Our valued correspondent Mr. Singer has kindly sent us a copy of a little offering to the manes of Shakspeare and Tieck, of which he has printed a few copies for private distribution. It is The Midsummer Night, or Shakspeare and the Fairies, from the German of Ludwig Tieck, by Mary C. Rumsay. The work, one of exuberant fancy, was written when Tieck was only sixteen, but only published by his friend Bulow in 1851. It is translated with great ability; and we regret, for the sake of the many who would wish to possess it, that Mr. Singer did not carry out his original intention, and publish it in aid of the funds for the monument to Tieck.
The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, No. I., March, 1854, is the first of a very valuable periodical, the nature and object of which are plainly indicated by its title. One very useful feature is its Contents of Foreign Journals, in which it records all the important contributions on sacred and classical philology inserted in the chief periodicals of the Continent.
We have before us the publications of The Arundel Society, or Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Fine Arts, for the fourth year: and they are indeed of a nature to effect the great object for which the Society was instituted. They consist of eight engravings on wood from drawings made by Mr. Williams, who was sent by the Society to Padua expressly for the purpose, from the frescos of Giotto in the Arena Chapel. The woodcuts have been executed by Messrs. Dalziel. With the rest of these prints will be issued a short description of the chapel and its frescos, prepared by Mr. Ruskin.
The Second Part of Mr. Netherclift's Autograph Miscellany contains fac-similes of the original depositions of their marriage by James II. and Anne Hyde; of an original letter from Luther to Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex; of a letter from Glover, Somerset Herald, to the Earl of Leicester; and of that portion of Sterne's Sentimental Journey in which is related the episode of "The Dead Ass."
The success which has attended the publication of Miss Burney's Diary, or, to give the work its more correct title, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, has induced Mr. Colburn to commence a new edition of it in seven three-shilling volumes.
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