The Camden Society has, after a long silence, just issued a volume, The Camden Miscellany, Volume the Second, which from the variety and interest of its contents, cannot but be acceptable to all the members. These contents are, I. Account of the Expenses of John of Brabant, and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, 1292-93.—II. Household Account of the Princess Elizabeth, 1551-52.—III. The Bequeste and Suite of a True-hearted Englishman, written by William Cholmeley, 1553.—IV. Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 1627-28.—V. Trelawny Papers.—VI. Autobiography of William Taswell, D. D. This, which is the first book for the year 1852-53, will be immediately followed by a volume of Verney Papers, editing by Mr. Bruce; and this probably by The Domesday of St. Paul's, editing by Archdeacon Hale, or The Correspondence of Lady Brilliana Harley, editing by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. Early in the ensuing Camden year, which commences on the 1st of May, two volumes of considerable interest may be looked for, namely, The Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289-90, with illustrations from other and coeval Documents by the Rev. John Webb; and Regulæ Inclusarum, The Ancren Rewle, A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, addressed to a Society of Anchorites by Simon of Ghent, a work valuable for philology, for it is written in the semi-Saxon dialect of the thirteenth century, and curious for its illustration of ancient manners. It will be accompanied by a translation by the Rev. James Morton, the editor.
The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society for the County, City, and Neighbourhood of Chester, has just published the Second Part of its Journal, in which objects of local interest are made available for much instructive information; and to accomplish which the conductors have, and as we think wisely, preferred a great number of apt illustrations, executed without any pretence to artistic skill, to a few expensive and highly-finished engravings.
Our Dutch neighbours seem to enjoy as much as ourselves the humour of Charles Dickens. Not only is Bleak House regularly translated as it appears, but in a bookseller's circular which has just reached us, we see announced translations of the Sketches by Boz, and of a Selection from Household Words.
There is much tact required in writing for children, and no small share of this is exhibited in a History of France for Children, which Viscount Cranborne has just compiled for the use of his nieces. The principal events are brought forward in succession, and related in a plain, unaffected style, well calculated for youthful readers.
Books Received.—Joan of Arc, by Lord Mahon, the new number of Murray's Railway Library, is a reprint, from the noble author's Historical Essays, of his careful summary of Joan's extraordinary history.—Cyclopædia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological and General Literature, the fifth part of Mr. Darling's most useful guide for authors, preachers, students, and literary men.—Synodalia, a Journal of Convocation, Nos. 1. to 4.; four parts of a monthly periodical, instituted not so much for the purpose of securing immediately synodical action in the Church, as with the view of preparing the public mind for its reception.—Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria, or a view of the Religion and Political State of Germany after the Reformation. An able and instructive essay by Professor Von Ranke, well translated for Longman's Traveller's Library by Sir A. and Lady Duff Gordon.—Kidd's Own Journal for January, 1853. The new number of a journal which deserves the notice of all lovers of natural history and keepers of pets.—Remains of Pagan Saxondom, principally from Tumuli in England, by J. Y. Akerman; Part III., containing Beads, Crystal Ball, and Bulla from Breach Down, and Glass Vase from Cuddesden, drawn of their original size and coloured.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
Chronon-ho-ton-thologos, by H. Carey.
The Dragon of Wantley, by H. Carey.