adage, "Quem Deus (potius _Jupiter_) vult perdere," &c., than "F.C.B."
(whose object, of course, was rather to compare _results_ than to trace
_derivations_) has supplied in his interesting communication.

C. FORBES.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

Such of our readers as do not possess Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic
and Provincial Words_, which Mr. Way, a very competent authority, lately
designated in our columns as Mr. Halliwell's "useful glossarial
collections," will be glad to learn that Mr. Russell Smith has announced
a second and cheaper edition of it.

The new number of the _Archæological Journal_ is a very interesting one.
That portion if it, more particularly, which relates the Proceedings of
the Meetings of the Archæological Institute, contains a great mass of
curious and valuable information; made the more available and
instructive by means of the admirable woodcuts by which it is
illustrated.

We have received several curious communications on the subject of Parish
Registers, with reference to the article on "Early Statistics," and the
"Registers of Chart, Kent," to which we shall endeavour to give early
insertion. We have also received a copy of _A Letter addressed to R.