NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, with a Supplement, containing the Condemnations of the Early Reformers, and other matters relating to the Council. Literally translated into English by Theodore Alois Buckley, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, is the title of a volume which has just been issued; and which many of our readers will probably consider a very well-timed volume. It is not, however, because we admit with Mr. Buckley that "to try Rome fairly we must hear her plead her own cause" (for with polemics we have nothing to do), that we direct their attention to it; but because we agree with him that the Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent are documents as valuable in a legal and historical, as in a religious point of view, and because there must be many who would gladly learn what these Canons and Decrees were, yet are not acquainted with the language in which they were originally recorded. By such persons Mr. Buckley's name on the title-page may be received as a sufficient guarantee of the accuracy of the present translation.

The first volume of a history of the book-trade in Germany, containing notices of some booksellers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, has just been published at Leipsic, under the title of Beitrage zur Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels. The author is Albrecht Kirchhoff, and the work, short as it is, will be found very useful to parties engaged in bibliographical investigations.

Our valued correspondent, the Rev. Dr. Todd of Dublin, has just published Three Treatises by John Wycklyffe, D.D. I. Of the Church and her Members. II. Of the Apostacy of the Church. III. Of Antichrist and his Meynee. Now first printed from a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. The Treatises, which, in Dr. Todd's opinion, contain internal evidence of having been written within the last year of the Reformer's life, are accompanied by Notes and a copious Glossary; and the work has been undertaken not without a hope that the publication of these Treatises may direct the attention of influential scholars to the importance of collecting and printing all the existing writings which remain in our libraries under the name of Wycklyffe and his followers. We sincerely trust that this hope will soon be realised.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson announce for approaching sale the highly important collection of Autograph Letters and Historical MSS. of Mons. A. Donnadieu. The series of English Royal Autographs alone extends to nearly three hundred articles; nearly all the letters after Henry VII. being entirely autograph. This fact alone will give some idea of the extent and value of this extraordinary collection.

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