exandria. But the account which he gives is more
shocking than the fact. He seems not to have been familiar enough with
Greek to recollect that [Greek: haneilon] means _killed_. Her throat
was cut with an oyster-shell, because, for a reason which he has very
acutely pointed out, oyster-shells were at hand; but she was clearly
not "cut in pieces," nor, "her flesh scraped off the bones," till
after she was dead. Indeed, there was no scraping from the bones at
all. That they used oyster-shells is a proof that the act was not
premeditated. Neither did she deserve the title of modest which
Gibbon gives her. Her way of rejecting suitors is disgusting enough
in Suidas.

C.B.

_Public Libraries_.--In looking through the Parliamentary Report
on Libraries, I missed, though they may have escaped my notice, any
mention of a valuable one in _Newcastle-on-Tyne_, "Dr. Thomlinson's;"
for which a handsome building was erected early last century, near St.
Nicholas Church, and a Catalogue of its contents has been published.
I saw also, some years ago, a library attached to _Wimborne Minster_,
which appeared to contained some curious books.

The Garrison Library at _Gibraltar_ is, I believe, one of the most
valuable English libraries on the continent of Europe.

W.C.T.

Edinburgh, March 30. 1850.

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NOSCE TEIPSUM,--AN EXCEPTION.

(_FROM THE CHINESE OF CONFUCIUS, OR ELSEWHERE._)

I've not said so to _you_, my friend--and I'm not going--
_You_ may find so many people better worth knowing.

RUFUS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

Mr. Thorpe is preparing for publication a Collection of the Popular
Traditions or Folk Lore of Scandinavia and Belgium, as a continuation
of his _Northern Mythology and Superstitions_, now ready for the
press.

Mr. Wykeham Archer's _Vestiges of Old London_, of which the Second
Part is now before us, maintains its character as an interesting
record of localities fast disappearing. The contents of the present
number are, the "House of Sir Paul Pindar, in Bishopgate Without,"
once the residence of that merchant prince, and now a public-house
bearing his name; "Remains of the East Gate, Bermondsey Abbey;" which
is followed by a handsome staircase, one of the few vestiges still
remaining of "Southhampton House," the residence of the Wriothesleys,
Earls of Southampton. A plate of "Str