works of the “fathers of Geometry.”  We certainly anticipate, from the known character of the minds now engaged in this work, that some conclusive evidence as to the state of geometry anterior to the time of Euclid will be elicited by Messrs. Potts and Davies.  The analysis of the writings of all the authors who have treated on the Porism, will form a subject of interest not only for its assigning to every author his fair share of credit for his contributions towards perfecting the poristic method; but for that critical discrimination of principles, which constitutes one of the marked features of Mr. Davies’s writings in the archaeology of geometry.  We shall be glad if his slight notice of the intended work shall bring some accession of aid to the undertaking in the form of subscriptions:  as upon adequate support, it appears, must depend whether the work shall go to press, or the project be abandoned.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­Thomas Thorpe’s (13.  Henrietta Street) General Catalogue of very Choice, Curious, Rare, and most Interesting Books recently purchased, including some hundred articles of the utmost rarity.  Williams and Norgate’s (14.  Henrietta Street) No. 24. of German Book Circular, a Quarterly List of the principal New Publications on the Continent; C.J.  Stewart’s (11.  King William Street, West Strand) Catalogue of Dogmatical, Polemical, and Ascetical Theology.

[9] We find at page 200, an Order of the Council, dated Dec. 5. 1737, respecting the disposition of the band at the funeral of Queen Caroline, signed by “TEMPLE STANYAN,” the subject of a Query in No. 24. p. 382., and of several Replies in our last, No. 28. p. 460.

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WANTED.—­MANUSCRIPT OF OLD ENGLISH POETRY.—­Borrowed, within the last few months, from the Town Residence of a Gentleman, a large 4to.  MS., in modern binding, of Early English Poetry, by Richard Rolle, of Hampole; containing, among other matters, Religious Pieces couched in the form of Legal Instruments, and a Metrical Chronicle of the Kings of England, in the style of Lydgate’s.  As the owner does not recollect to whom it was lent, and is very anxious to refer to it, he will be obliged by its immediate return, either to himself directly, or, if more convenient, to the Editor of “NOTES AND QUERIES.”

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.)

THE DOCTRINE OF CONSCIENCE FRAMED ACCORDING TO THE FORM IN THE COMMON PRAYER BOOK. by Y.N., London. 1636, 8vo., written by John Prideaux, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

Odd Volume.

ARMY LIST for August 1814.

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our pages again exhibit a large proportion of REPLIES. Our next Number, which will complete our First Volume, will do the same, as it is obviously for the convenience of our readers that the REPLIES should, as far as possible, appear in the same Volume with the QUERIES to which they relate.