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equally efficacious In conferring distinction on the cor- 

 responding words in that language, should we not deem 

 it a great treasure, and be eager to obtain a marked 

 ■copy, esteeming it next to hearing the words in the 

 tone adopted by Our Lord and His Apostles ? Yet 

 something of this kind is offered to our notice in the 

 present work ; without altering the expression, it often 

 makes the meaning clearer ; it adds certainty to many 

 readings, which before could only be founded on con- 

 jecture; and it may altogether be considered as a kind 

 of running commentary of no less authority than the 

 original text." 



We have received the first Part of Mr. Akerman's 

 Remains of Pagan Saxondom, which contains engrav- 

 ings of some beautiful Personal Ornaments from a Bar- 

 row near Devizes ; of a Gold Buckle found at Ickworth, 

 Suffolk ; and of the curious Glass Vase found at Recul- 

 ver, now preserved in the Canterbury Museum. The 

 price of the Part, half-a-crown to subscribers, is ap- 

 parently a high one ; but it must be remembered that 

 all the objects are represented of their natural size, so 

 that the plates become in some measure a substitute 

 for the antiquities themselves. 



The Society of Antiquaries having, on the ballot 

 taken on Thursday week, adopted the proposal to 

 return to the old rate of subscription, we can only 

 hope that all parties — those who so strenuously and 

 honestly advocated the measure, and those who as 

 strenuously and as honestly opposed it — will now meet 

 on the common principle by which both were actuated, 

 a desire to promote the well-being of the Society, 

 and co-operate in bringing forward those judicious 

 reforms, without which the present step would only be 

 a delusion. 



We are very glad to find, from the recently pub- 

 lished Report of the Commissioners appointed to in- 

 quire and report concerning the ancient laws and 

 institutes of Ireland, that Lord Eglintoun, the present 

 Xord Lieutenant of Ireland, has recommended to the 

 Treasury the immediate publication of the Brehon 

 Laws. In a very interesting letter from Dr. Jacob 

 Grimm, which is appended to the Commissioners' 

 Report, he well describes the benefits which will result 

 from this measure of justice to the literature of Ireland. 

 " To the historians and philologists of Europe," ob- 

 serves Dr. Grimm, *' a valuable and important monu- 

 ment of Irish antiquity remains as yet shut up. It is 

 only suitable to the dignity of the Irish and British 

 nation to effect the publication of the Brehon Laws, as 

 has been already accomplished in the case of the laws 

 of Wales." 



After this mention of Irish antiquities, we may 

 remind such of our readers as may be desirous of pro- 

 moting the very praiseworthy objects of The Kilkenny 

 Archmohgical Society, that they may still be supplied 

 ■with complete copies of its Transactions upon payment 

 of the four years' subscription ; and we scarcely know 

 how they could better employ twenty shillings. 



Books Received. — Sketches in Canada, and Rambles 

 ■among the Red Men, by Mrs. Jameson, which forms 

 two Parts of Longman's Traveller's Library, is a re- 

 print, with the omission of all that was of a merely 

 transient or merely personal nature, or that has become 

 obsolete in politics or criticisoi, of this accomplished 



writer's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. 

 This graphic work will supply pleasant reading for a 

 railway journey, and not be hastily thrown aside 



when the journey and its perusal are completed The 



Valiant Little Tailor, and other Stories; forming the 

 second Part of the very satisfactory translation of 

 Grimm's Household Stories, which Addey and Co. are 

 publishing, with admirable illustrations by Wehnert,, 

 for the especial delight and gratification of all " Good 

 Little Masters and Mistresses." 



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