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.
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