rican Dictionary (1848) explains this phrase thus "The practice of punishing men for crimes and offences by private unauthorized persons, without a legal trial. The term is said to be derived from a Virginian farmer, named Lynch, who thus took the law into his own hands." (U.S.) Webster is considered the highest authority in America, or I should not offer the above. G. H. B. "Talk not of Love” (Vol. iii., p. 7.).— The song quoted by your Querist, A. M., was written by Mrs. MacLehose, the "Clarinda" of Burns, and is to be found in most of the lives of the Scottish poet. [J. H., JR., says it is printed in Chambers's Journal, No. 1. New Series. DANIEL FERGUSON points them out at p. 212. of a Collection of Songs of England and Scotland, published by Cochrane, of Waterloo Place; and in vol. ii. of Johnson's Scots Musical Museum; and G. T. also refers to the last-named collection.] The Butcher Duke (Vol. iii., p. 8.). The song referred to by MEZZOTINTO is to be found in most of the collections of Scotch songs, under the name of "Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie," for which old air it was written; or, when only partially printed, by the commencing line of one of its stanzas: "Geordie sits in Charlie's chair." It is one of the numerous Jacobite songs composed either about 1715, by some one "out in the Fifteen," or later by a poet of "the Forty-five." The author's name is unknown. In the collection of Scottish songs, published by Robert Chambers in 1829, the song, consisting of no less than twenty-two stanzas, will be found at p. 367. [L. M. M. R. has also kindly transcribed the song from the Scots Musical Museum; and DR. C., of Newcastle, who says "it is well known in the remoter districts of Northumberland." obligingly offers to furnish MEZZOTINTO with a copy, if he should desire it.] Curfew (Vol. ii., p. 103.).—The Curfew is rung at Handsworth, near Sheffield. H. J. 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Lord Mahon's History of England, there can be little The memory of that eventful period is so kept alive among us, by snatches of Jacobite ballads, and recitals of the strange incidents in which it was so rich, that this separate publication of so much of Lord Mahon's History of England from the Peace of Utrecht (1713) to the Peace of Paris (1763) as relates to its moving accidents by flood and field," will be a great boon to those numerous readers who have neither means, time, nor opportunity to peruse Lord Mahon's interesting narrative in that valuable contribution to our national history for which it was originally written. Some time since the British Museum purchased for about 120l. a volume containing no less than sixty-four early French Farces and Moralities, printed between the year 1542 and 1548, of which a very large proportion was entirely unknown. How important a collection of materials for the early history of the Drama, espe cially in France, is contained in this precious volume, we learn from a work which has reached us, "pas destiné au commerce," under the title of Description Bibliographique et Analyse d'un Livre unique qui se trouve au Musée Britannique, which contains a short but able analysis of the various pieces which formed the volume thus fortunately secured for our national library. Though the name of the editor is stated, on the titlepage, to be Tridace - Nafe-Théobrome, Gentilhomme Breton, we strongly suspect that no such gentleman is to be found; and that we are really indebted for this highly curious and interesting book to a gentleman who has already laid the world of letters under great obligations, M Delpierre, the accomplished Secretary of Legation of the Belgian Embassy. of them Literature, Science, and the Arts have sustained a heavy loss in the death of that accomplished patron that most amiable nobleman the Marquess of Northampton. His noble simplicity and singlemindedness of character, and his unaffected kindliness of manner, endeared him to all who had the good for. tune to be honoured with his acquaintance, and by all of whom his death will be long and most deeply regretted. 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