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_If _MR. JOHN POWERS_, who in _NOTES AND QUERIES_ for Jan. 12th. 1850, p.
163., offered to furnish an extract from Hardiman's _Statute of Kilkenny_,
will have the kindness to so at this distance of time, and to forward it to
us, the Querist to whom he replied, and whose direction we have just
received, will be much obliged to him._
E.T., _who inquires respecting the quotation in Sterne_,--
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,"
_will find many earlier instances of this proverbial expression quoted in
our First Vol._ pp. 325. 357. 418.
REPLIES RECEIVED.--_Breeches Bible--Curse of Scotland--John Sanderson--St.
Saviour's, Canterbury--Frozen Horn--Under the Rose--Lynch Law--"Talk not of
Love"--Darby and Joan--Robertson of Struan--Wolf and
Hound--Difformis--Culture of Imagination--Lachrymatories--Synod of
Dort--Bunyan and Hobbes--Booty's Case--Lucy and Colin--Black Rood of
Scotland--Ferling--Portraits of Bishops--Time when Herodotus wrote--Fronte
Capillata--Separation of Sexes in Church--Touching for the Evil--True
Blue--St. Paul's Clock--Annoy--Umbrella._
VOLUME THE SECOND OF NOTES AND QUERIES, _with very copious _INDEX_, is now
ready, price_ 9s. 6d. _strongly bound in cloth. VOL. I. is reprinting, and
will, we hope, be ready next week._
NOTES AND QUERIES _may be procured, by order, of all Booksellers and
Newsvenders. It is published at noon on Friday, so that our country
Subscribers ought not to experience any difficulty in procuring it
regularly. Many of the country Booksellers. &c., are, probably, not yet
aware of this arrangement, which will enable them to receive _NOTES and
QUERIES_ in their Saturday parcels._
_All communications for the Editor of _NOTES AND QUERIES_ should be
addressed to the care of_ MR. BELL, No. 186. Fleet Street.
* * * * *
TO BOOK BUYERS.--WILLIAM BROUGH, 22. Paradise Street, Birmingham, has just
published a Catalogue of upwards of 10,000 Volumes of Second-hand Books,
which may be had _Gratis_ on Application; by Post, Four Stamps. Books of
every Description, and in any Quantity, purchased.
* * * * *
Mr. Maccabe's Romance of the Dark Ages,
BERTHA.
"The book is able, learned, and instructive to a degree wholly unusual in
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"We gladly recommend a work, the learning, purity, and interest of which
must please all kinds of reader."--_Morning Chronicle._
"The mere novel reader will value it for its exciting adventures, its
touching incidents, and its dramatic interest; while it will be acceptable
to the historical student for its vigorous grasp of historic character, and
to the antiquarian for its information relating to the Dark
Ages."--_Morning Post._
"It is treated with the learning of a scholar, and the grace of an
experienced writer."--_News of the World._
See also NOTES AND QUERIES, January 11th.
Also, Vols. I. and II. A CATHOLIC HISTORY of ENGLAND. By W.B. MACCABE, Esq.
"A work of great literary value."--_The Times._
T.C. NEWBY, 30. Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square.
* * * * *
Now ready, fcap. 8vo., price 7s. 6d.
A THIRD SERIES OF PLAIN SERMONS, addressed to a Country Congregation. By
the late REV. EDWARD BLENCOWE, Curate of Teversal, Notts, and formerly
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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