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NOTES ON BOOKS CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

The extraordinary collection of the works of Daniel Defoe formed by Mr. Walter Wilson, his biographer, which at his sale realised the sum of 50%, and which had been rendered still further complete by the addition of upwards of forty pieces by the recent possessor, when sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Wednesday, the 5th instant, produced no less than 717. Mr. Toovey was the purchaser.

The Shakspeare Society have just issued a very interesting volume, the nature of which is well described by its ample title-page:—

"Inigo Jones. Cunningham, Esq. Remarks on some of his Sketches for Masques and Dramas, by J. R. Planché, Esq.; and Five Court Masques. Edited from the original MSS. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, etc., by John Payne Collier, Esq.; accompanied by Facsimiles of Drawings by Inigo Jones; and by a Portrait from a Painting by Vandyck."

A Life of the Architect, by Peter

Many particulars in the memoir are new in the biography of the great architect. Mr. Planche's too brief Remarks on the Costume make us join with Mr. Collier in regretting that he did not extend to all the plates "the resources of his attainments and talents;" while the five masques and the general preface, contributed by Mr. Collier, form by no means the least valuable portion of a volume which cannot fail to give satisfaction to all the members of the society by which it is issued.

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Mr. Kerslake, of Bristol, has just issued a small Catalogue of Books bought at Brockley Hall, and some which formerly belonged Browne Willis, which contains some interesting articles, such as, No. 222., M'Cormick's Memoirs of Burke, with numerous MS. notes throughout by J. Horne Tooke; the first edition of Wit's Recreation, 1640, with a MS. note by Sir F. Freeling: - "I have never seen another perfect copy of the first edition. That in Longman's Bib. Ang. Poetica, wanted frontispiece and 4 leaves, and was priced 71. 7s.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, who have during the present week been selling the curious Dramatic Library, printed and manuscript, and the theatrical portraits of the late Mr. James Winston, will commmence, on Monday, the sale of Mr. Mitchell's Collection of Autograph Letters. The most interesting portion of these are eight-andforty unpublished letters by Garrick, among which is one written to his brother Peter, commenced on the day on which he made his appearance on the London boards, and finished on the following. In it he communicates his change of occupation to his brother, premising that since he had been in business he had "run out four hundred pounds, and found trade not increasing," and

had now begun to think of some way of redeeming his fortune. "My mind (as you know) has always been inclined to the stage; nay, so strongly so, that all my illness and lowness of spirits was owing to my want of resolution to tell you my thoughts when here.... Though I know you will be displeased with me, yet I hope when you shall find that I may have the genius of an actor without the vices, you will think less severe of me, and not be ashamed to own me for a brother." He makes an offer as to the transfer of his business, stock, &c. "Last night I played Richard the Third to the surprise of every body; and as I shall make very near 300l. per annum of it, and as it is really what I doat upon, I am resolved to pursue it." In a postscript, he adds, "I have a farce (The Lying Valet), coming out at Drury-lane." his progress in his new profession is shown in another letter, addressed also to his brother Peter, on the 19th of April following, in which, after mentioning some affairs of business connected with their wine trade he says:

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"The favour I have met with from the greatest men has made me far from repenting of my choice. I am very intimate with Mr. Glover, who will bring out a Tragedy next winter on my account. I have supp'd with the great Mr. Murray, Counsellor, and shall with Mr. Pope by his introduction. I supp'd with Mr. Littleton, the Prince's favourite, last Thursday night, and met with the highest civility and complaisance; he told me he never knew what acting was till I appeared, and said I was only born to act what Shakspeare writ. . . . . I believe nobody as an Actor was ever more caressed, and my character as a private man makes 'em more desirous of my company (all this entre nous as one brother to another). I am not fixed for next year, but shall certainly be at the other end of the town. I am offered 500 guineas and a clear benefit, or part of the management," &c.

The whole collection forms, indeed, a curious and new contribution towards the biography of that distinguished actor.

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(In continuation of Lists in Nos. 5, and 6.) ELÉGIE COMPOSÉE DANS UN CIMETIÈRE DE CAMPAGNE. 8vo. 1778. LIVES OF ALCHYMISTICAL PHILOSOPHERS, ETC. 8vo. London, FLAMMA SINE FUMO, or POEMS WITHOUT FICTIONS, by R. W.

1815.

12mo. 1662.

HOOKER'S CHILDBIRTH, OF WOMAN'S LECTURE. 4to. Bl. lett.

