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sary Euridition for any Christian Man, 1543, 21. 10». 

 Also, by tho same auctioneers, on Wednesday : — Lot 12. 

 Present State of New England, a folio Tract, 1676, 31. 3s. 

 13. Continuation of the State of New England, 21. 10s. 



15. New and Further Narrative of New England, 3/. 5. 



16. Account of the War between the Indians and the Eng- 

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There is no greater characteristic of the English than 

 their fondness for Natural History. In many this is 

 merely developed in their extraordinary love of Field 

 Sports, while in others it is developed in their tendency 

 to find " good in everything " that lives, moves, or 

 breathes, or rather, in everything that manifests the wis- 

 dom and goodness of the Great Creator. Hence the 

 favour with which all works on Natural History are 

 received bj' the reading world ; and when the authors 

 contrive to combine, like White, to throw their scientific 

 dissertations into an interesting form, there is little limit 

 to the favour of the public. An instance of this is now 

 before us in the third edition, revised and improved, of 

 Zoological Recreations, by AV. J. Broderip, Esq., F. R. S., 

 a work which almost rivals The History of Selborne in 

 some of its most charming peculiarities, while it occa- 

 sionally displays, in addition, touches of quaint humour, 

 which add greatly to the pleasure of the reader. 



Celtic Literature is clearly increasing in favour with 

 the literary public. A few weeks since, we called atten- 

 tion to a volume published by the Ossianic Society — a 

 Society obviously little known: for our notice of the 

 book brought us many inquiries as to how it was to be 

 procured. We have now before us two new volumes of 

 a cognate nature. The first of these is a small volume, 

 consisting of translations of ancient Irish Poems on the 

 subject of the Fenian Heroes and their Exploits. It is 

 entitled. Poems of Oisin, Sard of Erin; the Battle of 

 Ventry Harbour, §-c., from the Irish, by J. Hawkins 

 Simpson, and will be a welcome addition to the libraries 

 of all who are interested in the remains of the Celtic 

 races, once spread over the face of these islands. This 

 may be said, and still more emphatically, of the second 

 and larger volume, which is entitled Taliesin, or the Bards 

 and Druids of Britain ; a T'ranslation of the Remains of 

 the Earliest Welsh Bards, and an Examination of the 

 Bardic Mysteries ; by D. W. Nash, Member of the Royal 

 Society of Literature. The author's modest and unassum- 

 ing preface is well calculated to prejudice the reader in 

 favour of a work which has been undertaken and com- 



pleted under the circumstances there described ; and we 

 hope that our friends in the principality will not be 

 offended with us, if we assert that, in our opinion, it is an 

 advantage that the author is not a Welshman. He can- 

 not be suspected of national prejudices, and his state- 

 ments will consequently be received with less doubt. 

 The book is a very sensible one. The subject is one on 

 which the literary world is still very much in want of 

 that trustworthy information, which Mr. Nash's labours 

 go far to supply. The work must, therefore, be regarded 

 as a valuable contribution to the history of our early 

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