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Museum the celebrated " Bedford Missal," and several 

 other beautiful MSS., by the wise expenditure of three 

 thousand pounds. The other MSS., not described by 

 The Athenceum, are, we believe, the Breviary of Isabella 

 of Spain, presented to her by Francisco de Rojas in 

 1497, on the occasion of the double marriage of her 

 children, Don Juan and Dona Juana, to Margfiret of 

 Austria and Philip the Fair, which sold at Mr. Hurd's 

 sale in 1832 for 5201 ; the Hours of Juana of Castile, 

 wife of Philip the Fair, formerly in Hanrott's library ; 

 the Hours of Francis I., which sold in Sir Mark Mas- 

 terman Sykes's sale, 1824, for 163/. 16s. ; the Hours of 

 Frangois d'Inteville, Bishop of Auxerre, executed in 

 1525, formerly in Beckford's collection ; another vo- 

 lume of .Hbwrs of the sixteenth century, and a fine copy, 

 in two large vols, folio, of the French translation of 

 Petrus Comestor's Historia Scfiolastica, by Guiart des 

 Molins, completed in 1 294. While we agree with our 

 cotemporary in our approval of this purchase, we 

 cannot help adding to that approval a hope that neither 

 the trustees nor the treasury will make this expen- 

 diture an excuse for not enabling the keeper of the 

 MSS. to make extensive purchases at the sales of va- 

 luable historical collections which are expected to take 

 place in the course of the present year. 



At a general meeting of the Percy Society held last 

 Thursday week, the dissolution of the Society was 

 determined on; and the meeting came to the very 

 proper resolution of not selling the stock of books in 

 hand, which would have had the effect of depreciating 

 the market-value of the Society's publications, but of 

 distributing them among the existinac nnembers. It is 

 proposed, we believe, to form a new Society on a some- 

 what simdar plan ; but which is to have for its object 

 the reprinting, without abridgment or omission, of such 

 rare but well chosen tracts by Greene, Nash Breton, 

 Taylor the Water Poet, &c. as afford valuable illustra- 

 tion of manners, or are interesting in any other point 

 of view. . . 



We have received from Messrs. Rivmgton a new 

 volume containing Eight Essays 07i Various Subjects, 

 by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D. D. The pages of 

 " N. & Q.." have been so frequently enriched by con- 

 tributions from the able pen of the writer of these 

 Essays, and he has in the work in question spoken so 

 kindlv'of this journal, that we feel it will be more 

 respectful to one who does not need our praise — 

 which might under these circumstances be attributed 

 to interested motives — if we limit our notice of the 

 subject of the volume to an enumeration of the titles 

 of the essays. They are as follows : — I. On the 

 Mystical Interpretation of Scripture ; II. Sacred Art — 

 No. 1. Music; III. Sacred Art — No. 2. Painting,- 

 IV. Matter of Fact ; V. The Fulness of the Gentiles ; 

 "VI. The Waldenses and Albigenses ; VII. Perrin's 

 History of the Vaudois ! VIII. The Lollards. When 

 we add that to these are appended the following notes : 

 —A. Camper's Nightcap; B. Fauxhall ; C. The School 

 of Declamation ; D. On Political Prophecies ; E. The 

 " Mirabilis Liber " and " Petrus de Bardis ; " F. Ex- 

 tracts from Lollard Prophecies : we think we have shown 

 all who know the learning, honesty of purpose, strong 

 common sense, and racy humour of the Essayist, that 

 the book is one to be looked after, and to be looked at. 



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Bell's Fugitive Poetry Collection. Vols. X. and XVI. I2mo. 



1790. 

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Sanson et C >iii|)agiiiu. Vols. I. & II. 1791-2. 

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