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from the earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe 

 and the Wends ; and if we cannot agree with all the 

 views advocated by Dr. Bell (and ire think a want of 

 arrangement in his materials in many cases weakens 

 his argument), we cheerfully admit that they are main- 

 tained with considerable ingenuity, great learning, and, 

 which is too rarely the case in the present day, a dis- 

 tinct reference to his authorities. There is one, how- 

 ever, probably not used by Dr. Bell, certainly not 

 specified by him, to which we think right to allude. 

 In 1847 Mr. Thorns published in The AthenxBum a 

 series of papers on the Fairy Mythology of Sbak- 

 speare, under the title of The Folk Lore of Shakspeare ; 

 several of these related directly to Puck, his names, 8fc. 

 Seeing, therefore, the similarity between the title and 

 subject of these papers, and the title and subject of Dr. 

 Bell's volume, the omission, although doubtless acci- 

 dental, is curious. Dr. Bell has displayed in the 

 ■work before us an amount of original investigation so 

 much beyond what is generally found among recent 

 writers upon Folk Lore, that he can well afford to have 

 this slight omission pointed out. 



The death of the Duke of Wellington has filled 

 every heart with a desire to possess some record of one 

 who has exercised so great and beneficial an influence 

 on the destinies of his country ; and all the old fa- 

 vourite portraits of the great departed are putting forth 

 their claims to public attention. Among these the 

 admirable likeness painted by the late Count D'Orsay 

 holds a foremost place, not less for its own great merit, 

 than for the curious fact that the Duke having occasion 

 to select a portrait on which affix to his autograph, for 

 the purpose of presentation to a literary gentleman who 

 had solicited that favour from him, chose an engraving 

 from the DOrsay picture for that purpose. 



Mr. J. Talboys Wheeler, who, encouraged by the 

 success which has attended the Analyses and Sum- 

 maries of the Old Testament Histort/, Thucydides, and 

 Herodotus, now avows himself the author, as well as the 

 publisher, of those most useful volumes, has just added 

 to his good service thereby rendered to students, by the 

 publication of An Analysis and Summary of New Tes- 

 tament History, including, 1. The Four Gospels har- 

 monized into one continuous Narrative ; 2. The Acts of 

 the Apostles and continuous History of St, Paul; 3. An 

 Analysis of the Epistles and Book of Revelation ; 4. An 

 Introductory Outline of the Geography, Critical History, 

 Authenticity, Credibility, and Inspiration of the New 

 Testament : the whole illustrated by Copious Historical, 

 Geographical, and Antiquarian Notes, and Chronological 

 Tables. The objects which Mr. Wheeler has proposed 

 to himself, namely, that of reproducing the Gospels 

 and Acts in a typographical style best calculated to fix 

 them on tlie memory ; and of incorporating with these 

 narratives such historical information as should render 

 the whole as easy of comprehension as a modern 

 history, and of storing the mind of the student with 

 every species of illustration necessary for the complete 

 understanding of the narrative, will, we think, be ad- 

 mitted by all who examine the book, to have been most 

 satisfactorily accomplished by him. 



Books Received. — Mr. Bohn has commenced the 

 publication of another Library under the title of Bohn's 

 Philological Library ; the first volume of which is one 



which will be deservedly welcome to a large, and, we 

 believe, increasing class of readers, namely, A Manual 

 of the History of Philosophy, translated from the German 

 of Tennemann, by the Rev. Arthur Johnson, M.A. 

 Revised, enlarged, and continued, by J. K. Morell. In 

 the Scientific Library of the same publisher there has 

 appeared another volume of his reprint of The Bridge- 

 water Treatises, namely, the sixth edition of Dr. Kidd 

 On the Adaptation of Ejcternal Nature to the Physical 

 Condition of Man, principally with reference to the Supply 

 of his Wants, and the Exercise of his Intellectual Faculties. 



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WANTED TO FURCHASE. 



Chalmers' Works. Glasgow and London. Post 8vo. 

 Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the 



Romans. Vol. IV. 

 DiNSDALE's Fortification. 



New Universal Magazink, commencing about 1750-1. 

 Margaret VValdegkave. (Two copies wanted.) 

 Convivial Songster. 1782. 

 Gibelin's Monde Primitif. Vols. II. and III. New Edition of 



1787. 

 .Sir R. K. Porter's Letters from Spain. 

 Miss A. M. Porter's Tales of Pity. 



Dr. Richard Grey's Sermon at the Re-opening of Steane Chapel. 

 Wood's ATBEUiE Oxoniensis, by Bliss. Vol. II. Large paper. 



Imperial 4to. 1813. 

 Theobald's Shakspeare Restored. 4to. 

 Saywell's (Dr. William, Archdeacon of Ely, and Master of 



Jesus College, Cambridge), Serious Ejjquiry into the Means 



OF A Happy Union, or what Reformation is necessary to 



prevent Popery. Small 4to. Tract of about 50 Pages. 



London, 1681. 

 Mahon's (Lord) History of England, Vol. IV., 8vo. 

 The Annual Register, 1837 to 1849. 

 Arch«,ologia, Vols. VI. and VII. 

 Batt's Gleanings in Poetry. 



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Photography. Professor Stephens, G. R. L., Pluto-Photo- 

 graphy, and other Correspondents, shall receive due attention next 

 week. 



Geronimo. The work to which our Correspondent refers is 

 not of a character to be discussed in our pages. The fact that it 

 may have furnished " pretty full sketches" to the writer accused 

 of copying from it marks its character very distinctly. 



E. A. H. L. is riferred to pp. 149. 279. of the present Volume 

 for Notes, Sfc. relative to Portraits of Wolsey. 



C. W. (Bradford). We only this week ascertained the address 

 of this Correspondent. The letters from H. W. (Manchester) aftd 

 E. T. W. (Caldecott) have been duly forwarded. 



Jahltzberg. The Satire is Defoe's well-knourn Poem, " The 

 True-born Englishman." Will this Correspondent say how a 

 letter may be add rased to him ? 



Glasguensis. If our Correspondent will condense his Query 

 respecting Steel-Bow and Steel-bowing, we will give it early in- 

 sertion. How can we address a letter to him f 



Errata. — Vol. vi., p. 252. col. 2. 1. 32., for Asby Foloile read 

 Athby Folvile; p. 304. col. 2., for Public Letters read Public 



Lectures P. 228. col. 2., for Gange O'May read Gauze o'Mary; 



for Augustus read AngustA ; for fxeologos read Txeulogos ; after 

 "the ch. of SS. G. e P." read in Venice ; for Saudrey read St. 

 Audrey ; for handicraftsman read manipulator ; add after Ejihe- 

 sus, " Again, the place iirst called ad Jacobum Aposlolum after- 

 wards became Giacomo Postolo, and finally Compostdla." I» 

 "Serpent Eating," (or Doba read Doko — P. 264. \. \l., tor light 

 read sight ; 1. 9., for Eccles.redA Ecclus.; 1. 43., for "application 

 made of" read " application made by." — P. 290. col. 1., for Mur- 

 ray's read Macray's ; col. 2. 1. 3. for " 1762 " read " 1672." 



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