GLENIFFER.

Paisley.

Sir Cloudesley Shovel (Vol. iii., p. 23.).—­“H.J.” will find a “Note” in Cunningham’s Lives of Eminent Englishmen (vol. iv. p. 47.), of the circumstances attendant upon Sir Cloudesley’s death, as preserved in the family of the Earl of Romney, detailing the fact of his murder, and the mode of {46} its discovery.  I shall be happy to supply your correspondent with an extract, if he has not the above work at hand.

J.B.  COLMAR.

Noli me tangere (Vol. ii., p. 153.).—­In addition to the painters already enumerated as having treated this subject, the artist Le Sueur, commonly called the Raphael of France, may be mentioned.  In his picture, the figures are somewhat above half nature.

W.J.  MERCER.

Cad (Vol. i., p.250.).—­Jamieson derives this word, or rather its Scotch diminutive, “cadie,” from the French, cadet.  I have heard it fancifully traced to the Latin “cauda.”

W.J.  MERCER.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Mr. Disraeli’s work, entitled Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, has been pronounced by one of the great critical authorities of our own days, “the most important work” on the subject that modern times have produced.  Those who differ from Mr. Disraeli’s view of the character of the king and the part he played in the great drama of his age may, in some degree, dissent from this eulogy.  None will, however, deny that the work, looking to its anecdotical character, and the great use made in it of sources of information hitherto unemployed, is one of the most amusing as well as interesting histories of that eventful period.  While those who share with the editor, Mr. B. Disraeli, and many reflecting men, the opinion that in the great questions which are now agitating the public mind, history is only repeating itself; and that the “chapters on the Genius of the Papacy; on the Critical Position of our earlier Protestant Sovereigns with regard to their Roman Catholic Subjects, from the consequences of the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; on the Study of Polemical Divinity prevalent at the commencement of the Seventeenth Century, and kindred themes, are, in fact, the history of the events, the thoughts, the passions, and the perplexities of the present agitated epoch,” will agree that the republication of the work at this moment is at once opportune and acceptable.