The Patrician: Edited by John Burke, Esq., Author of the Peerage, Landed Gentry, &c. May, 1846. London: E. Churton, 26 Holles Street. pp. 94.
The dedication of the work is as follows:
To the Right Honorable Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh, the first volume of the Patrician is respectfully inscribed.
The number before us is the first of the first volume. Ten have already been issued. It is a work devoted to History, Genealogy, Heraldry, Topography, Antiquities, and General Literature. Each number contains a long list of births, marriages, and deaths. The editor must be a man of varied learning, and particularly acquainted with the subjects of which he treats. The work is not adapted to the public generally, and must, therefore, be limited in circulation. As an English production it may be interesting to the higher classes or nobility of England; but it cannot attract the attention of Americans.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.
REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, D. D., EDITOR.
The NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY proposes to publish by subscription a Quarterly Journal, to be entitled, "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." The period has arrived in this country, when an awakened and a growing interest begins to be felt in the pursuit, and especially in the results, of Historical and Genealogical Researches; and when the practical value, both to individuals and to society, of the knowledge which is obtained by investigations of this kind, from the scattered and perishable records of local, domestic, and traditionary history, begins to be appreciated by increasing numbers. The existence and active exertions of Historical, Antiquarian, and Statistical Societies, which have sprung up within a few years past in most of the older states of the Union, are a sufficient evidence of this fact.