NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The Chronological New Testament, in which the Text of the Authorised Version is newly divided into Paragraphs and Sections, with the Dates and Places of Transactions marked, the Marginal Renderings of the Translators, many Parallel Illustrative Passages printed at length, brief Introductions to each Book, and a Running Analysis of the Epistles, is another and most praiseworthy attempt "to make our invaluable English version more intelligible to devout students of the Word of God," by the various helps in arrangement and printing set forth in the ample title-page which we have just transcribed. All such endeavors to increase that "knowledge which maketh wise unto salvation" carry within themselves the elements of success; and we shall be the more glad to find that the present work meets with the patronage it deserves, as we may then look for the Old Testament on the same plan.
Those of our readers who remember the parallel which Bishop Ken drew between himself and
Bless'd Gregory, whose patriarchal height
Shed on the Eastern sphere celestial light,
and who may desire to read the life of him whom that great ornament of our Church chose for his model, will thank us for drawing their attention to Gregory of Nazianzum—a Contribution to the Ecclesiastical History of the Fourth Century, by Professor Ullman of Heidelberg, which has just been translated by Mr. G. V. Cox. The translator has for the present confined himself to that part of Dr. Ullman's volume which relates to the life of Gregory, and is therefore more attractive to the general reader; the dogmatic part, or the statements and examination of Gregory's theological opinions, being for the present withheld. In this we think Mr. Cox has done wisely, since we have no doubt that the present volume will be read with great interest by many who will gladly dwell upon the life and practice of this distinguished Father of the Church, but who would be turned aside from its perusal, from their unwillingness or inability to enter upon any such investigation as is implied in the critical examination of Gregory's theological opinions.
We have again to thank Dr. Latham for an important contribution towards a proper knowledge of our own tongue; and it would be difficult to point out a more successful combination of ethnological and philological knowledge than is exhibited in his newly-published Hand-book of the English Language, for the Use of Students of the Universities and Higher Classes of Schools. We cannot of course enter into any analysis of a work which is as replete with interest and amusement as it is with instruction; but we may point out as peculiarly deserving of attention the first part, which treats of the Germanic origin of the English language; and the second, which treats of its history and analysis. We are glad to see Dr. Latham's view of the Frisian share in the invasion of this country.
The commendations so universally bestowed upon Mr. Grant for the research, accuracy, and picturesque interest displayed in his Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh, and his Memoirs of Sir W. Kirkaldy of Grange, may be extended to him for his Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, Knight, Governor of Munich, Marshal of France under Louis XIII., and Commander of the Scots Brigade under Gustavus Adolphus. He has on this, as on former occasions, the advantage of a new and interesting subject; and by grouping round his hero—whose conduct and bravery won for him the reputation of being esteemed the best of that warlike age, next to Gustavus himself—all the great leaders in that struggle for the liberties of Germany, the Thirty Years' War—he has produced a volume which will be read with great interest, not only for the picture it exhibits of the distinguished soldier of fortune who forms its immediate subject, but also for its record of the services of the Scottish troops who served in the German wars under Gustavus Adolphus.
A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject, in which Mr. Wilson endeavors to pourtray the thoughts and feelings of the poet, will be read with pleasure by all who agree with him that poetry rightly understood is associated with everything that is eternal and just, true and elevating, tender and loving. It is a little book of quaint and pleasant thoughts, quaintly got up, and beautifully illustrated.
Mr. Mitchell, of Bond Street, announces a beautifully illustrated work on The Parables of our Saviour, to be engraved in the line manner by the best artists from the designs of Franklin.
The Sales of Books, &c., those heralds of the coming winter, are beginning. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson commence this day a six days' sale of valuable books removed from the country, including many curious and rare works. On Monday Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will commence their season by selling a portion of the valuable library of a gentleman deceased, which will occupy them for four days; and on Monday and the fifteen following days Messrs. Foster and Son will be engaged in the disposal of that matchless series of examples of Mediæval Architecture, and of other objects of decorative art, remarkable alike for their beauty, rarity, and historical value, so long known as the Cottingham Museum.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. 30. of Books Old and New; W. Brown's (130. and 131. Old Street) List of Miscellaneous English Books.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
WILLIS'S ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (10s. 6d. will be paid for a copy in good condition.)
CARPENTER'S DEPUTY DIVINITY; a Discourse of Conscience. 12mo. 1657.
A TRUE AND LIVELY REPRESENTATION OF POPERY, SHEWING THAT POPERY IS ONLY NEW MODELLED PAGANISM, &c., 1679. 4to.
ROBERT WILSON'S SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF HAWICK. Small 8vo. Printed in 1825.
JAMES WILSON'S ANNALS OF HAWICK. Small 8vo. Printed in 1850.
BARRINGTON'S SKETCHES OF HIS OWN TIME. Vol. III. London, 1830.
BRITISH POETS (CHALMERS', Vol. X.) London, 1810.
CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SON. Vol. III. London, 1774.
CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY. Vol. LXXV.
D'ARBLAY'S DIARY. Vol. III. London, 1842.
ERSKINE'S SPEECHES. Vol. II. London, 1810.
HARE'S MISSION OF THE COMFORTER. Vol. I. London, 1846.
HOPE'S ESSAY ON ARCHITECTURE. Vol. I. London, 1835. 2nd Edition.
MULLER'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. II. (Library of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XVII.)
ROMILLY'S (SIR SAMUEL) MEMOIRS. Vol. II. London, 1840.
SCOTT'S (SIR W.) LIFE OF NAPOLEON. Vol. I. Edinburgh, 1837. 9 Vol. Edition.
SCOTT'S NOVELS. Vol. XXXVI. (Redgauntlet, II.); Vols. XLIV. XLV. (Ann of Grerstein, I. & II.) 48 Vol. Edition.
SMOLLETT'S WORKS. Vols. II. & IV. Edinburgh, 1800. 2nd Edition.
SOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS. Vol. III. London, 1837.
CRABBE'S WORKS. Vol. V. London, 1831.
Four letters on several subjects to persons of quality, the fourth being an answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's book, entitled POPERY, &c., by Peter Walsh. 1686. 8vo.
A CONFUTATION OF THE CHIEF DOCTRINES OF POPERY. A Sermon preached before the King, 1678, by William Lloyd, D.D. 1679. 4to.
A SERMON PREACHED AT ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 29, 1685, by W. Sherlock, D.D. 4to. London, 1685.
POPE'S LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. III. Curll. 1735.
ALMANACS, any for the year 1752.
MATTHIAS' OBSERVATIONS ON GRAY. 8vo. 1815.
SHAKSPEARE, JOHNSON, AND STEVENS, WITH REED'S ADDITIONS. 3rd Edition, 1785. Vol. V.
SWIFT'S WORKS, Faulkner's Edition. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1747. Vol. III.
SOUTHEY'S PENINSULAR WAR. Vols. V. VI. 8vo.
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. Vol. I. Part I. (One or more copies.)
THE ANTIQUARY. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1816. Vols. I. and II.
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TWICKENHAM, being the First Part of Parochial Collections for the County of Middlesex, begun in 1780 by E. Ironside, Esq., London, 1797. (This work forms 1 vol. of Miscell. Antiquities in continuation of the Bib. Topographica, and is usually bound in the 10th Volume.)
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