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_The Curfew_, of which some inquiries have appeared in the "NOTES AND
QUERIES," is generally rung in the north of England. But then it is also
common in the south of Scotland. I have heard it in Kelso, and other
towns in Roxburghshire. The latter circumstance would appear to prove
that it cannot have originated with the Norman conqueror, to whom it is
attributed.
W.
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ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM.
(Vol. ii., p. 296.)
The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign
bookseller would be, that _Engelmann himself_ printed for any of the
purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR.
DE MORGAN objects so much.
Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE
MORGAN'S strictures?
1. Engelmann is not, strictly speaking, a bookseller, and his catalogues
are not booksellers' catalogues in the sense in which that term is
generally received here. He is a publisher and compiler (and an
admirable one) of general classified catalogues for the use of the trade
and of students, without any reference to his stock, or, in many
instances, to the possibility of easily acquiring copies of the books
enumerated: and although he _might_ execute an order from his
catalogues, getting orders is _not_ the end for which _he_ publishes
them.
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