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"Here, Friend, is little Daniel's Tomb,
To Joseph's age he did arrive;
Sloth killing thousands in their bloom,
While labour kept poor Dan alive.
Though strange yet true, full seventy years
Was his wife happy in her Tears.
 

Daniel Tear died December 9th, 1787, aged 110 years."

C. T. R.

Straw-bail (Vol. vii., pp. 85. 342.).—The origin of the expression "a man of straw" may be traced to those mannikins or effigies representing the human figure, which are (or used to be) paraded in the streets during the Carnival in most continental countries. These mannikins were generally stuffed with straw; and hence, in legal phraseology, "a man of straw" denotes the semblance of a man—a person of neither substance nor responsibility, who is put forward to screen a real delinquent, or bear the brunt of a prosecution. Such, at least, is the origin commonly assigned by the French to their "homme de paille," the prototype of our "man of straw."

Henry H. Breen.

St. Lucia.

How to stain Deal (Vol. vii., p. 356).—If C. will apply by letter or otherwise to Mr. Henry Stevens, 54. Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, he will learn every particular, and be furnished with samples of its effect on common deal, as now very extensively used in churches, school-rooms, &c.

Detached Belfry Towers (Vol. vii., pp. 333. 416.).—Add to the list, Marston Morteyne in Bedfordshire, not far from Ampthill, and Gunwalloe, in Cornwall, about five miles south of Helston. Gunwalloe tower appears to be much older than the church, and faces the south-west angle of the nave, from which it is distant about fourteen feet.

J. M. B.

Tunbridge Wells.

Cambrensis has forgotten that the cloich teachs (bell-houses), or round belfries, peculiar to Ireland, and which have become famous as "round towers," are almost always separate from the churches.

James Graves.

Kilkenny.

To your instances of detached belfries in England add Magdalene College and New College in Oxford, and Woburn in Bedfordshire.

H. C.

Thurles.

Detached church-towers exist at Beccles, Suffolk, and at East Dereham, Norfolk.

G. J. C.

Oxford.

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

The anniversary of the Camden Society on Monday last, when Mr. Peter Cunningham, Sir F. Madden, and Sir C. Young were elected on the Council, was distinguished by two departures from the usual routine: one, a special vote of thanks to Sir Harry Verney for placing his family papers at the service of the Society; and the other, a general expression of satisfaction on the part of the members at the steps taken by the Council to bring under the consideration of the Commission appointed to inquire into the laws regarding matters testamentary, the great impediments thrown in the way of all historical and literary inquirers by the authorities in the Prerogative Office.

It does not require the skill of an Œdipus to divine that in giving us so graphic a picture of The Vicar and his Duties, the Rev. A. Gatty has had the advantage of sketching from the life, and that his portraiture of

 
"A good man of religioun
That as a poore Persone of a toun;
But riche he was of holy thought and werke."
 

is as much a true effigy, though taken with pen and ink, as if he had put that capital parish priest, the Vicar of Leeds, before his camera. To the many friends of Dr. Hook, this little volume will be deeply interesting.

Books Received.—Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium, or Portfolio of Origins and Inventions. Third Edition, revised and improved, by Merton A. Thoms. This new edition of a very popular and useful little book has had the advantage of a thorough revision, and contains much new and interesting information.—Longman's Traveller's Library has lately been enriched by two of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant essays, viz. on Lord Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, and by a carefully compiled life of Marshal Turenne by the Rev. T. O. Cockayne: while Mr. Murray has added to his valuable collection of Railway Readings, a reprint of The Life of Lord Bacon, by his noble biographer Lord Campbell.—Reynard the Fox, after the German Version of Göthe, with Illustrations by J. Wolf. Part V. This translation is kept up with spirit, and the present number carries us to The Pardon of the wily transgressor.—Mr. Bohn has put forth numerous fresh claims on the favour of poor scholars: in his Standard Library he has given a third volume of Miss Bremer's Works, containing Home and Strife and Peace; in his Classical Library he continues the translation of Aristotle in The Politics and Economics, translated by G. Walford, M.A.; in his Antiquarian Library, he has continued in his series of translations of Early English Chronicles by giving us in one volume a translation of Henry of Huntingdon, and also of the Gesta Stephani; while he will have done good service to naturalists and keepers of aviaries and cage birds by the edition of Bechstein's Cage and Chamber Birds and Sweet's Warblers, which he has included in the same volume of his Illustrated Library.

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Jacob's English Peerage. Folio Edition, 1766. Vols. II., III., and IV.

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Views of Arundel House in the Strand, 1646. London, published by T. Thane, Rupert Street, Haymarket. 1792.

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European Magazine. Nos. for May, 1817; January, February, May, June, 1818; April, June, July, October, and December, 1819.

Stanhope's Paraphrase of Epistles and Gospels. London, 1732. Vols. III. and IV.

The Lawyer and Magistrate's Magazine, complete, or single Volumes, circa 1805-1810.

Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology.

Phelp's History and Antiquities of Somersetshire. Part 4., and Parts 9. to end.

Bayle's Dictionary. English Version, by De Maizeaux. London, 1738. Vols. I. and II.

Swift's (Dean) Works. Dublin: G. Faulkner. 19 volumes. 1768. Vol. I.

Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London. Vols. I. and II.

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Martyn's Plantæ Cantabrigienses. 12mo. London, 1763.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. Odd Vols.

The Truth Teller. A Periodical.

R. Mant's Church Architecture considered in relation to the Mind of the Church. 8vo. Belfast, 1840.

J. L. Petit's Church Architecture. 2 Vols.

Cambridge Camden Society's Transactions. Vol. III.—Ellicott on Vaulting.

Quarterly Review, 1845.

Collier's further Vindication of his short View of the Stage. 1708.

Congreve's Amendment of Collier's false and imperfect Citations. 1698.

Bedford's Serious Reflections on the Abuses of the Stage. 8vo. 1705.

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