R. S. H.
Morwenstow.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The name of Dr. Freund is probably known to many of our readers as that of the most profound lexicographer of the present day, so far as the Latin language is concerned. His larger Latin-German Lexicon is as remarkable for its philosophical arrangement as for the philological acquirements of its author; and of that important and valuable work a translation, or rather an adaption, is now before us, in one handsome octavo volume, under the title of A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon, founded on the larger German-Latin Lexicon of Dr. William Freund: with Additions and Corrections from the Lexicons of Gesner, Facciolati, Scheller, Georges, &c. By E. A. Andrews. LL.D., &c. Dr. Andrews and his assistants have executed their respective portions of the work in a most able manner; and the book, which in its getting up is as creditable to American typography as its editing is to American scholarship, will, we have no doubt, meet, as it deserves, with a most extensive sale in this country.
The Churchyard Manual, intended chiefly for Rural Districts, by the Rev. W. H. Kelke, is a little volume published for the purpose of promoting the improvement of rural churchyards, by giving them a more truly Christian character. It is illustrated with some extremely pleasing and appropriate monumental designs, and contains a judicious selection of epitaphs, and is indeed altogether well calculated to accomplish the good end at which the author aims.
Archælogical Guide to Ely Cathedral; prepared for the Visit of the Bury and West Suffolk Archælogical Institute, Sept. 1851, is a most useful little tract, calculated not only to increase the interest of the members of the Bury Institute, in their visit to the venerable pile which it describes, but furnishing just the heads of information which future visitors will require, and therefore likely to outlast the temporary object for which it has been so ably compiled.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—C. Hamilton's (22. Anderson's Buildings, City Road) Catalogue of Books, Portraits, Original Drawings, Local, Historical, and other important Manuscripts; W. Miller's (3. Upper East Smithfield) Catalogue Part 38. of a Collection of Books in the various Branches of Literature.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
- No. 3 of SUMMER PRODUCTIONS or PROGRESSIVE MISCELLANIES, by Thomas Johnson. London, 1790.
- HISTORY OF VIRGINIA. Folio. London, 1624.
- THE APOLOGETICS OF ATHENAGORAS, Englished by D. Humphreys. London, 1714. 8vo.
- BOVILLUS DE ANIMÆ IMMORALITATE, ETC. Lugduni, 1522. 4to.
- KUINOEL'S NOV. TEST. Tom. I.
- THE FRIEND, by Coleridge. Vol. III. Pickering.