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NuNaUAM PERICLTJM, ETC. (2"^ S. ix. 446). 



Publ. Syrus, ed. Reinhold, 8vo. Anclara. 1838. 



E. M. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



N'arratives of the Days of the Reformation, chiefly from 

 the Manuscripts nf John Foxe, the Martyrologist, with Two 

 Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer. Edited 

 by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. (^Printed for the Camden 

 Society.) 



Be the defects of Foxe's Acts and Monuments what 

 they may; be the shortcomings of Strype's voluminous 

 contributions to our ecclesiastical history ever so mani- 

 fest, no one who values that Keformation to which, under 

 God's providence, we owe the freedom and purity of 

 our church, but must feel grateful both to Foxe and 

 Strype for the zeal and industry with which they have 

 accumulated the most valuable materials for the his- 

 tor3' of that eventful period. And if the more critical 

 spirit of the present day has proved to us that the docu- 

 ments printed by Str3'pe have been hastil}' transcribed 

 and imperfectly collated, and that Foxe, though a 

 laborious was not a very careful author, it is manifest 

 that Mr. John Gough Nichols is rendering a most 

 important service to the truth of history' by carefully 

 re-editing the original documents, which the earlier wri- 

 ters have given in an imperfect or inaccurate shape. 

 The Diary of Henry Machyn, published for the first time 

 in a complete form by the Camden Society some years 

 since under the editorship of Mr. John Gough Nichols, has 

 already assumed its place among the most valuable re- 

 cords which we possess in illustration of this stirring- 

 period of our history ; and the present volume, for which 

 the Camden Society is indebted to the same accomplished 

 antiquary, may be regarded as a farther instalment 

 towards a critical edition of the documents employed b}' 

 Foxe and Strype. The volume contains no less than 

 thirteen such documents, illustrated with all the industry 

 and intelligence which characterise Mr. Nichols's editor- 

 ship, and accompanied not only by a very full general 

 Index, but also by what is not less curious and neces- 

 sary', a Glossarial one ; so that our readers will think we 

 are not guilty of exaggeration when we pronounce The 

 • Narratives of the Days of the Reformation to be a volume 

 which at once increases the literary reputation of its 

 editor, and furnishes another instance of the services 

 •which the Camden Society is rendering to our Historical 

 Literature. 



The new number of The Quarterly Revieiv has two 

 articles on questions of social interest which will excite 

 • attention, — The Missing Link and The London Poor, 

 which treats of " Bible Women " as one of the means of 

 evangelising the very lowest stratum of society, and one 

 on TForkmen's Earnings and Savings. The biographical 

 articles, which generally form so marked a feature of the 

 Quarterly, are in the present number Joseph Scaliger and 

 Ary Scheffer. That great puzzle to antiquaries. Stone- 

 henge, forms the subject of a paper in which the Buddhist 

 origin of that mysterious pile is contended for. With 

 Darwin's Origin of Species the Reviewer has " much and 

 grave fault to find;" but not so with The Conservative 

 Reaction, the evidences of which form the subject of the 

 political article of the present excellent number, the last, 

 it is said, which is to appear under the editorship of Mr. 

 Elwin. 



Books Received. — 



The Reliquary. A Depoiitory for Precious Relics, Le- 

 gendary, Biographical, and Historical. No. L July, 1860. 



To be continued Quarterly. Edited by Llewellvnn Jewitt, 

 F.S.A. Derby. 



Dedicated to the illustration of the Habits, Customs, 

 and Pursuits of our Forefathers, more particularly as 

 connected with the County of Derby, but calculated to 

 please Antiquaries of all counties. 



Memoirs of Celebrated Characters. By Alphonse de 

 Lamartine. New Edition. (Bentley.) 



The words new edition justify us in dismissing this 

 little volume with a reminder to our readers that it con- 

 tains sketches of Nelson, Columbus, Milton, William Tell, 

 Bossuet, and Oliver Cromwell, from the eloquent pen of 

 Lamartine. 



A Comprehensive Index of Names of Original Authors 

 and Translators of Psalms and Hymns, with the Dates of 

 their various Works. By Daniel Sedgwick. 



A verj' copious and interesting list. ' * 



A Description and Draught of a New-invented Machine 

 for carrying Vessels or Ships out of or into any Harbour, 

 Port, or River, against Wind and Tide or in a Calm. By 

 Jonathan Hulls. (Spon.) 



Messrs. Spon have done good service by the reprint of 

 this rare work on the historj' of steam navigation. 



Canterbury in the Olden Time, from the Municipal Ar- 

 chives and other Sources. By John Brett, F.S.A, (Bell 

 & Daldy.) 



The readers of " N. & Q." need not be reminded of the 

 good account to which Mr. Brett has turned the archives 

 of his native city. The present is a pleasant gossipy little 

 volume. 



The Spectator, by Addison and Steele. A Revised Edi- 

 tion, with Explanatory Notes and a General Index. Parts 

 IX. X. XI. and XIT. (Routledge & Co.) 



We must content ourselves with chronicling the ap- 

 pearance of these Parts. 



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