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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The Rev. Edward Trollope, F.S.A., wisely conceiving that an illustrated work, comprising specimens of the arms, armour, jewellery, furniture, vases, &c., discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum, might be acceptable to those numerous readers to whom the magnificent volumes, published by the Neapolitan government, are inaccessible, has just issued a quarto volume under the title of Illustrations of Ancient Art, selected from Objects discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The various materials which he has selected from the Museo Borbonico, and other works, and a large number of his own sketches, have been carefully classified; and we think few will turn from an examination of the forty-five plates of Mr. Trollope's admirable outlines, without admiring the good taste with which the various subjects have been selected, and acknowledging the light which they throw upon the social condition, the manners, customs, and domestic life, of the Roman people.

As the great Duke of Marlborough confessed that he acquired his knowledge of his country's annals in the historical plays of Shakspeare, so we believe there are many who find it convenient and agreeable to study them in Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England. To all such it will be welcome news that the first and second volumes of a new and cheaper edition, and which comprise the lives of all our female sovereigns, from Matilda of Flanders to the unfortunate Anne Boleyn, are now ready; and will be followed month by month by the remaining six. At the close of the work, we may take an opportunity of examining the causes of the great popularity which it has attained.

Mr. M. A. Lower has just published a small volume of antiquarian gossip, under the title of Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical, in which he discourses pleasantly on Local Nomenclature, the Battle of Hastings, the Iron Works of the South-East of England, the South Downs, Genealogy, and many kindred subjects; and tries his hand, by no means unsuccessfully, at some metrical versions of old Sussex legends. Several of the papers have already appeared in print, but they serve to make up a volume which will give the lover of popular antiquities an evening's pleasant reading.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to the opportunity which will be afforded them on Wednesday next of hearing Mr. Layard lecture on his recent Discoveries at Nineveh. As they will see by the advertisement in our present Number, Mr. Layard has undertaken to do so for the purpose of contributing to the schools and other parochial charities of the poor but densely populated district of St. Thomas, Stepney.

Books Received.—Mantell's Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight, &c. This reprint of one of the many valuable contributions to geological knowledge by the late lamented Dr. Mantell, forms the new volume of Bohn's Scientific Library.—Retrospective Review, No. VI., containing interesting articles on Drayton, Lambarde, Penn, Leland, and other writers of note in English literature.—Dr. Lardner's Museum of Science and Art, besides a farther portion of the inquiry, "The Planets, are they inhabited Worlds?" contains essays on latitudes and longitudes, lunar influences, and meteoric stones and shooting stars.—Gibbon's Rome, with Variorum Notes, Vol. II. In a notice prefixed to the present volume, which is one of Mr. Bohn's series of British Classics, the publisher, after describing the advantages of the present edition as to print, paper, editing, &c., observes: "The publisher of the unmutilated edition of Humboldt's Cosmos hopes he has placed himself beyond the suspicion of mutilating Gibbon."

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

Wanted To Purchase.

Torrens on Wages and Combinations. Longmans. 1834.

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Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses are given for that purpose:

Wilkinson's Ancient Egypt. Vols. IV. and V.

Baxter's Flowering Plants. Plain or coloured.

Evelyn's Diary. 5 Vols. 8vo.

Pepys's Diary. 5 vols. 8vo.

Transactions of Geographical Society. Parts or Volumes.

Life of Bishop Ken, by Anderdon.

Percival's Roman Schism.

One or two Plans of the Harbour of Cronstadt, showing the Mole, Man-of-war's Mole, Fortress, Fortress of Cronslott opposite, as well as all the Fortresses that are erected in the Shallows defending the Approach, &c.

Bible Prints, either Line Engraving, Mezzotint, or Wood, and either with or without Letter-press, for the purpose of binding with a 4to. Edition of "Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible."

The British Preserve, etched by S. Howitt. Prints, 2. The Badger, and 6. The Stag.

