[A review of this work will be found in the _Gentleman's Magazine_
of June, 1850, pp. 638-640.]
_Robert Recorde._--Can any of your readers inform me whether Robert
Recorde, who in 1549, or possibly some years later, was Comptroller of
the Mint at Bristol, was the same person as the author of _The Whetstone
of Wit_, and other mathematical works? Also, whether there is any fuller
account of his life to be met with than that given by Hutton?