"--as _looks_
probable, I shall be greatly obliged to him. The Bible to which I refer is
dated 1644.

Being neither a scholar nor a critic, but only a lover of books and
languages, I hope MR. DOUSA will accept my apology for the affront offered
to his countryman, Vondel. Your publication has been a great temptation to
people with a few curious books around them to set sail their little boats
of inquiry or observation for the mere pleasure of seeing them float down
the stream in company with others of more importance and interest. I
confess myself to have been one of the injudicious number; and having made
shipwreck of my credit against M. Brellet's _Dictionnaire de la Langue
Celtique_, and also on Vondel's _Lucifer_, I must here apologise and
promise to offend no more. If MR. DOUSA will not be appeased, I have only
to add that I "send him my card." As Mrs. Malaprop said to Sir Lucius
O'Trigger--

"Spare my blushes--_I_ am Delia."

HERMES.

P. S. Can MR. DOUSA fix a positive date to my undated _History of Dr. John
Faustus_?

_Landwade Church._--It appears to me that an important service would be
rendered to posterity, if a full account were taken of all the monuments
and inscriptions in such deserted churches as Landwade appears to be. Such
records may ere long become invaluable, and every day is hastening them to
oblivion. Already hundreds of such churches, with the several monuments and
inscriptions they contained, have entirely passed away. I have been making
some investigation into the demolished and desecrated churches of
Buckinghamshire, and am astonished at the number of monumental records
which have thus perished. Thirty-one churches at least have been lost to
the county, and some of them were rich in monumental memorials.

Other counties, doubtless, have equally suffered. Would it not, therefore,
be well to collect accounts of the memorials they contained, so far as they
can be obtained, and have them recorded in some publication, that they may
be available to future historians, genealogists, and antiquaries? Is there
any existing periodical suitable for the purpose?

W. HASTINGS KELKE.

_The First Edition of the Second Book of Homilies, by Queen Elizabeth in_
1563.--In the edition of the _Homilies_ at the Oxford University press in
1822, and which from inspection, in the portion concerned, appear to be the
same in the last, I find in the Advertisement, page iv. note d., that there
exist _four edition