Lady Theresa Lewis is nearly ready with a work which cannot but be of great interest. It is entitled Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery; with an Account of the Origin of the Collection; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures. It will form two volumes, and be accompanied by illustrative portraits.
Mr. Colburn announces a new library edition of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England. Although revised and considerably augmented by new materials which have been placed at Miss Strickland's disposal since the appearance of the earlier impressions of her book, this edition is to be comprised in eight monthly volumes.
Books Received.—The Buried City of the East: Nineveh. A popular view of the discovery of the remains of the great city, compiled principally from Botta, and illustrated with numerous woodcuts, affords information enough, perhaps, for those who may be unable to consult the stirring narrative of Layard himself, but must send to his pages a great number of readers, in whom it can only serve to waken a lively interest in this great triumph of individual perseverance.—The Iliad of Homer, literally translated, with explanatory Notes, by T. A. Buckley, B.A., is the new volume of Bohn's Classical Library; and the Editor expresses his hopes "that it will be found to convey, more accurately than any which has preceded it, the words and thoughts of the original." The work has obviously been executed with great care; and the notes, though brief, are to the point.
Catalogues Received.—John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. XXI. of Books Old and New; J. Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street) Catalogue Part III. of Choice Useful and Curious Books, English and Foreign; and Catalogue of a singular Collection of 25,000 Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets, Part II.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.
Clare's Rural Muse
Passionael efte dat Levent der Heiligen. Folio. Basil, 1522.
Cartari—La Rosa d'Oro Pontificia. 4to. Rome, 1681.
Broemel, M. C. H., Fest-Tanzen der Ersten Christen. Jena, 1705.