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cared only for the dry bones of antiquity. It was Mr. Foss's 

 ill fortune that in them he had to deal really with names, 

 only. He has now to treat of men : men, too, whose 

 reputations (or at least a large proportion of them) have 

 long been familiar to us as household words — and lie has 

 warmed with his subject. In his earlier volumes he had 

 to deal with judges whose very names had to be sought 

 out of obscure records: in these he treats of some of the 

 most distinguished men that ever donned the ermine. 

 With such judges to treat of as Wolsey, Wriottesley, 

 Ellesmere, Sir Thomas More and his father. Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon and his son, the great Lord Verulam, Sir Christo- 

 pher Hatton, Sir Julius Caesar, Coke, and many others of 

 almost equal eminence, it would have been strange in- 

 deed had Mr. Foss's new volumes been other than what 

 they are, — two of the most important contributions to 

 legal , biography and the history of English legal proce- 

 dure which have ever been produced. 



Mr. Thackeray has at length broken silence, and given 

 to the world the first instalment of a new story. The 

 Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century, bids fair to rival 

 in popularity any of its predecessors, although it has not 

 the advantage, and that a very obvious one, of relating to 

 the men and manners of the present day. 



The admirers of the writings of Mr. Charles Dickens, 

 in which, as in all great works, the humorous and the 

 pathetic strive for the mastery, will be glad to hear 

 that a new and complete Library Edition of his works is 

 about to appear. This edition will comprise twenty-two 

 monthly volumes, beautifully printed in post octavo, and 

 careful!}' revised by the author, the first of which will 

 be issued in January next. 



Mr. Bentley has just added to his cheap series of copy- 

 right works reprints of the late lamented Major Warbur- 

 ton's popular history of The Conquest of Canada, and of one 

 of Shirley Brooks' amusing novels, Aspen Court, a Story of 

 Our Time. The lovers of wit and humour will be glad to 

 learn that the same publisher is prepared to give them, 

 in a neat five shilling volume, a new edition of The In- 

 goldshy Legends, and as a companion volume a selection 

 of the best ballads from his Miscellany, under the title of 

 The Bentley Ballads. These will be edited by Dr. Doran, 

 himself a contributor to the volume. We have heard, 

 too, that the same house is about to issue an important 

 volume on the subject of Eeforra, from the pen of Earl 

 Grey. 



At the late meeting of the Philological Society, Dean 

 Trench read a paper in which he developed his ideas as 

 to the improvements called for in English Lexicography. 

 The subject is an important one, and was treated, we un- 

 derstand, by the Dean in a way to render the early publi- 

 cation of his views a thing much to be desired. 



We hear with deep surprise — to use the mildest term — 

 that another General Meeting has been called by the 



Surrey Archaeological Society to consider the propriety of 

 what now must be considered " intruding " into Kent. 

 Kent has at this moment a Society of its own, consisting 

 of some 320 members. Surely the Surrey antiquaries 

 would do wisely then to leave the Men of Kent to work 

 out the Archaeology of their own county, and employ 

 themselves in completing their own obvious and peculiar 

 work. The energy and capital spent in this endeavour 

 to hang Kent on to Surrey would nearly have sufficed to 

 produce another part of the Transactions of the Surrey 

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