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the arms of the Artillery Company ; " A Generall Bill of Mortality of the Clergie of London, which have been De- funct by reason of the Contagious Breath of the Sectaries of that City, from the Year 1641 to the Year 1647," a melancholy list of sequestered divines at this distracted period ; " A Looking Glasse for Statesmen," printed for J. II. in the year 1G48 two woodcuts crown this broad- side, one representing angels holding a garland over the heads of Daniel, Moses, Shadrach, Meshach, and other Hebrew worthies ; the other with a hand issuing from the clouds, holding a drawn sword over the representations of Hainan on the gallows, Achitophel hanging on a tree, Saul falling on his sword, and the beheading of Stratford and Laud. " A Mad Designe ; or, a Description of the King of Scots, marching in his Disguise, after the Hout at Worcester," with a satirical copper-plate ; " The Picture of the Good Old Cause, drawn to the Life, in the effigies of Prais-God Barebone, with several examples of God's Judgments on some eminent Engagers against Kingly Government." This broadside is of the greatest rarity, perhaps unique ; at the head is a very fine im- pression of a portrait of Praise-God Barebone, from a copper-plate, much in the style of Fulthorne.

Let us add that many smaller donations have, from time to time, been made to the collection, and that it is intended, we believe, to print an analytical catalogue of it. As it is most desirable that this collection should be made as perfect as possible before such catalogue is put to press ; and as this is precisely one of the cases in which objects of little value taken separately acquire great value by combination, we may perhaps be excused for hinting to any of our friends who may possess copies of such works, what good service they may do by contributing them to the completion of the very interesting and im- portant series we have just been describing.

We have been requested to call attention to the fact of the establishment of a free public library (under the recent act) in Hertford. Hertford is one of the first, if not the very first, of the small towns to avail itself of the act. The library opens with about 1200 volumes, any additions to which will be most thankfully received by Y. Crawley, Jim., Esq., the Honorary Secretary.

BOOKS RECEIVED. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, by various Writers, edited by William Smith, LL.D. ; Part XIII. extending from the article NASAVA to P.ESTUM ; and Part XIV., from P.ESTUM to PYTHIUM. This important work, it will be scon, is now rapidly approaching its completion; and in the last Part, the proprietors announce, that, with the view of accomplish- ing that object by next autumn, the future Parts will contain on an average twelve sheets, and be published at six shillings.

The Works of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison ; with Notes by Richard Hurd, D.D., Lord Bishop of Worcester. A New Edition, with large Additions chiefly unpublished, collected and edited by Henry G. Bohn. Vols. V. and VI. Mr. Bohn has completed his reprint' of Hurd's edition of Addison by a Supplement, containing a vast number of inedited Letters by Addison, and a large portion of the Addi&oniana.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. By Henry Hallam. Vol. II. In this volume of the new edition of Mr. Hal- lam's admirable Literary Histon', we have some of the very best portions of the work in his History of Poetry from 1550 to 1600, and of Dramatic Literature during the same period for it contains the opinions of this elegant and judicious critic upon Shakspeare and his earlier writings.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. In Six Volumes. Vol. IV.' The new volume of this cheap and elegant

edition of Byron contains his Dramatic Poems, viz. Manfred, Marino Faliero, Heaven and Earth, Sardanapa- lus, and The Two Foscari.

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DURHAM, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, &c. Vol. II. HAWKER'S ECCLESIA POEMS (relating to Cornwall). GILBERT'S (Davies) ANCIENT CHRISTMAS CAROLS. With the Tunes, &c.

8vo. 1823. GILBERT'S (D.) ANCIENT MIRACLE PLAYS; TUB CREATION, ETC. 2 Vols.

(About) 1825." HORNE TOOKE'S DIVERSIONS OF PCJRLEY. With Notes by B. Taylor.

8vo. 1810. COLLECTION OF ROYAL SONGS WRITTEN AOAINST THE RUMP PARLIAMENT.

2Vob. 12mo. Vol.11. 1731. COL. KENNEDY ON THE AFFINITY OF LANGUAGES. UPCOTT'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF WORKS RELATING TO ENGLISH

TOPOGRAPHY. 3 Vols. 1818. FARADAY'S CHEMICAL MANIPULATIONS.

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SCRIPTURE ACCOUNT OF THE FAITH AND PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANS. By the Rev. Hugh Gaston. 8vo. London: Thomns Beekct, Strand, 1761.

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Our present Number, it will be seen, contains an extra four pages. \\'e had in type so miiiii/ mY/r/rn of great intri\'$t inn! value, mure particularly in Illustration of Jfacaulut/, that we felt si/ch a course due to the kind- ness both, of our Correspondents and our Headers.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. The interest which these Illustrations have, ex-cited, and the faro'ir ii-it/i u-liieli then hare been received, justify tw in announcing that the Series will be continued for the next and several following weeks.

H. G. S. will find, on reference to Richardson's Dictionary, that etching is derived from tin- old German ecse, an edge, or point, because it is done with the point of a needle. It was formerly termedh.a.ic.hing,from the French hacher, to hack, or cut.

NOTTBRQ. (Cheltenham) will find Crashaw's (not Milton's") line

" Tiie conscious water saw its God and blushed." treated of in " N. & Q.," 1st S. vi. 353.; viii. 242.

CHKMICUS. There is no doubt that spelter, the commercial name far zinc, has come to us like maun other inineraloffical terms, from the Ger- man. Spelt in German, according to Wachier, denotes granum fissum, a split grain. See, however, liichardson, s. V. SPELTER.

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