Exeter._--The curfew is rung in Exeter Cathedral at eight P.M.

The present practice is to toll the bell thirty strokes, and after a
short interval to toll eight more; the latter, I presume, denoting the
hour.

G.T.

_Winchester._--Curfew is still rung at Winchester.

AN OLD COMMONER PREFECT.

_Over, near Winsford, Cheshire._--The custom of ringing the curfew is
still kept up at Over, near Winsford, Cheshire; and the parish church,
St. Chads, is nightly visited for that purpose at eight o'clock. This
bell is the signal amongst the farmers in the neighbourhood for "looking
up" their cattle in the winter evenings; and was, before the
establishment of a public clock in the tower of the Weaver Church at
Winsford, considered the standard time by which to regulate their
movements.

A READER.

[We are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the _Liverpool
Albion_ for this Reply, which was originally communicated to
that paper.]

_The Curfew_, of which some inquiries have appeared in the "NOTES AND
QUERIES," is generally rung in the north of England. But then it is also
common in the south of Scotland. I have heard it in Kelso, and other
towns in Roxburghshire. The latter circumstance would appear to prove
that it cannot have originated with the Norman conqueror, to whom it is
attributed.

W.

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ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM.
(Vol. ii., p. 296.)

The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign
bookseller would be, that _Engelmann himself_ printed for any of the
purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR.
DE MORGAN objects so much.

Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE
MORGAN'S strictures?

1. Engelmann is not, strictly speaking, a bookseller, and his catalogues
are not booksellers' catalogues in the sense in which that term is
generally received here. He is a publisher and compiler (and an
admirable one) of general classified catalogues for the use of the trade
and of students, without any reference to his stock, or, in many
instances, to the possibility of easily acquiring copies of the books
enumerated: and although he _might_ execute an order from his
catalogues, getting orders is _not_ the end for which _he_ publishes
them.

2. Some foreign houses in London, as well as in other countries, bought
a large number of his Catalogues, not as a _book_ but as a