Our able and indefatigable contributor, Dr. Rimbault, has put forth for the especial delight of those who, like Mopsa, "love a ballad in print," A Little Book of Songs and Ballads gathered from Ancient Musick Books MS. and Printed. The various pieces contained in it have been selected from many volumes of considerable rarity, and are illustrated by numerous notes, which are characterised by Dr. Rimbault's accustomed ability and industry.
Mr. Delf has received from America some copies of an octavo volume bearing the title of A Library Manual, containing a Catalogue Raisonnée of upwards of Twelve Thousand of the most important Works in every Department of Knowledge. Although very imperfectly executed (and the circumstances under which we are informed it was executed may perhaps be pleaded as some excuse for such imperfections), it is still a book which might with advantage be placed on the shelves of newly formed literary societies, as a means of informing the members as to the principal works existing in the various departments of learning. The idea upon which the book is founded is so good, and its object one of such obvious utility, that we have little doubt but it will ere long be much more successfully carried out.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—J. Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street, Soho) Catalogue Part 4. for 1851 of Choice, Useful, and Curious Books; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Sixty-ninth Catalogue of Cheap Miscellaneous English and Foreign Books; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part 123., No. 4. for 1851 of Old and New Books.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
- ALBERT LUNEL, a Novel in 3 Vols.
- DR. ADAMS' SERMON ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRTUE. Any edition.
- ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF BISHOP BUTLER.
- RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Vol. IV.
- DENS' THEOLOGIA MORALIS ET DOGMATICA. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1832.
- MARLBOROUGH DISPATCHES. Volumes IV. and V.
- ART JOURNAL, 1839 to 1844 inclusive. Also 1849.
- BULWER'S NOVELS. 12mo. Published at 6s. per Vol. Pilgrims of the Rhine, Alice, and Zanoni.
- STEPHANI THESAURUS. Valpy. Parts I. II. X. XI. and XXIX.
- KIRBY'S BRIDGEWATER TREATISE. 2 Vols.
- The Second Vol. of CHAMBER'S CYCLOPÉDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
- GOODWIN'S COURSE OF MATHEMATICS. Last edition.
- MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE, continued by Davenport. 12mo. 8 Vols. Published by Tegg and Son, 1835. Volume Eight wanted.
- L'ABBÉ DE SAINT PIERRE, PROJET DE PAIX PERPETUELLE. 3 Vols. 12mo. Utrecht, 1713.
- AIKIN'S SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS. 10 Vols. 24mo. Published by Longmans and Co. 1821. Vols. I. V. and VIII. wanted.
- CAXTON'S REYNARD THE FOX (Percy Society Edition). Sm. 8vo. 1844.
- CRESPET, PERE. Deux Livres de la Haine de Satan et des Malins Esprits contre l'Homme. 8vo. Francfort, 1581.
- CHEVALIER RAMSAY, Essai de Politique, où l'on traite de la Nécessité, de l'Origine, des Droits, des Bornes et des différentes Formes de la Souveraineté, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de Télémaque. 2 Vols. 12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in 1719.
- The same. Second Edition, under the title "Essai Philosophique sur le Gouvernement Civil, selon les Principes de Fénélon," 12mo. Londres, 1721.
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