Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
Our library table is covered at this time with books for all classes of readers. The theological student will peruse with no ordinary interest the learned Dissertation on the Origin and Connexion of the Gospels, with a Synopsis of the Parallel Passages in the Original and Authorised Version, and Critical Notes, by James Smith, Esq., of Jordan Hill: and when he has mastered the arguments contained in it, he may turn to the new number of The Journal of Sacred Literature, in which will be found a great variety of able papers. Our antiquarian friends will be gratified with a volume compiled in a great measure from original family papers, by its author Mr. Bankes, the Member for Dorsetshire; and which narrates The Story of Corfe Castle, and of many who have lived there, collected from Ancient Chronicles and Records; also from the Private Memoirs of a Family resident there in the Time of the Civil Wars. The volume, which is with good feeling inscribed by the author to his friends and neighbours, Members of the Society for Mutual Improvement in the borough of Corfe Castle, contains many interesting
notices of his ancestors, the well-known judge, Sir John Bankes and his lady—so memorable for her gallant defence of Corfe Castle—drawn from the family papers. The Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington from Edward I., King of England, with Tables of Pedigree and Genealogical Memoirs, compiled by G. R. French, is a handsomely printed volume, which will please the genealogist; while the historical student will be more interested in The Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the Affairs of Britain from the Beginning of the World to the Year 1307, collected by Matthew of Westminster, translated by C. D. Yonge, Vol. I., a new volume of Bohn's Antiquarian Library, and an important addition to his series of translations of our early national chronicles. The classical student is indebted to the same publisher for the second volume of Mr. Owen's Translation of the Organon, or Logical Treatises of Aristotle: nor will he regard as the least important addition to his library, the new Part (No. VII.) of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, which extends from Cyrrhus to Etruria, and is distinguished by the same excellences as the preceding Parts. We must conclude these Notes with a brief reference to a handsome reprint of the great work of De Quincy, the appearance of which in the London Magazine some thirty years since created so great a sensation, we mean of course his Confessions of an English Opium-eater.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.
Literary Gazette, 1834 to 1845.
Athenæum, Commencement to 1835.
A Narrative of the Holy Life and Happy Death of Mr. John Angier. London 1685.