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 Latin clergy. Then appears, Middle Ages in Italian, and Constitutional History of England from, &c. Then,, L'ltalie. Not to busy ourselves with culling such flowers too diligently, we meet with de, who, for his Vie de Scipion de Ricci Evêque de Pistoie, et Prato, richly deserved a niche among the condemned. , a book to which the natural fears of Rome cannot fail to give importance, particularly as it would be read and studied by all the English visitors of the holy city, (more so. perhaps, than the books there provided so kindly and disinterestedly for them,) could not be expected to escape equal honour. Then there is, and , well-known English tales, the latter by Mrs. Sherwood. These, being naturalised, were formidable to Italian superstition. So much for the added articles.

It is of some importance to inquire into those which have been omitted. Omissions are sometimes very significant, and, in their effect, very positive, things. In the Index immediately preceding that now under examination, VIIth's  of 1819, and in its