An Account of the Ministers, &c., who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before the Act for Uniformity. Second Edition. Vol. I. By Edmund Calamy, D.D. 1713.

Sanders' History of Shenstone, in Staffordshire.

The Hive, having the First Edition of Vol. I.

Dublin University Calendars and Examination Papers for 1835, 1836, 1844, 1845.

Sheridan's (Thos.) Lectures on the Art of Reading. 8vo. Lond. 1781.

Blacker's (Col. Val.) Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, and 1819. 4to. Lond. 1821. Also, by the same, a Map of Hindostan, from his own survey.

Parker's (Capt. Robert) Memoirs of the most remarkable military transactions from 1683 to 1718. 8vo. Lond. 1747.

Allister's Paradigma Chess Openings.

Russell's Elements of Painting with Crayons. 1772.

Phillip's Life of Smith (the Geologist).

Hirscher's Sympathies of the Continent, translated by Coxe. J. H. Parker. 1852.

Sir H. Nicolas's Edition of Walton and Cotton's Angler.

Windsor Castle, by Ainsworth. The original edition, 8vo. with Plates.

Wordsworth's Poetical Works. 6 vols. 12mo. Moxon. Vol. I. Morocco. (The missing volume was lent to a student at Cambridge by C. B. W. in 1844.)

Roscoe's Italian Novelist. Second Edition. 4 Vols. 12mo. Vol. III.

First or Early Edition of The Christian World Unmasked, by John Berridge.

John Berridge's Works. 8vo. Simpkin & Co.

Geo. Sandys' Paraphrase of the Psalms. Small Edition.

Poems by George Withers. Separate or Collected.

Drayton's Poems. 12mo. Edition.

Walton's Lives. Tonson or Dodsley. 1-Vol. Edition.

Paxton's Magazine of Botany. Nos. 169. and 179. Orr & Co.

Notices to Correspondents.

J. B. Whitborne. Where shall we address a letter to this Correspondent?

Oxford Jeu d'Esprit. We hope next week to lay before our Oxford friends a reprint of a clever jeu d'esprit, which amused the University some five-and-thirty years since.

B. H. C. Will this Correspondent, who states (p. 135.) that he has found the termination -by in Sussex, be good enough to state the place to which he refers?

C. C. The ballad of "Fair Rosamond" is printed in Percy's Reliques, in the Pictorial Book of British Ballads, and many other places; but the lines quoted by our Correspondent—

do not occur in it.

T. Φ. Biographical notices of the author of Drunken Barnaby will be found in Chalmers' and Rose's Dictionaries. The best account of Richard Brathwait is that by Joseph Haslewood, prefixed to his edition of Barnabæ Itinerarium.—Gurnall has been noticed in our Sixth Volume, pp. 414. 544.

W. Fraser. Bishop Atterbury's portrait, drawn by Kneller, and engraved by Vertue, is prefixed to vol. i. of the Bishop's Sermons and Discourses, edit. 1735. The portrait is an oval medallion; face round, nose prominent, with large eye-brows, double chin, and a high expansive forehead, features regular and pleasant, and indicative of intellect. He is drawn in his episcopal habit, with a full-dress curled wig; beneath are his arms, surmounted by the mitre.

I. R. R. The song "O the golden days of good Queen Bess!" will be found in The British Orpheus, a Selection of Songs and Airs, p. 274., with the music.

Trench on Proverbs. We cannot possibly find space for any further discussion of the translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2.

Blomefield's Norfolk.—Gentlemen who possess a copy of this work will be kind enough to write to John Nurse Chadwick, Solicitor, King's Lynn, Norfolk, stating the fact, with their names and addresses, by letter, post paid.

Professor Hunt's Letter shall appear next week. We can well understand how a gentleman, who labours so assiduously in his scientific investigations, can have little time and feel little anxiety to produce merely pretty pictures. We are glad that the question was asked (we are sure only in a friendly spirit); and our photographic readers will be as glad to hear that an enlarged edition of Professor Hunt's Researches on Light may soon be expected.

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