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Founded A.D. 1842.

Directors.

H. E. Bicknell, Esq.
W. Cabell, Esq.
T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.
G. H. Drew, Esq.
W. Evans, Esq.
W. Freeman, Esq.
F. Fuller, Esq. 		J. H. Goodhart, Esq.
T. Grissell, Esq.
J. Hunt, Esq.
J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.
E. Lucas, Esq.
J. Lys Seager, Esq.
J. B. White, Esq.
J. Carter Wood, Esq.

Trustees.—W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq.,
Physician.—William Rich. Basham, M.D.
Bankers.—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.

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ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.

Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.

NEW ARCHÆOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS.

AKERMAN'S REMAINS OF PAGAN SAXONDOM. 4to. with Coloured Plates. Parts I. to III. 2s. 6d. each.

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE, and JOURNAL of the NUMISMATIC SOCIETY (Quarterly). No. 59. 3s. 6d.

BOWMAN'S RELIQUIÆ ANTIQUIÆ EBORACENSES. Remains of Antiquity relating to the County of York. 4to. Plates. Nos. 1 to 4. 2s. 6d. each.

THE ULSTER JOURNAL of ARCHÆOLOGY. 4to. Part I. (Quarterly.) 12s. per Year.

CAULFIELD'S EPISCOPAL and CAPITULAR SEALS of the IRISH CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. 8vo. Part I. Cashel and Emly. Plates, 1s. 6d.

DUNKIN'S ARCHÆOLOGICAL MINE. Comprising the History of the County of Kent. 8vo. Parts I. to III. 8d. each.

HUNTER'S (REV. JOSEPH) HISTORICAL and CRITICAL TRACTS. Post 8vo. Nos. 1 to 4. 2s. 6d. each.

SUGGESTIONS ON THE ANCIENT BRITONS. 8vo. Part I. 7s. 6d.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ANTIQUARIAN ETCHING CLUB for 1852. 4to. 67 Plates. 10s. annually.

RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Comprising Copious Critical Analyses of Old Books. 8vo. Nos. 1 and 2. (Quarterly.) 2s. 6d. each.

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36. Soho Square, London.

Bohn's Standard Library for March.

NEANDER'S CHURCH HISTORY. Vol. VIII. With Index. Post 8vo. 3s. 6d.

HENRY G. BOHN, 4, 5, & 6. York Street, Covent Garden.

Bohn's Classical Library for March.

CICERO'S ACADEMICS, DE FINIBUS, AND TUSCULAN QUESTIONS, translated by C. D. YONGE, B.A. With Introductory Sketch of the Philosophers and Systems referred to by Cicero. Post 8vo. 5s.

HENRY G. BOHN, 4, 5, & 6. York Street, Covent Garden.

Bohn's Antiquarian Library for March.

THE ANNALS OF ROGER DE HOVEDEN. Comprising the History of England and of other Countries of Europe from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201. Translated from the Latin, with Notes and Illustrations, by HENRY T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A., Barrister-at-Law. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.—A.D. 732 to A.D. 1180. Post 8vo. 5s.

HENRY G. BOHN, 4, 5, & 6. York Street, Covent Garden.

Now ready, with 40 richly coloured plates, 4to., 84s.,

SAXON OBSEQUIES, illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons discovered in a Cemetery near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, in 1851. By HON. R. C. NEVILLE.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

TO ANTIQUARIES, ETC.—To be disposed of, a Copy of that Rare and Curious Work, entitled "COCKER'S ARITHMETIC," the Seven-and-twentieth Edition. London, printed for Eben. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London Bridge, 1709.

Please to address, L. M., Post Office, Bexhill.

Just published, a Second and much enlarged Edition, in One handsome Volume, 8vo., illustrated with 40 Plates and 250 Woodcuts, half-bound in morocco, 1l. 1s.; a few copies on large paper, 2l. 2s.

THE ROMAN WALL. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway. Deduced from numerous Personal Surveys. By the REV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE, M.A., F.S.A., one of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Also, by the same Author, 4to., price 2s. 6d.

HADRIAN, THE BUILDER OF THE ROMAN WALL. A Paper read before the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 4th August, 1852, in Reply to "The Roman Wall. An attempt to substantiate the claims of Severus to the Authorship of the Roman Wall. By Robert Bell."

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36. Soho Square, London.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for MARCH contains the following articles:—

1. The Masters of the Roman World.

2. The Gulistan, or Rose Garden, of Sadi.

3. The Dead, as described by Homer.

4. Mr. Joseph Ames and Dr. Samuel Johnson.

5. The Devereux Earls of Essex.

6. Fra Dolcino and his Times.

7. Memorials of John Home, the Author of "Douglas."

8. Dr. Cunningham at Florence, Siena, and Rome in 1736.

Correspondence:—1. The Ancient Records of Ireland. 2. Richard of Cirencester. 3. Suffragan Bishops. 4. Cefn-y-Castell and the last Battle of Caractacus. 5. English Etymology: Cheer. 6. The Society of Gregorians. 7. Escape of James II. from the Boyne. With Notes of the Month; Reviews of New Publications; Historical Chronicle, and OBITUARY; including Memoirs of the Earl of Stair, Earl Beauchamp, Viscount Melbourne, Right Hon. David Boyle, Right Hon. John Nicholl, Peter Borthwick, Esq., Henry Fynes Clinton, Esq., Rev. Dr. Rice, Rev. P. L. Fraser, Dr. Pereira, Wm. Chadwick, Esq., &c. &c. Price 2s. 6d.

