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diffferent type from either of the four folio editions, a 

 circumstance, until the sale of this copy at Lord 

 Stuart de Rothesay's Library, totally undescribed by 

 bibliographers. !No copy of these verses is in the 

 British Museum, and the rarity of this leaf is pro- 

 bably to be accounted for by i'ts having been can- 

 celled as well as the title-page. The present leaf is 

 inlaid, and t^e initials B. J. are admirably supplied 

 in facsimile.' 



AsTiQUARiAK Mdsic. — An extremely curious col- 

 lection of antiquarian music was dispersed last week by 

 Messrs. Puttick & Simpson of Piccadilly. The library 

 comprised many curious volumes of old English songs, 

 dramatic music, works on dancing, madrigals, psalmodj', 

 and ritual books. Amongst them, in the first day's sale, 

 were the following, with the prices at which the}' sold : 

 Lot 103. A volume of Lutheran Tracts, the " Deudsche 

 Messe, 1526," with music, &c., 21. 107. Four Masses of 

 Orlando di Lasso, 21. IDs. 108. Bassan's Motetti, 1/. 14s. 

 118. Tigurini Musicfe Isagoge, II. 13s. 136. Claude Le 

 Jeune, Second Livre des Melanges, 1/. 19s. 174. Souter 

 Liedekens, 1540, This curious Roman Catholic Version 

 of the Psalms in Flemish Verse, adapted to secular tunes, 

 sold for 4Z. 2s. 175. Claude Le Jeune, Dodecacorde, 

 1598, 3?. 12s, Lots 212. to 221. Eleven volumes of choral 

 books, apparently from some Spanish convent, sold to- 

 gether for 13/. 13s. Some highly curious manuscript 

 music was sold on the same day. The last lot in the first 

 day's sale was the following : 



297. The Anvil and Hammer of Thomas Powell, black- 

 smith, with which he beat the accompaniment to the air 

 sung by him in the hearing of Handel, afterwards printed 

 in the Suites de Pieces, and subsequently called The Har- 

 monious Blacksmith. Mounted on an oak block, made 

 from a tree which formerly stood in Cannons Park, with 

 brass plate having an engraved inscription. It sold for 

 m. 5s. 

 An account of this interesting musical relic was printed 

 by the late Mr. Richard Clark, entitled " Reminis- 

 cences of Handel," &c., 1836. That it is a veritable 

 relic of Thomas Powell there is no good reason to 

 doubt ; what connexion it has with the air in ques- 

 tion is another matter. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Among a number of volumes on our table, we may 

 mention two which have long been waiting for our notice, 

 and both deserve to be favourably reported upon. Life's 

 Problems : Essays, Moral, Social, and Psychological, is a 

 little volume somewhat similar in character to Com- 

 panions of my Solitude. It would never perhaps have 

 been written but for the existence of that thoughtful and 

 charming volume ; but it has been so written as to de- 

 serve to rest on the shelves by the side of its excellent 

 prototype. Magdalen Stafford is a graceful story of the 

 class made so popular by Miss Sewell and Miss Yonge. 

 Like the fictions of those excellent writers, its tone is 

 healthy, its characters natural, while the plot which 

 serves for their development is well kept up. 



For reasons which will be sufficiently obvious to our 

 readers, we must content ourselves with recording the 

 publication of a work in which Photography and Litho- 

 graphy are combined to carry out the author's views 

 upon no less a mysterious subject than the Apocalypse. 

 It is a thin folio volume, devoted to the illustration and 

 explanation of the Seven Seals. Its title-page com- 

 mences as follows : Lithographs representing Photographs 

 of the Church of the First Born, as uncovered by the Sun 



of Righteousness to St. John in the Island of Patmos, §*c., 

 by Henry Lilley Smith, Surgeon, Southam. 



To Mr. Charles Duke Yonge, the well-known lexico- 

 grapher, we are indebted for a new sketch of our national 

 history. The History of England from the Earliest Times 

 to the Peace of Paris, 1856, has been undertaken by him 

 with the view of producing a condensed view of our his- 

 tory, in which should be introduced the results of the 

 many works upon the subject which have been produced 

 during the last few years. Another good and useful 

 feature is the Index, which is so arranged as to form a 

 Chronological Table of English History up to the present 

 time. 



Mr. Bohn having become possessed of the copyright of 

 Jesse's Court of England under the Stuarts, has com- 

 menced a cheap re-issue of it in five shilling volumes, as 

 the commencement of a new series of cheap historical 

 works. This series is to be called Bohn's Historical Li- 

 brary, and if well carried out will form a useful and valu- 

 able collection. The present work, of which we have 

 received the first and second volumes, is pleasant and 

 gossiping, and affords just such reading as suits the 

 country and the Bea-side at this season of universal 

 holiday. 



Mr. VVyld, always ready to supply the demand for geo- 

 graphical illustration of the politics of the day, has just 

 issued a large map of that country to which all eyes are 

 now turned, our Indian possessions ; and for those who 

 take even deeper interest than such map can satisfy, he 

 has issued a plan of Delhi and its neighbourhood. 



Mr. Chappell has just issued the tenth part of his most 

 amusing and agreeable work on the Popular Music of the 

 Olden Time. In this volume he concludes his account of 

 music during the Commonwealth, and commences his 

 narrative of its progress at the Restoration. This part 

 will yield to none of its predecessors in the number and 

 variety of the national melodies which are to be found in 

 it. Having touched on the subject of music, we must 

 chronicle the publication of Haydn's Seasons in Vocal 

 Score, with a separate Accompaniment for the Organ or 

 PianofoHe, arranged by Vincent Novello, as one of No- 

 vello's neat, cheap, and accurate octavo editions of the 

 works of the great masters. 



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