ish in the County of Sussex_, by George R.
Corner, Esq. This well-considered paper on a very curious custom owes its
origin, we believe, to a Query in our columns. We wish all questions
agitated in "N. & Q." were as well illustrated as this has been by the
learning and ingenuity of Mr. Corner.

_A Narrative of Practical Experiments proving to Demonstration the
Discovery of Water, Coals, and Minerals in the Earth by means of the
Dowsing Fork or Divining Rod, &c., collected, reported, and edited_ by
Francis Phippen. A curious little pamphlet on a _fact_ in Natural
Philosophy, which we believe no philosopher can either understand or
account for.

SERIALS RECEIVED.--_Murray's Railway Reading: History as a Condition of
Social Progress_, by Samuel Lucas. An able lecture on an interesting
subject.--_The Traveller's Library_, No. 46.: _Twenty Years in the
Philippines_, by De la Gironiere. One of the best numbers of this valuable
series.--_Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_, Part XI., August. This eleventh Part
of Mr. Darling's useful Catalogue extends from James Ibbetson to Bernard
Lamy.--_Archaeologia Cambrensis, New Series, No. XV._: containing, among
other papers of interest to the inhabitants of the principality, one on the
arms of Owen Glendwr, by the accomplished antiquary to whom our readers
were indebted for a paper on the same subject in our own columns.

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SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY, with or without Supplementary Volumes.
DUGDALE'S ENGLAND AND WALES, Vol. VIII. London, L. Tallis.
LINGARD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Second Edition, 1823, 9th and following
Volumes, in Boards.
LONG'S HISTORY OF JAMAICA.
LIFE OF THE REV. ISAAC MILLES. 1721.
SIR THOMAS HERBERT'S THRENODIA CAROLINA: or, Last Days of Charles I. Old
Edition, and that of 1813 by Nicol.
SIR THOMAS HERBERT'S TRAVELS IN ASIA AND AFRICA. Folio.
LETTERS OF THE HERBERT FAMILY.
BISHOP MOSLEY'S VINDICATION. 4to. 1683.
LIFE OF ADMIRAL BLAKE, written by a Gentleman bred in his Family. London.
12mo. With Portrait by Fourdrinier.
OSWALDI CROLLII OPERA. Genevae, 1635. 12mo.
UNHEARD-OF CURIOSITIES, translated by Chilmead. London, 1650. 12mo.
BEAUMONT'S PSYCHE. Second Edition. Camb. 1702. fol.
MEMOIRS OF THE ROSE, by Mr. John Holland. 1 Vol. 12mo. 1824.
LITERARY GAZETTE, 1834 to 1845.
ATHENAEUM, commencement to 1835.
A NARRATIVE OF THE HOLY LIFE