Dec. 18. 1852.] 



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Hermits ("Vol. vi., p. 472.). — Visiting the 

 grounds at Hawkestone two- and- forty years ago, 

 the hermitage was shown, with a stuffed figure 

 dressed like the hermit of pictures seen by a dim 

 light, and the visitors were told that it had been 

 inhabited in the day-time by a poor man, to whom 

 the eccentric, but truly benevolent, Sir Richard 

 Hill, gave a maintenance on that easy condition, 

 but that the popular voice against such slavery 

 had induced the worthy baronet to withdraw the 

 reality and substitute the figure. 



Henbt Walter, 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Our worthy publisher is, we believe, first in the field 

 with a gift-book tor the coining Christmas ; and certain 

 we are that among the many candidates for public fa- 

 vour at this blessed season of present making, none will 

 exceed, in originality of design or beauty of execution, 

 his Poetry of the Year, Passages from the Poets de- 

 scriptive of the Seasons, with Twenty -two coloured Illus- 

 trations from Drawings by Eminent Artists. It has long 

 been the fashion to marry music to immortal verse ; 

 alliances between the poet and the engraver have not 

 been unfrequent ; but this is, we think, the first at- 

 tempt to apply, on any great scale, the art of printing 

 in colours to the reproduction of the Painter's Illus- 

 trations of the Poet, in such a way as to give a full 

 idea of the beauty of such illustrations. We have not 

 space to particularise those we think most successful ; 

 all, indeed, are good. The work therefore possesses 

 a double interest — first, as a gem of poetical and pic- 

 torial beauty ; secondly, as an evidence of the great 

 progress which the art of printing in colours is making 

 among us. 



Mr. Murray has just issued the sixth edition of Dr. 

 Hook's Church Dictionary. The fact of its being the 

 sixth edition would seem to render any notice of it un- 

 necessary ; but it is as well to mention, that while it 

 has been enlarged by more than a hundred new articles, 

 and those on church architecture and ecclesiastical law 

 have been carefully revised, it has also generally un- 

 dergone such modifications as the circumstances of the 

 times seemed to require. " While, therefore," as it is 

 stated in the Preface, " the articles bearing on the Ca- 

 tholicity, Orthodoxy, and Primitive Character of the 

 Church of England are retained, the articles relating 

 to the heresies and peculiarities of the Church of 

 Rome have been expanded ; and strong as they were 

 in former editions in condemnation of the Papal 

 system, they have been rendered more useful, under 

 the present exigences of the Church, by a reference to 

 the decisions of the so-called Council of Trent, so as to 

 enable the reader to see what the peculiar tenets of 

 that corrupt portion of the Christian world really are." 



The suggestions thrown out in our columns some 

 time since as to the value of Photography to the Ar- 

 chaeologist are about to receive practical illustration. 

 Mr. Pumphrey announces for publication Photographic 

 Illustrations of the Antiquities of York and its Environs, 

 to appear in parts containing six photographs neatly 



mounted, for 7s. 6d. We have seen specimens of the 

 photographs, which are such as ought soon to secure 

 Mr. Pumphrey the two hundred subscribers to which 

 he proposes to limit the work. 



Books Received. — Magic and Witchcraft. This 

 new Part of Reading for Travellers is a reprint of a 

 very excellent article upon this subject, which originally 

 appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review. 



Cyclopcedia Bihliographica, a Library Majiual of Theo- 

 logical and General Literature, §-e. — Part III. of this 

 valuable work, extending from Birnie William to Bull 

 (Bishop). 



Letters of " An Englishman " on Louis Napoleon, The 

 Empire, and The Coup d'Etat ; reprinted, with large 

 additions, from The Times. This Shilling Reprint of 

 these spirited Epistles will, no doubt, prove a happy 

 hit to Mr. Bohn — to whom we are also indebted for 

 republishing, in his Illustrated Library, — 



Life, unitary and Civil, of the Duke of Wellington ; 

 digested from the Materials of W. H. Maxwell, and in- 

 part re-written by an Old Soldier. This, with its six- 

 teen highly finished line engravings, is a compendious 

 and popularly written biography of The Great Duke. 



Democritus in London, with the Mad Pranks arid 

 Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Goodfellow. 

 Made up of quaint thoughts, clothed in quaint rhymes, 

 set off with quaint and old-world notes — among which 

 are some minor poems of great merit. " The Wish " 

 is a little gem. 



Letters on the Income Tax, §*c., by Charles M. Wil- 

 lich. We do not meddle with politics : but there is 

 in Dr. Willich's pamphlet much to interest — who ? 

 Why the Antiquary. We have here, in two letters 

 from Dr. Willich, dated in 1797 and 1798, the origin 

 of the income tax I Wlio shall see its end ? 



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Pseudo-Martyr. 4to. 



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Essays in DivinitV^ 12mo. 1651. 



Sermons on Isaiah 1. 1. 



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