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Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
Although, like Canning's knife-grinder, we do not care to meddle with politics, we have one volume on our table belonging to that department of life which deserves passing mention, we mean Mr. Urquhart's Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South, by opening the Sources of Opinion, and appropriating the Channels of Wealth and Power, which those who differ most widely from Mr. Urquhart will probably deem worth reading at a moment when all eyes are turned towards St. Petersburgh. It is of course a knowledge of the great interest everywhere felt in the Russian-Turkish question, which has induced Messrs. Longman to reprint in their Traveller's Library, in a separate form and with additions, Turkey and Christendom, an Historical Sketch of the Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the States of Europe.
The Rev. R. W. Eyton announces for publication by subscription Antiquities of Shropshire, which is intended to contain such accessible materials as may serve to illustrate the history of the county during the first two centuries after the Norman Conquest, though that period is not proposed as an invariable limit. The preface to the first Number will give an account of the public authorities which the author has consulted, as well as of the materials which have been supplied or promised by the kindness of individuals. Each Number will contain six sheets (96 pages), and will be accompanied by maps or illustrations referable to the period. Each fourth Number will include an Index. The first part will be put to press as soon as 200 Subscribers are obtained, and the number of copies printed will be limited to those originally subscribed for.
We are again indebted to Mr. Bohn for several valuable additions to our stores of cheap literature. In his Standard Library he has published two volumes of Lectures delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, by the late John Foster. In his Antiquarian Library he has given us the second volume of Matthew of Westminster's Flowers of History, translated by C. D. Yonge, who has added a short but very useful Index: while in his Classical Library we have the first volume of The Comedies of Aristophanes: a New and Literal Translation from the revised Text of Dindorf, with Notes and Extracts from the best Metrical Versions, by W. J. Hickie. The present volume contains The Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.
Howard Family, Historical Anecdotes of, by Charles Howard, 1769. 12mo.