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ercise of the matchlock musket and rest, and of 

 the pistol for ca\ airy of the same period. 



F. A. Carbington. 

 Ogbourne St. George. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



So great has been the interest excited by the exhibition 

 of the extraordinary collection of portraits of Mary Queen 

 of Scots now assembled in the rooms of the Archaeological 

 Institute, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, and which was to 

 have closed this day, that we believe it will be kept open 

 for a few da}-s longer. We had hoped bj' this time to 

 have been able to lay before our readers some details of 

 this very interesting historical collection, in which are to 

 be found, not only some hundreds of portraits, paintings, 

 and engravings of the unfortunate Mary, but also many 

 personal reliques of the highest interest — such as the 

 enamelled rosary formerly belonging to her, and now the 

 property of Mr. Howard of Corby — and the veil said to 

 have been worn by her on the morning of her execution. 



Acting under the belief that the history of enslaved 

 Greece is one well deserving the attention of the states- 

 man and the political economist — since Greece under 

 the government of the Byzantine emperors affords an in- 

 structive example of the great power that scientific ad- 

 ministrative arrangements exert on the political existence 

 and material prosperity of a nation, even when the go- 

 vernment is neither supported by popular sympathies, 

 nor invigorated by the impulse of national sympathies, — 

 Mr. Finlay has devoted himself to the long and arduous 

 task of narrating such history. The success which has re- 

 warded his labours is shown in the fact that we have now 

 before us a second edition of the first of the five volumes 

 which he has devoted to this subject. Greece under the 

 Romans ; a Historical View of the Condition of the Greek 

 Nation from its Conquest by the Romans until the Extinction 

 of the Roman Power in the East, B.C. CXLVI. to a.d. dccxvi., 

 as it is entitled, well deserves the attention of the his- 

 torical student who is desirous of knowing what has been 

 the political condition of this great nation under its 

 different masters. 



It was the boast of Falstaff that he was not only witty 

 himself, but the cause of wit in others. Did the fat 

 knight make this boast in a prophetic spirit, anticipating 

 that there would appear in the nineteenth century The 

 Life of Sir John Falstaff, illustrated by George Cruik- 

 Shank, with a Biography of the Knight from Authentic 

 Sources by Robert B. Brough, Esq. This question the 

 reader may solve for himself: we must content ourselves 

 with chronicling the appearance of the first two Parts of 

 this illustrated Biography, and declaring that George 

 Cruikshank was never more Cruikshankish than in the 

 work before us. Can we say more. 



Mr. Pettigrew has just published, in Bohn's Antiquarian 

 Library, a volume which will interest many readers. It 

 is entitled Chronicles of the Tombs; a Select Collection of 

 Epitaphs, preceded by ayi Essay on Epitaphs and other 

 Monumental Inscriptions, with Incidental Observations on 

 Sepulchral Antiquities, by T. J. Pettigrew, P'.R.S., F.S.A. 

 Mr. Pettigrew well observes that — "though Time cor- 

 rodes our Epitaphs, and buries our very Tombstones" — 

 the number remaining is so numerous as to make the task 

 of selection a difficult one. Equally' difficult is the task 

 of arrangement ; but the book, in which the reader will 

 find much gossiping information pleasantly interspersed, 

 is made particularly useful by an Indes of the names of 

 those whose epitaphs are recorded in it. 



We have for some time intended to call attention to a 

 clever and most praiseworthy attempt to make our friends 

 on the other side of the Channel acquainted with the 

 poetic talents of Geoffrey Chaucer. To the Chevalier de 

 Chatelain, the translator into French of Gay's Fables, is 

 due the credit of being the first to translate into " French 

 of Paris" any of the writings of that quaint humourist and 

 true poet. His first Essay was La Fleur et La Feuille, Poems, 

 avec le Texte Anglais en regard, traduit en Vers Frangais 

 de Geoffrey Chaucer : and the success which has attended 

 this short work has tempted him to the bolder task of 

 translating the Canterbury Tales; and we have now be- 

 fore us Contes de Cantorbery, Traduits en Vers Frangais de 

 Geoffrey Chaucer, par Le Chevalier de Chatelain, Vol. I. 

 The work, as a mere literary curiosity, is deserving of 

 some attention ; but it has also in the skill exhibited by 

 the translator yet higher claims to notice. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Divine Inversiox, oa A View of the Character of God as in all re- 

 spects opposEo TO THE CHARACTER OF Man. By David Thotn, now 

 D.D. 8vo. 1842. Three copies. 



T. Boston's Memoirs. 



Riccai.toun's Rkply to Sandeman. 1759,orl761. 



D. S. Wylfe's Essay on the Kingdom of Christ. Paisley, 1797. 



BuRNSv's History op Ancient Music. 



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Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent direct to 

 the gentlemen by wtiom tliey are required, aud whose uuinea aad ad- 

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Library op Entertaining Knowledge : — 

 " Insect Architecture." 

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Shakspeare's Works. Malone'a Edition. ByBosweU. 1821. 21 Vols. 

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Lord Siranoford's Translation op the Lusiad of Camobns. 

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fiiiiitti to (S,oxvti^a\\titn{i. 



We are compelled to postpoTK until our next IVo, many articles of great 

 interest which are in type. 



Padl Pry's Qlkry would, if published, we fear do what the writer 

 does not intend, — give offence. We shall probably be able to answer it. 



The Index to the Volome just completed is at press, and V/ttl be 

 ready for delivery on Saturday the iSth instant. 



Barham, who has sent us a JVote and a Query about Cobham Jtas, we 

 hope, by this time regretted the palpable and wilful misstatement which 

 forms the subject of his communication. 



Excelsior , who writes respecting Bank of England Notes of a million 

 sterling, is referred to our 1st S. xii. 325. 36(i. 392. 



R. SwANzcsr. The Historie of Xenophon, by John Bingham, is priced 

 in Lowndes at bs, and 12s. 



G. D. S. For some notices oj Uriel, see Milton's Paradise Lost, book 

 iii. 1. 618. 654. 690. j iv. 125. 555. 577. 589. i vl. 363. ; ix. f». 



R. Inolu. See any biographical dictionary for an account of Sir Ed-* 

 ward Sherburne, the poet; also Johnson and Chalmers's English Poets, 



and Gent. Mag., vol. Ixvi A notice of William Cockin is given in the 



Gene. Mag. for June, 180 1 , p. 575. ( there is also a biographical sketch q/" 

 him prefixed to his Rural Sabbath, and other Poems, l2mo. 1805. 



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