, and still
exists.

CH.

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MISCELLANIES.

_Dr. Sclater's Works._--Books written by W. Sclater, D.D., omitted in
Wood's _Ath. Oxon._ edit. Bliss. vol. iii. col. 228.:--

"A Threefold Preseruatiue against three dangerous diseases of these
latter times:--

"1. Non-proficiency in Grace.

"2. Fals-hearted Hypocrisie.

"3. Back-sliding in Religion.

"Prescribed in a Sermon at S. Paul's Crosse in London, September 17,
1609. London. 1610." 4to. Ded. to "Master Iohn Colles, Esquire," from
which it seems that Sclater had been presented to his living by the
father of this gentleman. The Ser. is on Heb. vi. 4-6.

"A Sermon preached at the last generall Assise holden for the County
of Somerset at Taunton. London, 1616." 8vo. On Ps. lxxxii. 6, 7. Ded.
to "John Colles, Esq., High Sheriffe of Sommerset."

"Three Sermons preached by William Sclater, Doctor of Diuinity, and
Minister of the Word of God at Pitmister [sic] in Sommersetshire. Now
published by his Sonne of King's Colledge in Cambridge. London, 1629."
4to. On 1 Pet. ii. 11., 2 Kings, ix. 31., and Heb. ix. 27, 28. The
last is a funeral Sermon for John Colles, Esq., preached in 1607.

JOHN J. DREDGE.

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_Runes._--Worsaeae (_Primeval Antiquities of Denmark_, 1849) mentions
that inscriptions are found in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, written in
different languages in _Runic character_. He also mentions the fact of
a Pagan Runic inscription occurring at Jellinge, Denmark, on the tomb
of old King Gorm, A.D. c. 900, found in a huge barrow; and, at the
same place, a Christian Runic inscription on the tomb of his son
Harold. Has this inquiry been extended to British Runes, and might
it not throw much light upon many monuments of dates prior to the
Conquest? Crossed slabs with Runes have been found at Hartlepool,
Durham; have the inscriptions been read? (Boutell's _Christian
Monuments_, p. 3.; Cutt's _Manual of Sepulchral Slabs_, pp. 52. 60.
plate III.)

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

The _Nibelungenlied_, which has been aptly designated the German
Iliad, has hitherto been a sealed book to the mere English reader. Mr.
Lettsom has however just published a most successful translation of it
under the title of _The Fall of the Nibelungers_. Few will rise from
a perusal of the English version of this gr