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based in some measure on the great works of Schrock and 

 Plank, Mr. Riddle has given " a plain but sufficient ac- 

 count of those events and circumstances which, under 

 Divine permission, contributed to place or maintain eccle- 

 siastical Rome in the position which she occupied with 

 relation to European societj- and governments, during the 

 growth of her power, and at the period of its height : " 

 and by making his work a political historj% and not a 

 theological one, he has added greatly to its interest and 

 made it what he wished, one well calculated for popular 

 reading. 



The good report which we made of the first volume of 

 Mr. Peter Cunningham's excellent edition of Johnson's 

 Lives of the Poets, is fiilly justified by the second, which 

 is just as rich in its " Xotes, corrective and explanatory," 

 as the first. Gay appears to be an especial favourite of 

 the editor ; and the numerous additions which, in the 

 unassuming shape of notes, he has made to Johnson's 

 biography of him, are among the most interesting and 

 valuable of his contributions to a work which will cer- 

 tainly prove one of the most important of Mr. Murray's 

 series of British Classics. 



In adding to his Antiquarian Library a one-volume 

 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian ; the 

 Translation of Marsden revised, loith a Selection of his 

 Notes, by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., Mr. Bohn has 

 done much to increase the value as well as to give variety 

 to the collection. The popularity of these Travels has 

 been European ; and in the present edition, judiciously 

 entrusted to Mr. Wright, whose acquaintance with me- 

 diaeval literature peculiarly fit him for its superintendence, 

 advantage has been taken of f:everal critical editions 

 which have appeared since Marsden's time. The present 

 may therefore well be considered the best as well as the 

 cheapest English edition of Marco Polo. 



The admirers of Milton will be glad to learn that Mr. 

 Keightley is about to print his long -projected "Account 

 of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton, with 

 an Introduction to Paradise Lost" 



Books Received. — The Inner Life of the House of 

 Commons, by J. N. Spellen, a reprint from the Illustrated 

 London News of a well-arranged notice of the House, its 

 forms of procedure, &c. — The Poetical Worhs of Edmund 

 Waller, edited by Robert Bell. Tiiis reprint of the writings 

 of the fruitless suitor of Saccharissa is a pleasant contri- 

 bution to the Annotated Edition of the British Poets. — 

 Chesterfield and Selwyn, by A. Hayward. These chatty 

 articles, which originally appeared in the Edinburgh 

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