NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The Jansenists: their Rise, Persecutions by the Jesuits, and existing Remnant; a Chapter in Church History: by S. P. Tregelles, LL.D., is an interesting little monograph, reprinted with additions from Dr. Kitto's Journal of Biblical Literature, and enriched with portraits of Jansenius, St. Cyran, and the Mère Angelique. The history of the Jansenist Church lingering in separate existence at Utrecht affords a new instance of Catholicity of doctrine apart from the Papal communion; and as such cannot fail to have a peculiar interest for many of our readers.
The long, brilliant, and important reign of Louis XIV. has had many chroniclers. The Mémoires written by those who figured in its busy scenes are almost innumerable; many, as may be supposed from the character of the monarch and the laxity of the court, being little calculated for general perusal. Mr. James therefore did good service when he presented the reading world with his historical view of The Life and Times of Louis XIV., a work in which, while he has done full justice to the talents and genius of the monarch, and the brilliancy of the circle by which he was surrounded, he has not allowed that splendour so to dazzle the eyes of the spectator as to blind him to the real infamy and heartlessness with which it was surrounded. We are therefore well pleased to see Mr. James's history reprinted as the two new volumes of Bohn's Standard Library.
Mr. L. A. Lewis of 125. Fleet Street will sell on Friday next two extraordinary Collections of Tracts on Trade, Coinage, Commerce, Banks, Public Institutions, and Trade generally. The First, in 167 Vols., in fol., 4to., and 8vo., commences with Milles' Customer's Replie, 1604. The Second, in 20 Vols., collected upwards of a century since, commences with H. Gilbert's Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Passage to Cataia, 1576. Both series should be secured for a Public Library.
CATALOGUE RECEIVED.—J. Millers' (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. 28 of Cheap Books for Ready Money.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
- 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 SALEMO JACOBES COMMENTAR ÜBER DEN PENTATEUCH VON L. HAYMANN. Bonn, 1833.
- RABBI SALEMO JACOBES 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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