Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, embracing the period from A.D. 1150 to the Eighteenth Century. Taken from original Charters and other Deeds preserved in Public and Private Archives. By Henry Laing. (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.) The beauty and value of Mr. Laing's Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals have been unreservedly admitted by all students of Sigillography; and the work has been pronounced by high authority "a valuable contribution to Scottish Heraldry." Heraldry and Genealogy, when confined to their legitimate position, and divested of the absurd vagaries and fictions which have exposed them to the ridicule of wits and satirists, are among the most important helps to the historian; and there can be no class of heraldic evidence more direct or more trustworthy than that which is furnished by the seals which gave validity to, and now attest the genuineness of the grants, charters, wills, and other muniments from which so much of our public history, and the larger portion of our family history, has to be evolved. With great justice, therefore, was Mr. Laing's first volume designated a "valuable contribution to Scottish Heraldry." The same tribute may, with like propriety, be paid to the present Supplement, which contains a minute description of no less than 1360 seals, many of them Royal and Baronial, many of them the Seals of Bishops, Abbots, and Monasteries, and the rest being Official Seals and Seals of Burghs. The work is illustrated with fifteen magnificent plates, on which about 120 seals are beautifully engraved, and contains in addition a large number of Seals engraved on wood, introduced into the text. We trust the book will meet with the patronage which it so thoroughly deserves. The English and their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History. By Luke Owen Pike, M.A. (Longmans.) If Mr. Pike succeeds in converting the majority of English readers to the view of our origin propounded in the present volume, the well-worn phrases-Anglo-Saxon energy, Anglo-Saxon spirit of enterprise, Anglo-Saxon endurance, &c., must disappear from our newspaper, and give place to some recognition of the Cymric element in our national character. Mr. Pike's work is one of great originality, and the manner in which the historical and philological evidence is made to bear upon that deduced from the physical characteristics of Englishmen exhibits both learning and ingenuity. The results of Mr. Pike's arguments are, according to his view, that "our characteristics are in the main decidedly Cymric; that in spite of the Romans and their legions, in spite of the Angles, the Saxons, the Frisians, the Jutes, the Danes, and the Normans, the people of Britain have developed into very nearly that kind of maturity which might have been ex Ferns: British and Foreign. Their History, Organography, Classification, and Enumeration. With a Treatise on their Cultivation. By John Smith, A.L.S. (Hardwicke.) The leafy month of June is an appropriate season for publishing such a volume as the present, which is calculated to interest two classes of readers. 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Thirteenth Edition, reconstructed, thoroughly revised, and partly rewritten, with about One Thousand additional Memoirs and Notices, by W. L. R. CATES, Author of The Pocket Date Book,' MAUNDER'S TREASURY of KNOWLEDGE, 10s. 6d. London: LONGMANS, GREEN, and CO., Paternoster Row. INDEX. THIRD SERIES.-VOL. IX. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK LORE, イ T A. on need-fire, 354 A. Wallace (Sir William), visit to France, 87 A., Abergavenny, on Almack, 299 A. (A.) on Balcony, or balcony, 519 Celebration with the face to the people, 501 Credence table, 501 Dafter for daughter, 519 Enigmatical puzzle, 78, 267 Husbands at the church-door, 10 Magpie superstition, 59 Merchandise, obsolete terms, 450, 500 Mops and brooins, 490 Piccadilly, origin of the name, 176 Pouncet-box: Snuff, 518 Abhiba on Cork periodicals, 179 "Essay on Literature in Ireland," 370 Liturgical Tracts from "The Surplice," 139 M'Bride (David), M.D., of Dublin, 373 Ache on the "Christian Year," 411 Iris and Lily, 350 Norfolk wiles, 473 4 Traditions on our Lord's passion, 351 Acts-Apostles, a Christian name, 175, 287, 334 Durham protest, 195 Filius naturalis, 286 Gauden (Bp. John), portrait, 9 'Inquiry on the Use of Eucharistic Symbols," 195 A. (F.) on the motion of the earth, 372 Affirmative and negative signs, 137, 227 Agrippa (H. C.), "De Vanitate Scientiarum Declama- Agroose, origin of the word, 409 Ainger (Alfred) on origin of the word Yorick, 60 Yorick, origin of the word, 60 A. (J. C.) on daughter: dafter, 330 Orf, its etymology, 178 Town, a farm-yard, 163 A. (J. H. L.) on Kowloon in China, 531 Alanely, a provincialism, 195, 289, 381, 440 "Albumazar," a comedy, its authorship, 178, 259, 302 Alexander VIII, pope, and St. Augustine, 218 Algiers, works on, 413, 481 Algum-tree and peacocks, 68 'Aλeús on Sir Francis Drake and the crabs, 441 Knox (Alex.)," Eucharistic Symbols," 288 "New High Church turn'd Old Presbyterian," Quevedo's Sonnet on Rome, 360 Allen (Sir Thomas), biography, 488 America, South, books on its present state, 35 American Colonial currency, its depreciation, 368 