1590.

GREENE'S NEVER TOO LATE, ETC. 4to. 1590.
THE CELESTIAL BEDS, a Poem. 1781.
WANSTEAD GARDENS, a Poem. 1712.

Odd Volumes.

SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS. Vols. IV. and XIV. of Malone's Edition. 8vo. Dublin, 1794.

LARCHER'S NOTES ON HERODOTUS. Cooley's Edition. Vol. I.

8vo.

1844.

MURRAY'S HISTORY OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Vol. II. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1822.

JUGEMENS DES SAVANS SUR LES MAÎTRES DE L'ELOQUENCE. Vols. I. and II. 12mo. Paris, 1719. Vellum. ■TACITUS. Vol. IV. 4to. Edinburgi, 1796.

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Martirium S. Dionisii; scripta fuit ab Hilduino Abbate Cœnobii S. Dionisii in Francia sub Ludo114 vico Pio." It is said that Hilduinus was the first writer who gave the marvellous story of the saint carrying his own head in his hand for nearly two miles after his decapitation. But he tells us that 118 he abridged his narration ex Græcam et Latinorum Historiis.

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2o Revelatio facta S. Stephano Papæ de consecratione altaris SS. Petri et Pauli ante Sepulchrum S. Martirii Dionisii quæ consecratio facta 119 fuit v. kal. Aug. 754. This part of the MS. is remarkable for containing in one place the date written in Roman ciphers, thus-SccLmm. v. kl. aug.; a circumstance so rare in MSS. of this age, as to have astonished the learned diplomatists Papebroch and Germon.

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3o Historia S. Simeonis Trevirensis Solitarii. Of whom it is recorded that he lived sub Poppone Episcopo Trevirense, in quædam cellula ad portam nigram sitá. At fol. 36. an interesting account of the death of the saint is given by the author, who was present, and with the assistance of two other monks, piously performed his obsequies. It appears that the abbey of S. Maximin was about 127 120 paces from the cell of the saint at Treves, and it is therefore most probable that the writer was a monk of the Benedictine order then belonging to that foundation; but he puts his name out of doubt by the following couplet, inscribed at the end of the narrative:

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Sir, - In Dr. Maitland's able vindication of the Jark Ages (p. 419. 1st ed.), he concludes his inresting extract from the scribe Otloh's account himself by saying:- "One would like to know *hat books th they were which Otlohnus thus multiied; but this, perhaps, is now impossible." I ave it accidentally in my power to identify two

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"Presbiter et monachus OrLOH quidam vocitatus Sancte tibi librum BONIFACII tradidit istum."

This dedication of his labours to S. Boniface may only indicate his veneration for the national saint;

least of the number; and if it was his uni-but, as he tells us he worked a great deal in the

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ersal practice to subscribe his name, as he does these instances, a search into the principal reositories of MSS. would, no doubt, give a large ' A valuable MS. volume in my possession as been thus described by a learned Benedictine: Codex Membranaceus constans foliis 223 numeando; sæculis ix. desinente, x. et xi. incipiente, ariis manibus scriptus, per partes qui in unum Ollectus, ex scriptis variis nitidæ scripturæ carlo-16. Vita et Passio S. Kiliani (genere Scoti). 7. Vita Angicæ, varia continens: 1° Vita et Passio, seu

I must summarily indicate the other contents of this interesting MS., which are: 4. Passio SS. Sebastiani et Vincentii. 5. Vita S. Burchar i.

S. Sole. 8. Vita S. Ciri. 9. Depositio S. Satiri.

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10. Alphabetum Græcum. 11. Officio pro cum notis musicis, pro festo S. Pancratii; sequitur ipsiis martiriis passio. 12. Vita S. Columbani [this is anonymous, but is attributed to his disciple Jonas, and contains much valuable historical matter]. Lastly, 13. Vita S. Wolfgangi, by the hand of our interesting scribe OтLOH, written at the instance of the Benedictine Cœnobites of his monastery of S. Emmeram, at Ratisbon, where the saint was buried. This, as in the case of the Life of S. Boniface, is a rifaccimento; it was made from two older lives of S. Wolfgang, as Otloh himself tells us, one of them by a certain monk named Arnolfus, the other having been brought out of France. He is here, therefore, more an author than a scribe; but he declares modestly that it was a task he would willingly avoid for the future. The passage of his Preface is worth transcribing: Fratrum quorundam nostrorum hortatu sedulo infimus ego, O cœnobitarum S. Emmerammi compulsus sum S. Wolfgangi vitam in libellulis duobus dissimili interdum, et impolita materie descriptam in unum colligere, et aliquantulum sublimiori modo corrigere. Multa etiam quæ in libro neutro inveniebantur, fidelium quorundam attestatione compertâ addere studui, sicque quædam addendo, quædam vero fastidiose vel inepte dicta excerpendo, pluraque etiam corrigendo, sed et capitularia præponendo. Vobis O fratres mei exactoresque hujus rei prout ingenioli mei parvitas permisit obedivi. Jam rogo cessate plus tale quid exigere a me." At the end of the Life he has written :

