Coleridge was of the same opinion (Introd. to Encycl.  Metrop., p. 19.).  Had the phrase been a quotation, would not Bacon have said, “Sane ut vere dictum est,” rather than “Ut vere dicamus.”

T.J.

[Footnote 5:  Primate Marsh’s library, St. Patrick’s, Dublin, which contains about 18,000 volumes, including the entire collection of Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester.]

The Lass of Richmond Hill (Vol. ii., p. 103.)—­In reply to QUAERO, I beg to say that he will find the words of the above song in the Morning Herald of August 1, 1789, a copy of which I possess.  It is here described as a “favourite song, sung by Mr. Incledon at Vauxhall; composed by Mr. Hook.”

J.B.

Walworth.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The importance of Winchelsea as a convenient port for communication with France, from the time of the Conquest to the close of the fifteenth century, having led to a wish for a more extended history of that town than is to be found in any work relating either to the Cinque Ports or to the county of Sussex, Mr. Durrant Cooper determined to gather together the existing materials for such a history as a contribution to the Sussex Archaeological Society.  The industry, however, with which Mr. Cooper prosecuted his search after original records and other materials connected with the town and its varied history, was rewarded by the discovery of so many important documents as to render it impossible to carry out his original intention.  The present separate work, entitled The History of Winchelsea, one of the Ancient Towns added to the Cinque Ports, is the result of this change; and the good people of Winchelsea have now to thank Mr. Cooper for a history of it, which has been as carefully prepared as it has been judiciously executed.  Mr. Cooper has increased the amusement and information to be derived from his volume, by the manner in which he has contrived to make transactions of great historical importance illustrate his narrative of events of merely local interest.

The new edition of the Pictorial Shakspeare which Mr. Charles Knight has just commenced under the title of the “National Edition” cannot, we think, prove other than a most successful attempt to circulate among all classes, but especially among readers of comparatively small means, a cheap, well-edited, and beautifully illustrated edition of the works of our great poet.  The text of the present edition is not printed, {351} like of its precursor, in double columns, but in a distinct and handsome type extending across the page; and as there is no doubt the notes will be revised so as to incorporate the amendments and elucidations of the text, which have appeared from our Colliers, Hunters, &c., since the Pictorial Shakspeare was first published, there can be little doubt but that this National Edition will meet with a sale commensurate with the taste and enterprise of its editor and publisher, Mr. Knight.