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series of Decades of Skulls, Crania Britannica ; or He- 

 lineations of the Skulls of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of 

 the British Islands, and of the Races immediately suc- 

 ceeding them,} together with Notices of their other Remains. 

 Tlie editors believe that they shall be enabled not 

 merely to reproduce the most lively and forcible traits 

 of the primfeval Celtic hunter or warrior, and his 

 Roman conqueror, succeeded by Saxon or Angle chief- 

 tains and settlers, and, later still, by the Vikings of 

 Scandinavia ; but also to indicate the peculiarities 

 ■which marked the different tribes and races who have 

 peopled the diversified regions of the British Islands ; 

 and thus picturing our varied ancestry, to deduce, at 

 the same time, their position in the scale of civilisation 

 by the tests of accurate representation and admeasure- 

 ment. 



Such of our readers as are interested in the lite- 

 rature of Germany will be glad to hear that a new 

 paper, something on the plan of our own Athenaum, but 

 to be published monthly, is to appear on the 1st of 

 January, under the title of Deutsches Athenceum. 



We have received from Messrs. Williams and Nor- 

 gate the Prospectus of a splendidly illustrated edition 

 of Gbthe's Faust. The publishers — the house of 

 Cotta of Stuttgart — announce that they have secured, 

 for the purpose of doing justice to this masterpiece of 

 the greatest poet of Germany, the talents of an artist, 

 Engelbert Seiberg, who has devoted his life to the 

 study of it ; and the book promises to be one of the 

 most splendid ever produced. 



■ Books Received. — The Convocations of the Two 

 Provinces, their Origin, Constitution, and Forms of Pro- 

 ceeding, with a Chapter on their Revival, by George 

 Trevor, M. A., Canon of York, and Proctor for the 

 Clergy of the Archdeaconry of York. It is, we are sure, 

 quite sufficient that we should direct the attention of 

 our many Readers who take an interest in the great 

 question of the Revival of Convocations to this learned 

 endeavour on the part of Mr. Canon Trevor to explain 



their existing constitution and functions The Moral 



■and Historical Works of Lord Bacon, including his 

 Essays, Apothegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Ata- 

 lantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh, with an Introductory 

 Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Explanatory, and His- 

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 Bohn's Standard Library. In his Philological Library, 

 only just commenced, he has published a second and 

 revised Edition of a Book which has been most fa- 

 vourably received, namely, An Analysis and Sum- 

 mary of Herodotus, with a Synchronistical Table of Prin- 

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 Distances ; an Outline of the Hiitory and Geography : 

 ■and the Dates completed from Gaisford, Baehr, &c. 



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Cara. The line is from Prior'' s Henry and Emma, where we 

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Cliftonis in Oxford : — 



" Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," 

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