M. Oettinger appears to have acted on this principle, and has been
happy in the choice of his subject--

"The proper study of mankind is man."

The work is comprehensive in its object, judicious in its plan,
accurate in its details, as far as the specimen proceeds, and an
unquestionable desideratum in literature.

Ainsi, vive M. Edouard-Marie Oettinger! Vive la _Bibliographie
biographique_!

BOLTON CORNEY.

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FORM OF PETITION.

When a Petition ends with "Your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c." what
form of words does the "&c." represent?

B.

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QUERY AS TO NOTES--GREENE OF GREEN'S NORTON.

Mr. Editor,--I congratulate you on your happy motto, but will you give
your readers the results of your own experience and practice, and
tell them the simplest _mode of making Notes_, and when made, how to
arrange _them_ so _as to find them when required?_

I have been in the habit of using slips of paper--the blank turn-overs
of old-fashioned letters before note paper came into fashion--and
arranging in subjects as well as I could; but many a note so made has
often caused me a long hour's looking after: this ought not so to
be; pigeon-holes or portfolios, numbered or lettered, seem to be
indispensable.

Has any reader a _Note_ whereby to tell who are the present
representatives of Greenes of "Green's Norton?" or who was "Richard
Greene, Apothecary," who was living 1770, and bore the arms of that
family?

H.T.E.

[Our answer to our correspondent's first Query is, send your
Notes to us, who will print _and index_ them.--ED.]

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BUSTS OF CHARLES I. AND JAMES I.--ANCIENT TAPESTRY.

1. Where is now the bust of Charles I., formerly in Westminster
Hall, and engraved by Peter Mazell, for Pennant's _London_, in which
engraving the bust is attributed to Bernini, though Vertue thought
differently? (See Dallaway's _Walpole_, 1826, ii. 109.)

2. Also, where is the correspondent bust of James I., formerly at
Whitehall, of which there is an engraving by N. Smith?

3. What has become of the tapestry of the reign of Henry VI.
which formerly adorned the Painted Chamber in the ancient Palace
of Westminster? It appears that it remained in one of the lower
apartments from the time when it was taken down in 1800 until the
year 1810; that it was then sold to Charles Yarnold, Esq., of Great
Helen's, B