NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The Salisbury Volume of the Archæological Institute, which has just been issued, contains some extremely interesting communications, among which we must particularise for its agreeable character Mr. Hunter's Reminiscences of the Topographical Gatherings at Stourhead,—for its learning and originality, Mr. Guest's Memoir on the Early English Settlements in South Britain.[7] Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable notice of the Custumal of Bleadon,—Mr. Newton, Notes on the Sculptures at Wilton,—Mr. Hawkins on The Mints of Wiltshire; and not the least interesting portion of the volume consists of notices respecting Silbury and Avebury, by the late excellent and lamented Dean of Hereford. The volume contains many other instructive memoirs, and is well calculated to advance archæological knowledge.
[7] Mr. Guest's suggestion (p. 30.), that Grimsditch means a boundary, deserves the attention of our correspondents.
The new volume of Bohn's Standard Library is the fourth of Mrs. Foster's excellent translations of Vasari's Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. It contains no fewer than nineteen lives, including, among many whose names are less familiar to English amateurs, those of Sebastian del Piombo, and that admirable scholar of Raphael, whom Shakespeare has helped to immortalise by designating him that "rare Italian master Giulio Romano." All lovers of art are under great obligations to the publisher for placing this translation within their reach.—Mr. Cyrus Redding's History and Description of Modern Wines is the new volume of Bohn's Illustrated Library; and, as the author describes "the art of taking wine" as "the science of exciting agreeable conversation and eliciting brilliant thoughts," and discourses learnedly upon the subject, his book may well find friends.—Lucretius on the Nature of Things, literally translated into English Prose, by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., to which is added the Poetical Version, by J. M. Good, is another volume of Bohn's Classical Library; and the scholarship of Mr. Watson affords a sufficient justification for his prefatory remark, "that he who wishes to know what is in Lucretius without perusing the original, will learn it from this volume with greater certainty than from any other previously offered to the English reader." Every page bears evidence of the pains and ability displayed by Mr. Watson in his endeavour to clothe Lucretius in an English garb.
There is no Query so frequently put and so rarely answered to the satisfaction of the Querist as What is the fare? Walker's Cab Fare and Guide Map of London, in which all the leading streets and thoroughfares are marked off in half-miles, being so small that it may be carried in a pocket-book, yet so distinct as to admit of no doubt, will however put an end to the very unpleasant state of uncertainty and dispute in which all who ride in cabs are apt to find themselves involved.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—W. Waller & Son's (188. Fleet Street) Catalogue of Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books; W. Heath's (497. New Oxford Street) Catalogue No. 6. for 1851 of Valuable Second-hand Books; G. Honnor's (304. Strand) List No. 7. of Cheap Second-hand Books; J. Chapman's (142. Strand) Catalogue Part XIV. of Old and New Books in all Departments of Literature; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn) Catalogue Part LIII. of Interesting and Curious Books; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXVIII., No. 9. for 1851, of Old and New Books; Williams & Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street) Catalogue No. 4. of Foreign Second-hand Books.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
CHRISTIAN PIETY FREED FROM THE DELUSIONS OF MODERN ENTHUSIASTS. A.D. 1756 or 1757.
AN ANSWER TO FATHER HUDDLESTONE'S SHORT AND PLAIN WAY TO THE FAITH AND CHURCH. By Samuel Grascombe. London, 1703, 8vo.
REASONS FOR ABROGATING THE TEST IMPOSED UPON ALL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon, 1688, 4to.
LEWIS'S LIFE OF CAXTON. 8vo. 1737.
CATALOGUE OF JOSEPH AMES'S LIBRARY. 8vo. 1760.
TRAPP'S COMMENTARY. Folio. Vol. I.
WHITLAY'S PARAPHRASE ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. Folio. Vol. I. 1706.
LONG'S ASTRONOMY. 4to. 1742.
MAD. D'ARBLAY'S DIARY. Vol. II. 1842.
ADAM'S MORAL TALES.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DR. JOHNSON. 1805.
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.
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, 1834.
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.
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