1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the _Post-Invasion Annals of the IV.
Masters_, vol. iii. p. 2091. note, says that he "intends to publish a
review of Spenser's _View of the State of Ireland_, in which he will
give him full credit for his discernment of abuses, and expose all his
intentional figments." Query, Has this review since appeared in any
Irish periodical, or other publication?
2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly be the _identity_?)
between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of
William, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during Henry III.'s
minority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a
daughter of King Edward I.?
3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely indebted to any one who
will inform him of the existence of a set of Middle-Age Maps of the
countries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, published in England,
_France_, or _Germany_, in print, or easily to be had second-hand, _more
or less accurate_.
Koch's _Révolutions de l'Europe_, tome iii., Paris, 1814, gives seven
maps of the whole continent and its adjacent islands, at the following
periods of Middle-Age history:
(1.) Avant l'Invasion des Barbares;
(2.) Vers la Fin du Ve Siècle;
(3.) Sous l'Empire de Charlemagne;
(4.) Vers la Fin du IXe Siecle;
(5.) Vers 1074;
(6.) Vers 1300:
(7.) A l'An 1453;
which contain, of course, but few names of places. Were Europe divided
into five unequal parts, say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British
Isles; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, &c.; 4. France and Spain; 5.
Italy, Turkey, &c.; and maps of these five parts given, the Northern
Countries at three periods, the British Isles at four ditto, and the
others at seven periods, as above, we should require twenty-eight maps
(not too great a number, as the King's College _Modern Atlas_, of a
convenient size, has twenty-five), which if they contained names of
places as closely packed as the King's College _Atlas_, and laid down
from Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, would soon, it may be
said without much foresight, be in the hands of so many readers of
history, as to answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking to bring
them out.
4. A copy of O'Brien's _Irish-English Dictionary_, _first_ edition,
4to., old, half-calf, margins a little water-stained, otherwise perfect
and clean, lately priced at 25_s._, to be exchanged for a clean copy of
the edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more portable), and a clean
copy of Thady Connellan's elementary _Irish Dictionary_, published by
Wall, Temple Bar; Hatchard, and Rivingtons: or the latter will be
purchased at a moderate price, without exchange.
Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so
in "N. & Q."