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these feelings will be shared by many who were at the time most warmly opposed, not only to the great change in our constitution which the Roman Catholic Emanci- pation Bill necessarily effected, but to the statesman who was the chief means of carrying that important measure.

It is a long time since we saw a more valuable contri- bution to bibliography than that which has just been given to the world by the Chetham Society, under the title of Bibliographical Notices of the Church Libraries of Turton and Gorton, bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham. The manner in which the editor, Mr. Gilbert J. French, has executed his task his prefatory notice his fac- simile title-pages his bibliographical and biographical notes all are just what they ought to be: and we do not know that a greater service could be rendered to literary history, than by the publication in a similar form of catalogues of all the rarer works in our large libraries. Who will be the first to follow the excellent example of Mr. French and the Chetham Society ?

Mrs. Alfred Gatty has just issued another delightful book for the young : holding with Tennyson that Know- ledge

" . . .is earthly of the mind, But Wisdom heavenly of the soul,"

the object of her Worlds not Realised like her Parables from Nature, to which it forms a fitting companion is to lead the young to find interest and pleasure in con- templative thought. And we believe few youthful readers, we might perhaps omit the epithet youthful, will close this interesting little volume without being "wiser" and better for its perusal.

Mr. Murray has brought to a close the handsome library edition of The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, which he has included in his series of British Classics. The sixth volume, which completes the work, is fitly terminated by a rather extensile Index to the Poems, notes, &c.

BOOKS RECEIVED. Annals of England; an Epitome of English History from Cotemporary Writers, the Rolls of Parliament, and other Public Records. Vol. II. The se- cond volume of this judiciously compiled, and conscien- tiously written, Annals of England, extends from the accession of Henry IV. in 1399, to the execution of Charles I. A third volume, which is to extend to the accession of the House of Brunswick, with a classified list of authorities, notes, and illustrations, will complete this most useful little Handbook of English History.

Robert BlaJie, Admiral and General at Sea. Based on Family and State Papers. By Hepworth Dixon. This new and cheap edition of Mr. Dixon's admirable bio- graphy of Xelson's great predecessor, has the advantage of professional notes by Lord Dundonald, who in the preface gives utterance to this apothegm, which appears to have been acted upon, though not enunciated by, the admirals already named : " The more impracticable a task appears, the more easily it may be achieved under ju- dicious management."

Morning Thoughts, suggested by the Second Lesson for Morning Service throughout the Year, By a Clergyman. Vol. II.' A volume of graceful and devotional poetry in the spirit of The Christian Year.

It is u-ritten; or, the Scriptures the Word of God. From the French of Professor Gaussen. The fact of this being the fourth edition shows the success which has attended this translation of Gausseu's most able little book.

Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, consisting of Eighteen Maps and Plans. A separate issue of the small but beau- tifully executed maps which were originally engraved for Bagster's Polyglot Bible.

Beza's Introduction to his Translation of the New Tes- tament, .with the Latin Original appended. A very useful little work, showing to the mere English reader what were the views which induced this great Reformer to undertake his Translation of the Xew Testament, and of the doctrines contained in it.

Popular Tales and Sketches, by Mrs. S. C. Hall. There are few pens which can turn a novelet so gracefully as Mrs. Carter Hall. Few can inculcate a moral more plea- santly; and many will receive with pleasure this reprint of eighteen of her pretty tales and sketches.

The Song bf Drop o' Wather, a London Legend. By Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow. A clever well- sustained parody, in which Shortfellow makes the slang of the back slums take the place which is occupied by the mythology and nomenclature of the backwoods in Longfellow's beau- tiful original.

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Boss ON THE GEOBOICS o VIRGIL. 1830.

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TITMAHSH'S PARIS SKETCH BOOK. Vol.1. Post 8vo. 1840.

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