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[2nd g, N« 66., Apeh. 4. '67. 



Carew, in the handwriting of John Vowell, alias Hooker, 

 of Exeter, was not aware that Sir Thomas Phillips had 

 published such life in the Archceohgia. Had it been 

 otherwise we should have been deprived of a volume. The 

 Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew, Kt. {from the original 

 MS."), with a Historical Introduction and elucidatory Notes, 

 by John Maclean, Esq., which illustrates in an interesting 

 and curious manner the inner or home life of an English 

 gentleman during the middle of the sixteenth century. 

 Hooker's narrative, in itself of great interest and value, 

 has been made yet more so by the careful researches and 

 judicious illustrations of the present editor. 



We must call the attention of our readers to two his- 

 torical periodicals which have reached us from the other 

 side of the Atlantic. The first is the opening number of 

 a new series of The New England Historical and Genea- 

 logical Register, and Antiquarian Journal, published Quar- 

 terly under the direction of the New England Historical and 

 Genealogical Society. « The second, and to which we would 

 more particularly direct the attention of our readers, is a 

 Transatlantic brother, and bears the name of The Histo- 

 rical Magazine and Notes and Queries concerning the An- 

 tiquities, History, and Biography of America. This work, 

 which is printed uniformly with " N. & Q.," is one to 

 interest many English students ; and receiving as it has 

 the approbatioia of many of the most eminent ivriters 

 of America, Sparks, Everett, Prescott, &c., it will no 

 doubt become a journal of value and importance. We 

 believe for both of thesei*periodicals Mr. Eussell Smith 

 is the recognised agent in this country. 



English historical literature has sustained a great loss 

 by the death o#John Mitchell Kemble, which took place 

 in Dublin on Thursday, the 26th ult. Mr. Kemble was a 

 man of undoubted and original genius, a thorough clas- 

 sical scholar, a profound Anglo-Saxonist, deeply read in 

 the language and literature of Scandinavia and Germany, 

 master of all, or nearly, the languages of Europe, and well 

 versed in our national history. His death will be deeply 

 lamented by all true scholars. 



Books Received. — The Iliads of Homer, Prince of 

 Poets, by George Chapman, 2 vols. Mr. Russell Smith 

 has just enriched his Library of Old Authors by reprint- 

 ing, under the editorship of the Rev. Richard Hooper, the 

 magnificent version of the Iliad in which George Chap- 

 man sought to let Prince Henry — 



" . . , See one godlike man create 

 All sorts of worthiest men." 



The work is admirably got up; and will, we have no 

 doubt, be acceptable to hundreds of the lovers of Chap- 

 man's grand hexameters. 



Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial Words, containing 

 Words from the English Writers previous to the Nineteenth 

 Century which are no longer in Use, or are not tised in the 

 same Sense ; and fVords which are now used only in the 

 Provincial JDialects ; compiled by Thomas Wright, Esq., 

 M.A., &c. This ample title-page sufficiently describes 

 the nature of this new contribution to Bohn's Antiquarian 

 Library. Mr. Wright states, that in its compilation he 

 has availed himself, as far as he could with fairness, of the 

 labours of his predecessors, Nares, Boucher, Halliwell, &c. 



The Social History and Antiquities of Barton-upon- 

 Humber. An unpretending little volume, edited by Mr. 

 Poulson, the author of Beverlac, ^c, from the papers of 

 the late Mr. W. S. Hesleden. 



Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great 

 Seal of England, by John Lord Campbell. Vol. IV. This 

 new volume embraces Lord Campbell's Lives of Clarendon, 

 Shaftesbury, Nottingham, Guildford, and Jeffreys. 



Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of 

 England, taken down from Oral Recitation, and transcribed 

 from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce 



Publications, edited by Robert Bell. This new volume of 

 the Annotated Edition of the English Poets is based upon 

 Mr. Dixon's work published under the same title by the 

 Percy Society. The collection, originally very curious 

 and valuable, has been thoroughly revised and consider- 

 ably augmented ; and Mr. Bell is well entitled to pro- 

 nounce the present volume, " in some respects the most 

 curious and interesting of the Series " to which it belongs. 



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