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as to induce him to furnish us with other illustrations 

 of the history of the North. 



If ever mortal man was a hero to his valet de cham- 

 bre, such was the " Great Cardinal" to his gentleman 

 usher Master George Cavendish ; and to this fact and 

 the reverent spirit which pervades his narration, may 

 tlie great popularity of Cavendish's Life of Wolsey be 

 in a great measure ascribed. Few biographies have 

 been perused with greater interest ; few have exercised 

 the editorial skill of better scholars. Dr. Wordsworth, 

 Mr. Singer, and Mr. Hunter, have all displayed their 

 learning and ingenuity in its illustration ; and we 

 have been led into these remarks by the receipt of a 

 new and very handsomely printed edition, which has 

 just been published by Messrs. Rivington, and which 

 has been edited by Mr. Holmes of the British Museum. 

 Mr. Holmes' name is a sufficient guarantee for the 

 manner in which that duty has been executed. 



We learn from The AthencBum of Saturday last that 

 the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen, 

 whose works illustrative of the early history both of 

 Greenland and America are known to many of our 

 readers, are about to publish a new edition of the 

 Orkneyinga Saga, and sundry old Northern fragments 

 relative to Great Britain and Ireland ; and in the 

 prosecution of this important and useful object they 

 are desirous of having the assistance and co-operation 

 of the scholars and antiquaries of this country. Anti- 

 quaries find favour in the North, for The Times reports 

 that the general yearly meeting of this Society was held 

 on the 2oth of February at the Christiansborg Palace, 

 Copenhagen, his Majesty the King of Denmark in the 

 chair. The secretary, Professor C. Rafn, read the re- 

 port of transactions for the last year, and gave a precis 

 of the articles in the forthcoming archajological works 

 of the Society. The printing and engravings of the 

 second volume of the great work, Antiquites Russes et 

 Orientales, are now nearly completed. The learned 

 professor exhibited four Icelandic planispheres and 

 Hiaps of the world, from the twelfth and thirteenth 

 centuries, and made some observations on the geograph- 

 ical and astronomical knowledge of the ancient Scan- 

 dinavians. The second volume of the Arna-Magnean 

 Committee's edition of Snorro Sturleson's, or the Younger 

 Edda, was also nearly finished, and preparations were 

 being made for the publication of an Icelandic Diplo- 

 maticum. His Majesty the King exhibited a remark- 

 able collection of antiquities of the bronze period dis- 

 covered at Smorumorre, evidently belonging to a 

 workshop for the fabrication of such implements, and 

 clearly proving that bronze weapons, &c. had been 

 made in Denmark. On the characteristics of this 

 collection His Majesty was graciously pleased to de- 

 liver some very interesting observations. Professor 

 Wegener, Vice-President, read an able memoir on the 

 history of the old castles of Soborg and Adserbo, in the 

 north of Iceland. The Archaological Committee 

 exhibited a collection of articles discovered at Anhalt 

 (in the Cattegat) which belonged to a workshop for the 

 manufacture of stone implements, on which Mr. Thomsen 

 made some useful remarks. The museum was in a 

 flourishing state. There had been 148 donations re- 

 ceived and 761 presentations of antiquities. The pro- 

 ceedings were closed by the election of Victor Emanuel, 



King of Sardinia, and his Royal Highness Prince 

 Albert of Saxe Cohurg Gotha, as fellows of the Society. 

 Books Received. — The French in England, or Both 

 Sides of the Question on Both Sides of the Channel, being 

 the Story of the Emperor Napoleons projected Invasion. 

 A brilliant, we might say eloquent, description of the 

 feeling which ran through the whole length and breadth 

 of the land when Napoleon's threats of invasion drew 

 from the united nation, as with the voice of one man, 

 the declaration that " England never did, and never 

 shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror ! " In this 

 picture of the past we have a prophecy of the future, 

 if the peace of Europe should be again disturbed, and 

 any attempt be made to renew the project of 1803. 

 We do not think this likely; but to secure Peace we 

 must be prepared for War : and he who, in the present 

 aspect of affairs, would bid us disarm, must be or fool, 

 or traitor, or both. — Memoirs of the late Thomas Hol- 

 croft, written by himself, and continved to the time of his 

 Death, from his Diary, Notes, and Correspondence, forms 

 the new parts of The Traveller's Library, and gives an 

 interesting variety to this valuable series. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Hallebi (A.) Elementa Physiologi.e Corporis Humani. 



8 Vols. 4to. Lansannae and Lugd. Batav. 1757-6G. Vol. III. 

 Raccolta Di Opusculi SciENTiFici, &€., dal Padre Calogera. 



Venezia, 1728-57. 

 Povvnall's Treatise on the Study op Antiquities. London, 



1782. 8vo. 

 The Whole Dcty of a Christian, by Way of Question and 



Answer : designed for the Use of Charity Schools. By Hobert 



Nelson, 1718. 

 Quarterly Review. No?. 153. to IGG., both inclusive. 

 Bell's Fugitive Poetry Collection. Vols. X. and XVI. 12mo. 



1790. 

 The Critic, London Literary Journal. First r, Nos. for 1851. 

 Voltaire, OEuvres Complhtes de. Aux Deux-Ponts. Chez 



Sanson et Corapagiiie. Vols. I. & II. 1791-2. 

 Scott's Continuation of Milner's Chubch History. Part II. 



of Vol. II. 8vo. 

 Spectator. No. 1223. Dec. 6, 1851. 

 Kdwin and Emma. Taylor, 177fi. 



Annual Register, from 1816 inclusive to the present time. 

 Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. From Part II. of Vol. XI. 



March, 1819 ; and also from Vol. XXX. 

 The Code Matrimonial. Paris, 1770. 

 Pro Matrimonio Principis cum defunct* uxoris sorore con- 



tbacto responsum Juris, Collegii Jurisconsultorum in 



Academia Rintelensi. Published about 16.i5. 

 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 Truls. 8vo. Vol. VIII. 1810. 

 IsR. Clauderi Disputatio de Sale sub pr^esidio Sagittarii. 



Jense, 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 



ciimplete another.) 

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



England. I.i68. (An imperfect copy to complete another.) 

 A Most Excellent and Perfecte Cornish Apothecary. 1561. 



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

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 to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of " NOTES AND 

 QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. 



Suffolk Biblical and Theological Library, Ipswich. Will 

 any of our Ipswich correspundents favour us with a copy of the 

 prospectus cf this institution, and the Names of any qf tkeciergi/ 



