NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
The Camden Society, of which the fourteenth Annual Meeting on Monday last passed off most successfully, has just issued to its Members The Chronicle of The Grey Friars of London, edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum. This very interesting document, which altogether escaped the research of the industrious and voluminous Strype, though it had passed through the hands of Stowe, who had either the possession or the loan of the original MS., was written by one of the Grey Friars, who appears to have watched narrowly, and recorded carefully, the religious changes of the times, more particularly, those which occurred within the sphere of his personal observation in the city of London, and the metropolitan church of St. Paul. As he retained possession of his register, and continued his labours after the dissolution of his house, and the dismissal of the rest of his fraternity, he has preserved to us many particulars of great historical value; and his work has this additional claim to attention, that, whereas the majority of the existing documents are records of the Reforming party, this comes from one of the Reformed, and presents us accordingly with the other side of the case. The work is edited by Mr. J. G. Nichols, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the fidelity with which the document is printed, and the learning and care bestowed upon its illustration.
The Publications of the Antiquarian Etching Club.—Part III., 1851, presents us with no less than thirty-three etchings by Members of the Club (of course of various degrees of merit), of objects of antiquarian interest, comprising Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Fonts, Sepulchral Monuments, Portraits, Fac-similes, copies of rare prints, and numerous other vestiges of antiquity calculated at once to instruct the archæologist, and preserve in a pictorial form a record of much which, but for the burins of the members of this useful little Society, might have been lost for ever.
It is but a few weeks since we noticed the admirable second volume of the Catalogue of the London Library, by Mr. J. G. Cochrane. We have now to record the death of that gentleman on Tuesday last. He was a most worthy man, and a good scholar; and possessed a vast fund of bibliographical knowledge. His death therefore will be felt, not only by his own immediate friends, but also by the institution which he had served so ably and so zealously ever since its formation.
It would be treason to the Brothers Grimm, and to our own love of the literature of the people, if we did not notice and (as it deserves it) say a good word of a new and complete translation of the world-renowned Kinder und Haus Mährchen, which Messrs. Addey have commenced publishing under the title of Grimm's Household Stories. They are very faithfully translated from the last edition; and we specify this because the little Almaine 4to. first edition of 1819 has long been one of our household books, and finding that the translation did not agree with the versions there given, we have compared it with the edition of 1843, and so discovered, first, that the translator has used the later edition; and secondly, what we were not till now aware of, namely, that these great scholars, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, amid their more learned labours, have not disdained to revise and enlarge their collection of nursery stories, which have been the delight of the children of all Europe. What a justification is this for the attention which is bestowed in "N. & Q." on our own English Folk Lore!
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
FABRICII BIBLIOTHECA LATINA. Ed. Ernesti. Leipsig, 1773. Vol. III.
THE ANACALYPSIS. By Godfrey Higgins. 2 Vols. 4to.
CODEX DIPLOMATICUS ÆVI SAXONICI, opera J. M. Kemble. Vols. I. and II. 8vo.
ECKHEL, DOCTRINA NUMORUM. Vol. VIII.
BROUGHAM'S MEN OF LETTERS. 2nd Series, royal 8vo, boards. Original edition.
KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE. Royal 8vo. Parts XLII. XLIII. XLIV. L. and LI.
CONDER'S ANALYTICAL VIEW OF ALL RELIGIONS. 8vo.
HALLIWELL ON THE DIALECTS OF SOMERSETSHIRE.
SCLOPETARIA, or REMARKS ON RIFLES, &c.
SOWERBY'S ENGLISH FUNGI. Vol. III.
SUPPLEMENT TO SOWERBY'S ENGLISH FUNGI.
EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. Vols. XXIII. XXIV. and XXV.
POETIC WREATH. Small 8vo. Newman.
GEMS FROM BRITISH POETS. 4 Vols. Tyas.
THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON. Vols. VI. VII. and VIII. 12mo. Murray, 1823.
MALLET'S POEMS. Bell's edition.
MALLET'S PLAY OF ELVIRA. 1763.
JOANNIS LELANDI COLLECTANEA. Vol. V. 1774.
BISHOP PATRICK'S COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. The Volumes containing Joshua and Judges. Small 4to.
KENT'S ANTHEMS. Vol. I. folio. Edited by Joseph Corfe.
THE MATHEMATICIAN. Vol. I. No. I. 1844.
BACK'S VOYAGE OF THE TERROR, 8vo.
L'HISTOIRE DE LA SAINCTE BIBLE, par ROYAUMONDE: à Paris, 1701.
JOHNSON'S (DR. S.) WORKS, by MURPHY. Trade Edition of 1816, in 8vo. Vol. XII. only.
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