plural _Britanniarum_, i.e., Great Britain and
Ireland.

N.

_Odour from the Rainbow_ (Vol. iii., p. 224.).--I hope that I have found
JARLTZBERG'S note in the following lines:

"Like to that smell which oft our sense descries
Within a field which long unploughed lies,
Somewhat before the setting of the sun;
And where the rainbow in the horizon
Doth pitch her tips; or as when in the prime,
The earth being troubled with a drought long time,
The hand of heaven his spongy clouds doth strain,
And throws into her lap a shower of rain;
She sendeth up (conceived from the sun)
A sweet perfume and exhalation."
Browne, _Britannia's Pastorals_, Book i. Song 2.
[Clarke's Cabinet Series, 1845, p. 70.]

C. FORBES.

_Odour from the Rainbow._--The following stanzas are from a poem, called
"The Blind Girl," in a publication by Pickering, 1845, of _Memorials of a
Tour, and Miscellaneous Poems_, by Robert Snow, Esq. Lond., 1845:--

"Once in our porch whilst I was resting,
To hear the rain-drops in their mirth,
You said you saw the rainbow cresting
The heavens with colour, based on earth:

And I believe it fills the showers
With music; and when sweeter air
Than common breathes from briar-rose bowers,
Methinks, the Rainbow hath touched there."

[We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow
neither from Bacon's _Sylva_, nor from any of our English poets, but
from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge
in his _Table Talk_.]

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who is already favourably known as the author of a
_Life of Howard_, has just published _William Penn, an Historical
Biography_. It is unquestionably a book of considerable talent; and even
those who may be most inclined to dissent from the {311} author's views of
the political principles of the Quakers (and we suspect many of the Quakers
themselves will be found among that number), will admit that in treating
him not as a mere Quaker, as preceding biographers had been too much
disposed to do, but as "a great English historical character--the champion
of the Jury Laws--the joint leader, with Algernon Sidney, of the
Commonwealth men--the royal councillor of 1684-8--the courageous defender
of Free Thought--the founder of Pennsylvania"--Mr. Dixon has succeeded in
the