NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Of the value of broadsides, flying sheets, political squibs, popular ballads, &c. few can doubt; while the advantage of having these snatches of popular literature, when collected, deposited in some public and easily accessible library, will be readily admitted by all who may have had occasion to trespass on the time and attention (readily as they may be afforded to parties entitled to claim them), of the Master and Fellows of Magdalene, when requiring to consult the matchless collection of ballads, penny merriments, and chap books, deposited in their library by Samuel Pepys. These remarks have been suggested to us by a very handsome quarto volume entitled Catalogue of Proclamations, Broadsides, Ballads, and Poems presented to the Chetham Library, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. As this catalogue is limited to one hundred copies, and has been printed for private circulation only, we must confine ourselves to announcing that it contains an enumeration of upwards of three thousand documents of the classes specified, many of them of very considerable interest, which the zeal of Mr. Halliwell has enabled him to gather together, and which his liberality has led him to deposit in the Chetham Library. We have marked several articles to which we propose to call the attention of our readers at some future moment; and we have no doubt that the Halliwell Collection in the Chetham Library, is one which will hereafter be frequently referred to, and consulted by, literary men.
If the Popular Mythology of these islands is ever to be fitly recorded, its most important illustration will be found in the writings of Grimm and his fellow-labourers. How zealously they are pursuing their search after the scattered fragments of the great mythological system which once prevailed in Germany is shown by a new contribution to its history, which has just been published by J. W. Wolf, under the title of Beiträge zur Deutschen Mythologie: I. Götter und Göttinnen. In this volume the reader will find not only much that is new and interesting in connection with the history of the great mythic heroes and heroines, but very valuable supplements on the subject of Superstitions and Popular Charms.
Mr. D'Alton, the author of The History of Drogheda, is about to dispose of his Historical, Topographical, and Genealogical MS. Collections. They occupy upwards of 200 volumes, and comprise, on the plan of Watt's Bibliotheca, copious references to, and extracts from Records, Registries, Pleadings, Wills, Funeral Monuments, and Manuscript Pedigrees. They are to be sold wholly, or in lots, as classified at the commencement of Mr. D'Alton's Annals of Boyle.
Messrs. Ellis and Son, watchmakers, of Exeter, have published a very interesting Map showing the Time kept by Public Clocks in various Towns in Great Britain. Among many other curious notes which may be made on this subject, we may mention that it is Sunday in Inverness and Glasgow nearly seventeen minutes earlier than at Plymouth; and it will be 1852 in Liverpool eleven minutes before it will be so in Bristol.
Messrs. Cook and Hockin, of 289. Strand, have prepared a cheap, but very complete Chemical Chest, to accompany Stockhardt's Principles of Chemistry illustrated by Simple Experiments, recently published by Bohn in his Scientific Library.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
TIMES NEWSPAPER, 1835 to 1840, or any of those years, in Vols. or Numbers
FÜSSLEIN, JOH. CONRAD, BEYTRAGE ZUR ERLÄUTERUNG DER KIRCHEN-REFORMATIONS-GESCHICHTE DES SCHWEITZERLANDES. 5 Vols. Zurich, 1741.
THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND. 7s. 6d. will be given for a good complete copy.
SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF COWPER. Vols. X. XII. XIII. XIV.
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. Vol. I. Part I. (Several copies are wanted, and it is believed that many are lying in London or Dublin.)
MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. VI. Cadell, 1822. 8vo.
WILLIS'S ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 15s. will be given for a copy.
FLUDD (ROBERT, M.D.) alias DE FLUCTIBUS, called the Searcher. Any of his works.
BEHMEN'S (JACOB) GENESIS.
LAW'S APPEAL,&c.
LAW'S APPEAL CASE OF REASON.
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