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[No. 245. 



claimed, he might shelter himself under the plea of 

 villenage." 



Serfage ceased in the reign of Elizabeth. There 

 ■were, however, some solitary instances later : the 

 last instance of villenage is recorded in the reign 

 of James I. Your correspondent will find much 

 valuable information on this interesting subject in 

 Blackstone's Commentaries (vol. ii. book ii. c. 6.), 

 and in Hallam's Middle Ages (vol. i. p. 145., and 

 vol. ii. p. 302., 9th edit., 1846). 



F. M. MiDDLETON. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Messrs. Blackwood have published a continuation of 

 Mr. Finlay's valuable contribution to our knowledge of 

 Byzantine history; it is entitled History of the Byzantine 

 and Greek Empires, from MLVIIto MCCCCLIII, by 

 George Finlav, and forms the second and concluding vo- 

 lume of the work. In this the author treats of the de- 

 cline and fall of the Byzantine government, and of the 

 Greek empires of Nicsea and Constantinople ; and he has 

 in these, as in his preceding labours, made constant re- 

 ference to the original historians, in order to make the 

 work not only useful as a popular history, but also as an 

 index to scholars, who may be more familiar with classical 

 literature than with the Byzantine writers. 



Mr. F. A. Neale never having been able, as he tells us 

 in his preface, to meet with a connected history of Is- 

 lamism, which uninterruptedly treated of the reigns of 

 the Saracen caliphs in the East, in North Africa, and 

 Spain, down to the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, or 

 following its growth upwards into the reign of Abdul- 

 Medjid, endeavoured to form a compilation from diflferent 

 authors, treating at different dates of the separate do- 

 minions of Islatnism in the east and west ; and the result 

 is a couple of very readable volumes, under the title of 

 Islamism, its Rise and its Progress, or the Present and Past 

 Condition of the Turks. The publication is well-timed, 

 and no doubt Mr. Neale will receive the thanks of many 

 readers. 



Books Received. — Diary and Letters of Madame 

 VArblay, Vol VII., which concludes this pleasant gos- 

 siping book; rich in pictures of the men and manners 

 of "those good times when George the Third was 

 king." — Logic, or the Science of Inference, a Systematic 

 View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of 

 Inference in the various Departments of Human Know- 

 ledge, by Joseph Deve.v, is the new volume of Bohn's 

 Philological Library. — Poetical Works of William Cowper, 

 Vol ill., with Selections from the Works of Robert Lloyd, 

 Nathaniel Cotton, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Da>win, and 

 William Hayley, the new volume of the Annotated Edition 

 of the English Poets, edited by Robert Bell. The selec- 

 tions wliich complete this volume give an interest as well 

 as novelty to this collection of our poets, and will, we 

 doubt not, be very generally approved. — Schamyl, the 

 Sultan, Warrior, and Prophet of the Caucasus, the new 

 number of Tlie Traveller's Library, is a judicious com- 

 pilation from the German of Wagner and Bodenstedt.— 

 Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes Strickland, 

 Vol. Vll., is occupied with a Biography of Mary, the 

 Consort of William III., who is treated by Miss Strickland 

 ■with great harshness. 



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