O.P.Q.


_Translations of the Scriptures_ (Vol. ii., p. 229.).--C.F.S. may
perhaps find _The Bible of every Land_, now publishing by Messrs.
Bagster, serviceable in his inquiries respecting Roman Catholic
translations of the Scriptures. The saying of the Duke of Lancaster is
found in the first edition of Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, and in the
modern reprint, iv. 674.; the original of the treatise from which it is
taken being in C.C. College, Cambridge. (See Nasmith's _Catalogue_, p.
333.)

NOVUS.


_Scalping_ (Vol. ii., p. 220.).--W.B.D. confounds beheading with
scalping. In the American war many British soldiers, it was said, walked
about without their _scalps_, but not without their heads.

SANDVICENSIS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

No one branch of antiquarian study has been pursued with greater success
during the last few years than that of Gothic Architecture; and, to this