper has instituted, to repeat the following passage from our 52nd Number:—­

It is obvious that the use of a paper like “NOTES AND QUERIES,” bears a direct proportion to the extent of its circulation.  What it aims at doing is, to reach the learning which lies scattered not only throughout every part of our own country but all over the literary world, and to bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of the scholar; to enable, in short, men of letters all over the world to give a helping hand to one another.  To a certain extent, we have accomplished this end.  Our last number contains communications not only from all parts of the metropolis, and from almost every country in England, but also from Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and even from Demerara.  This looks well.  It seems as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design.  But much yet remains to be done.  We have recently been told of whole districts in England so benighted as never to have heard of “NOTES AND QUERIES;” and after an interesting question has been discussed for weeks in our columns, we are informed of some one who could have answered it immediately if he had seen it.  So long as this is the case the advantage we may confer upon literature and literary men is necessarily imperfect.  We do what we can to make known our {383} existence through the customary modes of announcement, and we gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance and encouragement we derive from our brethren of the public press; but we would respectfully solicit the assistance of our friends upon this particular point.  Our purpose is aided, and our usefulness increased by every introduction which can be given to our paper, either to a Book Club, to a Lending Library, or to any other channel of circulation amongst persons of inquiry and intelligence.  By such introductions scholars help themselves as well as us, for there is no inquirer throughout the kingdom who is not occasionally able to throw light upon some of the multifarious objects which are discussed in our pages.