NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
By all who are interested in the study of early German Poetry and Literature, the name of Von der Hagen must be gratefully remembered for the many curious and valuable works which he has published, sometimes under his sole editorship, at others, in conjunction with Busching, Primisser, &c. But far exceeding in interest any which he has before given to the press, especially to English readers, is one which we received some time since from Messrs. Williams and Norgate, but have only recently had an opportunity of examining. It is in three thick and closely printed octavos, and is entitled Gesammtabentheuer: Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, Ritter-und Pfaffen-Mären, Stadt-und Dorfgeschichten, Schwänke, Wundersagen und Legenden, meist zum erstenmal gedruckt, &c. This collection embraces, as the title accurately enough describes, a hundred early German Stories of every possible kind, Stories of Knights and Friars, of Cities and Villages, Merry Jests, Tales of Wonder, and Legends; and resembles in many respects the popular collections of French Fabliaux edited by Barbazan, Le Grand d'Aussy, &c. These are for the most part now printed for the first time; and besides the illustrations they afford of that love of humour, a characteristic of the German mind the existence of which it has been too much the fashion to deny, and to which we owe Owlglas and the Schildburger, these "hundred merry Tales" are of no small importance for the light they throw upon the history of Fiction—a subject which, in spite of the labour bestowed upon it by Dunlop, Walter Scott, Palgrave, and Keightley, is yet very far from being fully developed.
The new part of The Traveller's Library contains Mr. Macaulay's brilliant essays on Ranke's History of the Popes, and Gladstone On Church and State.
Messrs. Longman having become the sole proprietors of that valuable series of works The Cabinet Cyclopædia, have announced a re-issue of them at the reduced price of three shillings and sixpence per volume, instead of six shillings, at which they were originally published.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. 29. of Books Old and New; Sotheran, Son and Draper's (Tower Street, Eastcheap) Book Reporter No. 3. Miscellaneous Catalogue of Old and New Books; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Seventy-third Catalogue of Cheap Second-hand Books; B. Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 34. of Oriental Literature, &c.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
FEARNE'S ESSAY ON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, 4to.
BISHOP KIDDER'S LIFE OF ANTHONY HORNECK.
TIGHE'S LIFE OF LAW.
MACROPEDII, HECASTUS FABULA. 8vo. Antwerp, 1539.
OMNES GEORGII MACROPEDII FABULÆ COMICÆ. Utrecht, 1552. 2 Vols. 8vo.
OTHONIS LEXICON RABBINICUM.
PLATO. Vols. VIII. X. XI. of the Bipont Edition.
PARKINSON'S SERMONS. Vol. I.
ATHENÆUM. Oct. and Nov. 1848. parts CCL., CCLI.
WILLIS' PRICE CURRENT. Nos. I. III. V. XXIV. XXVI. XXVII.-XLV.
RABBI SALOMON JARCHI (RASCHI) COMMENTAR ÜBER DEN PENTATEUCH VON L. HAYMANN. Bonn, 1833.
RABBI SOLOMON JARCHI (RASCHI) ÜBER DAS ERSTE BUCH MOSIS VON L. HAYMANN. Bonn, 1833.
No. 3. of SUMMER PRODUCTIONS, or PROGRESSIVE MISCELLANIES, by Thomas Johnson. London, 1790.
HISTORY OF VIRGINIA. Folio. London, 1624.
THE APOLOGETICS OF ATHENAGORAS, Englished by D. Humphreys. London, 1714. 8vo.
BOVILLUS DE ANIMÆ IMMORTALITATE, ETC. Lugduni, 1522. 4to.
KUINOEL'S NOV. TEST. Tom. I.
THE FRIEND, by Coleridge. Vol III. Pickering.
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