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requirements of the amateur: for, admirable as are 

 these designs, they owe tlieir existence to the taste and 

 artistic skill of a lady; for we believe " E. V. B." de- 

 signates the Hon. Mrs. Boyle. Little wonder, as poor 

 Theodore Hook would have said, to find one of the 

 Cork family distinguished for drawing. 



Books Received. — The Relations between the Holy 

 Scriptures and some parts of Geological Science, the 

 fifth edition of. a well-known and much esteemed 

 work by the late Dr. Pye Smith, forms the new issue 

 of Bohn's Scientific Library. His Antiquarian Library 

 has been enriched by the publication of the second 

 volume of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, contain- 

 ing the last three books of the Vulgar Errors, his 

 Meligio Medici, and The Garden of Cyrus. The fifth 

 volume of The Works of Plato, containing the Laws, 

 translated by George Biirges, has been added to the 

 Classical Library. Home Truths for Home Peace, or, 

 " Muddle" Defeated; a Practical Inquiry into what chiefly 

 mars or makes the Comfort of Domestic Life, chiefly ad- 

 dressed to Young Housewives, is an attempt at the 

 exposure and destruction of their most insidious and 

 deadly enemy, and deserves to be well known for the good 

 sense, right feeling, and quaint humour, with which 

 its praiseworthy object is inculcated. Lebahn's Henry 

 von Eichenfels, Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, 

 Egmont by Goethe, Wilhelm Tell by Schiller. Although 

 there is no royal road to learning, it is unquestionable 

 that the journey may be shortened, and the path ren- 

 dered less wearisome by the company of judicious 

 guides. The four books edited by M. Falck Lebahn, 

 •whose titles we have just enumerated, consisting of 

 well-known masterpieces of his country's literature, 

 each accompanied by a vocabulary, complete, both as 

 regards the words and the difficult phrases in the 

 several works to which they are attached, belong to 

 this class, and will greatly facilitate the self instructor 

 in his acquirement of a language which is not only one 

 of the richest in Europe in indigenous works, but far 

 richer than any other in its translations from all other 

 languages. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO FURCHASE. 



Edwin and Emma. Taylor, 1776. 



Annual Register, from 1816 inclusive to the present time. 



Medico Chuiurgical Transactions. From Part II. of Vol. XI. 



March, 1819 ; and also from Vol. XXX. 

 The Code Matrimonial. Paris, 1770. 

 Pro Matrimonio Phincifis cum defuncts: uxoris sorore con- 



tracto re9p0nsum juris, collegii jurisconsultorum in 



AcADEMiA RiNTELENsi. Published about 1655. 

 Gregory's (Dr.) Second Memorial to the Managers of the 



Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. 

 Heron's (Sir Robert) Notes. First Edition. Privately printed. 

 Cobbett's State Trials. 8vo. Vol. VIII. 1810. 

 Aenott's Physics. 2 Vols. 

 IsR. Clauderi Disputatio de Sale sub presidio Sagittarii. 



Jenae, 1650. 

 Crescent and the Cross. Vol. I. Third Edition. 

 MacKinnon's History of Civilisation. Vol. II. 1846. 

 Lite's Dodoens' Herbal. First Edition. (An imperfect copy to 



complete another.) 

 Turner's A Books of the Natures of the Bathes in 



England. lo(i8. (An imperfect copy to complete another.) 

 A Most Excellent and Perfecte Cornish Apothecary. 1661. 



(.4.n imperfect copy to complete another.) 



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Diabolus Gander. The enigma — 



" 'Twas whispered in heaven," &c. 

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JuvENis is in type, although, like many other articles, unavoidably 

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