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"Presul Wolfgange cunctis semper venerande Hæc tua qui scripsi jam memor esto mihi Presbiter et Monachus Otloh quidam vocitatus Sancte tibi librum Bonifacii tradidit istum."

We have here sufficient evidence that Otloh was a worthy predecessor of the distinguished Benedictines to whom the world of letters has been so deeply indebted in more recent times.

Dr. Maitland's mention of the calligraphic labours of the nun Diemudis, Otloh's contemporary, is not a solitary instance: in all ages, the world has been indebted to the pious zeal of these recluse females for the multiplication of books of devotion and devout instruction. An instance, of so late a date as the eve of the invention of printing, now lies before me, in a thick volume, most beautifully written by fair hands that must have been long practised in the art. As the colophon at the end preserves the names of the ladies, and records that the parchment was charitably furnished by their spiritual father, I think it worth transcribing:

"Expliciunt, Deo laus omnipotente, quinque libri

de VITA & CONVERSATIONE SANCTORVM PATRVM Scripti per manibus Sororum AUE TRICI et GHEEZE YSENOUDI in festivus diebus suis consororibus dilectis in memo

Finiti año dui м° cccc° XLIX in festo decollationis Sei Johannis baptiste ante sumam missam, Et habebant ad hoc pergamenum sibi ex caritate provisum de venerabili presbitero Dno NICOLAO WYT tune temporis earundem patre spirituali & sibi ipsiis spirituEx caritativo aliter ac in Dño sat reverenter dilectio. amore sitis propter Deum memores eorum cum uno AVE MARIA."

I omitted to mention that Massmann, in his Kleinen Sprachdenkmale des VIII. bis XII. Jahrhunderts, Leipsig, 1830, p. 50., says: "The Benedictine priest Otloh, of Regensburg, left behind him a work, De Ammonicione Clericorum et Laicorum, in which is twice given a Latin prayer (Cod. Monacens. Emmeram. f. cxiii. mbr. sæc. xi.), at fol. 51. d., as Oratio ejus qui et suprascripta et sequentia edidit dicta, and at fol. 158. as Oratio cuidam peccatoris." On fol. 161. b. is an old German version, first printed by Pez (Thes. i. 417.), corrected by Graff. Diutiska, 111. 211., by Massmann, at p. 168. Otloh mentions in this prayer the destruction of his monastery of St. Emmeram, which took place in 1062.

I have advisedly called him Otloh, and not
Otlohnus.
S. W. SINGER.

Mickleham, Dec. 10. 1849.

NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR
LONDON.

No. 1. "Gerrard Street, Soho.
At the
Turk's Head, in Gerrard Street, Johnson and Sir
Joshua Reynolds founded, in the year 1764, The
Literary Club.""

It would appear from the following extracts in my Common-place Book, that the original Turk's Head, at which the Literary Club first held their meetings, was in Greek Street, Soho, not in Gerrard Street:

"The Literary Club was first held at the Turk's Head in Greek Street, which tavern was almost half a century since removed to Gerrard Street, where it continued nearly as long as the house was kept open.”European May. Jan. 1803.

"The Turk's Head, in Gerrard Street, Soho, was, more than fifty years since, removed from a tavern of the same sign the corner of Greek and Compton Streets, This place was a kind of head-quarters for the Loyal Association during the rebellion of 1745."-Moser's Memorandum Book, MS. dated 1799.

No. 2. Storey's Gate, Birdcage Walk, St. James's Park. - I have seen it stated, but do not recollect where, that " Storey's" was a house of public entertainment. "Webb's," mentioned in the following extracts, was also a place of a similar description:

"April 25. 1682.— About nine, this night, it began to lighten, thunder, and rain. The next morning, there was the greatest flood in S. James's Park ever

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