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The Principal Portion of the very Important Library of DAWSON TURNER, Esq., extending over Thirteen Days' Sale.

MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, March 7, and five following days, and on THURSDAY, March 17, and six following days (Sunday excepted), at 1 precisely each day, the principal part of the LIBRARY of DAWSON TURNER, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., removed from Yarmouth; comprising a magnificent assemblage of Books on the Fine Arts, including very many of the splendid Galleries and Picturesque Works published during the last and present centuries. The Collection is also rich in English Topography and History, and comprises many valuable and rare Books in General Literature, Foreign and English. Some very interesting and beautifully illuminated Missals and other Books of Prayers; also some fine Books printed upon vellum. There is one remarkable feature in this important and well-known collection to which it is desirous to call particular attention, namely, that a very great portion of the works are enriched with Autograph Letters of their respective and eminent Authors, and are in very many instances illustrated with additional Engravings of much rarity, thereby adding considerable interest to the copies, and rendering them in many instances quite unique.

The first division to be viewed on Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5; the second division to be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 15 and 16. Catalogues are now ready, Two Shillings and Sixpence each; forwarded, Post free, on receipt of Three Shillings.

Just published, demy 12mo., in cloth boards, and gilt lettered, price 10s. 6d., Vol. I. with engraved frontispiece, and illustrated with wood engravings,

SHAKSPEARE'S PUCK, and his FOLKSLORE, illustrated from THE SUPERSTITIONS OF ALL NATIONS, but more especially from the EARLIEST RELIGION AND RITES OF NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE WENDS. By WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr., Honorary Member of the Historic Society for Lancashire and Cheshire, and Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries for Normandy, at Caen. To whom application to be made at No. 17. Gower Place, Euston Square, and sent Free to all parts of the Kingdom for Post-Office Order for 11s.

Opinions of the Press.

"He (Dr. B.) has caught his tone and treatment from the ingenious and industrious scholars of that part of the Continent. There is no speculation too refined, no analogy too subtle and remote, for the employment of their time and talents; and in much that Dr. Bell advances on the same system to establish the intimate connexion between the Northern mythology and some of the popular superstitions of these islands, we concur.... At times, when we were most disposed to ridicule his positions, his learning stepped forward to his aid; and if it did not secure for him all our patience, at all events it commanded much of our respect."—Athenæum, Oct. 2.

"Dr. Bell, whose long residence in Germany, and intimate acquaintance with the popular literature of that country, entitles him to speak with great authority upon all questions relating to the Mythology of the Teutonic race, has just published a little volume, which will be read with interest by all who, to use the words of Mr. Keightly, 'have a taste for the light kind of philosophy' to be found in this subject.... Dr. Bell has displayed in the work before us an amount of original investigation so much beyond what is generally found among recent writers upon Folk-lore, that he can well afford to have this slight omission pointed out."—Notes and Queries. Oct. 2.

"It is not too much to assert, that all that can be said, or has been discovered about 'The little animal' (Puck), is gathered together in Dr. Bell's most amusing and instructive volume, which not only elucidates the mystery which hangs about it, but enters largely into all illustrations of the folk-lore and the superstitions of all nations, but especially of the earliest religious rites of Northern Europe and the Wends. It has always been a marvel how Shakspeare could have possessed the information which he made available in his plays. Dr. Bell proves that he must have possessed far greater facilities than we are aware of. The work, besides possessing these features, enters into further antiquarian researches of a learned character: and is one which cannot fail to be highly appreciated wherever it makes its way into circulation."—Bell's Weekly Messenger, Feb. 26, 1853.

Copy of a Note, dated Royal Crescent, Cheltenham, Aug. 23, 1852.

"Accept my best thanks for the first vol. of your 'Puck.' It is a most interesting work, and I am astonished at the vast quantity of matter you have brought together on the subject: I say this on just hastily running it over. I must read it carefully. Heartily wishing you success in this volume, and the early appearance of the second, I am, &c.,

"J. B—S—TH, LL.D., F.S.A."

From Lewes, dated Sept. 26, 1852.

"Through the kindness of our friend, C. R. S—th, I am favoured with a loan of your very curious and interesting book—M. A. L——R."

Valuable Books, Kentish Topography, Manuscripts, &c.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, March 9, and Five following Days, Sunday excepted, a large Collection of interesting and useful books in most departments of Literature, including the works of standard Historians, Poets, Theologians, Greek and Latin Classics, &c., numerous works connected with the History of the County of Kent, large collections of Kentish Deeds and Documents, &c. Catalogues will be sent on application (if in the country on receipt of six stamps).