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Exhibition, as thit the books We hare Wferted to will 

 Tbecome Handbooks to such an Exhibition. ^These re- 

 marks have been called from us by another work of 

 similar character, just issued by the same iirm. The Early 

 Flemish Painters, their Works and Arts, by J. A, Crowe 

 and G. B. Cavalcaselle. The Flemish School has loiig 

 been a great favourite in England ; and a work dSvOted 

 to its history, in which the researches of continental 

 inquirers are combined with the results of the personal 

 inspection by the authors of all the great pictures belong- 

 ing to this School, cannot fail to be welcome to the art- 

 loving public of this country. 



Under the title of a Library of Old Authors, Mr. Rttssell 

 Smith has commenced an extensive series of reprints of 

 the best productions of our early literature. If all the 

 volumes are as well selected and carefully edited as one 

 now before us, the work will not onl}' be creditable and 

 profitable to Mr. Smith, but a real boon to the lovers of 

 old English books. It is entitled The Miscellaneous 

 Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, 

 Knight, 710W first collected ; edited, with Notes, and a Bio- 

 graphical Account of the Author, by Edward F. Rimbault, 

 LL.D. It is of course unnecessary to say a word as to 

 the propriety and advantage of collecting together the 

 works of the accomplished author of The Wife — in that 

 no mean poet — and of The Characters — in that a yet 

 more excellent prose writer — for his English is English, 

 nervous, and manly. While those who remember the 

 care and industry with which Dr. Rimbault has alwaj'S 

 illustrated any reprints he has undertaken, will riot re- 

 quire one word from as as to the able manner in which 

 he has executed his task upon the present occasion. 



We must dismiss with a few words two t'olumes of an 

 antiquarian character which are waiting for our notice. 

 The lirst, Hie Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland, 

 by R. Ferguson, is the substance of a popular lecture ad- 

 dressed to a Cumberland audience on the leading facts 

 contained in Worsaae's Danes and Norwegians in Eng- 

 land, and a volume well calculated to interest the men of 

 Cumberland. The fiext is one to interest Cornish men, 

 more particularly at the present time, when a proposition 

 has been advanced, and seriously entertained, of reviving 

 their ancient bishoprick. Its object is sufficiently shown 

 .by its title, The Anglo- Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall, with 

 some Account of the Bishops qf Crediton, by E. H. Pedler, 

 Esq. 



Lady Wallace, to whom out ybuthful readeM Were laSt 

 year indebted for the pretty tale of Princess Use, has this 

 Christmas gathered for them a companion volume quite 

 equal, if not superior, to Princess Use. It is entitled 

 Voices from the Greenwood, and we are so pleased with 

 their echo, as caught by Lady Wallace, that we can 

 hardly bring ourselves to say what we ought to say. In 

 what forests of Germany or Denmark was Lady Wallace 

 wandering when she heard them ? 



Success to the Photographic Society! Success to its 

 active and intelligent Secretary ! Success to King's Col- 

 lege ! In the great hall of the latter, by the energy of the 

 second, and the contributipns of the Societ}' itself, an ex- 

 hibition was formed which, on Wednesday evening, was 

 thronged by all the notables of literature and science in 

 the metropolis, and graced by the presence of crowds of 

 elegant women. When will some of our older Societies 

 see the wisdom of following this sensible example? 



Hotten, the bookseller of Piccadillj', seeing the interest 

 just now taken in Pope, has issued a Catalogue, in whicb 

 will be found a curious list of books illustrative of the 

 life and writings of the poet ; and some Adversaria, touch- 

 ing those and other points of literary interest. While on 

 the subject of Catalogues, we may also call attention to 

 the valuable Catalogue of Autographs lately issued by 

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