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 MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles I1.; with a Glossary, by Sir SR Mryatex. New and greatly improved Edition, corrected at by the Author. with the assistance of ALbERT Way andothers. Illustrated by moré than 100 Plates, splendidly Uhuminated in gold and cilver; also an additional Plate of the Tournament of Locks aud Keys. 'Three Vols., imperial gto, halGmoroceo extra, gilt edges, £10 105,

"While the splendour of the decorations of this work is well calculated to excite curiosity, the novel character of its contents, the very curious extracts fram the rare MSS, in which i¢ abounds, and the pleasing manner in which the author's autiquarian researches are proseented, will tempt many who take up the book in idleness, to peruse it with care. No previous work can be compared, in point of extent, arrangement, science, or utility, with the one now in question, ist. It for the Grst time supplies to ont schools of art, correct and ascertained data for costume, im its noblest and most important branch—historical painting, and, It affords a simple, clear, and most conclusive elucidation of a grent water of passages In our great dramatic poets—ay, and in the works of those of Greece and Kome~-against whack commemiutors and scholinsts have been trying their wits for centuries, 3rd. It throws a flood of light upon the manners, nsages, and sports of our ancestors, from the time of the Anglo-Saxons down to the reign of Charles the Second, And lastly, it at once removes a vast number of idle traditions and ingenious fables, which one compiler of history, copytg from another, has succeeded in transmitting through the lapse of four or five hundred years.

"Tris not often the fortune of a painful student of antiquity to conduct his readers through so splendid a succession of scenes and events as those to which Dr. i here successively introduces us. Kut he does it with all the ease and gracefulness ofan accomplished crcrrome. We see the baughty nobles and the impetueas kmghts we are present at their arming—assist them to their shields—enter the wellappointed lists with them=—and partake the hopes and fears, the perils, homoars, and saccesses of the manly tournaments. 'hen we are presented to the glorious damscls, all aperb and lovely, in * velours and clothe of g and dayntie dev voes, bothe in pearls and emertwds, sawphires and dymondes,"— and the banquet, with the serving men and bucklers, servitors and or a and queens—pageamts, &c., &cWe fuel as if the age of chivalry had returned in all its ghory.""—Ldindurra Review.

MILLINGEN'S ANCIENT INEDITED MONUMENTS; comprising Painted Greek Vases, Statues, Busts, Mas Reliefs, and other Kemains of Grecian Art, 62 beautiful Engvavings, mostly Coloured, with letterpress descriptions. Imperial qto, half-morocco, £4 14%. Gd.

MILTON'S COMPLETE WORES, Prose and loetical. With an Introductory Essay by Roneat Frircuer. Imperial 8vo, with Portraits, cloth extra, 155.

_ "It is to he regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so fitdle read. As compositions, abet deserve the attention of every man who w to become acquainted with the full power of the English language, They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. 'They are a perfect field of cloth of gold, 'The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the "Paradise Lost" has the great pect ever rien higher than in those parts of his controversial works ia which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent tn bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. Tt is, to borrow his own majestic language, 'a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' ""—Macaulay.

MONTAGU'S (Lady Mary Wortley) LETTERS AND WORKS. Edited Lord Witakxecuirre. With important Additions and Corrections, derived from the Original Manuscripts, and a New Memoir. 'Iwo Vols., Svo, with fine Steel Portraits, cloth exera, 18s.

"I have beard Dr, Johnson say that he never read but one book through from choice in his whole life, and that book was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters." —Boswell.