Amherst (Nicholas), "Protestant Popery," 240 Black Douglasses, 125 Douglas and Wigton peerages, 438 "Annalia Dubrensia," noticed, 100 Anointed, used in a depraved sense, 359, 422 Anonymous Works: - Abramideis, 390, 460 Albumazar, a comedy, 178, 259, 302 Autumn Leaves and Winter Gleanings, 138 Conversations on Church Polity [by Miss Gunn], 531 Dégoûts (Les) du Théâtre, 349 Descant on the Fenny Postage, 349 Dissertation on the Pyramids of Egypt, 390, 460 Essay on Literature in Ireland, 370 Glencoe, or the Fate of the Macdonalds, 237 H. (W.), The Divine Cosmographer, 106 Selections from the English Poets, 12, 69 Servitude, a poem, 60, 141 Tercentenary of Corydon, 138 The Stage, 178 Timoleon, a Tragi-Comedy, 349 Utopia Found, Apology for Irish Absentees, 107 Vitulus Aureus, by Joakim Philander, 239 Antiphon: "Ave rex gentis Anglorum," 12 A. (O. E.) on Louis-Bonconte de Monaldeschi, 454 Apostles' mass at St. Paul's, 69 Apple-pie bed, 255 Appleton (W. S.) on Symonds family, 533 Arbory, Herberwe, Harbourie, their meaning, 430 Archer (Rev. Edward), of Barbados, 411 Godfrey (Sir Edmund) and Primrose Hill, 204 Aristophanes, "The Frogs," &c., translated by John Arnauld (Mère Agnès), " Letters," 277 Arnold (F. H.) on Hotspur, 335 Arthur (King), Merlin on his Early History, 364; and Ashurst (W. H.), his pseudonym, "John Search," 423 Athol family motto, 374, 394, 460 Athol (Stewart, Earls of), arms and crest, 373 Inquiry on the Use of Eucharistic Symbols, 195, Atkinson (J. C.) on the need-fire, 516 288, 361 Atlantic cable telegraph, 169, 246 Aume of wine explained, 34, 88, 127 Austen (Miss Jane), "Mansfield Park," 373 Austin (J.), author of "Stenographic Music," 533 Autographs in books, 58, 66, 193, 244, 442, 449 A. (W. S.) on Benjamin West, painter, 89 B. B. on hawthorn hedges and S lands, 412 B. on David Hume's house in Edinburgh, 79 332 Babylon, in Egypt, 532 Bacon (Delia) and the authorship of Shakspeare's Bacon (Francis), Baron Verulam, Shakspeare's Plays Bacstrom's Polar Voyage, 238 Bagpipe, an English instrument, 216, 327, 417 Baily (Johnson) on prescription for rheumatism, 196 Baldwin (Mrs. Jane), picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bale-fire, 263, 354, 478, 516 Ballad literature, foreign, 30, 143, 151 Balmawhapple's song, 58 Bancroft (Thomas), poet, burial, 67 Bannister, or Balneator, 97, 224 Barbauld (Anna Lætitia), noticed, 106, 400 Barber (Thomas), of Yarmouth, heraldic collections, 411 Yorkshire ballad, 57 Barker (C.) on John Search, 423 Barkley (C. W.) on the "Babes in the Wood," 332 Bar-Point on portraits of Stella and Vanessa, 474 Quotation from Dr. Young, 433 Barrett (W. F.) on photographic miracle, 521 Baschet (Armand) on court etiquette, 255 Bass and the May, explained, 45 Bates (A. H.) on quotations, 168 Becca fica, appearance of this bird in England, 35, 88 Bede (Cuthbert) on artists becoming scene-painters, 378 Bells of Peterborough Cathedral, 117 Churching-pew, 146 Folk-lore of St. Paul's Day, 118 Hill (Rev. Rowland) and the Methodists, 427 Matcham (Jarvis), the murderer, 62 Scott (Sir Walter) and Melrose Abbey, 249 Tennyson's early poems, 206 Bedfordbury, a London locality, 92 "Bee in your bonnet," 325 Beechy (Sir Wm.), painting of St. Cecilia, 35 Being, its derivation from the verb "to be," 44 Bates (Wm.) on Addison's "Dissertation upon the Beisley (Sidney) on St. Cecilia, by Sir W. Beechy, 35 Lack herb, 59 Bells of Batley church, 528; St. Helen's church, Wor- Bells destroyed at the Reformation, 219, 308 Benas (Baron Louis) on the ballad "The Jewish Jewish doctrine of the resurrection, 456 Benbow (Adm. John), biography, 104 Bendigo, or Bandicoot Creek, 97 Benediction in the Vesper-book, its date, 35, 89 Gaming, 378 Keble's hymn, 412 Once, its use for "if once," 256 B. (J.) on Charles I.'s judges, 199 Croft (Mr.), shot by Hudson, 277 B. (J. H.) on "Napoleon Moribundus," 107 "Black Prince," origin of the name, 279 Blades (Wm.) on sizes of books, 83 Guild medals, 35 Printers' medals, 196 Blag, its derivation, 372 Blair (D.), Melbourne, on the extinction of the abori- Australian aboriginal folk-lore, 528 Bendigo, or Bandicoot Creek, 97 Chevalier (N.), artist, 450 Epigram on Frederick the Great, 532 Hazlitt's "Essay on Hot and Cold," 523 Oliver the Spy, infamous toast of, 523 Trials at bar at Melbourne, 449 Blair (D.) on "Victorian Magazine," 520 Blake (Adm. Robert), portrait, 9 Blakeley (Luke), lines on the bells of Batley, 528 Cock-sure, its derivation, 248 Frere (J. H.), translations of Aristophanes, 188 Blue, its various significancies, 540 Blue Beard in England, 59 Bohler (Rev. Peter), inquired after, 255 St. James's Lutheran chapel, 69, 249 Bonaparte (Napoleon), anagram by, 98; narrative of his Bonar, derivation of the name, 23, 108, 225, 246, 379 Bone in a pig's skull, 59, 146 Bone (J. W.) on the Rev. Edward Archer, 411 Books, their sizes identified, 83, 169 Books recently published: Ackland's Summary of the Evidences of the Bible, Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art, 310 Annual Register for 1865, 484 Arnason's Legends of Iceland, 336 Blackley's Critical English Testament, 503 Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer, 403 Bridges' Index to printed Pedigrees, 230 Calendar of the Prayer-book, Illustrated, 508 Champfleury's Histoire de la Caricature, 90 |