Nidda, 17. 1.
W. FRASER.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
Murray's Official Handbook of Church and State, containing the Names, Duties, and Powers of the principal Civil, Military, Judicial, and Ecclesiastical Authorities of the United Kingdom and Colonies; with Lists of the Members of the Legislature, Peers, Baronets, &c., is, as to its objects, sufficiently described by its ample title-page. An examination of its pages will show the great amount of information illustrative of the rise, nature, and peculiar duties of the numerous branches of the executive government of this vast empire, which the editor justly claims the credit of having sought for from various sources, and now for the first time gathered together. It must soon, therefore, find its way on to the desks of all men in office—not indeed as superseding the old Red Books and Official Calendars—but as an indispensable companion to them.
When speaking of the translation of Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, which we noticed some few weeks since, we gave our readers the best possible evidence of the value of the work. That Messrs. Longman have done wisely in including a condensed translation of these interesting Recollections of a Journey through Tartary, Thibet, and China, from the practised pen of Mrs. Percy Sinnett, in their Traveller's Library, we cannot therefore doubt; and we shall be much surprised if the book does not prove to be one of the most popular in the admirable series of which it forms the 14th and 15th Parts.
By way of answering the inquiry of a correspondent, and for the purpose of forwarding the very admirable and important objects of The Chronological Institute, we have procured a copy of the prospectus which has been circulated by its projectors, and have inserted it in full in our advertising columns.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
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FIELDING'S WORKS. 14 Vols. 1808. Vol XI. [Being 2nd of Amelia].
SHADWELL. Vols. II. and IV. 1720.