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they must indeed be hard to please. The first of these, 

 Boldon Buke, a Survey of the Possessions of the See of 

 Durham, made by Order of Bishop Hugh Pudsey, in the 

 Fear 1183. With a Translation, an Appendix of Ori- 

 ginal Documents, and a Glossary, by the Rev, W. Green- 

 well, — is by the Editor very justly described as "the 

 Domesday of the Palatinate ; " and its importance to the 

 historical inquirer, whether he be interested in the 

 nature of early tenures, the descent" of property, or the 

 social conditions of the tenants, in whatever rank, of 

 that day, can indeed scarcely be overrated. It was com- 

 piled at the Feast of St. Cuthbert, in Lent in the year 

 1133, by order of Hugh Pudsey, the then Bishop of 

 Durham, and is a description of the revenues of the 

 bishopric, and an enumeration of the settled rents and 

 customs renderable to the bishop, as they stood fixed at 

 the time of its compilation. The original MS. is not 

 now known to exist, and the work before us has been 

 printed from a copy preserved in the Auditors' Office 

 in the Exchequer at Durham, compared with one in 

 the Registrum Primum of the Dean and Chapter, and 

 another in the Bodleian. The work has been edited 

 with great care, and been rendered doubly useful by 

 its translation and carefully compiled Glossary. — The 

 second book is altogether of a different character, being 

 a Biography of the learned and accomplished gentle- 

 man in honour of whose memory the society was 

 founded. It is entitled A Memoir of Robert Surtees, 

 Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Author of the History of the County 

 Palatine of Durham ; by George Taylor, Esq. : a new 

 edition, with Additions, by the Rev. James Raine, &c., 

 and exhibits a delightful picture of the life of an anti- 

 quary of the right sort. With the true feelings of a 

 gentleman, and the education of a scholar, imagination 

 and fancy enough for a poet, a hearty relish for old 

 English humour, and all these good qualities leavened 

 throughout by the genuine spirit of real Christian 

 benevolence, it is little wonder that Robert Surtees 

 gained the love and esteem of all who knew him — from 

 Reginald Heber and Walter Scott, down to every hard- 

 handed husbandman who dwelt round Mainsforth. 

 Mr. Surtees' magnificent history of his native county 

 sufficiently attests his zeal, industry, and historical 

 acquirements ; but the present volume, in giving us 

 the picture «f the author of that work, paints the man, 

 and in so doing explains why the Surtees Society was 

 called into existence. 



Books Received. — Bohn's Standard Library has 

 this month been enriched by two volumes. The first — 

 Memorials of Christian Life in the Early and Middle 

 Ages, including his Lights in Dark Places, by Dr. Au- 

 gustus Neander — is a further translation by Mr. 

 Ryland of the writings of this eminent continental 

 divine. The second is Frederika Bremer's Works — The 

 Neighbours, a Story of Every-day Life, and other Tales, 

 viz. Hopes, The Twins, The Solitary, The Comforter, 

 A Letter about Suppers, Trdlinnan, translated by Mary 

 Howitt, who has carefully corrected them by the latest 

 Swedish edition, and must be well pleased at the 

 success which has attended her introduction of Fre- 

 derika Bremer to the reading public of England. The 

 second and concluding volume of Kirhy's Bridgewater 

 Treatise On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, 

 as manifested in the Creation of Animals, and in their 



Histwy, Habits, and Instincts, edited with notes by 

 Professor Rymer Jones — is the new volume of the 

 Scientific Library ; and it would be difficult to find a 

 book more fit to be a country companion during this 

 season of sea- shore rambling and country musings. 

 All who are about to sojourn for a while far from the 

 busy haunts of men will do well to adopt our advice, 

 and put these two volumes into their portmanteau ; 

 we shall be sure of their thanks. Mr. Bohn has also 

 added two volumes to his Classical Library : namely, 

 a fourth volume of Cicero's Orations, translated by 

 Mr. Younge; and the first volume of The Comedies of 

 Plautus literally translated into English Prose, with Notes 

 by Mr. Riley, a work which promises to be of con- 

 siderable interest and merit. 



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