Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

We have received from Messrs. Williams and Norgate copies of the first number of two new German periodicals, with which, when they know their nature, some of our readers may desire better acquaintance. Our antiquarian friends, for instance, may be glad to know, that the opening number of one of these, the Anzeige für Kunde des Deutschen Vorzeit, Organ des Germanischen Museums (which is to appear monthly), contains, among other articles of antiquarian interest, notes on the earliest known MS. of the Nuremburg Chronicle, and on an early MS. of the Nibelungen; notice of an original Letter of Pirkheimer, relative to the wars of Maximilian against the Swiss; and also of a remarkable, and hitherto unknown, old copper-plate engraving on six sheets by an unknown artist, apparently of the school of Martin Schon, illustrative of that campaign; and an account of an early miscellaneous MS., in which is a List of Masons' Marks. The second is one which will interest all lovers of folk lore. It is edited by J. W. Wolf, and entitled Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, and numbers among its contributors, W. Grimm, Nordnagel, Kuhn, and many other good men and true, who have devoted their talents to the study of popular antiquities. We hope shortly to find room for a specimen or two of the "Old World" stories and customs which they have here recorded.

Books Received.—A Guide containing a Short Historical Sketch of Lynton and Places adjacent in North Devon, including Ilfracombe, by T. H. Cooper: a well-timed guide to the most picturesque portion of one of the most beautiful parts of North Devon, pleasantly interlarded with scraps of folk lore and historical anecdote.—In Bohn's Standard Library, we have a farther issue of Miss Bremer's works, comprising A Diary; The H—— Family; Axel and Anna, and other Tales: and the second volume of Mr. Hickie's translation of The Comedies of Aristophanes forms the issue for the present month of the same publisher's Classical Library.—Mr. Darling proceeds with great regularity in the publication of his Cyclopœdia Bibliographica, of which we have received No. XII., which extends from Bernard Lancy to Martin Madan.—The Irish Quarterly Review, No. XI. for September, contains, among other articles of general interest, such as those on French Social Life and Fashion in Poetry, and the Poets of Fashion, a farther portion of the amusing anecdotical paper, entitled The Streets of Dublin.

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

The Builder, No. 520.

Oswalli Crollii Opera. 12mo. Geneva, 1635.

Gaffarell's Unheard-of Curiosities. Translate by Chelmead. London, 12mo. 1650.

Beaumont's Psyche. 2nd Edit. folio. Camb. 1702.

The Monthly Army List from 1797 to 1800 inclusive. Published by Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street. Square 12mo.

Jer. Collier's Ecclesiastical History of England. Folio Edition. Vol II.

London Labour and the London Poor.

Proceedings of the London Geological Society.

Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico. 3 Vols. London. Vol. III.

Mrs. Ellis's Social Distinctions. Tallis's Edition. Vols. II. and III. 8vo.

PAMPHLETS.

Junius Discovered. By P. T. Published about 1789.

Reasons for Rejecting the Evidence of Mr. Almon, &c. 1807.

Another Guess at Junius. Hookham. 1809.

The Author of Junius Discovered. Longmans. 1821.

The Claims of Sir P. Francis refuted. Longmans. 1822.

Who was Junius? Glynn. 1837.

Some New Facts, &c., by Sir F. Dwarris. 1850.

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