A very interesting contribution to our early national literature, as
well as to legendary history, has lately been published by Dr. Nicolaus
Delius of Bonn. He has edited in a small octavo volume, published at a
very moderate price, _Maistre Wace's St. Nicholas_, an old French poem,
by the poetical Canon of Bayeux, whose _Roman de Rou et des Ducs de
Normandie_, edited by Pluquet, and _Roman de Brut_, edited by Le Roux de
Lincy, are, doubtless, familiar to many of our readers. The present
valuable edition to the published works of Maistre Wace, is edited from
two Oxford MSS., viz., No. 270. of the Douce Collection, and No. 86. of
the Digby Collection in the Bodleian: and to add to the interest of the
present work, especially in the eyes of English readers, Dr. Delius has
appended to it the old English metrical life of _Saint Nicolas the
Bischop_, from the curious series of Lives and Legends which Mr. Black
has recently shown to have been composed by Robert of Gloucester.
We have received the following Catalogue:--John Russell Smith's (4. Old
Compton Street, Soho) Part IV. for 1850. of a Catalogue of Choice,
Useful, and Curious Books in most Departments of Literature.
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Notices to Correspondents.
VOLUME THE FIRST OF NOTES AND QUERIES, _with Title-page and very copious
Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by
order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen_.
_The Monthly Part for July, being the second of Vol. II. is also now
ready, price 1s._
NOTES AND QUERIES _may be procured by the Trade at noon on Friday; so
that our country Subscribers ought to experience no difficulty in
receiving it regularly. Many of the country Booksellers are, probably,
not yet aware of this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies
in their Saturday parcels_.
JANUS DOUSA. _The Notes on Folk Lore have been received and will be used
very shortly. The Queries just received shall be duly inserted_.
_Errata_.--In No. 41., p. 166., col. 1., line 8 from bottom, for
"_Cordius_" read "_Cardin_"; p. 171., l. 29., for "haver_s_" read
"haver"; and p. 172., l. 24., for "Murton" read "Mu_i_rton."
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