INVESTIGATOR is referred to Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual_, under the title “Huloet,” for an account of Huloet’s Abecedarium, as well as of the newly corrected edition of it by Higgins_.

A SUBSCRIBER who wishes for an abridged translation of Dugdale’s account of Norton Priory, Lincolnshire, is referred to Wright’s English Abridgment of the Monasticon_, published in_ 1718.

J.K. (Medical Use of Mice) is thanked for his friendly Postscript.  He will, we trust, see a great alteration in future.

CURIOSUS. The best account of the Domestic Fool is in Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare_, and Flaegel’s_ Geschichte der Hofnarren.

PHILO-STEVENS. Rask’s Anglo-Saxon Grammar_, by Thorpe; and Vernon’s Guide to Anglo-Saxon, are considered the best elementary books_.

The INDEX_ to our SECOND VOLUME will, we trust, be ready by the middle of the present month_.

NOTES AND QUERIES may be procured, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsvenders.  It is published at noon on Friday, so that our country Subscribers ought not to experience any difficulty in procuring it regularly.  Many of the country Booksellers, &c., are, probably, not yet aware of this arrangement, which will enable them to receive NOTES AND QUERIES_ in their Saturday parcels_.

All communications for the Editor of NOTES AND QUERIES_ should be addressed to the care of_ MR. BELL, No. 186, Fleet Street.

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Mr. T. Richards (late of St. Martin’s Lane), PRINTER and Agent to the PERCY and HAKLUYT SOCIETIES, has removed to 37.  Great Queen Street, near Drury Lane, where he respectfully requests all Letters may be addressed to him.

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On the 1st of January, No.  IV., price 2s. 6d.  Continued monthly.

DETAILS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, measured and drawn from existing examples, by J.K.  COLLING, Architect.—­CONTENTS:  Window on South Side of Chancel, Burnby Church, Yorkshire; Oak Chest in Vestry, South Church, Lincolnshire; West Doorway, St. Mary’s Church, Beverley; Details of West Doorway, Ditto; Portions from the West Doorway, Ditto.  The work is intended to illustrate those features which have not been given in Messrs. Brandon’s “Analysis:”  it will be uniform with that work, and also the “Gothic Ornaments.”  Each number contains five 4to.  Plates.

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