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{Continued from page iii. of this Cover.) In imperial folio, on toned paper •, with a Photograph of a page of the original. — Subscription, £6 6s. ; to Members, £5 5*. Edition limited to 200. THE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of "Gleitdalotjgh": a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the mid- dle of the twelfth century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, with introduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Robert Atkinson, M. A., LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar in the University of Dublin, Secre- tary of Council, Royal Irish Academy. This MS. forms the third in the series of the great Irish MSS. published by the Royal Irish Academy. The Book of Leinster is one of tBe most important of the fragments of Irish literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose his- toric accounts of the Tain B6 Cualnge, the Borama, &c., it contains a large fragment of an early prose translation of the Historia de Excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius ; a great number of the poems and prose introductions of the Dindsenchas or legendary account of the origin of the names of places in Ireland ; very many historic poems, in whioh the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of the country are preserved; Irish genealogies andhagiologies ; and a great number of interesting stories, illustrative of the manners and customs, the modes of thought, and the state of culture, &c., of the people of Ireland just about the period of the Anglo- Norman Invasion. THE IRISH MANUSCRIPT SERIES. Volume I., 8vo. — Part 1, Price 5s. Volume I., 4to. — Part 1. — Whitley Stokes, LL.D. : On the Felire of (Engus. CUNNINGHAM MEMOIRS. Xo. I.— John Casey, LL.D., F.R.8. : On Cubic Transformations. For List of Publications of the Academy, see also pages ii. and iii. of this Cover. Applications for any of the Publications of the Academy are to be addressed to the Tbeasuber op the Royal Irish Academy, 19, Dawson-street, Dublin ; or to Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Dublin ; or Williams & Nokgate, 14, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, London ; and 20, South Frederick- street, Edinburgh. Dublin : Printed at the University Press, by Ponbonby & Weldrick, Printers to the Academy.