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John's College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Morgan 

 Cowie, Cambridge, 1843, 4to., p. 77. ; in the Chet- 

 ham Library, Manchester. This copy contains 

 thirteen leaves, beginning "Demeth noght by 

 preface bote rygtfol dom ye deme," Job. viii. 5. 



This learned tract against Mendicant Friars, 

 which has escaped Bale and Pits, is noticed in 

 Dibdin's T^p. Antiq., vol. i. p. 141. 



BiBLIOTHECAB CuETHAM. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



At a tiaie like the present, when the propriety of 

 abolishing the Oaths abjuring the Descendants of the 

 Stuarts, in order to facilitate the admission of Jews into 

 Parliament, is under the consideration of the Legislature, 

 a work which should give the public an authentic history 

 of those descendants is surelj' one to command general 

 attention. Such a history may indeed be called a deside- 

 ratum in Anglican literature, for no attempt has hitherto 

 been made to collect an authentic history of the Roman 

 Catholic Branches of this once illustrious and most unfor- 

 tunate House. The task has, however, at length been 

 undertaken by a gentleman who has displayed great in- 

 dustry in his researches, and produced a volume cal- 

 culated to interest the genealogist, inform political men, 

 and amuse the general reader. The Descendants of the 

 Stuarts, An unchronicled page in England's History : By 

 William Townend, is certainly a well-timed and very 

 curious book. 



The new volumes of the collected edition of the Works 

 of Thomas Carlyle contain those two especial favourites 

 of Mr. Carlyle's many admirers, Sartor Resartus, first 

 published in Eraser's Magazine in 1831, and his Lectures 

 on Heroes. " Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true 

 book," are the author's own words ; and these are indeed 

 " true books." 



Mr. John Russell Smith has just added to his Library 

 of Old Authors two volumes which will be very acceptable 

 to the lovers of our Elizabethan Literature. They are 

 The Dramatic Works of John Lilly (the Euphuist). With 

 Notes and some Account of his Life and Writings, by F. W. 

 Fairholt, F.S.A., &c. Lilly, known to all as the author 

 of Euphues and his England, and by the influence which 

 that work exercised on the language of the courtiers, 

 was not only esteemed very highly by many of his con- 

 temporaries, some of whom did not hesitate to rank him 

 before Shakspeare, but has numbered among his admirers 

 in our own time those lovers of true poetry, Hazlitt and 

 Charles Lamb. Mr. Smith has therefore done good ser- 

 vice by republishing his Dramatic Works, and shown 

 good judgment in entrusting the editing of them to 

 Mr. Fairholt, a gentleman who exhibits great care and 

 assiduity in every work he undertakes. This edition of 

 Lilly will add to Mr. Fairholt's literary reputation. 



Books Received. — Bothwell, a Poem, in Six Parts, 

 by William Edmondstoune Aytoun. Third Edition, re- 

 vised. This historical Monologue has not reached the 

 honour of a third edition undeservedly ; for it contains 

 many passages of great beauty, and the author has 

 shown his sense of the favour with which it was ori- 

 ginally received by the pains which he has bestowed on 

 its revision. 



Catalogue of the Library of the Philosophical Institution 

 of Edinburgh. A most useful and carefully-compiled 

 Catalogue of a library of ten thousand well-selected 

 volumes. 



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Kars and its Defenders. A pamphlet. 



Ddnbar's Poems. By D. Laing. 1834. 



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John Boli. for 1857 (Second-hand). 



Selected Epigrams op Martial. Translated into English by Thomas 



May. 8vo. London, 1629. 

 London Magazine for the years 17?3, 1774,1775, 1780, 1783. ! 

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 the age tlierecf is so great, tliat its birth must be fetched from the very 

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M. E. (Philadelphia.) F. Spence's translation of Ludan was published 

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 worth my while to rake into the filth of so scaiulalous a version." 



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