The last part of the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin contains two papers by Jacob Grimm, which will doubtless be perused with great interest in this country.  The one on the ancient practice of burning the bodies of the dead (Ueber das Verbrennen der Leichen) will be of especial interest to English antiquaries; but the other, from its connexion with the great educational questions which now occupy so much of public attention, will probably be yet more attractive.  It is entitled, Ueber Schuele Universitaet Academie.  Separate copies of these Essays may be procured from Messrs. Williams and Norgate.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson (Wellington Street, Strand) will sell on Monday next and two following days the valuable Dramatic and Miscellaneous Library of the late John Fullarton, Esq., which contains an extensive collection of the early editions of the Old English Dramatists.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­Bernard Quaritch’s (16.  Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 21. for 1850, of Antiquarian, Historical, Heraldic, Numismatic, and Topographical Books; William Heath’s (291/2, Lincoln Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 6. for 1850, of Valuable Second-hand Books; Cole’s (15.  Great Turnstile) List of very Cheap Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

LAW’S LETTERS TO BISHOP HOADLEY.

MILLES, REV.  ISAAC, ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CONVERSATION OF, 1721.

BRAY, REV.  T., PUBLIC SPIRIT ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE AND DESIGNS OF, 8vo. 1746.

HUET’S COMMERCE OF THE ANCIENTS, 1717.

VINCE’S ASTRONOMY, 3 Vols. 1808.

*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of “NOTES AND QUERIES,” 186.  Fleet Street.

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

JEEDEE. Notwithstanding Dr. Parr’s assertion to the contrary, the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM_ is by no means an uncommon book, as may be seen by a reference to Gruesse (Bibliotheca Magica, p. 32.), where upwards of a dozen editions are enumerated, and a table of its contents may be seen.  The work has been very fully analysed in the second volume of Horst’s Daemonomagie, and, if we remember rightly, its history is told by Soldan in his Gesch. der Hexenprocesse.

R.H. (Trin.  Coll.  Dub.) will see that it is impossible to adopt his kind suggestion without spoiling the uniformity of the work.  We have a bound copy of our First Volume now before us, and can assure him that, although the margin is necessarily narrow the book has not been spoilt by the binder.

J.S.  Nortor or Nawter_ is only the provincial mode of pronouncing neatherd.  The Nolt market is the ancient name of a street in Newcastle—­the cattle-market.  See Brockett’s Gloss. of North Country Words, s.v. NOWT or NOLT.